The Other Side of the Looking Glass - Friday, November 10, 2006

Its /afk?

Wow.....what a worthwhile addition, I sure am glad I waited 6 weeks to see this invaluable feature implemented.....

Just so i can crush peoples hopes... i mean, stop people from being disapointed later...

Luggables are definately not gonna be in 48. Walrus and Rare have already stated several times they're still in early design/testing phases. 49/50 maybe.

It's nice to know that people will know when i'm afk. I mean, really, this will help the game a lot...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yea...

Dude... New cinematic, crits, and luggables?

Cinematic... yeah, don't need the patch for that. Just wait for someone to post the out of game URL. It'll play better too without any crashes.

Crits... they trickle out so slooooooowly these days that they really aren't worth looking forward to.

...and luggables? For all we know, they'll turn into another /afk =D (either way, they aren't in this patch).

Chuui wrote:

Dude... New cinematic, crits, and luggables?

Cinematic... yeah, don't need the patch for that. Just wait for someone to post the out of game URL. It'll play better too without any crashes.

Crits... they trickle out so slooooooowly these days that they really aren't worth looking forward to.

...and luggables? For all we know, they'll turn into another /afk =D (either way, they aren't in this patch).

What about /getdescription, /setdescription and /cq, they're in the patch right ?

Ya know, I get tired of reading all this whinin', crybaby crap.

They just finished up a major holiday event that, for all intents and purposes, went off fairly smoothly and to the satisfaction of most.

Aren't they entitled to a couple weeks of lightwork? I am happy to get anything at all; they could have skipped it for another couple weeks.

Jeez Chuui, switch to decaf.

regarding /afk: will the auto-jackout timer stay the same? I mean, if we have the ability to signify that we are indeed away from keyboard (thereby insinuating that we have to go do something that will keep us from the computer long enough that we need to be able to 'tell' others we are away), should the timeout timer be extended, or turned off completely?

Also, is anyone else having problems getting the page to load (OSOTLG, not forums)? That and DN1 has timed out on me a dozen times, but everything else loads fine.

Also, is anyone else having problems getting the page to load (OSOTLG, not forums)? That and DN1 has timed out on me a dozen times, but everything else loads fine.

Well i might as well try and be opmistic about such a crap situation, usually when we do guess right a dev usually says Yes thats the one e.g. i think someone guessed the TM for a mask and they said yep yep.  So either we havent guessed the right thing or there just too afraid to say yes its /afk. 

Also I think finally my rant in the last other side of the looking glass is coming back about crits and cinematic are just not enough for 6 weeks work.  Remember the reduced amount of crits idea is still there, this gives them time to work on things that are fun.  Unless this month they want us to be really bored so we can use the afk command lol.   

Aye, patch is a wee bit dissapointing as far as content goes. And i can understand how /afk being presented as a main hypeable feature would annoy people. And presenting criticals and cinematics as a defence doesn't really stand all that much since, well, they're always there, its just expected, the minimum.

Patches need things like Rare's Quests, those collector changes etc etc.

That said i do understand how the halloween event must have hit the schedule pretty hard, and for the most part, it payed off with a sweet event. Only downside now is the patch period afterwards where static content has had to fall to the wayside.

Solution? More devs.

Grats to the contest winners. That Highway Crossing Frog 2 one is genius.

Man...if it IS /afk, we all know who'll be the first one using it.

That's right.

The Effecutator.

Man...I can see it now...

E2: Hey, man, how's it going?
E3: Hey tardo, can't you see he's AFK flagged?
E2: Oh, lawl, my bad.
E1: Oh, sorry, I was totally away from myself.
E2: Wait, wouldn't that be AFM?
E1: I see your point, and raise you a Lupine!
E3: Hey, I want in on this!
E1: Ante up!

Tis /afk i bets ya. Nice subtlety walrus

Unless its all one big ploy!

Team duels would be sweeeeeeet but i aint getting me hopes up.

And as for afk being a gank flag, remember it should be completely optional. Thus you dont have to use it.

Oh and a 'build up' to afk? Let us not forget the other coolio stuff in el update, continuing (and ever improving) story missions, editable descriptions, /frags etc etc.

Edit: And aye to Aqua, can the billboards not simply use replacement textures like teh olden days?

The way I understand things is; I remember the old billboards with ads for movies and lipstick and such. The new dynamic ads are textures that have been placed in front of the old ads. It seems the trouble was that for the ads to be dynamic, without having to rebuild the world and have a huge patch was to have them as items. The side-effect of this, is that they only appear in-game when they are in your world detail radius (the distance from your character that junk, and grass and trees and such appear). The billboards on the other hand are part of the world because they are large structures. So you would see the billboard and as you approached, all of a sudden the sign would change.

So to fix this it looks like the "Ad space for rent" sign was made as the texture for all these billboards so that at least for everybody that is outside the US the billboards don't look stupid.

Possibly what could be done is to change the billboard dynamic ad object so that depending on whether the player's IP is American or not it draws either from the local list of ads or from the served list (the MxO servers could then possibly send on the info for those viewing ads, or tell the client to do so... however it currently works).

Of course I'm obviously not privvy to the game's code so I could be waaay off the mark as to why the billboards work the way they do.

P.S. I came the conclusions above because there are two billboards on the freeway near the MultiMedia Monument in Downtown that behave this way, and if you view them from about a 60 degree angle to the side from the right distance (just across the road is about right) you can see the old ads underneath. One is for a carwash service I think.

Anyways... /afk may be useful. Could be deeper than we think--Maybe automatically answering people who PM you with "[This player is currently marked AFK]," ignore trade requests, ignore invites... All of that stuff. Would be nice if it prevented you from automatically logging out after only 5 minutes of idling. My trick to getting around that has always been to que up the chat box like I'm inputting a message and just leave some heavy object lying on the space bar...

I use a 1 minute looping macro

Grats on the ad, and migt I just add www.altir.net

Nope, Rarebit said the Org abilities have been put on hold indefinitely.

Yeah, i vaguely seem to remember a mention of that in beta Sy...

Ah, here it is!

• The Matrix Online now supports neural brainwave transmitting technology - get your jack implants at your local high store today!

I had a dream last night about this. And the dream basically foretold that Walrus really meant that we would be able to control our character's movements without a keyboard. Like the Matrix Online would be used as the forerunning game for Sony's patented neural brainwave transmitting technology or whatever. Thus why he said he was going to step away from the keyboard... Yeah. It made perfect sense in the dream, though. ;d

What's sad is that mentioning that it was in the update notes twice and never implemented doesn't narrow it down much. Hehe!

I hear that "/afk" is going to be "/gankme" on Vector. /afk was definitely not Beta, and Walrus did mention how someone was posting old Beta notes. On the other had, "away from the keyboard" is a pretty deliberate statement. Either way, Walrus is getting sloppy with his hints!

No idea what this could be.

First thing that i thought was the /afk command because it was said to be added...twice and never did.  But this was in live hummm

Anyone else know?


DA

Yep that's it.. He did say Step away from keyboard in the same phrase.

I hope that's it would be so nice

hmm i guess ill take a stab at it since everyone else is...

Zen master, citadel coder, and trojan horse are now available, code them as often as you wish

now THAT would be an awesome update.