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Why am I still able to post?

I cancelled some weeks ago with a cutoff date of the 20th, this is what it says in my account: Owning Station Account: Paperghost Subscription Name: The Matrix Online Subscription Period: 1 Month Account Status: Non-Recurring Billing Metho...

General Technical Help and Questions · 07/21/2007 01:55

[7.3.5] "What year is it?" - Syntax - 7/9/07

Procurator wrote: (( I'm glad the year thing's been cleared up properly, but I'm still not happy with it. The whole 1999 idea is one of the most stupid ideas the Wachowski brothers came up with. Think about it: all that effort to make peop...

Live Events · 07/14/2007 13:22:44

Project Save MxO

wait, is this related to the savemxo.com thing from a few weeks ago or something different?

General Discussion · 07/05/2007 07:20:43

Terrorism in Britain

apparently parts of liverpool city centre were cordoned off last night, not sure what happened though.

Off-Topic Discussion · 07/01/2007 08:38

Batman: The Dark Knight Film Update

The Joker's piece de resistance, and the film's finale, seems to involve his threatening Gotham in a way that involves, possibly, the releasing to the air of his toxin. ...oh God, I hope not. What is it with DC simply rehashing the same en...

Off-Topic Discussion · 06/30/2007 09:40

Batman: The Dark Knight Film Update

imax wrote: Grace of Darkness wrote: imax wrote: I heard a long time ago that Katie wasnt allowed to be in the next film becasue of all the horrible publicity her and Tom Cruise had last time around. But i only heard that, dont know for su...

Off-Topic Discussion · 06/29/2007 12:47

Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

NightTrace wrote: [[So does this mean I pretty much hit the nail on the head with the "poorly thought out" bit? ]] Yep, with a hammer the size of Belgium.

Events - Syntax · 06/25/2007 16:52

Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

NightTrace wrote: [[After reading this... I have to say I'm used to seeing this kind of drama on Recursion. I did have a few questions, but if you dont want any outsiders butting him, feel free to tell me to **Welcome to our forums** . Aft...

Events - Syntax · 06/25/2007 16:42

Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

caillech wrote: I agree, standing about, dancing for a few hours wondering what was going down, when it was going down etc etc was no fun to say it mildly. I have a somewhat different perspective though. There was the potential there for a...

Events - Syntax · 06/24/2007 13:40

Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

nicolletteRS6000 wrote: What you were told is that there was a party. If word came from the inside that something might happening and it didn't that is unfortunant. But yes you are correct it doesn't trouble me. Second verse, same as the f...

Events - Syntax · 06/24/2007 07:11

Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

nicolletteRS6000 wrote: It wasn't 4 hours. The party started at 4:30pm PST, Persephone was confirmed on site at 5:44pm PST, and the club was stormed at 6:25pm PST. trying again due to post screwing up... if an event is telegraphed, people...

Events - Syntax · 06/24/2007 00:41

Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Also, another potential side effect - wasting three or four hours of someones time would be bad enough for US based players, but think of the Euro / elsewhere players who sat around till 2 or 3 am wondering what on earth was supposed to be...

Events - Syntax · 06/23/2007 14:26

Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

nicolletteRS6000 wrote: PaperGhost: >...no, its unfortunate that you won't be able to gatecrash any more "parties" because anyone attending >said party won't actually be attending, because they don't fancy standing in a room for four hours...

Events - Syntax · 06/23/2007 14:05

Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

odj wrote: I liked the event. =| too late, you posted comic book guy and now must suffer for all eternity, apparently. for what its worth, i thought was the best. comic book guy. ever.

Events - Syntax · 06/23/2007 13:19

Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

nicolletteRS6000 wrote: Paperghost wrote: ..I'm confused...you do realise they posted that "worst event ever" picture at my request and thats not necesarily how they feel about it, right? Seems a little odd to start hammering them about be...

Events - Syntax · 06/23/2007 13:11

Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

nicolletteRS6000 wrote: odj wrote: Image[worse event ever] Hello odj and welcome to mxo, you participated in 7% of the operation(from my calculations), and were getting ganked every minute and a half(says the log) Did you enjoy your time o...

Events - Syntax · 06/23/2007 12:47

New Districts Idea - Entertainment and Wasteland

interesting as fan-fic, but.....it'll never happen. why not fill up the mostly barren areas that already exist before throwing in new districts? plus, you know....one dev and some maybe other dude. etc.

Development Roundtable · 06/23/2007 11:10:19

New Districts Idea - Entertainment and Wasteland

Never seen this thread before, haven't read it yet so I'm doing this in reverse, but I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and guess.....it'll never happen. I'm now going to read it from page 1 and nod sagely. I may cry a little.

Development Roundtable · 06/23/2007 11:06:28

Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Procurator wrote: Of course you didn't have time to prepare for a fight. That's why it's called a 'surprise attack'. The entire party was a ruse by the Machines, and this was all done to show that the Merv is not in control of the Matrix,...

Events - Syntax · 06/23/2007 07:45

Last nights Merv thing

Ballak wrote: What was the point of the Merv doing this? Answers on a postcard, I think. Ran round for a bit, wondered why I was actually supposed to be running round (due to not being told what we were supposed to be diverting people away...

World Discussion - Syntax · 06/23/2007 00:34

Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Devistate wrote: Shinryu wrote: *shrug* Things happen... some of them, you may not like. As Vogt said, a warning. And hopefully one The Frenchman will heed. (( and I agree about the event being anti-climactic... especially with all of the...

Events - Syntax · 06/23/2007 00:30

Sticking it to the man.

Warboy090 wrote: Paperghost wrote: bannanaphone wrote: Paperghost wrote: else here's a hat that shoots party streamers. You did NOT just diss party hats... if i could bend over and fire bullets out of them into peoples faces, I'd have been...

General Discussion · 06/22/2007 15:50

Sticking it to the man.

bannanaphone wrote: Paperghost wrote: else here's a hat that shoots party streamers. You did NOT just diss party hats... if i could bend over and fire bullets out of them into peoples faces, I'd have been happy. Even a cannonball. but no,...

General Discussion · 06/22/2007 15:18

Sticking it to the man.

vadorakamark wrote: Skull101 wrote: I agree with you skull86 i myself would be happy to pay more if we had what we wanted im all for paying £19.99 a mounth thats not the end of the world ,If we are geting more content then im happy this li...

General Discussion · 06/22/2007 13:05

Last nights Merv thing

Havocide wrote: Apparently it was just a big distraction to draw their enemies out. didn't work very well considering we somehow managed to stumble upon some other orgs mini battle royale and get sucked into that instead. unless thats who...

World Discussion - Syntax · 06/22/2007 13:00

Last nights Merv thing

Staticzero wrote: Wow two pages of OOC Cyphs talking last Nights Cyph thing..... I must have misread the topic... Or did The mervs post about what was going last night. and in speed scrolling i missed it.. ? believe me, im as in the dark a...

World Discussion - Syntax · 06/22/2007 12:31

Sticking it to the man.

You propose "sticking it to the man" by paying the man more money? This needs a rethink.

General Discussion · 06/22/2007 11:59

Manhunt 2: Banned in UK

Harpalos-mxo wrote: Well, Rockstar decided to postpone the publishing of this game so they can rework it and get a less severe rating. and hide the ultra-mega-death-by-hot-coffee-in-the-face-mod in the code!

Off-Topic Discussion · 06/22/2007 11:24

Merovingian party June 22 at Club Masamune

Harpalos-mxo wrote: I might not be able to make it, we'll see. Caillech sends word however that she might make an appearance. ((As far as I know, Mega City Time = Pacific Standard Time. So 4:30 PST = 7:30 EST = 11:30 GMT)) wouldn't it be 1...

Events - Syntax · 06/22/2007 08:57:27

Last nights Merv thing

...after we all got into our rubber suits and had that big brawl with the machines in downtown, did anything else happen, event wise? or was that the whole event? just curious, as i couldn't keep my eyes open any longer and collapsed in a...

World Discussion - Syntax · 06/22/2007 04:10

If not colors for clothes...

Cuts wrote: Yeah, I hate how you have to run around looking like a clown, to get good buffed clothes. ...someone tell the 80s I found its lost jacket and I'm here to claim the reward.

Development Roundtable · 06/21/2007 01:01

Why do you persist!

why do you still stay where you are? because i can't be bothered grinding up to 30 hours of gametime just to jump orgs. they really should have come up with a better way of being able to jump orgs without senseless grinding. huge Info paym...

General Discussion · 06/20/2007 22:55

How many screenshots have you taken?

supersdcurge wrote: wow, i thought i was crazy with over 8K of screen shots.. i just got owned i believe... mine are every where tho i need to create a decent filing system soon enough... :/ **EDIT** on another note the fraps thing i i hav...

Residual Self-Image · 06/20/2007 09:19

How many screenshots have you taken?

....good god. 112,317 shots, with 6468 of those coming from my second stint in the game (from about december 06 until now). the first batch are from UK launch until up to the SOE takeover (i think). i also have about 40 something gigs of f...

Residual Self-Image · 06/20/2007 02:28:32

Update 52 Discussion

cloudwolf wrote: Wait does that mean that on average we have to double the amount we need to kill? Doesnt that bring the number up to 4000 odd? ¬.¬ We have to kill so many of the blighters it seems only fair to have em a 100%. Plus maybe a...

Update Discussion · 06/18/2007 05:10:28

Billboards in the Matrix.

Mindilator2 wrote: i can't see how players from other countries wouldn't be annoyed by a repeating ad on a billboard, especially one that makes loud jolting noises. why single out Americans? ..probably because they're the only players that...

Events - Vector · 06/17/2007 00:09:28

Corruptor Encounter

well, its taken me the longest possible time to actually get involved in this thing, and now i have...meh. a pair of endlessly spawning corrupted for me to kill while the big thing hangs around the hardline? gimme a mission ticket and be d...

Player Versus Environment Feedback · 06/15/2007 22:43:35

Blow smoke off guns emote?

Grimcleaver wrote: I mean what's the point of having a feedback section dedicated just to animations if there's nothing that can be done with animations because there's no animator. you pretty much answered your own question. for the most...

Animation Feedback · 06/10/2007 23:41:02

So how far does The Matrix extend?

A completely epic, rock opera thread here . A thread about Neo that moves into the area of "how big the matrix is" (from what I can remember) here . I can't find the link, but Rarebit was recently asked about this in one of the ask a dev t...

Matrix Universe · 06/10/2007 11:29:37

Big Brother lurches into yet another disaster

Probably one for the UK-based people out there, but.... whoops . the full transcript of what she said is pretty dazzling in its stupidity, and the fact that she completely failed to recognise someone might be, you know, offended by it. soo...

Off-Topic Discussion · 06/07/2007 03:39

Update 52 Discussion

Bayamo wrote: I think this update and included combat SNAFU is the worst the game has ever seen, and it's seriously made me consider quitting. what did they change in combat? i've tried and failed to find out what they fiddled with.

Update Discussion · 06/03/2007 09:41:23

Update 52 Discussion

Mindsweep wrote: I have to be fair and say they fixed the respawn time pretty quick, and I do not have a crash report everytime i start after the update Still need some more inventory room... whats the respawn time at now?

Update Discussion · 06/02/2007 09:54:03

Update 52 Discussion

Amative wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Corrupted boss does spawn on any player in the neighborhood does he not? In that case, 2 reasons not to make the spawn time shorter on the Corrupted quest: 1) He'll spawn on a mid-20 player j...

Update Discussion · 06/02/2007 00:57:29

Update 52 Discussion

Tenshi wrote: Paperghost wrote: a sizable chunk of the challenge shouldn't come from having to stand round for up to 45 minutes though. heck, i could *just* about stand round for 15 minutes at a stretch, but anything more than that? meh. e...

Update Discussion · 06/01/2007 02:25:22

Update 52 Discussion

Tenshi wrote: and to have a decent challenge in order to get the new items. a sizable chunk of the challenge shouldn't come from having to stand round for up to 45 minutes though. heck, i could *just* about stand round for 15 minutes at a...

Update Discussion · 06/01/2007 02:14:00

Update 52 Discussion

Michael1 wrote: Pyroclasam wrote: Corrupted quest will be fine once they fix the timers. I agree. But when will this happen? i still think the time given by rarebit (can't find his post, but i think he said around 45 minutes) is still way,...

Update Discussion · 06/01/2007 00:26:49

Update 52 Discussion

MotorZ wrote: not on all servers. last i heard it was gimped on 2 out of 3. and if you don't have any level 30+ characters on the one that works, you're out of luck at that point. if you only have one level 30+ character, your bad luck jus...

Update Discussion · 05/31/2007 12:43:00

Update 52 Discussion

"disaster" is fairly accurate at this point.

Update Discussion · 05/31/2007 12:34:31

WTB MxO Devs

naes177 wrote: To be honest, it's true; I'm spending 'way' less time jacked in than I used to. During the heyday of this game, it was pretty much very day. You're lucky if you see Vanil once a week now, at most. Of course, that might be a...

SOE Discussion · 05/31/2007 12:27:37

iTunes Plus has a nice surprise....

...and the surprise is, for paying more money to download DRM free songs, you're exchanging one form of insidious monitoring for another . the music has been found to contain your account information (in the form of name and email address)...

Off-Topic Discussion · 05/30/2007 22:15

Very very dark

i've had the same problem since starting the game. on both laptop and two different desktops, as soon as it hits night i can't see a *CENSORED* thing, indoors or out. doesn't matter if the brightness and gamma are messed with. i still can'...

General Technical Help and Questions · 05/17/2007 03:32:29