Algorithm: Black - Feedback

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[22:31] [A:B] Zero Sum: Yeah... for those of you present last night... it was probably more chaotic and confusing on our side than it was on yours.
[22:31] Fox: Who played the Brian bluepill on Recursion? LOL. I kept trying to add you to my team so I could teleport you in the middle of a big group of exile gangmembers so they would kill you
[22:32] Ballak (2ndRBn Walker): lol gg
[22:32] [A:B] Deceit: Fox...we know better. SMILEY

[22:32] Fox: haha yeah I figured
[22:32] Fox: couldnt hurt to try though
[22:32] Fox: that would have been hilarious though
[22:32] The Great Wyrm: Yeah Fox - everyone knows better than to blindly trust -you.- *grins*
[22:32] Jack's Wasted Life: hah
[22:32] Fox: mwahah > SMILEY

[22:33] [A:B] Zero Sum: Yeah. After all... you were EPN for awhile.
[22:33] [A:B] Timecode: I just want to say last night was a logistical nightmare thanks to the Vector restart.
[22:33] Fox: Hey, I do what I got's to
[22:33] [A:B] Zero Sum: Bomb toting mad man.
[22:33] Fox: Ouch, burn
[22:33] Fox: SMILEY

[22:33] The Great Wyrm: As I've said before, and I'll say again, you're more Merovingian than some Merovingians I know.
[22:33] Machete: OMG
[22:33] Machete: I was freaking out
[22:33] Jack's Wasted Life: yea i was like Omg the algorith crashed vector *CENSORED*!!!
[22:33] {TCon}{DA}Sieges/Morraeon: Gugh, sorry to hear that.
[22:33] Fox: Hahahaa
[22:33] Machete: LMAO
[22:33] {TCon}{DA}Sieges/Morraeon: Heh, life imitates art?
[22:33] [A:B] Timecode: We had planned to start on Vector, move to Recursion, then to Syntax and cycle through
[22:33] Machete: Thats why i went to Recursion first
[22:33] [A:B] Control: Once again, I'd like to remind you all that we very nearly didn't do Vector at all, and it appeared that Vector's going offline was the final nail in the coffin.
[22:33] [A:B] Zero Sum: That's it! 'Blame the Algorithm.' Move over, keith01!
[22:33] Ballak (2ndRBn Walker): Keith, heh.
[22:33] [A:B] Timecode: 15 till I was shouting, "Start on Recursion!" then it came back up and half ended up on Vector, half on Recursoin
[22:34] [A:B] Deceit: I blame the Alg...
[22:34] The Great Wyrm: lol
[22:34] {TCon}{DA}Sieges/Morraeon: The troubles on DN1 seemed to fit Algy's activities...
[22:34] The Great Wyrm: Nope, doesn't roll off the tounge the same way.
[22:34] Machete: Run with it
[22:34] [A:B] Control: "Half." Pfft. It was two on one and everyone else on the other.
[22:34] {TCon}{DA}Sieges/Morraeon: How about...
[22:34] [A:B] Deceit: We got SEROUSLY confused during the final event.
[22:34] [A:B] Zero Sum: They could've been Algorithm's fault. He's slippery like that.
[22:34] {TCon}{DA}Sieges/Morraeon: "I blame Algy!"
[22:35] [A:B] Timecode: Yeah, you know, it was odd because we had the most turnout on Recursion in spite of Cryptos showing up.
[22:35] [A:B] Video: I found that funny as well.
[22:35] Machete: wow
[22:35] [A:B] Zero Sum: Yeah.. we had no idea a live event was happening at the same time.
[22:35] [A:B] Timecode: Very unexpected.
[22:35] {TCon}{DA}Sieges/Morraeon: Hah.
[22:35] Machete: I didnt know he showed up
[22:35] [A:B] Glitch Kitty: They were all online
[22:36] [A:B] Zero Sum: So Jack... I hear you got a nifty little thing in the mail today. Care to describe it for us?
[22:36] Jack's Wasted Life: its my precious...
[22:36] Jack's Wasted Life: my love...
[22:37] Jack's Wasted Life: i think this is the best reward ive ever gotten to date for any mxo event
[22:37] [A:B] Deceit: What'd we give you?
[22:37] Jack's Wasted Life: Brian Gauss' Journal
[22:37] Machete: Makes me wish I had one
[22:37] The Great Wyrm: Oh sweet.
[22:37] [A:B] Timecode: Yeah, it was real.
[22:37] Machete: heheh
[22:37] [A:B] Deceit: You make it sound like a FM-1500. =P
[22:37] Jack's Wasted Life: You are not your job or the gun in your holster
[22:38] [A:B] Zero Sum: Think it'd be too much to ask to see if you could post some digital photos of it on the event thread when you can, Jacks? I'm sure other players would be interested in seeing it.
[22:38] Jack's Wasted Life: Like the book says Zero, its a treasure, Im not a greedy man, and i do share treasure
[22:39] [A:B] Control: Any more questions?
[22:39] Fox: I think im questioned out
[22:39] Fox: Grey Poupon?
[22:39] [A:B] Zero Sum: Coolness. I think we need to wrap things up anyway. And don't poupon me, Fox.
[22:39] Fox: my bad
[22:39] [A:B] Zero Sum: Oh, I just had my attention brought to something else...
[22:40] [A:B] Zero Sum: A new phrase for you all to use whenever you get the chance.
[22:40] [A:B] Zero Sum: "Just clic-- uhh!" <--Brian Gauss' last words.
[22:40] Fox: Hahaha
[22:40] * The Great Wyrm shakes head, chuckling
[22:40] [A:B] Timecode: LOL
[22:40] Jack's Wasted Life: Earlier in the event there was the little hiccup about imposter players. There was one operative she her tone was very bubble gum- was she a real operative?
[22:41] [A:B] Control: That will be revealed in the credits.
[22:41] Jack's Wasted Life: ah
[22:41] [A:B] Timecode: Hehehe.
[22:41] [A:B] Zero Sum: Yeah, in the final video's credits, we'll reveal who was ours and who wasn't.
[22:41] [A:B] Deceit: All characters and the dev's playing them will be revealed.
[22:41] {TCon}{DA}Sieges/Morraeon: Yeah, wasn't there one person who showed up on Syntax with the name "NeoFrag002" or something?
[22:41] [A:B] Zero Sum: You asked a question earlier Jack and I didn't get to answer you.
[22:42] [A:B] Zero Sum: You asked if there would be a wiki that would help fill in new players on our stories and other information...
[22:42] Jack's Wasted Life: indeed i did zero
[22:42] [A:B] Zero Sum: http://www.algorithmblack.com/wiki/
[22:42] Jack's Wasted Life: awsome
[22:42] {TCon}{DA}Sieges/Morraeon: WHOA!
[22:43] Machete: Wikirithm SMILEY

[22:43] Machete: love it
[22:44] <chloeann(Chloe) (Power User) has entered the room>
[22:44] [A:B] Video: Welcome back Chloe.
[22:44] Chloe: Thanks!
[22:45] * The Great Wyrm smirks slightly
[22:46] [A:B] Control: Heh. So, any more questions?
[22:46] Jack's Wasted Life: indeed and one thing i wanted to "grump" about- during this event. there was a massive influx of new characters made. i was talking to semiconductor about that one night with synapse. I noticed a lot of people on the server that were heavilty involved in promoting things for server events all of a sudden dissappeared from view. Not once they have gotten on they never even dicuess the event. ... very interesting
[22:47] [A:B] Deceit: Wait, what Jack? You talking bout the inactive period in Vector?
[22:47] Jack's Wasted Life: during the A:B event there was a massive amount of characters created. nearly 50 new characters made (some only logged in once or twice)
[22:48] [A:B] Deceit: The first day you all saw Ops, that was a scare run
[22:48] Chloe: hey i got a quick question
[22:48] Machete: yeah a ton of operatives
[22:48] Chloe: Operative323 on Syntax. Was she part of the Algorithm team as well?
[22:48] [A:B] Zero Sum: Sure was.
[22:48] [A:B] Deceit: Yeah.
[22:48] [A:B] Control: We had nearly twice as many people at the beginning of A:B as you do now, that would explain the steady decrease of appearances.
[22:48] [A:B] Timecode: There are only 2 or 3 fake operatives that we knew of.
[22:48] Chloe: I heard rumrs she wasnt, but good
[22:49] [A:B] Video: Yea I think 323 was played by Glitch.
[22:49] Machete: oh and I am sorry for trying to kill any red operatives
[22:49] [A:B] Control: Quite. Next question.
[22:49] Jack's Wasted Life: I was saying- the regular roleplayers on vector (the people who actually do play and care about the server) suddnely stopped playing when the A:B event came into play. I have had serious thoughts about who is on your team
[22:49] [A:B] Zero Sum: Jack's Wasted Life: You might be right about some of your suspicions.
[22:50] [A:B] Control: *grins*
[22:50] [A:B] Deceit: Or you might be completely wrong. =)
[22:50] Ballak (2ndRBn Walker): Vector PET >______________________>
[22:50] Machete: lies!
[22:50] Jack's Wasted Life: Ive been a pvper for almost 9 years. Paranoia is my best friend
[22:50] Insertion: O.o
[22:50] [A:B] Zero Sum: Or we might be an alternate version of you, created by your own self-conscious. Named Tyler Durden.
[22:50] Machete: heheh
[22:50] The Great Wyrm: I've met that version of me.
[22:50] The Great Wyrm: He's okay.
[22:50] The Great Wyrm: I call him The Great Wyrm.
[22:50] Jack's Wasted Life: Little by little youre just letting yourself become- Tyler Durden
[22:51] * The Great Wyrm smirks slightly
[22:51] Insertion: Vector PE Who?
[22:51] * [A:B] Zero Sum grins.
[22:51] [A:B] Zero Sum: We're going to say goodnight, but thank you for the fun... we're still in awe that this event was taken so well.
[22:51] Machete: Keep it coming
[22:52] The Great Wyrm: Bread and circuses, folks - you know how to put on the show that we came to watch.
[22:52] Jack's Wasted Life: Halloween... Christmas.. will there be an event for new years?
[22:52] [A:B] Zero Sum: As long as there's players to help promote, hyper, and participate... we'll continue.
[22:52] Insertion: A:B was fun, hope to see more from the team!
[22:52] Machete: btw
[22:52] {TCon}{DA}Sieges/Morraeon: Easter? The Anniversary event?
[22:52] [A:B] Control: We'll probably be too busy with Snowblind.
[22:52] [A:B] Deceit: ..."Party like it's 1999"?
[22:52] Jack's Wasted Life: hahahah nice
[22:52] [A:B] Timecode: Join us in #y2haha
[22:52] Machete: if any of you are late nite players you will find me on vector
[22:52] [A:B] Zero Sum: Maybe, maybe not Jack's... but who knows... we might have something massive lined up for the next MxO Anniversary.
[22:59] [A:B] Deceit: By the way ladies and gentlemen, we've hit 3 hours of QA
[22:59] Chloe: wow
[22:59] The Great Wyrm: Heh.
[22:59] {TCon}{DA}Sieges/Morraeon: Whoo!
[23:00] [A:B] Zero Sum: Alright, well... I'm out for the night. My head's about to fall off, without the use of a Halloween Disguise.
[23:00] The Great Wyrm: Coooooool.
[23:00] The Great Wyrm: Night.
[23:00] {TCon}{DA}Sieges/Morraeon: Heh-heh-heh... see yah!
[23:00] Ballak (2ndRBn Walker): I hear there's rumors on the internets that my approval rating has dropped to around 30 percent... Those are just rumors, right?
[23:00] [A:B] Control: No.
[23:00] * [A:B] Zero Sum waves at everyone.
[23:01] Chloe: bye zero sum!
[A:B] Zero Sum left room '[A:B] Zero Sum - 1': Sat, Dec 01 23:01:05 2007

**CrimsonKiller01**

$400-$500 dollars for funding an event, 1 month to plan it, a healthy dose of imagination and ingenuity and you have one of the most talked about, happily accepted events ever. I said it before and I'll say it again, to the powers that be in MXO, take notice. Events such as these is what makes this game thrive. You have virtually all the keys to all the doors could pull off something like this (the Mxo team that is). If it's a question of "oh but these guys were volunteering to help" you would be very surprised to see how many players would help with an event if they were allowed to. Just some imagination and ingenuity and I seriously doubt 500 bucks would throw SOE into hock.

**Fen**

I thought the AB team did a great job. It, unfortunately, didn't hold my interest, though. In my opinion, it ran too long and was too difficult to follow. Also, for those of us that don't have or use MySpace or MSN, it felt like we were being left out of the loop. In the future, instead of MSN, I'd use Xfire or AIM, which are much more used in the MxO community than MSN.

All in all, I thought it was very cool. The real life phone calls were great, even if I could never understand them (I always seemed to get the calls when I was somewhere noisy, like a bar).

Future events should only be a week or two long, though.

**Kemy**

I liked most things that happened during the event. The calls that people got were a great touch. The few things I didn't like:
- Having to use MSN: I hope I'm not wrong here (as MSN can be used for things that'd MXO fails at) but I think every and any conversation can be held in game. Apperently you guys gave people a reason to log in again so I'd say; make them log in. Let messenger programs not be a requirement to keep up with the event. Email out of the game is fine, for like attachments and stuff but we can chat in game just the same way as through a messenger program. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks this way but I wanted to get it out anyway.
- Having to listen to in game radio: I understood from last nights QA session that you wanted the old feeling of RFZ back. The radio is a good medium to get everyone's attention but it's not my cup of coffee. This, like the use of MSN, may also be a personal preference, but when it comes to getting everyone in one spot I would rather choose for a mouth-to-mouth communicating way to get everyone where they need to be. You guys did an amamazing job of getting an event together of this size, I'm sure the last thing you'd need is a radio station to get a message across.
- The use of official Matrix/MXO characters: They've only spread messages, nothing got really mixed up with the story but I still feel like they shouldn't be used by players. Again, for an event this size I don't think you need the use of the official characters to get people involved, or more curious to participate. I know it didn't intrique me at all when I saw Veil and Cryptos posting messages. I'd even prefer a user on the Black Boards called 'Cypherite' to say the same thing, I'd read it anyway.

All in all it's been great. You still get a 10 outta 10 for setting an event up this big. I hope I didn't sound too negative because it's not how I like this post to be.

**EncryptedTransmission**

Fenshire: We actually used AIM, MSN, and Xfire. There was a different operative in charge of each messenger, and we decided to use all of them because different people use different ones. Also, as stated in the Q&A, future events will only last a week, except for maybe the occasional uber-long event. Who knows? Think of this as a stress-test. We wanted to see what we could do when we only had a month to plan a month long event. From here on out, it'll be something around 3 weeks to plan a week long event.

Reeverb: Yeah, a lot of stuff could be done in game, but at the same time, we used the messengers to get in contact with people that didn't play anymore or were rarely in game. It served its purpose, and we wanted to use as many mediums as possible to vary up the presentation throughout the course of the event. As far as the radio goes, what we did for the finale couldn't be done any other way. We wanted to throw in some of the songs we had used throughout the course of the event, and since it was impossible to have The Algorithm appear in game, and we didn't feel we could rely on CSR's to post system chat messages, it was the only way to allow him to speak in the end. And it also allowed us to use the audio recordings from his memoirs that didn't get finished in time to distribute as they were found. SMILEY

- Timecode

Ladies and Gentlemen, please direct your attention to the following links:

Zion http://www.xfire.com/clans/zionorg/

Machines http://www.xfire.com/clans/machineorg/

Merovingain http://www.xfire.com/clans/meroorg/

Cypherite http://www.xfire.com/clans/cyphorg/

EPN http://www.xfire.com/clans/epnorg/

These clans have been setup for your use by the AB team. Please feel free to sign up to your orgs clan. These clans will be public between Dec 1st to Dec 15th at which point you will need to be invited into your clans org for security reasons. Further information will be displayed on the AB.com forums after they come back up on sunday Dec 2nd. Thank you.

- Nemo

**MatrixRefugee** · 12/02/2007 14:19:26

I have no problem with using canon/LET characters in secondary roles in player storylines/referring to them in events, as long as it fits the character's/s' personality and their story as we know it. They're probably up to a lot more things than the main storyline could possibily include or that could pertain to it. As long as no one's doing something with those characters that would break the bounds of credibility or the universe logic such as we know it (ie. no claiming that your event character is Flood's illegitimate son or that you're romantically involved with Agent Grey).

EDIT TO ADD: Since I hit the Submit button too soon... In other words, I think what you did by having the LE characters posting to the A:B forums was legit at the least, and very clever and well-written overall.