cloudwolf wrote:

Mindsweep wrote:

phi wrote:

Jurymen wrote:

I just wanted to say on behalf of myself and the old... old moderation team... I'm gonna miss everyone! This was one of the best communities I have ever moderated in and I don't think that will ever be replaced.

I have been through a lot with you guys both good and bad, but regardless of whatever it was... it was great!

Now for something funny! Who remembers this...

God I miss using Mr. Locked

*tear* Bye bye!

Who do you think you are? My Wife?

LOL the wife is epic i remember that one.

 

HAHAHA

LOLLERSKATES

Oh, and. . .Return of the Drama Threads. We demand them.

Especially the ones about the Champagne Room, NightTrace's first banning, and Tetra's name. 

More than I can remember, but the highlights off the top of my head:

-RFZ DJs roleplaying the end of beta event

-TasteeWheat taking us to the White Hallways and White Room before it was allowed

-Being forcibly recalled by Seraph

-Finding one of the Morpheus clones on the Mara Church rooftop and watching him plant a codebomb

-Playing a part in the Winter Brood event where the Cypherites took out half our fleet

Well, I'm just gonna go at it and try to keep these as close to in order as possible. My first memory of the game was getting a better video card so I could play and finding out the my first character was black with purple face paint. I thought I had just made a bald guy. I remember Linenoise and an old CvC party where I fought a guy 20 levels higher than me and got him to half health. I remember IP Conflict killing people at live events who became flagged. There were some great times and some unfortunate ones. I remember chasing Invalesco. I remember many run-ins with The Assassin. All of the meetings with The Merovingian and parties in club hel can't be forgotten. 

The memories are truely too many to list, but the most important were the people. I remember the day I met Harpalos at the Merovingian organization collector and we've been great friends ever since. I remember all the fun times will Caillech. I could rattle off so many names of people in this game that I had a lot of fun playing with. Without a doubt my favorite factions Winter Brood and Dark Evolution. So many great people in those factions alone. This game may end, but ZaneZavin will live on.

ZaneZavin wrote:

I remember Linenoise and an old CvC party where I fought a guy 20 levels higher than me and got him to half health.

You know...that might've been me.  I was terrible at dueling back then. 

Also, hell yes Invalesco.  Players actually deciding the direction of the storyline FTW.

Too many :

The first awakening in the Matrix, the music, the code, the fading in of reality..it all worked and it never got dull seeing that code!

Running into Ozzin and Leelia on the way to fight Tengu and discovering the Oriens Veritas.

The White Room Party


Club Hel Party(s)

The Code-Bombs and the death of Morpheus. Suprising storytelling, and intelligently done so that we all had a chance to interact.

The return of Morpheus (sim) -

So many parties, so many twists and turns in the story, so many "matrix" moments, an amazing sense of reality/unreality, huge discussions on the moral and political rationale of the Cypherites/EPN/Human Machinists, and all in all Fun. MxO will be missed, the memories will remain forever.

For a load of pictures of nostalgia :

http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a...2/Navidson/MxO/

I couldn't wait 'til my birthday in 2005 (it was the end of June), because that's when I told myself I'd get into the MMO world, and there was only one choice for me.  Weeks later, we were still dealing with the handoff to SOE, and I felt like someone had just numbered our days.  I'm surprised we made it this far, and I wish we could keep going.

That first time online...

10 or 12 servers, and tons of people, everywhere. 

Learning the ropes, getting helping hands from strangers, and finishing that first session with a random kiss in the rain. 

Since then I've seen

Fly Virii,

Assassins,

The General,

Flit Guns,

Anome,

many appearances by The Kid,

Morpheus and Neo being as dead as any soap-opera character,

The Effectuator,

random fun with Niobe,

Overrides running around,

and much more. 

I even had time to uniwittingly give Persephone a lap dance in the middle of PvP.

There were Factions galore, at one point so many I lost track of them all.  But I remember Serenity.  And HAL.  And can credit The Vixens as my reason for being here today to see the end.

The Brewko banning in Creston for tapping some Neo-Node.

ZaneZavin wrote:

Well, I'm just gonna go at it and try to keep these as close to in order as possible. My first memory of the game was getting a better video card so I could play and finding out the my first character was black with purple face paint. I thought I had just made a bald guy.

   Heh.  That reminds me of when I started in beta.  I'm not a PC gamer, so my specs didn't reach the minium requirements at first.  None of the textures were visible when I made my first character so I did it blind.  When I got a better video card shortly after that, I found that my character had dark skin and orange hair. XD

- Getting my beta key October 7th, 2004.

- Pretty much all of the beta experience

- Waiting around the hypercube in the last few days of beta for Morpheus to show up

- First few months of live

- Talking to Invalesco

- Morpheus' code bombs in Mara C

- Making videos with The Furious Angels

- RadioFreeZion

- Not necessarliy an ingame memory, but Pblade introducing me to various Photoshop techniques.

- Going afk for 10 seconds in Stamos and coming back to a meatwad RSI at the hands of the Assassin.

- Flit gun fights with Voyle

- Hanging out at Mara C with xGabrieLx waiting for people to fight

When I first got this game I had my doubts just due to the fact that I was stuck at Mara C for 3 days the first week of release with Twister from Shadows of the Infinite...but after that it was a great experience.

- Creation of ML

- Exploration of the MegaCity

- Having my name in one of the Patch Notes

- LED Agents coming after me for illegal contraband

- Talking with Invalesco

- Helping Morpheus release the code bombs

- Everything that involved the Assassin

- Being able to infiltrate the Cypherites as a spy when they were under Zinco Batteries

- Novallis II

- Being able to fight Agents and live events characters

- TheWatchmaker event / Joker events

- Scanline, United Tomorrow, and Puzzle

- Hanging out at Mara C

- RadioFreeZion and making the ML Chronicles

VectorPET as Special Agent Spearing, Working as Ancelin, Dying as a Cyph because Cypherites don't break down but took revenge as Nagatee, Lol, quitting twice but hey... one haz ideas

LESIG as Reposco rolling Mechs at Mara C, Duelling with Wolf and winning, once or twice, Codebombing/Flamevirus event as Malarch on Syntax - in that rogue EPN crew. Missing out on the infamous event with The Oracle and Seraph in that basement (lol)... and that's it I think, and RP'ing with Tranque and NightTrace, that was really interesting at times

AB Team being involved with Agent White, the Semi conductor and Skyqueen. Good stuff, peeps. Good stuff!

Oracle 4 person meeting - oh if ollie would shut up! Else a great event!

Mission team with Ghost (twice) Just the usual shoot up Commandos! Still fun though ;D

MXO4LIFE! Fond memories alright!

This game was extremely fun when I played and I made a good many friends:

Catzi

Gerik

Arkiya

Skyscream

Armitige

Gami

Mona20 (from recursion)

Euphraxia

Ooz

XElite

Shixinfeng

And anyone else whom I've forgotten.

I love all the memories I have of this game and am happy to be part of it.  It was the one MMO that got me into the world of MMOs and showed me why people Pay-to-play them.  I give WB my thanks, Monolith my thanks when so many companies pulled out of production, and SOE for stepping up and buying it when no one else would.  I wish things could have been different, but I am happy to meet all that I did, and hope to see you in the game's last few months.

Even though I left the game a while ago, I still check up on it from time to time, and I was hoping for better, as I am sure all were.

FAOrien wrote:

- Not necessarliy an ingame memory, but Pblade introducing me to various Photoshop techniques.

Glad I had an impact.

As for me... how to catalogue such a whirlwind, topsy-turvy experience as MxO? I can still remember stepping out of that first Hardline back in the beginning of 2005, towards the end of the public BETA. I was in Eshean, and my Graphics Card stunk. It was nighttime, so the floor wasn't visible in about a 50 foot radius around me, and I had gray hair and white features.

Many months later, during live, when I was roughly level 35, I got my new Graphics Card, and found out I was a black guy with Sandy hair and some weird-as-hell facial tattoos. Naturally, it was a shock. But nevertheless; that was what PBlade was to the Matrix world, and that's how he stayed. The only change I've ever made was to give him Brown hair when the RSI pills came out.

PBlade was never the most ingenious name, nor did it have any backstory to it; you couldn't expect much from a 15 year old High School student approaching his GCSEs. But PBlade was his, and he's mine now, even if he's a little underused of late. He's my character, and although I've nearly abandoned the moniker in my online life, he will always be the first online name I had in the first MMO I ever played. I adore that funny looking b*stard.

I remember the End of BETA. I wasn't able to stay up until the very end--I had school, I think--but what I did experience was my second true taste of what MxO Events were capable of (the night before, the Assassin took a shot at Morpheus. It was a bit of a clusterf*ck, but the feeling of excitement made up for it). The EoB, though, was a rollercoaster of excitement and a coy promise at what could be when the game went Live. There was fighting, drama, system messages; people were fighting for their lives as they were called out by the system to be destroyed. I've had some good events in MxO during my time and, whilst I don't want to be flying the BETA flag, I don't think I've had a better time than that event.

More than the event itself, though, and the furore everybody experienced, I remember my faction. Sadly now, a shell of its former self, when I first joined The Children of Zion, I joined a fraternity of some of the most absolutely amazing people I'd ever had, and ever will, have the priviledge of meeting. There was the laid back Baku, Faction Leader and an exceptionally good man. LostProphet took up the spiritual seat of Second in Command, and found himself dealing with a lot of the Administrative tasks that a MxO faction accrued. He seemed to enjoy it, though. To this day, I'm glad I can call him a friend, too.

There were so many others... SoftKopy, Corbinator, PaPPy, TwiXX. All people who have more common sense in them than I still do in my little finger. A finer bunch of people I could never have asked for in faction mates. It was the death of CoZ, more than any development issue for me that signalled the end of MxO.

I could talk about events, and scenarios in MxO that shaped and formed the experience in detail, but I'd take up far, far too much time. I've already mentioned LESIG in the LESIG thread; they know strongly I respect and thank them. The Vector PET was a time of my Vector Experience I'll never forget. When somebody told me after an event they thought that LESIG had performed it, I couldn't have been happier. There were MxO Live Events, PET Events, LESIG Events, and Rarebit Events, all of which I can say I'm proud to have been a part of. Perhaps I'll elaborate on them another time.

Interesting to note is that, whilst I fell away from MxO a lot, I never unsubscribed. for 4 years now, I've maintained a subscription. For whatever reason, I found it impossible to part with the game. And now we all find ourselves with no longer having a choice--the fundamental facet on which the ethos of the Matrix was built has been taken away, and MxO faces oblivion. I have no choice but to quit now, with the rug gone from under my feet.

But I will remember what MxO was to me; more than just a game, I suppose it was a learning and growing experience for a young 15 year old chump who didn't know much about the internet or life. Now I'm a 20 year old chump in University who, thanks to the people I've met, things I've seen and been made to think about, and the friends I've made in this game, can say he's done more than 5 years worth of learning and growing up whilst he's been around.

Let's have some fun in the final 2 months, and remember what MxO was and should've always been.

I miss fighting for goals that everyone said were unacheivable.

Whether that was in-character, as Phrack, or here on these forums, with efforts to save the game.  I can't count how many times I've been approached by various people in the community, and told how much they admired me for my dedication... however stupid my dedication may be.

I learned early on that when you set your goals beyond your reach, it will get disheartening after awhile... but any steps you make which progress toward them will be so much more exhilerating.

There's been a hole inside of me since I got word that we were entering the final-two-month countdown... and I don't see if healing anytime in the near or distant future.

Nicksie wrote:

mantra777 wrote:

I would love to thanks Nicks for the Lap Dance in Hel

:O Hey! That did not happen!

Thank you for the smile though I need it today

Lies! here ya go sweety Sadly I  forgot to make out with ya too hehehe...