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If QA is succesful would it be possible for it to stay up after QA goes live or even stay up for a group of dedicated testers...like beta?

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KivoOnline wrote:
If QA is succesful would it be possible for it to stay up after QA goes live or even stay up for a group of dedicated testers...like beta?

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As far as I'm aware, we haven't said that the QA server is temporary. It's my impression that it is here to stay as a mighty game-improving implement! But I could be mistaken.

Since the above question's kinda....mmfft, Aren't you guys worried that everyone will just play on the QA server and not the others?

Would it be possible to get a roleplaying flag (/rp toggle) to indicate
those players who are in character? Or, as this is an rpg (as far as I
know), to indicate those who don't roleplay

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Dissever wrote:
Would it be possible to get a roleplaying flag (/rp toggle) to indicate those players who are in character? Or, as this is an rpg (as far as I know), to indicate those who don't roleplay

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Well, anything's possible, given enough broiled cheese.

I can see something like that being abused pretty quickly, though. Maybe it's just better to assume that everyone is RP-ing until they prove otherwise?

I don't want this to be a question, just to be read and considered.
Apparently, other mmo's use an rp 'flag', so if it works there, why not
here... and besides, perhaps those who are not interested in
roleplaying would like to be shown 'untoggled'

EDIT: to be sure this is not a question hehe! Where do we send the broiled cheese bribes?

Message Edited by Dissever on 12-21-2005 11:39 AM

Any ETA on the Test server...I don't mean to sound impatient but we've been waiting a while





With multiple push backs



*edit* - TAKE THAT YOU CHARLATAN!! :smileytongue:

Message Edited by PBlade on 12-21-2005 03:39 AM

*rolls around on floor in floods of tears*

Well as the above wasn't a question and edited questions aren't allowed...

Just what sort of abuse do you see arising from an RP flag?

OMG! You evil person!



I didnt edit the question itself! STOP TRYING TO FIND LOOPHOLES lol!

Sorry PBlade, but I cringed when I saw your edit... especially after
what I had written on my post! Good follow up question on the RP flag,
I am sure many rpers would like to see something like this implemented.

EDIT: yes Fenshire I'm surprised there isn't one of those..

Message Edited by Dissever on 12-21-2005 11:45 AM

I didnt edit the question itself! STOP TRYING TO FIND LOOPHOLES lol!

Blah my net connection went all slow and your post wasn't there Grr!

I myself just realised you were talking about my post there, good stuff. Lets just wait to see what gets answered.

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Chuui wrote:
Well as the above wasn't a question and edited questions aren't allowed...

Just what sort of abuse do you see arising from an RP flag?

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Well, if this has been done successfully in other MMOs, then I'm sure there's a way to do it right (which maybe should be discussed in a separate thread), but if it's just a flag toggle, my immediate thought was that any non-RP gankhead would toggle the flag on and go dance around other people who are actually trying to RP.

Then they could be reported and banned from using it! Please look into this, it would be nice.

Of course, then I would have to change my /rp macro for loading my Virologist loadout.

Message Edited by Dissever on 12-21-2005 11:53 AM

QA test server - ETA! - What is it!



BAH!

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PBlade wrote:
QA test server - ETA! - What is it!

BAH!

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Huh, no question marks here...must not be a question. I'll just wait for the next post, then.






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Or, I could just say that I don't know what the ETA is. I believe the last one Walrus gave was the earliest time it might be available. If it's been delayed, then Walrus only knows what the new ETA is.

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Tseng. wrote:

are the top used to creat the helpers avalible in game?

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It you mean what the holiday hat vendors are wearing, then no. The outfits are just rentals, you know (Ookami looking to make some $i on the side, no doubt).

what would you say the most overpowered skill and/or item in the game is? 

Could you give us any hints about the new spy tree seeing as it
probably needed to be changed a lot for the upgrade... wait future
content...





Any plans for revamping data miner? .... future content...





Ehh...





What do you think about the punt move? Archived image unavailable: 16x16_smiley-happy.html

Edit: You got there first

Message Edited by DevilsArms(MxO) on 12-21-2005 07:56 PM

For Siros!







Could you give us any hints about the new spy tree seeing as it
probably needed to be changed a lot for the upgrade... wait future
content...







Any plans for revamping data miner? .... future content...







Ehh...

IS there any chance at all there will ever be the possibility of having a mission where the main goal is to punt Flood?

I do not believe that is a future content question... I think...

What were some of the ideas for the spy tree (the entire tree, including dataminer) that didnt get used for the combat upgrade?

No future content

Will you get better soon?

Should we call 911?

Does seraph eat french fries?

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Siros7 wrote:
Will you get better soon?
Should we call 911?
Does seraph eat french fries?

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Don't you worry, Frog will get better!

Is it future question to ask if hacker style will have hacking animations for interlock?

dave

Could you give us any hints about the new spy tree seeing as it
probably needed to be changed a lot for the upgrade... wait future
content...



Any plans for revamping data miner? .... future content...



Ehh...



What do you think about the punt move?

is exiting missions via the window instead of the door a realistic posability for the game engine?

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Tseng. wrote:


is exiting missions via the window instead of the door a realistic posability for the game engine?

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Not at this point. Doors (or moving windows) are game objects that control a little sliver of what we call "NavMesh" (tm!) on the ground, covering the width of the door. Every area in the game that allows you to stand on it is covered with this invisible layer of NavMesh. If an area doesn't have NavMesh, you can't stand there. Simple as that. So the only thing that stops you from walking right through a wall, for instance, is that there's no NavMesh going through that wall.





So if you wanted to go out a window, that window would have to have NavMesh in it, connected to the ground on either side of the window. This would require new window/wall geometry for every room type in which you wanted one of these windows. You'd probably need a pretty good number of them to match even a small amount of our existing decor types. That would be a considerable art task.





Then you'd need to create a window game object to put in place of the existing windows, which would toggle the NavMesh on the window sill on and off, just like doors toggle the NavMesh in their doorway on and off. That would be relatively easy.





But then you'd need to go and place that window object, along with the new wall geometry, in our existing rooms. In our world design tool system, this would mean exploding each type of building into its component floors, exploding each floor type into its component rooms, exploding each room type into its component floor/wall/ceiling pieces, replacing the old window with the new window art and window game object, then rebundling the room (this does cool stuff like calculating the interior lighting and generating the NavMesh), rebundling the floor, and rebundling the building. Oh, and then you have to rebundle the entire world.





Not only would that take forever, but it would generate a patch so huge that it would crash the internet, ending civilization as we know it.





Before civilization ended, though, we might have to consider how to get players and NPC followers to play some kind of "I'm ducking and crawling through a window now" animation.





One slightly modified approach might be just to play that animation and 'port the user through the window, if it were unlocked, rather than using a NavMesh, but then we'd have to have the game object know how to handle that kind of teleportation, and we'd have to teach NPCs to know how to activate it.





It would be simpler, therefore, just to end civilization straight off the bat.

Message Edited by Rarebit on 12-21-2005 04:26 AM

What do you think of NPC's doing what they want whenever they want?

i know agents can go wherever they want but srely this is over the top?

see http://mxoboards.station.sony.com/matrix/board/message?board.id=general&message.id=57673 to know what im on about

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shauntaylor88 wrote:

What do you think of NPC's doing what they want whenever they want?

i know agents can go wherever they want but srely this is over the top?

see http://mxoboards.station.sony.com/matrix/board/message?board.id=general&message.id=57673 to know what im on about

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I think that's awesome! NPCs should express themselves more often. Power to the programs!

This might be related to a known bug where the AI sometimes decides to walk to the 0,0,0 coordinate of the world, though. Going back to their birthplace, perhaps? Or maybe they've been ordered to report for recycling, poor things.

5 stars for Tseng.  I would like to know this as well.

 Me to, and what is the capital of papua new guinea

He wont answer that.

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Tseng. wrote:

is the merovinginas restarant/cheatau in game?

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You know, one of our mission designers typo'd the Merovingian's name like that once, and we never let him live it down.

Anyway yes, the restaurant and the chateau are in the game, and we devs go there and drink wine and eat cake with Persephone every day! It's pretty sweet!

But if I were going to reply seriously, I would have to say that no, they are not in the game.