Fen wrote:

The biggest concern I have with this new 'system' is that it seems like it'll be alienating our lower level players.  A quest for downtown?  What about the newer players to MxO who are under level 30?  They'll have to wait until they're higher level to enjoy MxO's story?  I don't know how I feel about that.

The idea is to use the existing 3+ years of archived backstory to get them to that point. 

I like the boots. Black clothes own.

i am not really that interested in either of those and since i am a zion i cant get the boots anyways...not sure if i would want them even if i was a merv...

I like the earpeice looks different afterall everyone got the others now.

The boots seem a bit pointless to me without seing the buffs.

As mentioned before White boots would be cool.

Awell More pics please Rare!

I guess it wasn't a total waste to level up 3 50's on syntax now was it?

Fen wrote:

I hate to say it, but they're both kind of lame.  The wireframe earpiece is just...  yeah.  The boots look like any other boots available.

What are hellstompers?  Someone mentioned that above.

The biggest concern I have with this new 'system' is that it seems like it'll be alienating our lower level players.  A quest for downtown?  What about the newer players to MxO who are under level 30?  They'll have to wait until they're higher level to enjoy MxO's story?  I don't know how I feel about that.

I know how I feel about it.

KoenhX wrote:

I guess it wasn't a total waste to level up 3 50's on syntax now was it?

Yes

I'll get the boots, but the eair piece is a no go

The wireframe stuff was and is never going to be Matrix Matrix Matrix Matrix Matrix. Not like the movies were and in comparison I have to say I could fit Unlimits in that movie landscape however hard it was for me and some others to phantom the cheat vials, but it was a heck of a lot easier than some wireframed dudes that comes in and starts waking people up by walking around like a shining silver surfers and at this point I just don't know why we're even getting them as rewards, honestly I'd rather much see a SWAT commando vest (not SSR but a SWAT Captain or a SWAT regular soldier one blue or black) at least after that I'd think my char looked somewhat close to the movies typa style. The caretaker boots are nice enough though but maybe make some snakeskinned ones at one time. Snakeskin/and Croc... Matrix.. black leather. Remember?

Wait, does the earpiece have a bright glow?

And I agree, it would have been good if the boots were white.

Eleutherophobia wrote:

Fen wrote:

I hate to say it, but they're both kind of lame. The wireframe earpiece is just... yeah. The boots look like any other boots available.

What are hellstompers? Someone mentioned that above.

The biggest concern I have with this new 'system' is that it seems like it'll be alienating our lower level players. A quest for downtown? What about the newer players to MxO who are under level 30? They'll have to wait until they're higher level to enjoy MxO's story? I don't know how I feel about that.

I know how I feel about it.

I brought this up in the feedback thread and I don't think it was answered in a satisfactory manner.  Sure you can use the old archives, etc to get up to 30 relatively quickly but can you really imagine telling a new player "Sorry, but you can't actually participate in the current storyline until you've reached level 30... you can however do old story missions from two years ago."  Either this is going to turn a new player off completely or they will force themselves to burn their way through to at least 30 as fast as possible.. and probably miss out on all of the level specific content (collector items, constructs, exile dungeons, area exploration, access nodes, etc.) along the way.  Good idea?  Not so much.

As for these items themselves.. I'm not excited by either as seen.  I do want to see what the male boots look like.  Maybe if we're lucky the male version will be black seraphims like the Merv wears.. or at least some other good looking boot style that you're not forced to tuck your pantlegs into (Hello, I'm wearing chaps over my pants.. why am I tucking them both into my boots again?).  The earpiece just looks silly and would have been better off (though not really any better) as a visual fx reward.

I am wondering about the rest of the rewards though.  Will they be completely different items per level, or will they be variants of the same type of item like we see with the Valk trades?  If it's the second, that could mean us earpiece wearers might yet be getting an earpiece with good enough buffs to totally replace having to wear a hat.  And what of the Zion items?  No mention of them seems to point at them either being quite awesome or quite unexceptional.

Indeed, Shinryu.  Although I am warming to the more permanent structure of the new missions, the fact that everything is 30+ really seems a turnoff to any hope of new players.

Shinryu wrote:

but can you really imagine telling a new player "Sorry, but you can't actually participate in the current storyline that you won't understand at all until you play the old missions anyway until you've reached level 30... you can however do old story missions from two years ago." 

Fixed.

cloudwolf wrote:

Shinryu wrote:

but can you really imagine telling a new player "Sorry, but you can't actually participate in the current storyline that you won't understand at all until you play the old missions anyway until you've reached level 30... you can however do old story missions from two years ago." 

Fixed.

While the original and fixed versions are true, not every new player will want to 'review' previous missions. I would imagine many would want to jump into the current storyline. It's easier to do that of course, now that critical missions won't be pushing the story along and only the odd occasional LE which could require a fairly decent understanding of the current part of the story.

I started right at the end of the Unlimit saga, which was a pretty decent place to start without requiring knowledge of the past storyline. The only reason why I did previous archives is because I wanted to have the background information for RP but not everyone is going to want to do the same.