Ask the Devs an MXO question v.5

**Rarebit**

phaydren wrote:

will there be a massive smith brawl in debir court for the end of the aniversary tomorow ?

Oh, I don't know.

**Kemy**

Reeverb wrote:

Will we ever see anything added to the game that we can trade our CQ's for?

**SolidRevolver** · 04/09/2007 13:19:20

Reeverb wrote:

Will we ever see anything added to the game that we can trade our CQ's for?

I hope not, a ranking system of somekind yes, but this would shun a lot of the community from rewards.

*EDIT* When will 'Ask the Devs an MXO question v.6' start? SMILEY

**Roukan**

Rarebit wrote:

Hm just a bunch of spam since my last post, apparently. :p

Roukan wrote:

Dear Rarebit, why do you taunt me with female suits?

Yep, lots of spam.

**ZaneZavin**

Would a LE character be able to give out a normal enhanced clothing item?

Zudrag

Zomg, what exactally are you posting to make your post count shoot up so high Rarebit? You're making Mathalos' head explode.

**Yasamuu** · 04/09/2007 13:37:27

Reeverb wrote:

Yasamuu1 wrote:
20136098 wrote:
Roukan wrote:
NightTrace wrote:
Nope. I just think its a rather crappy way to go about farming CQs. Sitting on a team blue rezzing.

I'd go for your point if Cqs meant anything.

Exactly, it is a little tally that gets you no recognition. One guy on Syntax has over 23k cq (how I dont know) and I bet a lot of people here couldnt name him.

Pharoah420nels or something like that...

Fixed.
Most of Vector can be jealous of that guy (if you're after CQ's that is). 23k of CQ's, on a non-hostile server, for gods sake!

Aside from Krytical and Untouchable and a few others with multiple 50's he does have more than anyone over here.

**Rarebit**

Reeverb wrote:

Reeverb wrote:
Will we ever see anything added to the game that we can trade our CQ's for?

I don't know about that. I'm kind of curious where that concept came from--ie, was it from another MMO, like WoW?

CQs as far as I understood them were always meant as a score, rather than a commodity. We have no functionality for changing their value in the database by any kind of transaction--ie using them for currency. Of course in theory we could add something like that, but even aside from the implementation time necessary to add that functionality, assuming it's possible in our system, there are issues such as (did I already go over this before?)

- We'd have to spend design time making rewards that only a fraction of the community (the PVPers) are going to consider going for
- It would probably encourage 'sploiting the already kind of weird CQ reward system, like people just killing their buddies or an alt repeatedly to jack up their CQs
- It would ruin their value as an overall "score"; if we still wanted to keep a "score" as well we'd have to add another tracked value to the character database
- You get into possible "story" issues, like if Zion and Machines aren't officially at war, why would a Zionite in effect get rewards for killing Machines, etc

As an idea, I think it's certainly something that we would investigate handling in *some* way if we felt we had the dev time to dedicate to supporting it, but currently we have our hands full just supporting and trying to flesh out the existing game mechanics. I tend to think that in order for a PVP reward system to work well it would require a separate "arena" type gameplay area/mode.

**Roukan**

Roukan wrote:

Roukan wrote:
Dear Rarebit, why do you taunt me with female suits?

**Rarebit**

Roukan wrote:

Roukan wrote:
Roukan wrote:
Dear Rarebit, why do you taunt me with female suits?

'Cause sexy taunting is more fun than regular taunting? Anyway I wasn't taunting you; it's all in your mind. :p

**ArchDuke**

Is 'festive' mode still active, and if so, is it still possible to knock off someone's Holiday Hats with snowballs?

Or did you deactivate that when we finished the Holiday Event?

**Rarebit**

ArchDuke wrote:

Is 'festive' mode still active, and if so, is it still possible to knock off someone's Holiday Hats with snowballs?

Or did you deactivate that when we finished the Holiday Event?

I think it's deactivated.

**jeffers**

Is the anniversary event going to be turned off tomorrow or is it likely to stay running?

Jeffers

**Riac.**

Will there be new content in future that will involve more clothing tht is not just rebuffed stuff actual new look clothing... i hear that what you are working on now o.o

**Rarebit**

jeffers wrote:

Is the anniversary event going to be turned off tomorrow or is it likely to stay running?

Jeffers

Tomorrow is supposed to be the last day. Currently it looks like the "turn the event off" patch might be delayed due to silly technical issues :p, but I guess we'll see.