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XElite wrote:

I know noone was dying to know this, but:
I actually held on to my Bluepill I.D card with a few of my alternate characters. I felt it symbolised a token, a symbol... something to hold on to from that character's bluepill life. One which reminded me and them that being a redpill did not mean cutting off all ties to the life before. That choosing the red did not negate any association with the blue.

XElite, that's very elegant and thought-out.

A lot of people in clan are interested in SW:KOTR and the TOR game; I might check that out. But this summer it'll be mostly IRL for me. Son leaving to college and all. My /play is huge, and I'll be on as much as I can through the end. I'll feel like the woman in one of the stories from years back who thought things over and decided to take the blue pill for the sake of her family.

Shaun wrote:

"Time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all , we're only mortal." --Jean-Luc Picard

Great quote. I like its counterpoint even more, from elsewhere in the same film, "Time is the fire in which we burn".

GodTier wrote:

sugaree wrote:
And I'm not your bro.

Problem, Sugaree?

Lol, still jonesing, eh?

GodTier wrote:

What the...?

I was only disagreeing with you. I thought just saying "i disagree. computer says no" would be just spam, so I decided to post why I disagreed with you.

Was picking out each and every one of my points, and trying to rip them to shreds really necessary? The thread title is "easy and realistic" and I don't find many of these ideas those very things. Just saying. You really don't need to go all out on me, bro. I'm not even going to respond to this sort of action.

Except on this one point you made of "well I know it's not easy and realistic, but what else am I gonna call this thread?"... then why even make that point in the first place? It has no point in this thread if that's your case.

I don't need you to agree with me and change your opinion or anything, I just wanted you to understand my disagreement. Trying to debate with you about this dead game is hardly ...efficient.

Disagreeing: okay and something we see all the time around here.

Personal attacks: Archangel said it best.

And I'm not your bro.

Guys, I came down on his nonsense not for technical reasons.

GodTier wrote:

1. This would be a horrible idea for some items that you just should not have more than one of in your inventory.

2. This is not easy nor is it realistic.

3. Why would anyone want these items to begin with? Bay and co. will probably release some new update for their "patch" that'll give you most of the rare items anyway so this is pointless.

4. Why would you do this? People trying to level up new characters for the final event would get raeped.

5. This is not easy nor is it realistic with [spoilers]no dev[/spoilers]

6. Don't need this, see Bay and co.'s patch.

They seem easy and realistic to you because you have no idea how MxO's engine/item system works nor have you ever thought about what would happen if you made these changes and just went ahead and made yet another thread about this.

Guys, I came down on his nonsense not for technical reasons. And if you read his post, you'll see most of it is not technical. Let's have a guided tour of the verbal dungeon:

GodTier: This would be a horrible idea for some items that you just should not have more than one of in your inventory.

Hello? Not technical, pure judgment call on deciding how others should be able to play. If I want four of five PB4s, what's it to him?

Godtier: Why would anyone want these items to begin with? Bay and co. will probably release some new update for their "patch" that'll give you most of the rare items anyway so this is pointless.

This is technical? "Why would anyone want these items to begin with"? In fact people have wanted stuff like the Glimmer of the Source, blue frags, Assassin's Masks since the beginning. Being able to see them exclusively on your client is not the same. What's wrong with wanting them? And it's not technical.

Godtier: Why would you do this? People trying to level up new characters for the final event would get raeped.

Not technical! Few people are trying to level. Many people would like to go back and re-visit old sites, and others have already voiced this idea. Honestly, stop coming down on what other people like to do!

Godtier: This is not easy nor is it realistic with [spoilers]no dev[/spoilers]

Indeed no devs. But calling the ideas "Easy and Realistic" is more likely to get attention than calling them "Arduous and Impractical".

Godtier: Don't need this, see Bay and co.'s patch.

Others are asking for whole districts! Archangel's asking for new trees (Zen Master, anyone?)! So what's wrong with seconding a desire already articulated by others?

Godtier: They seem easy and realistic to you because you have no idea how MxO's engine/item system works nor have you ever thought about what would happen if you made these changes and just went ahead and made yet another thread about this.

Anyone can express a desire for things they'd like to see. I suppose, GT, you'd prefer to see this whole *development roundtable* forum closed? I mean, why bother? Well maybe that's your personal style that you bring to games. But if there are technical or logistical reasons why these things cannot be, feel free to cite them, based on your own experience with MMORPG architcture and programming. But lay off with inane personal attacks based on nothing more than different stylistic preferences. Try to take Archangel's words to heart.

GodTier wrote:

1. This would be a horrible idea for some items that you just should not have more than one of in your inventory.

2. This is not easy nor is it realistic.

3. Why would anyone want these items to begin with? Bay and co. will probably release some new update for their "patch" that'll give you most of the rare items anyway so this is pointless.

4. Why would you do this? People trying to level up new characters for the final event would get raeped.

5. This is not easy nor is it realistic with [spoilers]no dev[/spoilers]

6. Don't need this, see Bay and co.'s patch.

They seem easy and realistic to you because you have no idea how MxO's engine/item system works nor have you ever thought about what would happen if you made these changes and just went ahead and made yet another thread about this.

Back off and chill out, Godtier. Your errors and false assumptions aside, other people have said many of the same things above (including in an adjacent thread!) over the years without getting a fit from you.

1. Remove "singleton" status from all items.

2. Make all items emailable across servers.

3. Give everyone two Translocation Programs to get Awakening Shades and Awakening Jackets.

4. Open up all constructs to all levels.

5. Add one collector (or awesomely buff Lolipor) to sell event items, from Bloue Sky shirts to Smith Brownies.

6. Unlock Halloween masks (repeat because it is so good).

Ideas 1-3 and 6 seem pretty easy to a non-expert like me.

I know I'm dreaming. But soon we will all sleep the big sleep, and I'm trying to get used to the idea.

Fen wrote:

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if this is the last we've heard from Walrus, and there ends up being no event at all.
"Oh, sorry folks! I was busy with the Agency!" ...kinda like his Producer's Letter.

You know, Fen, I find myself feeling like you're right about this. OMG, it must be a sign of the end times!

mantra777 wrote:

Speaking of...
Where is Sattakan? Does he know that MxO will be no more?

Thanks for asking! He stays on top of things, but has been very busy with rl. I'm sure he'll be back before the end.

- Sometimes I was surprised at what emerged when I roleplayed; there was self-understanding in that. It's been enlightening.

- I got into trance music from listening to some of the ingame radios; it's been invigorating.

- I saw into my children's culture and mindset from interacting with many of you; it's been invaluable to me.

- It was good practice in manipulating and mindgames; it's been intriguing.

- I started my first blog from writing about MxO; it's been liberating.

I've met people I'll always remember for bettter or for worse, but that's true of any five-year span in your life. Or it should be.

Bayamos wrote:

Snow isn't always on Sugaree, can you put wr_envdaylength = 60 in your useropts to cycle through the days and double check? It may be on one of the "non snow days".

Will do; many thanks!

MetaLogic wrote:

1. Warlus, thanks for owning up to your failures, I respect you in that manner. I wish more people in SOE would do that, or at least talk to us.
2. I'm sorry, but after getting treated like the bastard red headed step child, I have no intentions of giving SOE any more of my money. So I will not be playing The Agency, or DC Universe. SOE knows nothing about customer services and they know nothing about investing in a good game, time wise or finanical wise. SOE wants nothing more than money, and they'll try to half *ss as much as they can to get it.
SOE is black balled from any further purchase.

Mind you, there's nothing wrong with being all about making money. Look at Blizzard! But they show that excellence in service and support and communication is an investment that inevitably bears fruit. They clearly have set the bar for best practices which all others would do well to emulate. If only...if only...

Ic3b3rg wrote:

Walrus wrote:
Raijinn wrote:
Walrus wrote:
QFE
Ut oh. Raijiin's gonna lock me.
No mercy here Walrus.../ban for you!
It's not my fault! I blame Keith!
Seriously, though, even not being able to spend time with the community or in the game much, it always made me glad that the MxO world still existed out there. It's hard to imagine being without it.

You know Walrus, I can go old school on you. Like, how Darbacour kicked your butt in the GM fights in Beta and thats the real reason. You were ashamed of yourself and ever since then could not come to gripes with talking to the community after that.

When I saw the beta players trashing the game's overlords...I had to wonder if someone was asleep at the wheel. Or just driving while distracted. It was kind of shocking, really. To me, anyway.

Red eyes...check.

Stormy weather downtown...check.

Snow in International...nothing.

I just copied and replaced olds with news. Should I be doing something else?

Wow, Imax, I have a huge list. I'll see if I can screenshot the whole thing this evening.

Yasamuu wrote:

sugaree wrote:
But being a council member took up a lot of time. But I learned so much from it that I cannot regret it very seriously.
I would like to know what was so taxing about being a council member? I remember being a council member for SC during the time period of about a year and found there to be issues that crop up, but none that were particularly time consuming.
I'd like to gain some kind of insight.

Well, I have to go back and think now. Some of the things that kept me from more "game" involvement during my three years or so as a clan council member (CM):

- Interviewing and discussing applications, because great people have always been the ultimate resource in this game.

- Managing conflicts and competition with other guilds, and creating new ways to compete where others have been weak.

- Working to encourage our people and also nurture new leadership talent.

- Looking for people I wanted in our clan, and creating ways to encourage that notion in them.

- Mediating discussion and discord within my clan, and trying to persuade others.

I'm not claiming I was always successful in this, Yasamuu, by any means. But this is where my thoughts often were ingame, and it's how I approached my role as a council member. And of course I'm only speaking for myself this evening, and would not claim to be representing my fellow CMs in describing my own approach, or saying this is how anyone else should approach it. There are lots of examples of very different approaches having been very successful.

After looking at my /play time on Recursion, I feel like I got a lot from this world of ours, and feel mostly gratitude.

In the game itself, I wish I had had more time for the ingame events, LESIG and otherwise. But being a council member took up a lot of time. But I learned so much from it that I cannot regret it very seriously.

I was one of the first wave of LESIG, but clan life and homelife kept me from doing much, and I eventually asked Rarebit to withdraw me from it and give my place to someone with more time to commit. I wish I had been able to do more.

That's enough candour for one evening.

Zeroone emailed me to say he is trying to re-sub, but is getting error messages.

Could someone who has recently and successfully re-subbed email him ASAP at johannesw5069@yahoo.de?

Don't waste a minute! He's desperate, and would likely do anything for anyone who could help him get back in!

Bayamos wrote:

Sugaree, I'm working on an update to the patch right now, and plan to turn on snow for International or Downtown in it.
If you just want snow without the patch, Here's the TSEC list: http://bayamos.systematic-chaos.net/TSEC.txt
To turn on snow for say, Richland, goto /resource/final_world/slums_barrens_full.metr, open it in a hex editor. Near the beginning you'll see TSEC on the right hand side. A bit after that you'll see the hex
80 1D D1 00 38
which is the default Richland TSEC. Replace that with your choice of one of these (for different snowfall):
winter1: 80 0C 00 00 DC
winter2: 80 10 00 00 DC
winter3: 80 17 00 00 DC
and save the file, and you'll have snow.

LetsRock, I explained weather in The Guide, you should read that. Long story short, one replaces weather by either editing a TSEC value in a .metr file, or by telling the RezMap to load TSEC A instead of TSEC B.

<3

I'm so in awe of you both.

You guys are simply phenomenal.

Any way to enable snow? I'd like to get that back.

I'd like to save some of the great threads (like Rarebit's screenshot and ask-a-dev ones), but without doing it page by page.

Is there a way to do this?

odj wrote:

sugaree wrote:
And what a perfect example of my blog's last point about the community. Many thanks!
Always glad to add my special blend of spices to the cesspool!

<3

In the brief time remaining to us, what are some must-dos that come to mind? I have a few:

1. Learn FRAPS to make some videos to run as background on my Vista Ultimate computer.

2. Get the music backgrounds used in the game.

3. Get many screenshots of sunsets, when the slight reddish timbre adds such moody beauty to scenes downtown and in Chinatown. Datamine, too.

4. Run a few, very selected Neighborhood Contact missions (Mr. Po immediately comes to mind, followed by Rose and The Chef) to get screenshots of the great text.

5. Try (and record) a few new emotes.

6. Commiserate with Omega.

odj wrote:

sugaree wrote:
odj, what a pleasure, and how I shall miss your insights. To quote Raijinn:
What happens to all the code/data for The Matrix Online?
Sony Online Entertainment and Warner Brothers will retain all of the code and data from The Matrix Online.

Can someone open an emulated server for The Matrix Online?
Sony Online Entertainment and Warner Brothers hold the copyrights for The Matrix Online stories and data so creating a fan owned and operated emulated MxO server would be against those copyrights.
SOE and WB own the code and the copyrights and the data for the story. That's the IP (intellectual property). For you, I'll append WB next time as well. However, the above renders irrelevant your citation of the old, old box. WB is almost never mentioned in these discussions, and is largely a passive (I would suggest passive-aggressive) co-owner.
On request of access to high-resolution images etc of MxO for use in creating an advertising campaign for MxO I got this responce from Virrago...
Our marketing department isn't allowed to grant you anything since we don't own the MxO brand. It seems you would have to talk to WBIE.
You blamed SOE for not doing anything with the Matrix gaming IP and not letting any of the players do anything with it when in-fact they do not own it at all acording to the marketing department.

In fact, according to Raijinn they do. If you're emailing Virrago about an advertising campaign, then that response pre-dates Raijinn's later, and more up-to-date observations on exactly the same subject. And even if it were accurate, you would have mentioned it in your first response. And what a perfect example of my blog's last point about the community. Many thanks!

odj wrote:

As soon as I read that you think that Sony owns the Matrix gaming IP I stoped reading.
You obviously do not know what you are talking about so to write a whole opinion on something you do not know about is in my opinion, pointless.
Go grab your MXO box, turn to the back, look at the bottom...
THE MATRIX ONLINE, characters, names and all related indicia are trademarks of and © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

odj, what a pleasure, and how I shall miss your insights. To quote Raijinn:

What happens to all the code/data for The Matrix Online?
Sony Online Entertainment and Warner Brothers will retain all of the code and data from The Matrix Online.

Can someone open an emulated server for The Matrix Online?
Sony Online Entertainment and Warner Brothers hold the copyrights for The Matrix Online stories and data so creating a fan owned and operated emulated MxO server would be against those copyrights.

SOE and WB own the code and the copyrights and the data for the story. That's the IP (intellectual property). For you, I'll append WB next time as well. However, the above renders irrelevant your citation of the old, old box. WB is almost never mentioned in these discussions, and is largely a passive (I would suggest passive-aggressive) co-owner.

Thanks for writing!

Bayamos wrote:

"And the biggest, baddest decision of _this_ year: Rarebit letting some twerp abuse the administrative console, costing him his job, costing MxO its single developer, and costing us our world. And a big shout out to the addled moron behind “nerfocelot”."
Uhh, what? What are you talking about? No player ever had access to the admin console. Rarebit left voluntarily due to personal issues and wasn't fired. And he already made his leaving announcement BEFORE nerfocelot was running around. Prior to nerfocelot, SOE had no idea of any sort of admin permissions issue.
"And anyone who’s tried to read 9mmfu’s Delphic posts will agree that communications has never been one of the qualities associated with the MxO team."
So if only 9mmfu had opened a spellchecker, MXO would have been saved? Rarebit spent years and literally hundreds of pages with ask the devs explaining nearly every question players had. What was there left for devs to tell us? If after five years you don't know what the buffs on your clothes do, that's not their fault. It's yours.
And the “CSR”s who run amok like Brewko, did little to encourage us. His captious, fractious, and flat-out wrong bannings were so irrational, so misguided, and so whimsical that I was frequently aghast.
When I went to FanFaire, the CSRs there said Brewko doesn't have the authority to actually ban people. Bannings are made through a chain of command and not by any one CSR. I'll take a few bad decisions anyday when you consider the ticket volume they get -- sometimes in the thousands per day.
“The community” was one of the reasons people endlessly trotted about when challenged as to why they stayed in the game. Now, looking back, I wonder what they were smoking. Where’s the community?
Members of your faction had a thriving culture based off of LESIG leaks, so it's baseless to try to take any high ground and spout rhetoric about the degredation of the community. If there's blame to go around for the death of MXO, everyone gets some.

Bayamos, my respect for you, never small, has only grown with the awesome tools you’ve been recently sharing. Let me respectfully, then, respond to some of your points.

Nerfocelot. You and I each write in response to accounts we have heard, and these accounts differ. If Nerf(s) or Rarebit or Walrus would like to set the record straight, excellent! Until then, I acknowledge your different take on this. Nonetheless, you are dwelling on a mere supporting example, not the main point, n'est-c pas?
I don’t even remember misspellings in 9mmfu’s posts. Their terse, laconic quality is undeniable, and others have commented on how they often do not respond to the main point being made. Obviously they’re as clear to you as USA Today, and this only adds to my respect for you. As for the “literally hundreds of pages”…well, if the original descriptions were clear and logical, only a few pages would have been necessary. Nonetheless I respect how clearly these hundreds of pages have spoken to you. More to the point, are you arguing over a supporting detail only, or are you disagreeing about poor communications, which is, after all, the main point?
How interesting that Brewko is now said to not be able to ban people. So it was all empty bluster and lies about banning people for allegedly robo-data-mining and standing on the awning at Mara. So I guess the choice is to characterize the behavior as unprofessional, as I have, or merely mendacious, as you have. I guess we have to make our choices about it, and I respect yours.
Thank you for your compliment about the thriving culture of my clan. But it was not based on LESIG leaks. IMHO, it takes way more than leaks to make a clan successful. And since I made no assertions of superiority for my clan, and was writing solely about how I feel about things, I am puzzled that you project them. They seem…not germane.

On to happier subjects. Any chance of adding falling snow to the outstanding visual effects you’ve been making available? It’s always been my happiest time of year in the game.

Phrack wrote:

The person you're referring to is xRagex, formerly of the Kings of Never. Probably one of my greatest rivals, and a good friend.

!!

Do you have the original then? Is it emailable?

Raijinn wrote:

Hey everyone, I know this isn't be best news to drop but lets not stoop to being disrespectful. If you happen to choose to post in a disrespectful manner we will have to take administrative action.

It's great to know you've really always been here for us.

Ic3b3rg wrote:

Sugaree, good blog. You forgot were Brewko banned players for standing on the Awning at the Mara sw hardline. Lest, i think it was Sw...havent been in game awile.

You are absolutely right. But I just had to stop _some_where...

"Brewko banned"..."Brewko banned"...let me count the ways..is there enough time left in the world?

Over on my blog, at manifoldmischief.blogspot.com, I've written some thoughts about where we are and how we got this way. My own feelings on the subject, at least. They're not here for several reasons, only one of which is their length.

Back at the end of beta, someone made a video of it, with the music from “The End” by The Doors. The same video is currently on YouTube, but with some much lesser sound track. Does anyone know where we could get the original?

Walrus wrote:

PBlade wrote:
Huh. I guess I wasn't lying; I will be here until the end. Didn't want to believe it would happen, though, even though it was inevitable, I guess.

Maybe I'll have a watch of the Matrix Movies, and remember what MxO was, what could have been, and what it gave me.

Good times were had. Sad times now.
I'm glad people are remembering the good times. We had a lot. More than a lot of games ever have had.
I've been rewatching the movies, too. Have a feeling I'll be doing that a lot in the months to come.

Really, I don't know where we would have been the past few years without your stewardship.

Illyria22 wrote:

I would also hate to see all the posts on these forums vanish.
Lyr

And I'm sure the management will understand and care very deeply about how we feel about this.

Villemar_MxO wrote:

[FA]Tbone wrote:
It's time to finish what we've started.
That might hold more weight had you stuck around during the hard times like some of us did.

I second that emotion.

Principal names: Sugaree/MDafarge

Email: chuangtzu@gmail.com

Web site: manifoldmischief.blogspot.com

I'm not happy about this, and I'm especially not happy about Raijinn's whole tone.

Thanks, guys! I tried this last night and it worked great!

I've been struggling with the Override Functions blocking Azuma. I can get one done by myself, but often another one shows up, and when I have the first one down to 10% health, the second one wipes me out with awesome Howitzer attacks. Anyone have any tips for overcoming these guys, or at least withstanding their Howitzers long enough to melee them down?

Any insight would be appreciated!

The_Bruceter wrote:

Ach we'll help you out Lil <3

SMILEY I'm in the same boat: looking for the type 3s. Let me know, Incomplete if you still want to get rid of some; I'm MDafarge on Syntax.

marshworld wrote:

yep just clicked the link and it's working fine on my end

Just worked fine for me too.

Besides that site, there are some great guides, and some great folks as well; feel free to post questions. I've been playing since beta, and still find this a great forum to check out.