Update 50 Discussion

76 posts · 2007-03-02 16:42:59 to 2007-03-27 15:23:15

#36300183412 03/09/2007 04:16:16 Re:Update 50 Discussion
Vaico wrote:
Either let us Decompile RSI pills or please increase the drop rate for them. It's entirely tedious and random right now.

QFT on increasing the drop rate. Please do the same for the Collector's Items and Red Frags as well.
#36300183535 03/09/2007 08:37:00 Re:Update 50 Discussion
Reeverb wrote:
Azrael wrote:
nice patch but something Id like to see added for rsi pills is the ability to either revert back to your old look by a special mission (like stat hack) or for it to tell me what face, hair etc... Ive got so that I can try new looks but if I dont like them Ive just got to farm the pills I need to go back without wondering which pills I need.
I doubt the server saves the looks of the character you originally created. Each pill is a variable that we are changing now, we're replacing (overwriting files) rather than making a new character (making new files).
didnt think of it like that, maybe something that shows what you currently have then? like if you go to info on your rsi it says hair : male hair 15 etc?
#36300183627 03/09/2007 11:35:45 Re:Update 50 Discussion

I was just wondering if the colors on the face paint is set.

Like for example, I currently have the pale-face face paint with red lips and eye-shadow.  If I were to use the RSI pill to change my face paint to normal, aka no special make-up, then decided to use the pale face RSI pill to go back would it automatically go back to the red lips/eyeshadow I had before or would it be some random color?

#36300183630 03/09/2007 11:41:58 Re:Update 50 Discussion
RedBindi wrote:

I was just wondering if the colors on the face paint is set.

Like for example, I currently have the pale-face face paint with red lips and eye-shadow.  If I were to use the RSI pill to change my face paint to normal, aka no special make-up, then decided to use the pale face RSI pill to go back would it automatically go back to the red lips/eyeshadow I had before or would it be some random color?

There's a pill for each colour. So you won't farm just lips/eyeshadow but you will farm red lips/eyeshadow.
#36300183631 03/09/2007 11:50:00 Re:Update 50 Discussion
Reeverb wrote:
RedBindi wrote:

I was just wondering if the colors on the face paint is set.

Like for example, I currently have the pale-face face paint with red lips and eye-shadow.  If I were to use the RSI pill to change my face paint to normal, aka no special make-up, then decided to use the pale face RSI pill to go back would it automatically go back to the red lips/eyeshadow I had before or would it be some random color?

There's a pill for each colour. So you won't farm just lips/eyeshadow but you will farm red lips/eyeshadow.


Thanks for the information, another quick question.  Will the pill picture show the color it gives or do you have to read the details to be sure of the color you are getting?

**I'd look in game myself, but I'm currently stuck at work**

#36300183636 03/09/2007 11:55:50 Re:Update 50 Discussion
Each pills icon displays how the effect will look on you.



Although the lips/eyeshadow isn't really clear. You could wait till Aquatium is done with matching all the styles with the numbers. SMILEY Each icon has a number, but it isn't always clear how it looks.
#36300183967 03/09/2007 22:54:49 Re:Update 50 Discussion
i do notice to i havent checked out the other dungeons yet that the drop ratio for male and female rsi esp for hair and hair style seem to drop more female i dunno if any one has notice these when i went to go for hair style in eshan projects i think i picked up 2 female pills and 1 male pill after like 3 floors 
#36300184042 03/10/2007 02:56:42 Re:Update 50 Discussion
Reeverb wrote:
Each pills icon displays how the effect will look on you.


Although the lips/eyeshadow isn't really clear. You could wait till Aquatium is done with matching all the styles with the numbers. SMILEY Each icon has a number, but it isn't always clear how it looks.
Meretrix did a good job of it here.
#36300184043 03/10/2007 02:58:35 Re:Update 50 Discussion
all i get is female pills ftl.
#36300184593 03/10/2007 21:59:48 Re:Update 50 Discussion
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but has anyone else been getting really bad lag since the update went live? My lag meter has been in the red ever since thursday.  I've tried figuring out if something else has been hogging the bandwidth, but nothing else is running.  Not happy times for me.
#36300184695 03/11/2007 03:59:12 Re:Update 50 Discussion
cloudwolf wrote:

Nay to decom - rare already said the point is to encourage hideout use and player economy.

Drop rates i can agree with. hehe.

Oh and as a random piece of 50 feedback, apparently red eye sucks.

Edit: Nothing to see here ¬.¬

<Not sure why, but your link was taking me to edit this post. Removed the link for safety.>

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#36300184753 03/11/2007 06:31:54 Re:Update 50 Discussion
might want to fix the red eye, i run through 45 missions for an fx item i cant even see, thats not exactly a good thing now is it.
#36300184765 03/11/2007 07:19:18 Update 50 Discussion
definately agree with increasing the drop rates...

and also getting rid of the sadistic programming that says "if character = female then rsi pill drop = male" SMILEY

My female rsi is picking up male pills at a 4 to 1 clip to female ones.
#36300184821 03/11/2007 09:29:40 Update 50 Discussion
1sultrybytes wrote:
definately agree with increasing the drop rates...



and also getting rid of the sadistic programming that says "if character = female then rsi pill drop = male" SMILEY



My female rsi is picking up male pills at a 4 to 1 clip to female ones.
Make a male alt SMILEY
#36300184992 03/11/2007 12:23:44 Re:Update 50 Discussion
Roukan wrote:

RSI Modification Pills
Dungeon NPCs (except for the NPCs in the boss area of the bottom floor) and the bosses themselves now have a chance of dropping pills that permanently alter a component of your character's RSI when used. These pills can also be traded or sold. Different pill types can be found in different dungeons:

  • Mars Industrial Storage: Hair Color A (1-10, natural)
  • Casinos: Hair Style (1-19 female, 1-18 male)
  • Old Hammerville High: Hair Color B (11-20, natural)
  • Old Talbot Building: Hair Color C (21-32, artificial)
  • Abandoned Subway: Tattoos (1-SMILEY
  • Rawlins Corner: Facial Color (1-SMILEY
  • Ole Miller Projects: Facial Style (1-12 female, 1-13 male)
  • Orchid Public Bath: Skin Tone A (1-SMILEY
  • White Lotus Hotel: Skin Tone B (9-16)
  • South Vauxton Apartments: Head A (1-10)
  • Hampton Green Hotel: Head B (11-20 female, 11-19 male)
  • Creston Heights Museum: Body Type (1-3)
*CENSORED*, where's the surprise anymore?
you are a god.... i was looking for this XD
#36300185125 03/11/2007 14:17:43 Re:Update 50 Discussion
I like update 50 alot, chatting whilst coding is extremely usefull to all the residential coders, and these new pills are a great way to earn a bit of extra cash.  I've yet to encounter a MKT in PvP to test out the changed made to them, though. That's something to do. SMILEY
#36300185251 03/11/2007 16:43:15 Update 50 Discussion
That list is available in the patch notes in the launcher you know SMILEY
#36300185274 03/11/2007 16:59:40 Update 50 Discussion
Roukan wrote:
1sultrybytes wrote:
definately agree with increasing the drop rates...



and also getting rid of the sadistic programming that says "if character = female then rsi pill drop = male" SMILEY



My female rsi is picking up male pills at a 4 to 1 clip to female ones.
Make a male alt SMILEY
I've actually had more luck with the female pills. SMILEY

But yes, drop rate increase wouldn't be so bad... yet I agree with why it is the way it is. We (MxO community, it seems) have a habit of wearing out new content fast.
#36300185382 03/11/2007 19:02:19 Update 50 Discussion
0rexis wrote:
Roukan wrote:
1sultrybytes wrote:
definately agree with increasing the drop rates...



and also getting rid of the sadistic programming that says "if character = female then rsi pill drop = male" SMILEY



My female rsi is picking up male pills at a 4 to 1 clip to female ones.
Make a male alt SMILEY
I've actually had more luck with the female pills. SMILEY

But yes, drop rate increase wouldn't be so bad... yet I agree with why it is the way it is. We (MxO community, it seems) have a habit of wearing out new content fast.

You'll find that your increased droprate is because they like you better. Womans charm, I guess. SMILEY 

We do tend to eat our way through content within the first couple days, that is the reason why people ask for more.  The whole area K thing was content that could last for month's, but its the big "frenzy" only lasted a few weeks, it seems. One batch of content that was thoroughly enjoyable that was and is being used to the max (which is good) is the pandora's arc. I'd love to see maybe even a few more arcs, an expansion to that at some point in the future.  However, this patch's main content is pretty much the RSI teal pills, and because they are farmable/market place tradeable (unlike pandora's) we will get through it alot quicker.

Dam, fingers got carried away with me, there. SMILEY

#36300185859 03/12/2007 11:22:44 Re:Update 50 Discussion
I think that the few changes to the MKT tree could be taken in stride if it weren't for the current bugs. When we get a few of the fixes for things like punt and suplex not working, and throat cutting throw not activating in interlock, then i'll be content. Maybe moving the lag back to downtown instead of just Mara C would help a little as well. : /


Other than that, good stuff.
#36300185922 03/12/2007 12:25:38 Re:Update 50 Discussion
Actually, after some extensive farming of my own i dont think the drop rate is that bad, like its been said, it gives it some longtivity - i mean, not everything should be easy.

The one rate related change is would like to see is...

MAKE THE HIDEOUT BOSSES RESPAWN FASTER THAN GOD DARN 20 MINUTES! SMILEY SMILEY SMILEY
#36300193886 03/22/2007 11:26:38 Re:Update 50 Discussion

Can Anyone Get The Skin Tone RSI Pills To Work? I've Taken The Skin Tone 10 For Male 3 Different Times And My Character Isn't Dark-Skinned At All...

#36300198057 03/27/2007 00:03:42 Re:Update 50 Discussion
Izeburg wrote:

Can Anyone Get The Skin Tone RSI Pills To Work? I've Taken The Skin Tone 10 For Male 3 Different Times And My Character Isn't Dark-Skinned At All...


Racist pills. SMILEY Kidding, kidding. SMILEY
#36300198122 03/27/2007 01:12:28 Re:Update 50 Discussion
stilll /dance4ing Wooot!
#36300198404 03/27/2007 07:56:16 Re:Update 50 Discussion
I don't know if this has been said...but it seems the /who area has been updated instead of reading someone in Mara Central from Tabor North....it reads at the exact 100 meters as it has been put to...seems the Dev's didn't mark it in the update notes.....
#36300198837 03/27/2007 15:23:15 Re:Update 50 Discussion
That wasn't a patch change so much as a server config change... and yeah, they've been making quite a few changes lately (combat bugs most notably) that have been left out of the patch notes entirely.