The Other Side of the Looking Glass - Friday, June 23, 2006

**phaydren**

i was hoping for an update on the white hallways maybe a date or at least a few screenies but all in all the archival mission system is looking great SMILEY

**TonyJaa**

/clap.......Grats man!!!

McShy

Well played old chap. /golfclap

**sugaree**

Grats grats, Walrus, you are so the right person for this. I only hope that your satisfaction grows as your responsibilities have.

Besides making it possible to email these items to yourself, why not double the inventory? Just think of how many problems this would solve!!

Message Edited by sugaree on 06.24.2006 06:19 AM
Message edited by sugaree on 06/24/2006 05:19:27.

Aleatha

Congratulations for the promotion.

Those news look promising, thanks for bringing up much needed new content to the game.

I have only one thing that I feel a need to mention though. Instead of finding a temporary storage solution for those tokens, by trying to make them self-mailable-but-not-tradable, why not make some adjustments to the loading area ? Adittion fo 20 slots was helpfull for coders that can't even store their bits. But I believe we need a change in the storage purpose and method of the loading area.

First, making those tokens uploadable like mission related letters, audio recordings and documents may help with their storage better then making them mailbox items, considering the number of mails that you can have displayed at one time.

Second, being a person that likes things neat and organized current state of the loading area inventory is giving me nightmares. It would be really helpfull if was seperated into pages like our character inventory. One page for skills, one for bits, one for etc story and mission items mentioned above and hopefully one for storing our weapons, tools and most importantly clothing (I dream of the day...). While we can decompile our items to compile them later thats not really effective for time and resources.

I hope that you see my point in this.

Message Edited by Aleatha on 06.24.2006 04:28 PM

Message Edited by Aleatha on 06.24.2006 04:29 PM
Message edited by Aleatha on 06/24/2006 05:29:46.

FrayJack

Hm, upgrades :smileytongue:

I think you should just hurry up with the machine reward, ya know you want to! :smileyvery-happy:

**XRontix**

congrats on your new position Walrus!

Can't wait until Archival missions, but how's the progress on White Hallways?

**Illyria22**

Congratulations! :smileyhappy:

Illyria

**cloudwolf**

Fratz on producer-ness (though it was kinda obvious for a while now, hehe) and on a great looking glass, i know it cleared more than a few things up for me about the missions.

Unfortunately however i am gonna have to bring some sort of negativity to my post, sorry.

A) Not only do we have devs being taken away from us we also (and i know its been going on a while but still) have devs multi-jobbing. Pfft at the lack of SoE support

*sigh*

B) As kick **bleep** as the archive missions are gonna be and the shear amount of content they're gonna bring to the table was i the only one looking at a more immediate release? I mean, if rarebit is anything to go by, they've been in testing for quite a long while now... I dunno, again i just find myself questioning the amount of staffing MxO actually has.

Well, thats me done.

CloudWolf out.

**cloudwolf**

Blast! "Fratz" ¬.¬ Gratz, i meant gratz and you know it!

And my second point isnt as bad i suppose since i swear i read mid/late not early/mid. Meh.

Oh and another point which aready been raised is the fact that 'self-emailable' shouldnt be seen as a solution to the storage problem. Its a temp fix and nothing more.

Another solution entirely is needed. I mean just look at soem of the ideas over in development roundtable, absolute genious some of em. Doubling our inventory space, fixed problem. Adding a new 'key items' inventory, fixed problem. Adding expandable 'flash drive' inventory items, fixed problem.

Time to get a problem which has plagued this game for months fixed i say.

Message Edited by cloudwol on 06.24.2006 06:03 PM
Message edited by cloudwolf on 06/24/2006 09:03:19.

**phaydren**

flash drive you say SMILEY

although i cant take all the credit i did a bit of photoshoping all in the name of more inventory space SMILEY

Metrics

I am still waiting for info on the sentinel. Since the disappearance, it's been mentioned once in an official statement as far as I know. Now I admit i havent been keeping up with the forums that closely, but I'd expect some word of it in the official looking glasses or game updates. Even if it where to be sorry, no more sentinel....

Metrics

**Roukan**

Message Edited by Roukan on 06.25.2006 01:27 AM
Message edited by Roukan on 06/25/2006 00:27:42.

Miggesch

Sometimes when reading this stuff I feel as if the entire MxO staff now only consits of like 4 or 5 people

SMILEY

Nautonnier

Miggesch wrote:
Sometimes when reading this stuff I feel as if the entire MxO staff now only consits of like 4 or 5 people

I feel the same way. I know that I am wrong, but it sure feels that things are headed in the wrong direction. I seem to remember numerous occaions where Walrus was complaining (errr stating) that he was mega busy back in his old job. I know that he was helping Kap out, but officially having the title of Producer will only make things even crazier. More work with less people simply doesn't work, things slow down pretty fast. To sum up:

Frog - GONE

Kap - GONE

New Content - MISSIONS WE'VE ALREADY DONE

I apologize for being negative, and I do truly wish you congratulations Walrus, but now that you're the man running the show, I think I wouldn't mind a few answers from you on where MxO is going (I am after all a paying customer, who has spent a little time in Megacity). It would be nice for once to be able to hear the truth, instead of all the rah-rah bs. But as I think of questions that many of us would like answered, I realize that none of them would like be acknowledged, so I guess I'll not waste my time.

Anyway, congratulations again and good luck.

PS What's Mr. Kaplan up to? (http://www.secretlairstudios.com/company/)