Death of the Destroyer: Feedback Thread

**Symmetric**

The Good:
- The Assassin is finally dead. Morpheus has been avenged.
- Engaging event. There was something to do every day.
- Fun critical missions. Not really event-related, but fun nonetheless.
- My private meeting with Niobe was icing on the cake. SMILEY

The Bad:
- The leak. But I totally forgive ya for that. SMILEY

- The lag. The servers just can't handle a few hundred players all chasing after one person, or a few hundred people all in one club trying to listen to an LET character.
- The spam. I'd have hoped the LET would have a tool to cut out the chatter.
- The Assassin's Mask. I won't get into the buffs on it, but I think the method of obtaining it wasn't fair. Getting the last hit in was totally based on luck, especially considering all the downed hardlines and "Local Code Recompiling". Instead, it should have been based on who did the most damage - it takes a bit more strategy to stay alive when you're trying to chase down the Assassin.

The Ugly:
- The crashes. This, I can't really forgive. Especially for all of those who were on the Recursion server in the Manssen Park area. We had the Assassin down to just a few hundred HP, and he decided to hyper-jump. We chased after him right into a "Local Code Recompiling" barrier, then the whole area went down, booting us all from the server, even the Assassin himself. I moved on to the next location, but I assume that when he came back, he was at full health again.

All in all, I thought it was a really fun event. If the server stability problems can be resolved by the next live event, I think everyone will be pleased.

Chuui

Insane buffs handed out on an item rewarded to those that were simply "lucky" == Really freaking bad move. Especially when one such buff isn't supposed to be on anything that *isn't* footwear. That annoys me.

Perhaps a part of the event, perhaps not, but the Mobius code not being given when the loading area was full, despite inventory space being empty (and being told that's where it would be placed) == Very very unfair. Please rectify it.

Corrupted spawns, these didn't work correctly for a lot of players (myself being one of them) thus we were unable to even get a shot at getting the code fragments to enojy the puzzle / inital action aspect of the event to the fullest. == Get LESIG up and running, if I'm lucky to be a member (yes I applied all those moons ago) I have possible solution ideas for this to raise where people will actually listen.

Mettings causing server crashes == Exceptionally bad. Again, LESIG is needed, and soon.

Other than that, it was fun. I enjoyed fighting the Assassin at least. Sorry it's mainly negative feedback, but due to timezones and spawn trouble, I didn't see much, but what I did see (that didn't cause a crash) was enjoyable.

Message Edited by Chuui on 10-03-2005 11:16 AM
Message edited by Chuui on 10/02/2005 17:16:38.

**FAOrien**

Tizona wrote:
I am a little
frustrated on how the loot was given out on this event. Like Bonopi
said, about 15 FA tried as hard as possible to kill the assassin, only
for a level 24 martial arts initiate to jack in, show up, and kill him
when he had only so much life left.

You
should have done a different system that gave out rewards to factions,
teams, or crews that did the most damage, not just one lucky person who
happened to be at the right place at the right time.

/end rant

*sigh*

Very
frustrated. Fighting him was cool and it was a joint effort by
all of FA, but we have nothing to show for it even if it.

**Fugitiv3**

The Code Frag puzzle was fun, always a challenge

The fight with the Midian assassin on Vector was good, minimal lag except for some occasions.

It was great to see ol Flyboy again, and part of me will miss him.

On the other hand, the Assassin's Mask thing is awkward. A lot.

I like the idea of everyone who landed a hit getting a generic buffless Assassin's Mask and the last-shot people getting a cleaner looking Buffed one. That would have been better in my opinion.

Instead all i have to show for my battle is a Flit Gun. I love it and all but yeah. SMILEY

The event itself: B+

The reward system: D+

**Rogue**

Walrus, this event was fun... but disappointing. Why start giving out
prizes now? Especially prizes with buffs. I would like some
compensation from the Nightfall event if prizes are going to the the
standard now. Calliente deserves something too since he was the only
one brave enough to help out Invalseco on Method. Midian lagged out 3
times on its own, Mannsen once... it was hell on earth.

**Voyle**

I didn't like how 4 people got such a crazy item just by pressing a button at the right time:smileywink:

I also didn't like how fast it ended when the assassin showed up. I had to be somewhere so I left after waiting 3 hours, then when I come back 30 minutes later he's all gone:smileyindifferent:

Could have been better, a little anti-climatic, but then again I always thought the whole theme of the assassin and bugspray killing flies thing was a little dull. Would you see something like that in the matrix movies? But then again, there where no dev fields in the movies...:smileyvery-happy:

**Neu**

in all fairness the team that did the most dmg should have gotten the mask(s), it was really based on luck for the last hit.

**Voyle**

Also, it wouldn't have mattered if we knew ahead of time the locations, radio stations always blab that stuff out to the public. ;D

**Othinn1**

I had fun. Especially yesterday when a bunch of us battled the Corrupted at Tabor Park West for a while, before chasing the Assassin from Tabor Park East to the Abandoned Subway. I liked it when the Assassin ran into Uriah while we were chasing him. There's a ton of places he could hide there. I enjoyed running around the wharf, large metal cargo boxes everywhere, and not knowing if the Assassin was far away or right around the corner. ^-^

Khr0n1k

The Good

Finnally having another Live event.

I found this event pretty fun, especially the end.

The Criticals, especially the Flit Gun one, how you had it tied directly in with the story line in real time.

The LET was actualy spelling correctly and using proper puncutation, unlike me.

I finnaly being able to see the Oracle.

New, free toys to play with. (Flit Gun, Mobius Code)

The Bad

There wasnt a real puzzle this time, like people have said it was basically a jigsaw puzzle.

Not enough LET interaction, they only really talked to first couple people there and then used thier macros and went invis.

The Ugly

How the end reward was given.

There is more stuff but Im slow at the moment. This is the first event
I really didnt have any lag,I only had one problem and that was at the
end with the public zion meeting with Niobe how the area crashed on
Vector, I really didnt have any lag even then I just got disconected.

Message Edited by Khr0n1k on 10-02-2005 08:40 PM
Message edited by Khr0n1k on 10/02/2005 17:40:25.

**Othinn1**

Voyle wrote:

Could have been better, a little anti-climatic, but then again I always thought the whole theme of the assassin and bugspray killing flies thing was a little dull. Would you see something like that in the matrix movies?

Of course not. The movies are only a small part of the Matrix universe. Would you have seen Matriculated in the trilogy? Or staking vampires anywhere except EtM and MxO? SMILEY

BooNDog

I had fun with this but I do think there were parts that were not fair
to all. Killing Corrupted's was something I had a problem
with. I would be attacked and start to fight one at my own
level, when all of a sudden someone 10 levels above me would hit
him once or twice and cause they made the kill, they got the
loot. I would have liked to see a little less of this as it made
it harder for a lower level to participate. (I'm level 40) and
unless it looked as if a lower level was really in trouble, I left them
alone.

I've read in several places on these boards about special prizes for
the one who was lucky enough to make the final shot. I have not
seen an official announcement about it so don't know if it it fact or
fiction. If it is indeed fact, then I think it is grossly unfair
to all those who co-operated to bring down the assassin. But maybe
that's part of the next plot? Divide and conquer.

**MxO-Insertion**

Having an event was great after so long. SMILEY

The whole thing was fun, except the last and most important chases, I couldn't find the Assassin after he shot me and slowed me down SMILEY

Umm.. like Kr0n1k said, the LET factor was a little weak. Every meeting had their host leave in almost 5 minutes after. I wish that there would be a way to continue things in the Matrix, without having 3 week periods where nothing happens. Maybe if things weren't jumbled into one big event, the feeling of the Matrix would still exist. The last LET had some rare occassions when they popped into the world and attended tournements or just hung out at parties. That is something I would like to see more often.

Having a common goal, and having peace among organizations was fun, but it was wierd.. The possiblity to attack someone is there, but you're being encouraged not to SMILEY

Even though I liked it, I hope it doesn't happen again :smileyvery-happy: Seeing as there are those who care about events and RP it out, some don't, and they got a little aggrevated when I reminded them of their org's truce :smileywink:

Overall, I enjoyed this event a lot. Even with Walrus' mishap, I still don't see how that could have made people made enough where they didnt even want to participate in the event. It was the only time where we would have a heads up on an event, even if it was by accident :smileytongue:

Grrr.. this is my second event I felt a little left out of towards the end SMILEY

But I still had fun :smileyvery-happy:

**FAOrien**

Heck id be happy with an unbuffed Assassin mask.

Anarcist

The Good_

-live events are back

-finaly we get to see the back of the most annoying character (the assassin)

The Bad-

-with the drop you have now made it extreemly unbalanced for whoever has and dose not have said mask.(something I'm constantly being told they must not dowhen i lose abilities after coding them succesfully)

-what was the perpous of helping out? i as many others got nothing for helping some selfish/lucky person get a very nice mask. (fairness? I think not.)

-Lag. I can play to you the advert for this game on my matrix DVDs where I quote "we will have servers where 100+ people can run in to 1 building at 1 momentin time and never suffer any lag" /quote mode off why were we lied to?

The Ugly-

-costant contact spam. why did we need to be told over and over and so on that we needed special guns?

-why dose an event like this take so long? ok we got that we needed to kill coupts for their codes thats 1 day perhaps 2 while doing that you can do the criticals. the next day you find the assassin at decyphered areas and kill him. 2 days thats it all over plans for the nextone in place for 2 weekends away or perhaps more if there is more content.

I dont want to sound so I hate you I hate this I hate everything but please a bit more thought put in to the fact that we all get bored of repetative tasks.

thank you for putting a bit like this much () fun back in to the game. the most fun I had wads crashing all the parties after. lol