byond wrote: Tytanya_MxO wrote: PvP is free for all now???? Why? Only in mara c and the usual Data mine. Oh thx for the update....if I find my way back in it will be to sightsee and chill rather than manic pvp I'm getting old you know ^^
Zerotolerance wrote: I have no room to talk in this thread since I'm a Vector-Hostile native. But the good news is none of you can stop me. Hmm a vector pureblood eh? Explains a lot :p Anyways good to see you about again and always good to...
I have been recieiving the DE newletter keeping tabs on things even if i had no real intention to return.... I must say I am very impressed with the efforts Manatic and DE have continued put into MxO its not something you see very often an...
I dont think its right to suggest any real connection between MxO and the Agency, it seems yet another in an incoming barrage of mmo's that want to label themselves 'action mmo's - which seems to translate as mmos that are dumbed down to t...
It is nice and surprising to see so many familiar names still around when you pop back for a bit.... The real world doesnt have to be a desolate remnant of some past war to make you want to pop back into the simulation (or at least the for...
Recently got the Blu-ray version of the Trilogy....its got the trailer for the mmo on it.... so much potential and so many progressive ideas many of which still havent been properly attempted in any other mmo - but ideas and concepts I am...
Disguise myself as Walrus, walk down the corridor to the Agency room and tell them to spend some time on MxO a decent game with some deeper appeal than the souless run around fps thingy they have wasted their time on :p
Merge the servers and make downtown Hostile designate a club to each organisation and fill the looby area of each and surround it with a force of high level npcs that only attack the other orgs to create a form of base. Make other downtown...
Possibly more than vaguely off topic, but reading the stuff SoE are putting out about DCUO and its approach to storyteling and making the player a part of the DC Universe...... its a severe case of Deja Vue from those promises made for Mat...
Morpheus and to a much lesser extent the Oracle are key figures that should be in the gameworld if it is to encourage and stimulate new players to involve themselves in rp and storylines....its just marketting potential (and wow factor) th...
Hmmm no stay puffed marshmallow man anyways. The community makes the game, the devs can only work with the resources alloted, the resources alloted are goverened by the number of subscribers QED! I havent been impressed with any MxO conten...
I think read and accepted by the W bros is likely an acronym for sent to their secretary, checked by the legal dept for IP violations with regard to the original contract and rubberstamped and returned. But in any event the story was deali...
I don't think it matters what parts of what story you like or dislike, what is done is done and the most assured fact is that those particular storylines have no possible way to develop or resolve themselves... even with another dev on boa...
ShiXinFeng wrote: There are a few of us who feel that the game can't support a war. It's just not feasible given the fact that nothing changes, no ground can be won or lost, the real damage happens outside the game (Zion/01) and without th...
Croesis wrote: Tytanya_MxO wrote: BTW is it my shaky memory or was there a technical issues section to the forum once? You mean this section ? Hmm yes thanks, it appears 'collapsed' on my board so I kinda interpreted the title with the dev...
I was hoping to join in but an odd patcher error had different thoughts =/ Anyways looked like a lot of old school fun, grats to those involved and all the best to Mr Rare
I think player led storylines can work as long as they restrain themselves within the confines of the medium they can effect. Material changes and even smaller player understood changes cannot be communicated in the manner that 'one offici...
I wanted to say thanks to rare, for the many many good times with MxO, so it was worth a resub. As regards the upcomming event, tbh I can barely remember how to play I find it kinda hard to 'go home again' so I'm not sure I will actually f...
The issue is not where the story could have or should have gone, its a case of delivering a story that works on the canvas that is an mmo. Books, films and games are three different mediums, the manner in which the story is told depends on...
Chapter 8 was actually where logic and continuity was sacrificed and any influence and continuity with the original trilogy was lost. The Matrix online is a persistent MMO with unavoidable restrainst that the story has to work withing or l...
The Official story needs to recreate or restablish the sceanrio that existed at the end of Revolutions (or one very like it) as it created the setting for the PERFECT MMO. At that point the focus of the story was on the Matrix itself (its...
Sad news indeed, despite my personal misgivings about the way the story was developing (apologies if I was overly vocal) I never ceased to admire the dedication, ingeniuity and skill you always showed this game and moreover the classy way...
Good post by Neoteny. We need to be able to convince ourselves events matter, we need characters we care about, we need to feel our character has some part to play (however minor) and isnt just simply a dialogue foil. We need both conseque...
I wish him well, his comic work is well worth checking out. His approach to MxO was very much to rewrite it, and present it as a story for us to read, perhaps that was his remit. Personally I didnt want or expect a new take on the Matrix a...
Fall my moans I always wish the best for MxO but I see the story having less and less significance, being seen and influencing fewer and fewer players.... Live events, these forums and player content are simply not seen by enough players t...
The look is consistent with the tone of the Matrix, I'd rather see a screenie of people in any variety of outfits than any amount of, fx leaking out of different body parts or wire frame planets orbiting a scene
Zudrag wrote: They can't attack while jumping, yes, but they jump until people give up, and then run back over in sneak/ E&E for another high damage attack on someone. Rinse and repeat. And a better way to kill the zerg is to constantly ke...
Changing the behaviour of HJ affects every aspect of the game not just PvP. What are the real arguments Someone who HJ's can't be attacked...almost true of course, if they are quick but on the other hand nor can they attack anyone else.......
There are many significant similarities between the story here and what would be seen in a film, book or tv series but in each the medium is subtly different, the film of the book is never the same, and tv series have a much longer time to...
I am aware it might be a difficult idea to describe but I did try to make it clearer via the example content. In no way am I suggesting no reward should be offered, only that the nature of that reward shouldnt always boil down to item A th...
AltDimension wrote: The reason that we never really get any story related quests is becuase the story is always changing and after another update that quest would perhaps seem strange and out of date, irrelevant if you will. Rarebit is onl...
zeroone506 wrote: PS: Hey, Tytanya! This probably has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but I remember reading that discussion about the reinsertion revelation (shortly after I went, so I wasn't that clueless back then), and one thing...
cloudwolf wrote: Your ability to relate absolutely any thread and topic, no matter how unrelated, back to your ideas on the story continues to astound. I confess I consider the story the defining element of this game, if you want something...
GoDGiVeR wrote: /pvp [ all | friendly | hostile | release | status ] I've said it before. The pvp command should have additional functions to harbour, e.g. FFA tags. That would be the ideal/perfect solution but I fear would be the most wor...
Seems to me the datamine functioned for a brief time because for that time PvP actually had some purpose and the confines of the datamine also drew together the small population into one place. However it is content that is discontinuous a...
Welcome back. Yes oh those naughty Mechs, they lied and used the cyphs, so as you might expect they retalliated....oh nope they didn't they err just got more friendly with the mechs errr yeah.....still what the mechs did to Cryptos must be...
ShiXinFeng wrote: Well then, picture this: You're in the middle of a heated PvP battle, one in which your team really needs you. All of sudden, you're hit with an LC2 and that's it; you crumple to the ground. You hit the recon button, and....
Sad but true the reasons and motivation of players attending events has changed significantly and the influence of the story as a whole is being lost beneath the generic mmo staples of rare items, mindless pvp, and disconnected content. Mx...
ShiXinFeng wrote: Agreed, for the sake of arguement. But what can they do that won't impede the players game experience? If you can't kill off a character permanently, you can't boot her to the LA for twenty minutes, and you can't even app...
ShiXinFeng wrote: So, in a nutshell, you're saying that if the EJP were given a backstory of being more dependant on the Machine's "endorsement" of the EJP, that it would be more credible? And that if it weren't guaranteed to work every ti...
Well I'm waiting for the new study that is examining the most prevelent and insidious form of terrorism out there "People who rise to positions of power, feather their own nests as best they can, waste public money looking for excuses as t...
ZaneZavin wrote: I was sad when I found datamining exp isn't increased in Datamine. Yes that is very bizarre, the one aspect of the mine that might tempt lowbies in, (itself providing the option for teams to protect a vulnerable 'other' de...
It is the wider consequences of any description of EJP that destroy its credibility as they undermine any rp or environmental conviction the matrix world can deliver. The issue is not actually one of how or why it occurs but instead the st...
This article appeared on the Virginmedia news website today..... Remember the time when a persons thoughts were their own? How long before we see the first person sentenced for Thought crimes? US government to spy on online gamers The US g...
Ejp is a process which remains credible while extraordinary degrees of cooperation exist between man and machine in the form of the truce and pretty much loses any credibility and screams 'this is just a game' when such cooperation ceases....
In this reality Colonel Sanders was promoted to lead the Machines before he invented his finger licking recipies, hence the whole fast food industry never existed.
Meh forum ranks what do they tell you about the posters? Lets keep it simple and have a universally understood set for all forums - Almost Mute, Restrained, Erudite, Gobbie, Loud, Downright Obnoxious seems to cover most eventualities
GypsyJuggler wrote: While Tytanya makes good points I have to say there's only so much excitement to be had under the terms of a truce and I think we pretty much exhausted the possibilities in the last year or two. Not so, the truce is the...
TheShickle wrote: While I agree with you, I just do not want to see us stray too far (than we already have) from the movies. If these people want to drop the war, do it IC. Bring the truce back (by means of Neo), and then let EPN and CYPHS...
The path of the trilogy took the story to war and beyond, by no means was it a simple war story, facts were discovered, particularly in the third portion, that very clearly demonstrate that War would achieve absolutely nothing for either s...
There is no physical way to present a credible war scenario in this game. A war storyline is the single most ridiculous and unconvincing direction to take MxO, it completely contradicts the restrictions of our own interface with the MMO wo...
I don't think the chapter title makes any real inference on whether the truce would actually break, only that attempts were made to do so.... its very rare for a title to reveal the final resolution or even hint at it...... Star Wars Episo...