Zion Courier: Failure

Cypherite spies in Zion have confirmed the next delivery will be Sunday, May 17 at 2pm City time. We have the following intel on this courier mission:

• Download Location: Eshean 1123 -4 -1695
• Upload Location: Lucero Point -431 1 -314
• Courier Handle: ZionCourier
• Courier Load: Aikido
• Neuralkinetic level: 32
• Courier's Known Gear: Black Widow's Gi, Caution Boots, Tin Can's Headgear, Modified Reeves Boosted Program Launcher
• Courier's Estimated Speed Bonus: 58%
• Additional Tactical Information:

The courier requires prepared terminals to download and upload their package from. The package is compressed code containing thousands of pills. His modified program launcher stores this compressed code package in his buffer. This compressed code and the method of storing it in the courier's buffer is not stable enough to survive teleportation. Hyperjump also risks corrupting the code. Therefore this courier will be moving on foot.

If either the Buffer Overflow 1.0 or Buffer Overflow 2.0 debuff is active at death, the courier's reconstruct timer will be reduced to one minute.

If the compressed code remains in the courier's buffer for more than 70 minutes, the risk of the code beginning to destabilize will become an increasing factor. For every ten minutes after the first 70 minutes of the compressed code being stored in the courier's buffer, there is a 20% increasing chance the upload will fail. After two hours, the compressed code becomes too unstable and the upload is guaranteed to fail.

Objectives

Cypherite and Machine Operatives

• Primary Objective: Termination and forced reconstruction of the courier.
• Secondary Objective: Be the first to terminate any hostile operative assisting the courier with a successful revival effort.

Zion and EPN Operatives

• Primary Objective: Ensure the courier's safe delivery of this package from the Zion terminal to the EPN terminal. 
• Secondary Objective: Be the first to terminate any hostile operative that successfully terminates the courier.
• Secondary Objective: Be the first to terminate any hostile operative that successfully applies Buffer Overflow to the courier, reducing the courier's reconstruct timer to one minute upon death with the debuff active.

Merovingian Operatives

• Objectives: Any primary or secondary objective you are capable of completing.

No proof is required for primary objectives.

Proof of completed secondary objective requires an image capture displaying /time, CQ and ‘killed by' system records. Proof should be displayed here for verification and recognition of achievements on behalf of the operative's organization. When there are mutliple objectives involving the same target, only one kill per individual operative can be credited.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES COMPLETED

• Zion and EPN: 21 : 10/1; 10/10; 10/20; 11/6; 11/15; 11/24; 12/3; 12/12; 12/20; 12/28; 1/14; 1/22; 1/30; 2/13; 2/21; 3/1; 3/9; 3/18; 4/3; 4/11; 5/1
• Cypherites and Machines: 3 : 1/5; 4/19; 5/9; 5/17
• Merovingian: 2 : 10/28; 3/26

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES COMPLETED

• Zion and EPN: 13 : Bossnake; Omega04 (13)
• Cypherites and Machines: 0
• Merovingian: 0

MAY 17 SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

ZionCourier Kills

• First operative to terminate the Machine operative EngraiIed: 
• First operative to terminate the Machine operative xCYPHx: Omega04 
• First operative to terminate the Machine operative xCYPHx:
• First operative to terminate the Machine operative Sheel4:
• First operative to terminate the Machine operative P0ul:

ZionCourier Revivals

• First operative to terminate the terrorist operative Jedi44:
• First operative to terminate the terrorist operative Jedi44:
• First operative to terminate the terrorist operative Jedi44:
• First operative to terminate the terrorist operative Jedi44:
• First operative to terminate the terrorist operative Arm0r:

Proof of completing secondary objectives will be accepted up until the next delivery time.

Wednesday, October 1 at 6pm City time.

Hope to see many EPN participating in this, we must not fail in protecting the courier.

6 am in spain lol

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Reports comfirm the delivery was successful.

Successful termination of the courier executed by Lanton at 18:10:09 and Bayamos at 18:11:22.

Successful revival of the courier executed by Skybruin twice, at 18:10:31 and 18:11:42.

Primary objective completed by: Zion and EPN.

Secondary objectives await proof:

First operative to terminate Lanton after 6:10pm City time:
First operative to terminate Bayamos after 6:11pm City time:

First operative to terminate Skybruin after 6:10pm City time:
First operative to terminate Skybruin after 6:11pm City time:

Secondary objectives remain open until completed.

Reports comfirm the delivery was successful.

Successful termination of the courier executed by Lanton at 18:10:09 and Bayamos at 18:11:22.

Successful revival of the courier executed by Skybruin twice, at 18:10:31 and 18:11:42.

Primary objective completed by: Zion and EPN.

Secondary objectives await proof:

First operative to terminate Lanton after 6:10pm City time:
First operative to terminate Bayamos after 6:11pm City time:

First operative to terminate Skybruin after 6:10pm City time:
First operative to terminate Skybruin after 6:11pm City time:

Secondary objectives remain open until completed.

So, let me get this right.

It's not who Rezzes the ZionCourier first, but who the ZionCourier chooses to be rezzed by?

NurseBadTouch only caught that fast mofo, lanton got the kill shot. then bay did. also that little zion freak was way way way to fast.

So, let me get this right.

It's not who Rezzes the ZionCourier first, but who the ZionCourier chooses to be rezzed by?

Applied revivals overwrite previous revivals. So there is no choice but to accept the last one applied. Attempting to accept a previous revival results in failure.

Granted that's not a perfect situation but keep in mind that reviving itself is not an objective in itself, but a necessary means to achieve the organizations' primary objective. 

TheSorrows wrote:

So, let me get this right.

It's not who Rezzes the ZionCourier first, but who the ZionCourier chooses to be rezzed by?

Applied revivals overwrite previous revivals. So there is no choice but to accept the last one applied. Attempting to accept a previous revival results in failure.

Granted that's not a perfect situation but keep in mind that reviving itself is not an objective in itself, but a necessary means to achieve the organizations' primary objective.

Dreami wrote:

Reports comfirm the delivery was successful.

Successful termination of the courier executed by Lanton at 18:10:09 and Bayamos at 18:11:22.

Successful revival of the courier executed by Skybruin twice, at 18:10:31 and 18:11:42.

Primary objective completed by: Zion and EPN.

Secondary objectives await proof:

First operative to terminate Lanton after 6:10pm City time:
First operative to terminate Bayamos after 6:11pm City time:

First operative to terminate Skybruin after 6:10pm City time:
First operative to terminate Skybruin after 6:11pm City time:

Secondary objectives remain open until completed.

So was NurseBadTouch on that list at all or was she just in the line of fire? I could of sworn she killed the courier once...

In the chaos of the moment, I didn't realize I stepped on your rezzes. sorrows If you got them in before me, I appologize. But the big thing was we got the courier back on his feet.

And can I just say Speed Demon? That guy was hard for his escort to keep up with.

Maybe next time tone down the speed a bit and work in a hand off or multiple drop situation to extend the play time of the event for everyone.

In the mean time, please report all information gained from this operation.

Where are the pickup and drop off locations?
What is this operative's neuralkinetic level?
What is his handle?
What load is he using?
What gear is he using?

Any other information that may be of use.

He's fast and he got the job done this time. What else do we know now?

Engrailed: Well that sucks Im 10 minutes late and I already missed the entire event? Bye..

I think the organizers of this learned a lot today and hopefully will take this knowledge and change a few things to make the next one much better.

I put a lot of work into getting EPN involved with this event and it is really frustrating when the organizers don't communicate with each other and the event is over before our liaison even gives us the destination of where EPN is suppose to be waiting.

I am thankful that there will be another courier escort.  I think this has a lot of potential but just needs some changes. 

I would rather consider this event a forfeit than a Zion/EPN win because the Cypherites never had a legitimate chance at stopping him.

I feel sorry for wasted steak.  /do-over

I think the organizers of this learned a lot today and hopefully will take this knowledge and change a few things to make the next one much better.

I put a lot of work into getting EPN involved with this event and it is really frustrating when the organizers don't communicate with each other and the event is over before our liaison even gives us the destination of where EPN is suppose to be waiting.

I am thankful that there will be another courier escort. I think this has a lot of potential but just needs some changes.

I would rather consider this event a forfeit than a Zion/EPN win because the Cypherites never had a legitimate chance at stopping him.

I feel sorry for wasted steak. /do-over

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If its the notion that the Mech/Merv/Zion get critical missions and because of that said notion the liaisons of said organizations do not need to make appearances when the CYPH/EPN LO's (which I must say are the far most dedicated people to their orgs EVA!!!) actually do something for their organizations, I get a little disillusioned... I mean Dreami isn't the only LO logging in on Vector but fair has to be fair and I've heard she's one dedicated mutha and posting up event she runs herself is a nice thing to see liaisons do aside from "Go to coordiate x, y z, floor 4" in Live Events and then nothing is heard from them until the next month, maybe it was time for some 2.5 or 3.0 or what they call themselves to get cracking and make something for the Mervs to participate in. (from a Merv point of view not that the event didn't have that but I would feel like a fool running in one single Merv while the rest of my organization is farming overridden exiles in Chelsea - I'm gung ho but not a that gung ho.) /shrug.

Outlaw wrote:

 

Yeah, that was completely involuntary (me jacking out).  I really wanted to help out, but as soon as I jacked in, this is what I saw:



I tried jacking in two more times (after hitting Alt-F4 and then waiting a couple minutes), but I kept getting the same result.

this happens to me almost every single time i /jackout or crash.. when you're game's loading hit space bar over and over again until it loads and you will jump as soon as you get in... pretty unconventional i think, but it's worked for 3 years for me

Synapse777 wrote:

If its the notion that the Mech/Merv/Zion get critical missions and because of that said notion the liaisons of said organizations do not need to make appearances when the CYPH/EPN LO's (which I must say are the far most dedicated people to their orgs EVA!!!) actually do something for their organizations, I get a little disillusioned... I mean Dreami isn't the only LO logging in on Vector but fair has to be fair and I've heard she's one dedicated mutha and posting up event she runs herself is a nice thing to see liaisons do aside from "Go to coordiate x, y z, floor 4" in Live Events and then nothing is heard from them until the next month, maybe it was time for some 2.5 or 3.0 or what they call themselves to get cracking and make something for the Mervs to participate in. (from a Merv point of view not that the event didn't have that but I would feel like a fool running in one single Merv while the rest of my organization is farming overridden exiles in Chelsea - I'm gung ho but not a that gung ho.) /shrug.

A recap of how we got ganked for five minutes and than a total rose colored glasses approach to a ruined evening for alot of people? Yeah thats pure dedication...

I think from alot of people I have talked to in all organizations agree this is one of the generally worst ran events ever. We went into planning builds heck I even farmed Valrkie consumables to give us an edge as well as brought my buff bot. We talked about Merovingian involvment what it boiled down to was 15 Zionites in a room a character using bugged un attainable items to get this done even more skewed and us getting killed at the very end with no real moderation or guidence. Honestly this entire thing struck me as if it was intentionally done to favor Zion and expect us to Jolly Gee Wizz RP it off at the next event...

The fact that this was posted and I can only assume ran by a Cypherite liason makes you wonder how much our own officers really even care about our organization our enjoyment of the game or our involvement when putting something like this on... Obviously this was not thought out because we had mentioned to her many times our concerns for a vast population difference and the only reply we got for days on end is "Well learn from it" Honestly learn from it...? What exactly do you learn from jacking in at 9 PM getting zerged by 15 Zionites and having a non moderated and skewed event who's center piece is wearing bugged items?

Don't even get me started on logistics regarding ability timers and the realistic chances for anyone to even catch this guy within reason. Put up a real fight. Than we can also go into the fact that this event started Im guessing before the official time. This resulted in a 10 minute event which even than would have been honestly a waste to begin with being cut even shorter. As you can see in many peoples posts in resulted in multiple people in every organization logging in just a few minutes late and missing the entire event. "And if the excuse applies that they should have been there on time I suppose we can say the same for the Courier".
All Im going to say is the fact that stuff like this isn't even confronted and in alot of regards people are made bad guys in this game when vocalizing these issues and not dropping them for social comfortability is saddening. On a personal note this event had been hyped for a long time now. I passed up going out to a steak dinner to make it thinking it was going to be something epic. Instead this is what we got for as close to an official content source as were going to receive in a subscription based Sony game.

You would think after something as out there as this we would get something outside of "What have we learned?" In an attempt to shift the conversation in a direction that results in no conforntation of how utterly tragic this entire evening was. I can tell you heres what I learned. 7 Cypherites arn't a match for 15 to 20 EPN and Zions. MKT timers don't permit me to properly catch a player whos wearing pre nerf Widows Gi and Boots. Actually starting events on time especially when their entire duration is that of somewhere between five to ten minutes allows what little Cypherite population is left playing MxO to actually participate. Not doing this scares off Syntax Cypherites that some of us have worked very hard to make feel welcome on this server because were in desperate need of quality population. And what I learned most of all is it seems some people just dont care and thats the biggest let down of all on this.

Priv,

You do have some points but some need clarification. The event started on time as far as I could tell. It was maybe even a few minutes after the alotted time when the courrier hit the street. I believe this because we were fighting accelerated exiles until the alloted time. and had to rush to get to the event on time. 

But that does underscore the speed issue since it was over before late arrivals could get in the event. Next time may be a different story, though.

Cypherite spies in Zion have confirmed that the next delivery will be Friday, October 10 at 2pm City time.

October 1 courier mission secondary objectives remain incomplete:

• First operative to terminate Lanton:
• First operative to terminate Bayamos:
• First operative to terminate Skybruin:
• Second operative to terminate Skybruin:

Proof of completing secondary objectives will be accepted up until the next delivery time, Friday, October 10 at 2pm.

Additional information has been updated here.

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October 1 courier mission secondary objectives remain incomplete:

• First operative to terminate Lanton:
• First operative to terminate Bayamos: Bossnake
• First operative to terminate Skybruin:
• Second operative to terminate Skybruin:

Proof of completing secondary objectives will be accepted up until the next delivery time, Friday, October 10 at 2pm.

Also updated here.

Reports comfirm today's delivery was successful. There was no termination or revival of the courier during this delivery so there are no secondary objectives.

Also updated here.

We Managed to kill him but just after he uploaded. Zion had quite a big number of people there, As did EPN, While Machines Had Barely One team. I also saw a Few Mero's.

HutchieJNR wrote:

We Managed to kill him but just after he uploaded. Zion had quite a big number of people there, As did EPN, While Machines Had Barely One team. I also saw a Few Mero's.

Yeah this is exactly why people didn't bother to show dude. We had 7 people total ready the first event and it was over in five minutes and we got rolled.

I cant believe a live event was actually based around an event so obviously skewed towards Zions advantage but whatever I guess its our responsibility to pretty much organize 75% of the Machine/Cyph population and move within the five minute period the events going on in a clear team like fashiion.

I really wonder if this event was just pushed out because the planner knew the LESIG changes were coming and they really didnt care about the quality of the event.

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privaronT wrote:

HutchieJNR wrote:

We Managed to kill him but just after he uploaded. Zion had quite a big number of people there, As did EPN, While Machines Had Barely One team. I also saw a Few Mero's.

Yeah this is exactly why people didn't bother to show dude. We had 7 people total ready the first event and it was over in five minutes and we got rolled.

I cant believe a live event was actually based around an event so obviously skewed towards Zions advantage but whatever I guess its our responsibility to pretty much organize 75% of the Machine/Cyph population and move within the five minute period the events going on in a clear team like fashiion.

I really wonder if this event was just pushed out because the planner knew the LESIG changes were coming and they really didnt care about the quality of the event.

It lasted for about....20mins or so, and most of that he was standing in the middle of a Zion/EPN Zerg.

I think they had Two healers and quite a few MA's, Several guns and One or Two Mkt's V Myself as a mkt, Systematica as a Healer I think, Majinn as Arb, Brommerz as Mkt and another PM who I have now forgotten the name of (sorry).

I killed him a sec or two after he had uploaded the Data, Then I also got him again about 5minutes later When he was back standing in the middle of the zerg.

To be honest, It was a waste of time because although the time was set here, Almost no machines or Merovingians took back so those Machine who turned up were up against 4 or 5 times the amount of us.