Ask the Devs an MXO question v.3

=D Omgz I got the fourth reply!
Gimme medal!

*waits patiently for Rarebit to reply so he can post a question*

did the event with tantalos, veil and the fire virus go as planned? it was an awesome event.. but i think people were more intrested in spreadin the virus :p

How exactly does going about making the critical missions work and how much time do you spend on that batch? Would you say you spend more time on the missions then other projects or what?

I may be late in asking, but gosh darnit, someone's gotta see this!

Would it be possible to implement cypherite/EPN missions without doing criticals every month and make a 5-org system?  No new content, but new org tags and new controllers?

WGAnubis1 wrote:

How exactly does going about making the critical missions work and how much time do you spend on that batch? Would you say you spend more time on the missions then other projects or what?

You bugger butt! Right in the middle of a question, too! *shake fist*

How much can you edit the City without requiring a really big patch? Tweaking textures, tossing some benches around a bit, blowing up the Uriah/Stamos bridge?

If you could make ANY / command in the game... What would it be?

Rarebit, any word on that RSI appearance changer you talked about awhile ago?

yeah any word? This idea just feels like its sitting right in our face the way you guys easily release masks for halloween. Is there a way to create some type of feature to save an outfit as a "MASK" as well as adjusting to its bodytype so we can create our own "RSI MASK"?

No matter how many other gadgets you guys put in the game, the matrix franchise was built on philosophy, martial arts/gunplay, and STYLE.

Imagine if Neo never ran around in the films wearing a prophet duster, but a direwolf coat, caution boots, and troll's hide instead think of how messed up that would look .

It's been long awaited... and players have posted tons of ideas relating to the matter.

We are just sick and tired of running around pvping dressed like a bunch of garbage pale kids.

STYLE STYLE STYLE! WHERE IS IT?

Apparently the UI ids were hardcoded in a fixed array for the tutorial, so updating UI anywhere else in the game could break the tutorial. =P

Procurator]Rarebit wrote:

Apparently the UI ids were hardcoded in a fixed array for the tutorial, so updating UI anywhere else in the game could break the tutorial. =P

The original developers really didn't program the game with scalability in mind, did they? SOE needs to give you enough funding to start the game from scratch.

Rare,

Is there any hope to a revamp of the faction panel or priveleges for the faction leaders? A thread was made about it here. You can say that my main concern was being able to have a tree like hierachy to see members inside other crews and be able to remove/add members to those crews. And the ability to have the faction leader not in a rank but at the top then start at rank1 crews and so forth cuz the ability of not able to demote rank1 captains because we are in the same rank is troublesome and with recent crew bugs i hate to redo my faction to just remove an inactive captain or sum1 that left the game, i much rather demote them to the lowest rank.

Thanks

Blade

For later

You said awhile back that you had this...

"Rarebit Archived image unavailable: icon_minipost.gif 08/12/2006 01:30:11     Subject: Re:Ask the devs an MXO question v.2

ManicV wrote:

What's your theory on what happened to Neo/Smith at the end of Revolutions?

During my Christmas vacation, and after doing a marathon of the Matrix DVD Ultimate Collection, I came up with a whole crazy scheme that explains, as far as I'm concerned, what happened there, and why things happened the way they did. It carries implications for the future of the story, and I still have hopes of pitching some of it to Paul, so I don't really want to go into it too much. I guess I'll just say that part of my theory is that Neo was not, in fact, the anomaly (I realize this strains the most obvious interpretation of one of the lines from the movies, but eh), and that he was designed to cancel out Smith, which he did."

idea and wanted to pitch it to paul. Did you ever manage to do that?

 Who Does the Voices in the Cinimatics ? Do u get people in or run around the office like a luny asking people to sound like an agent >.<

SokudaBlade wrote:

Rare,

Is there any hope to a revamp of the faction panel or priveleges for the faction leaders? A thread was made about it here. You can say that my main concern was being able to have a tree like hierachy to see members inside other crews and be able to remove/add members to those crews. And the ability to have the faction leader not in a rank but at the top then start at rank1 crews and so forth cuz the ability of not able to demote rank1 captains because we are in the same rank is troublesome and with recent crew bugs i hate to redo my faction to just remove an inactive captain or sum1 that left the game, i much rather demote them to the lowest rank.

Thanks

Blade

HostileIntention wrote:

Sykin wrote but HT stole:

If you could make ANY / command in the game... What would it be?

One that would let me change character names while logged in would be quite handy.

No bug...shes packing!!! RUN!!!

*cough* Yes..bug, just look the other way

OMG IT'S A FEMBOT!!!!!!!!!

Q: why does duelist have much lower average accuracy scores than all the other styles, or is that just me  because a normal MA can reach very close to max accuracy which is I think 150 or summat, and I can only reach 100-120 depending on certain loads 

Was I last person to talk to Anome in a tell before he got killed?

Were you playing around in Uriah or is this a bug.. =P

HostileIntention wrote:

Were you playing around in Uriah or is this a bug.. =P

This comes from last nights event on syntax with The Kid.... Do you prefer smaller org only events? Like are bigger ones harder cos of all the talking and lag. Its just people tend to get silly when theres a mix of orgs especially thedam mechs. It just ***** me off so much and yeah I stormed out last night sorry Rare

guess who's back???

The "hmm, haven't I just seen that" part was sarcasm. Looking past the parallels between Anome and Assassin (which I had already mentioned and acknolwedged), there are still significant differences between the both plots.
So, in my eyes, saying "haven't I just see that with the Assassin?" is comparable to "haven't I just seen this sort of Machine-Zion-org-tension-jabberwocky back then?". Of course, that's not the way I think.

By the way, I don't remember Anome or any Unlimit actually announcing the usage exactly the Assassin's powers (except that Seral's paranoia was based on that, which is a heavy hint but maybe not enough for an evidence). If I'm not mistaken, the connection between the two is one of the unresolved questions so far.

You're right about the predictability, although I think that rather has to do with the way this concept is released. I could say the same about the org tension plots: at the end, it all somehow all goes well, and the next subchapter deals with another plot again.
Before the latest patch, I could've imagined so much more for the end of the Unlimit. I won't necessarily bash the way it "ended", but this doesn't have to be the only way "common foes" can be dealt with. 

The perdictability is the single most major problem with common foe plots and perhaps even a slap to the face for players. You know whats going to happen, nothing you can do or think or try will change the outcome (admittedly, the outcome is scripted for everything, but the trick is to present the illusion that you have impact, common foe plots dont present that).

Im not saying that the assassin and anome storylines were the same in content, im saying the outcome was along with several major themes. Here we have two independant org bad guys who want to destory the matrix, rule the matrix, overthrow the established orgs, etc. and both have super system powers that put agents to shame, and lets not forget both badguys tried or managed to take a major character out of the picture. Basicly what im saying that that its been formulac:

1. bad guy introduced in some form
2. bad guy makes his move making him known (both attacking and or killing someone from the movies)
3. bad guy reveals god like powers
4. bad guy has period of terrorizing the matrix (Corrupt spawns, unlimit spawns, character attacking redpills)
5. bad guy plan revealed (Destruction of matrix or atleast redpill population, both bad for players)
6. orgs called to band togeather (zion=we must save the blue pills, Machines= our energy source is at risk, merv= the matrix is our home)
7. bad guy killed

What I would like to see, and hopefully this is happening as we speak, is say two orgs go head to head while the third org is busy in the wood work setting up something for themselves manipulating the situation in their favor and so forth. I can understand that the common bad guy set up is realitivly easy for entertaining the gamers in mass, but come on. I could go on and on, but to sum it up the current system is just rehashing the same story but with diffrent characters and backdrops.

What's the top most important bug to fix on the list?



And you better say it's the NPC's leave their mission area bug!

Rarebit,

Can we get a database export text file on the clothing items, so that we can construct a player-supported database?

Thanks!

Rarebit,

Can we get a database export text file on the clothing items, so that we can construct a player-supported database?

Thanks!

i started a topic in the Discussion Roundtable about making it easier to find out which zones are still restricted to the user and which are not.

http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/...mp;#36300101638

 Can you tell us the possiblity of something like this being implemented?  It would really make hacking access nodes a lot easier.

KevinX wrote:

Rare, I think that you have something agaisnt me. You could have accepted that duel on the 11/23 as a b-day present. It wouldn't have lasted 15 seconds one way or another and would make someone's life happier.



Why didn't you accept it? :S

Rarebits a busy guy. One day Ill be at a huge packed event and be the only person he replies to in a tell other days Ill be like one of two people not from that org and he will completly ignore anything I have to say. I think its a mix between being creative and whatever mood hes in and what time he has. I bet you its hectic trying to come up with creative responses to everything. I wouldnt take it personal man.