The Other Side of the Looking Glass - December 9, 2005

Resurrected.

Yes, as this will effect alot. It seems appropriate to allow for alterations to our character's fundamental base stats; ie: new age hippy, etc.

Can this alteration be provided?

**Tseng.**

this stats not being afected by items is starting to worry me now. so basicly all the hard work to get items from the constructs that inculde such items are now worth **bleep** all. if you guys introduce new items to replace them you sure as hell better convert the old ones over or theres gonna be a **bleep**ing riot on your hands.

finaltom

I just would like to say you all are doing a great job on the new revisions, sounds like a lot of work. everything sounds good now so far. thanks for keeping us informed Walrus (passes walrus a bucket of fishees,):smileyvery-happy: I always thought that communication is the most important thing when it comes designs and work and give you all 5 stars for the great work over there.

thanks again

FINALTOM

p.s. we need alot more cowbells lol

Disseminated

Tseng. wrote:

...so basicly all the hard work to get items...

Stop it stop it stop it!!!!! It's a game! You had fun! You will have more fun getting the new phat lewt!

**Aquatium.**

grats to the mxo team, theres seems to be a lot of careful thought gone into this and a lot more planning than im sure a lot of us were aware of , im sure the efforts being made will ensure we are getting a great update, and its great to hear from other team members giving us updates to thnaks SMILEY

**jeffers**

EndlessVoid wrote:
At the risk of vaguely bringing up a tabletop gaming system in this venue... Having a bonus to one's perception stat might be impossible under the new system, but that does not mean we won't possibly see upgrades to the bonuses conferred by that stat. For example, an item that gives 12 points of perception now might simply give a +1 or +2 to all abilities affected by perception. We'll have to see how the points and bonuses break down.

- Void

If thats the case then that is fine. SMILEY

The only thing I am worried about overly is the fact that when ever any item has been replaced in the past, the previous item goes into rapid decay.

That was the concern I was raising, especially for the archive drops. If no one else is bothered then just ignore me. :p

Jeffers

O-Link

Walrus wrote:
Any producer that has hair that isn’t grey
uses dye. (Assuming s/he still has hair.)

:smileyvery-happy:

Alot of good info! Just one thing that's been bugging me - since interlock will be so much faster, how will Bullet Time work?

**Shinryu**

Good info overall, and I'm liking the sound of the "new" interlock more than I have in the past.

I do think we should be given some sort of response on what will happen with the current enhanced items though... my preference would be to have our "old" items just be replaced with the new versions of the same thing but if grandfathering is going to be forced again (say it ain't so, please?) they might as well tell us now instead of dropping it on us later.

Eclipses%60

I sincerly hope that I don't get forgotten for LESIG. Other then that, great update and that cowbell link was hilarious!

**Villemar_MxO**

The combat upgrade sounds interesting.

I really don't see the point of making null and void all items that increase stats. I mean, why? They don't unbalance the game. i can think of many, many other things to take the nerf bat to besides Watcher's Shades and things like that. Besides, we already had the decay bomb dropped on us a couple of weeks ago after the reflow....so I went and took the time to get me some new gear. Did I do all of this in vain?

RockyB

Quote of the week - "The executive washroom does have Perrier in the toilets!"

Also, yes, that cowbell link WAS hilarious SMILEY

Good OSotLG

Moondog548 wrote:

Tseng. wrote:

...so basicly all the hard work to get items...

Stop it stop it stop it!!!!! It's a game! You had fun! You will have more fun getting the new phat lewt!

How
will we have more fun getting the new 'phat lewt', as you so egariously
put it, considering it's all locked away in nice, inaccessible
archives? Hmm?

Disseminated

RockyB wrote:

How will we have more fun getting the new 'phat lewt', as you so egariously put it, considering it's all locked away in nice, inaccessible archives? Hmm?

Oh you mean THAAAAT lewt. Hmmm... I dunno.

Personally I don't give a crap about items and get miffed when I can't successfully PvE in a game without having obtained the so-called "phat lewt". See cuz I hatehatehatehatehatehate farming and really don't enjoy min-maxing at all. But hey, that's just me. I respect and understand that other folks DO enjoy that and so no reason why they shouldn't have the chance. I just get irritated as hell at people who think they've somehow been working by playing this game and have therefore earned something besides playing this game.

Granted that having the game you like turned into a game you don't like is no fun, but I can't see changes to some item stats being anywhere in that ballpark.

If it's the lewt you want and the game won't let you get it yourself you can always get someone else to get it for you. If it's the hunt for lewt that you want then I'm sure there will be plenty of lewt your level to hunt for.

DevilsArms

I really hope i can be part of the LESIG. Been here since launch and would love to do it :smileyhappy: . Overall i say that was a great OSOFLG :smileyhappy:

Campusanis

Thanks very much for the great insights. I so regret that I didn't sign
up for LESIG back in the days... And after all: LESIG probably means
LEs. SMILEY

I read, Interlock would become "more smooth". I know what is meant, but
I'm thinking of the actual animations. I got used to them, but when I
first started playing the game, they really felt everything but smooth.
There seem to be too few frames or something, just choppy...

Btw, how much space on my HDD will the second installation of MxO need (more or less than 6 GB)?

**Tseng.**

Moondog548 wrote:

RockyB wrote:

How will we have more fun getting the new 'phat lewt', as you so egariously put it, considering it's all locked away in nice, inaccessible archives? Hmm?

Oh you mean THAAAAT lewt. Hmmm... I dunno.

Personally I don't give a crap about items and get miffed when I can't successfully PvE in a game without having obtained the so-called "phat lewt". See cuz I hatehatehatehatehatehate farming and really don't enjoy min-maxing at all. But hey, that's just me. I respect and understand that other folks DO enjoy that and so no reason why they shouldn't have the chance. I just get irritated as hell at people who think they've somehow been working by playing this game and have therefore earned something besides playing this game.

Granted that having the game you like turned into a game you don't like is no fun, but I can't see changes to some item stats being anywhere in that ballpark.

If it's the lewt you want and the game won't let you get it yourself you can always get someone else to get it for you. If it's the hunt for lewt that you want then I'm sure there will be plenty of lewt your level to hunt for.

you cant just "get someone else to get it for you" when your talking about the main construct drops. sakura bandanna widows moor lenses ect ect. due to the 0.5% drop rate on the rare ocassion (more so now with the vd increase) do drop the person who got um will be in no hurry to part with them. and when they do they command a high price. so anyone who has farmed hard for um will be punished, any one whos bought some will be punished. the point most people will feal is if they change the stats part to another buff much like how they handled the removal of ct buffs from clothing would be fine. but in the event of them being grandfathered ala speed gi's and the more recent reflow your basicly spitting in the face of every lvl 50 in the game.