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Megacity is a real world term which applies to two or more cities whose "urban sprawl" have met, pushing their suburbs together and eliminating any rural areas between them. Conrac has figured out exactly how many square kilometers the four available districts cover and I'll try to get figures from him soon. If you are going to compare square kilometers available between MxO and other MMOs, you'd best remember that a lot of the Megacity is vertical, especially in downtown. Count the surface area of every available floor in every building in the Megacity, and I'd make a reasonable wager that we're bigger than most MMOs. I read somewhere that MxO's Megacity is bigger than the combined five boroughs of New York City. The "greater Toronto area" of Canada is often referred to as Megacity, as are other areas mentioned below.

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From the Wikipedia entry for megacity: A megacity is usually defined as a recognized metropolitan area with a total population in excess of 10 million people.[1] Some definitions also set a minimum level for population density (at least 2,000 persons/square km). Megacities can be distinguished from global cities by their rapid growth, new forms of spatial density of population, formal and informal economics, as well as poverty, crime, and high levels of social fragmentation. A megacity can be a single metropolitan area or two or more metropolitan areas that converge upon one another. The terms conurbation and metroplex are also applied to the latter. The terms megapolis and megalopolis are sometimes used synonymously with megacity. The term metacity is also sometimes used to describe cities with more than 20 million people.

This is a page from a Reloaded set book showing the highways north of Megacity where the Mona Lisa Overdrive chase took place. By the time Reloaded was in production, the brothers had settled on the term Megacity. (note the date, which looks like November 12, 2001)

GamiSB wrote:

Architect: The first Matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art - flawless, sublime. A triumph equalled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being. Thus, I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However, I was again frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus the answer was stumbled upon by another - an intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother.
1. Perfect Matrix
2. Historical Matrix
3. Historical Matrix built on choice

No mention of a "Hell" version of the Matrix in sight. (OMG MXO CONTRADICTION!!!11!1!1!!1!) But lets humor the idea that if there was one and that this"Hell" Matrix is actully one in the same as the "perfect" one. After all balance is needed so if there is a heaven their must be a hell. In fact it can be taken almost as far as explainging certain peoples strong convictions within the Matrix that their is a heaven and hell. Perhaps these people are subconsiously sliping their minds into these past constructs.

You save me so much trouble in debunking the far fetched (read: made up) things that have crept into Matrix lore. Thanks, Gami
The people who imagined all these added on elements should have watched to movies more and sourced from them instead of going off on their own based on a misconception or deletion.

What's a fair price for them? I'll put a few up on the Market. }:-]

This is a difficult question to answer. Back in 1999, when the Matrix was released, I wouldn't have believed that there really was no hope in what I then perceived as reality. With the events between 1999-2008, it's easy to believe that all of humanity is being deluded by illusion, subjugated and controlled by mechanical maniacal oppressors. Once again the "always 1999 in the Matrix" stipulation makes the hypothetical question "would you take the red pill?" very complicated, because am I to consider myself as I am now in 2008 or look back as I was in 1999? It's especially personal for me because back in 1999 I was 31 and so only a couple years out of the still contentious tweens. (Those of you well past your Saturn Return will understand, those younger won't have the context to relate.) It happens that right now, in 2008, I'm 39 years old, the same age as Neo when he was Awakened. If the Red Pill were offered today, I'd take it and then Awaken those crucial ones who were close to be because they were ready to be Awakened type.

I just made another Code for this 12pts Decompile Shirt so there are extra copies if anyone still needs one. (Recursion.)

I have never had a problem with the Coder Ability Timer expiring before the Code is successfully written. The trick lies in opening the Coder Panel (use the Code Analyzer Tool) and then briefly tap a movement key once, which should result in your RSI returning to the standing position with the Coder Panel still open. Now you can use your Inventory, Hotbar and the Coder Panel all together. Select a frag to consume, use the Coder Ability and click Write Code, without having to open the panel and manually re-locate the code.

If the brief keypress (of W, S, A, D or an arrow key) does not return you to the standing position, try moving to a few meters away and repeat the attempt. (You had better already be standing by a Signal Booster Dish and wearing all your Coding/Crafting Bonus Apparel, or you are just wasting your frags.) If no amount of key tapping returns you to standing, try cycling thru the Loading Area or the Launcher.

If the Devs consider this "high risk coding while standing" a bug/exploit and "fix it," then absolutely increase the timer on the Ability or assure us that the succeed/fail determination is made early in the final "Write Code" step. It's not reasonable to expect that an average player can re-open the control and manually find the specific structure (among the hundreds) and still have time for the final Write to complete before the Coder Timer expires.

"[The Matrix is] a historic effort to fuse the philosophical, the mythic, the religious and the political in a new kind of cinematic form of expression. That kind of fusion has a synoptic vision and an analysis of so many levels of lived experience and contemporary market-driven life and yet at the same time still [has] a preoccupation with the old big questions: why is there something rather than nothing? What is the meaning of life? How do we talk about hope? How ought we to treat each other? These are the perennial questions that every human being who makes the move from womb to tomb has to come to terms with. In the end, it comes down fundamentally to the choices we human beings can make, whatever circumstances we find ourselves in." - Dr. Cornel West

"The Sixth Zen Patriarch, thought to be the real originator of Zen, and we don't have a lot sayings from him, but one of the first things that we have is when he was asked – somebody was watching a flag in the courtyard waving – and they said, "what is it that waves? The wind, or the flag?" And he said, "neither the wind nor the flag but your mind is waving." And again that whole notion is that mind, consciousness can create entire worlds and when you master your mind, you have mastered the entire universe in that very special sense. The awakening that has to occur is an awakening in your own mind, in your own spirit, in your own interiority. It's not that when you master your mind you can make spoons bend (that's sort of a gross oversimplification) but it's when you master your mind you are one with everything that is arising, so that you are the spoon, you are the sun, you are the entire universe in the deepest part of your own being, which is spirit itself. Zen has always been one of the many ways of awakening where you realize a supreme identity with spirit and therefore with the entire world moment to moment as it is arising." - Ken Wilber

I was recently reminded what can be accomplished when body, mind and spirit work together, and this led to insight on why so many human endeavors fail. Alone or even dually, those parts of the soul are lacking in efficacy for the same reason that someone needs two juxtapositions to triangulate location. Polar dualism can be a blind if one stubbornly sticks to one diametric point of view or the other, but those extreme poles are necessary landmarks if one is to find their own position somewhere between them. Being able to turn one's thoughts first one way and then the other, perhaps back again, like before crossing the street, gives us the information we need to proceed with success. Ignore your body at the peril of your life; ignore your spirit at the cost of your success. When the mind considers both, thoughts become dynamic and inspired and need not be limited by conventional dogma or commonly accepted boundaries of the possible. Barkley said, "to be is to be perceived." Reality is a cooperative construct of external forces & forms AND the mind which perceives them, a projection we can edit with every choice made, merely by changing the focus of our thoughts. Emerson said, "to find the miraculous in the common is the invariable mark of wisdom." Wisdom is one pole, understanding is the other, and considered together, they yield the knowledge to overcome any situation.

Within Christianity, the concept of a Trinity is a doctrinal and dogmatic one, having no direct scriptural reference, but rather it was conceived to explain elements of scripture. Within Buddism, the Trinity lies within the realized individual, who has become Brahma in the sense of his mastery. The Trinity in this meaning is Mind, Body and Spirit, which, when acting as One, make all things possible. Read that again: every realized master is a Trinity unto him or herself. How does this point of view change the symbolism of Neo crying, "Trinity, help!" when faced with a dire situation? Remember to consider that symbolically throughout the films, the bond between the characters Trinity and Neo shows again and again that they are parts of the same being, externalized so that they may seek to become one. When faced with a situation that puts you in danger or need, remember that this trinity of powerful forces lies within, that it can be called upon and that it is the true source of efficacy of word and action, the essential tool set which we are all born with but so few put forth the belief and effort necessary to master them.

Memento mori et carpe diem,
PS10N

That is a good idea. A couple fragments here and there from the event don't tell the story very well. Having "Neo's last thoughts" in the details of the Neo's Insight would be a good remembrance.

Really hate to burst your bubble... but that wasn't really Pace, it was the 991 Mimic of Agent Pace. Don't let it bother you though, her combat was in every way identical SMILEY

Congrats! These smaller, personal events are fantastic - I haven't been in one for a long time but here is hoping to again soon!

For me, there are some treasured screens. Thanks for the memories, Niobe. A handshake, a bow, a salute and a hug... and she screened the hug! The Live Events and the Legendary Characters are why I'm there, so seeing one's self from the other side of the looking glass is always a thrill. I think back to 2004 when the MxO trailers were showing in movie theaters and I wondered then if things would come together so that I could be a part of the continuing story line and, if so, would I be able to invest enough time and focus to participate in the events with the Legends. From the first time Morpheus chatted back until now, it's been time and money well spent, and I'm happy to have so many friends in the community and have been enjoying something of a minor celebrity status. Long live MxO!

There has been unmanageable lag on Recursion for a long time now - creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations.

Effy, this is the second year in a row that you've thrown a party on Recursion on my birthday. Are you trying to steal my thunder or are these parties secretly for me? C'mon, you can tell me, it won't ruin the surprise. Oh I know, the ugliest RSI contest is a dig, right? Tell you what, I'll get started early getting people over to the party and I'll have prizes and gifts for people during and after, how's that sound? For your end of the deal, you can make me look like Morpheus for my birthday. Any radio stations planning on covering this? See you all there!

Old enough to know better, too young to care...

SO MUCH FUN! This was the best party ever. Everyone can use more training...

Well Veil, we found your missing liaison officer. Vira and I go way back. From the time she first appeared in the Redpill society, she’s been a thorn in my side. She never would listen to reason, never would accept the truth no matter how plainly it was stated. I suppose I shouldn’t have ever expected it from anyone who willingly pursued illusion over reality. The system of control known as the Cypherites must have seemed efficient to the Machines when they cooked it up. It’s a way to get Redpills to not only stop Awakening Bluepills, but also have them willingly volunteer to return to the pods. As if you could deliver on the promise. Does anyone actually believe that Smith would have kept his word to re-insert Cipher once they had Morpheus? The Cypherites might believe it – they are the gullible sort. It turns out you can’t manipulate memories quite as easily as you’d like to. You failed with that Olympic sprinter… what’s his name, Dan something – doesn’t matter – he got past the memory block and eventually freed himself from your control. Vira said she wanted the comfort of returning to the dream, falling asleep to forget the loss she’d suffered. But her search for dreams led her into a Machine-created nightmare. Scanline may have her now, but they aren’t responsible for her disappearance or what happened to her. Is it efficient to leave your failures behind to suffer and die alone? Is that how the real Cryptos met his end, suffering on the end of his Jack as the Agent absorbed his “memories, speech patterns and habits of language construction”? Do you want to tell us by what necessity the process could not be complete? Maybe his mind snapped at the end, just like poor Vira’s. To say she’s not in one piece is a cruel play on words; to say she’s not all there is stating the obvious. Her mind has been broken into a million bits, and I can’t help but feel sorry for her. But who does she blame now? She blames the very people who were there, trying to help her find herself again. It’s a good thing it was we who were there. If it were the Machines, wouldn’t they just dispatch her like they did TIMMCAM because she’s a “risk” now? Broken or not, Cypherite or not, pain in my *** or not, she’s still human and protecting Humanity is what we are all about. We know where she is, we know her condition, we know who has her and we know what he wants in return for her safe delivery. If you want her, you’ll have to deal with us now, with assurances that she’ll be made whole again. If you don’t care, or can’t see an efficient, logical reason to save her, then in the words of the original Cryptos, Neo rest his soul, “Screw you, you dam robot. Nobody’s gonna fall for this load of blue-pill crap. You don’t know humans. You don’t know jack!”

... The system of control known as the Cypherites must have seemed efficient to the Machines when they cooked it up. It's a way to get Redpills to not only stop Awakening Bluepills, but also have them willingly volunteer to return to the pods ... not to mention, the Cypherites can do the Machines' dirty work that might threaten the Truce, giving the Machines the excuse, "oh, that wasn't US, that was the renegade sub-org of ours who did that..."

It's a personal insult that I am not on the list. Just for that slap in the face, anyone who is on the list and is being hunted, hit me up on Xfire (ps10n) and my boyz and I will come in as support with plenty of buffs and blue res for all Zion/EPN. Remember, if you can't beat them, royally *CENSORED* them off.

If you all really want to know where Morpheus has been... he's been hanging out with Neo and me near the door to the Source, where it's warm and the Code Streams are strong.

In all seriousness... great storytelling and I can only hope to be in the right place and time to be a part of it. Good luck everyone.
I have to start sleeping at night so I'll be awake and jacked-in during the time when the LET are active... curse my creature of the night habits.

They used to say, "loose lips sink ships." Leaks go in both directions, it seems.
EPN had a lot of advance warning on this one, they even had an army gathered, ready to move.
Maybe it was an issue of patience; maybe it was the late hour; maybe Gray's side-trip into the construct diverted too many into thinking nothing else was going down.
What I want to know is, why weren't those with Zion Outpost Keys asked to lead an expedition in after Gray and the Machines?
There are only two of those constructs - we could have found them.
All the EPN heavy-hitters jacked-out, leaving a level 7 Neopill all alone, poor little blighter.
I think the lesson here is patience, persistence and watching what you say when Nucl3ar is listening, Dar.

All that information... but what comes of it? Next time, we stick with it until the end.

Please see my post on advanced macro coding and macro variables at

http://mxoboards.station.sony.com/matrix/board/message?board.id=redpill&message.id=9046

It's been noted that if a user types up a message, hits "Submit Post" and the message contains certain errors, the input box is blanked out, clicking Back does no good and the message is seemingly gone forever unless the poster used Copy on the text before clicking Submit.

Here is the best way around it: click Preview Post after every edit. This will remove any errors from the message AND still retains the debugged message text in the input box. If you don't ever hit "Submit Post" until you get a "Preview Post" that does not report any errors in your entry, then you will never lose a post again.

PS10N

Message Edited by PS10N on 05.25.2006 06:44 PM

/tiphat

I'm planning a few more posts to round out my help for the forums, screenshot renaming, in game tips and tricks, macro coding and more. When they are all posted in their appropriate message boards, I'll post a main index to them on the Guides and FAQs message board. In the meantime, you can pull up the dashboard, and do a Message Search for PS10N and you'll see what's already up. More to come soon!

PS10N

Just trying to be helpful by unloading things I've picked up in the last 15 months. Maybe I didn't choose the correct place to post the information; it's not always clear where to post or what's already there. I don't get much time to read many of the forums, unfortunately.

It lasts until November 8th, Rosi. Which means Tuesday, November 6th, we're going to have a big costume party to celebrate my birthday. Details will follow in the Player Events thread for Recursion, but you heard it here first. Big Scorpio Birthday Parties During the Halloween Darkness!!! Also, I will be giving away masks from the previous years on Wed. night, the 24th before the update (on Recursion.)

Hey the Zombie animations are "classic" now SMILEY

At least they aren't telekinetic any more (throwing you around from across the street.) Walrus really rallied the devs last Halloween to get a hotfix for the Zombie animations, so it wasn't so bad after all. /mood sexy on a male Zombie RSI - because I choose too.

I'm sick and tired of EPN being called "Terrorist" I can not think of a single thing done by anyone in EPN that could even remotely be considered "Terrorist" except by a lone renegade operating outside the sanctions of the EPN sub-Org. On the other hand, the Cypherites are guilty of numerous and heinous acts of terrorism in and out of the Matrix. The whole philosophy started with the cowardly terrorist whose name the sub-Org now bears. So, get this straight: Cypherites are terrorists, EPN is not, never has been. In fact, EPN was started as a counter-terrorism sub-org, with the aim of stopping the Cypherites from continued acts of terrorism. Anyone who disagrees has delusional misconceptions of history.

EPN never used code bombs. Ever. Not one. It's this kind of delusion that leads to the blatant misrepresentation of Matrix history again and again. The lone terrorist Taecross did, once, after having been removed from the organization, without order, sanction or approval from EPN. The devices used to locate Morpheus were Code Pulse Devices, not bombs. Get your facts straight. Cypherites have planted bombs on ships to kill people in their sleep. They have removed jacks from operatives who were still in the Matrix, the lowest and most cowardly form of murder known to Redpill society. They have sent ships loaded with explosives crashing into the gates of Zion, killing innocent dock workers. Worst of all, they are betrayers of humanity who willingly accept delusion over reality. Because they can't handle reality, they are willing to murder anyone who can face reality and they have no compunctions about betraying people to genocide. EPN are heroes of humanity, willing to stand up for the Truth and fight for the survival of real human lives. Cypherites are cowardly terrorists, unwilling to face any truth, pushing their delusions and psychosis on others, bent on facilitating the wholesale murder of whoever isn't willing to be a duped pawn of the Machines. The Machines broke the Truce the moment they committed the first mind-*CENSORED* by overwriting an individual, and the Cypherites are their tools.

No wonder the forums are full of delusion - the lies are told again and again until they are substituted for the truth in peoples' minds. Code Pulse Devices have no negative side effects at all, Bluepills can't even see them. I have yet to hear evidence, even hearsay or circumstantial, of a single act of terrorism by anyone in EPN. So, in the simplest way it can be said, people who call EPN terrorists are either deluded or liars.

Acting against the system and causing friction are an act of terrorism? Better arrest all the workers who have ever gone on strike for being terrorists then. All the people exercising their constitutional rights to protest or rally? Terrorists! That Ghandi guy, he was such a terrorist! Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Gary Kasparov, Homer Plessy, Harriet Tubman, Nelson Mandella, Mikael Gorbachev, Linda Brown, Ruby Bridges, all Terrorists by your definition.

Cypherites, the pawns of the Machines, were breaking the Truce before EPN even existed. The Machines were breaking the Truce with their first overwritten Redpill. The truce is ONE WORD "peace." Cypherites murdered innocents under Machine orders before EPN even existed, thus breaking the Truce. Machines overwrote Redpills, thus violating the Truce. Building a new city harmed no one and was entirely a peaceful act. It was used as an excuse because the Machines didn't honor the Truce from day one. The Architect is a senile, malfunctioning, obsolete program who didn't have the authority to declare the Truce over in the first place and those who follow him are delusional pawns.

"Plus you're ignoring my previous point: EPN are terrorists not because of how extreme they are but because they act outside the law. They're outlawed, they were disavowed by Zion, ergo they're terrorists."

Now you're saying that all criminals are terrorists. You could work for the Bush administration with that mind-set.

What law?

"Machine Archive 4.2, see for yourself - EPNS used code bombs. Not to mention a recent live event where the Kid wanted to use code pulses to disable sentinels (not that it worked), and one where Shimada used them to damage the General's helipads. The EPN leadership intended to use them in a harmful manner - end of story."

Re-open story. None of these were acts of terrorism, only of open warfare against an open enemy. Because of the fascist elements in control of the [U.S.] government, everything they don't like is labeled "terrorist" and this same mind-set has infected The Matrix. End of story.

Name the EPN operatives who supposedly set off these code bombs. Name the ill effects of a code pulse device. The one thing you're leaving out is that everything told to you in that mission by Agent Gray is a lie. The Machine propaganda... machine... at work again. And you, machine operatives, willing dupes to their machinations. Poor pitiful, ignorant, naive, gullible, deceivable Machine operatives, believe everything they tell you without regard for the truth.

Seems to me the purposes and objectives of both sub-orgs are still alive and well, why else would people have such a passionate reaction? I swear, you have to beat the point over the heads of MxO players with a large smelly trout before anyone gets it.

Procurator, nope, you still don't get it and entirely missed my point. Try again, thanks for paying. -bzzzz-

It looks like, again, we can work together and find out about something mysterious going on in the megacity. I'm not one much for missions, even criticals, but If I come across any hackable computers, I'll post their messages here. Propz to those who found the decoding method.

Cryptos' Boxes Locations and Opening Times:

* = every other hour, begin on the hour and view each one in succession, 5 minutes apart

*:00 Westview, Bathory Row( Northeast): X:-552 Y:-6 Z:356
*:05 Downtown, Union Hill (Central): X:117 Y:19 Z:837
*:10 Downtown, Center Park (South): X:-964 Y:13 Z:-136
*:15 International, Kaede (Central): X:113 Y:1 Z:-294
*:20 Westview, Lucero Point: X:-275 Y:-1 Z:-324
*:25 Downtown, Edgewater (Central): X:-1511 Y:-6 Z:-958
*:30 Richland, Dannah Heights: X:250 Y:5 Z:-1075
*:35 International, Ueno: X:-206 Y:1 Z:-294
*:40 Westview, Rogers Way (Central): X: -535 Y:-4 Z:-620
*:45 Westview, Gracy Heights (Central): X:-643 Y:1 Z:-1542
*:50 Richland, Eshean Projects: X: 1257 Y: -4 Z: -1404

Found this in the same wiki article, tho the reference to Flood's son has been deleted. (good) Maybe someone should report this to Wiki, too. Players of MxO should not try to canonize their RP by making things up in Wikipedia. At least the people who perpetrate these attempts at credibility invariably use their RSI names, pointing straight to the egotist. Why someone wouldn't bother with a simple spelling check before trying to aggrandize themselves is beyond me. "Oh, everyone, look at me, I'm so great, but I can't spell!"

"It is later descovered [sic] that the surviving Runner descovers [sic] a way to jack in to the matrix. After falling into the service of an evil exile named Nemesai, is descovered [sic] by Zionites in the real world. His meeting with Nemesai results in his desrtuction [sic] by killcode, disabling his neuro-networks, it is then that the Human's [sic] reactivate and recruit him to their Faction. Known as JetBlack in the Matrix Online, he plays out the continuing role of the Runner's RSI."

All MxO RSIs were pod-born Awakened. That's the canon If you want to RP being an exile program or some such other nonsense, that's fine, this is an RPG, but don't expect anyone to buy it. Everyone went thru the Awakening cinematic in the beginning of the game, this should clue you in that you're not an exile program or other fabricated character, you're a Redpill just like everyone else in MxO.

EDIT: Aha! This: "In The Matrix Online an Exile called the General and his army of commandos are programs of the Sentinels, and it is revealed in a recent set of critical missions that he was the leader of the Sentinel army that attempted a second strike on Zion in The Matrix Revolutions." is the kind of entry we need in Wikipedia and should be fleshed out with a lot more (non-RP) information.

/ccr it and include a screenshot of receiving the rep but the total not increasing. Use /whereami before screenshooting to give the CSRs more information.

Did you run those missions with someone else before? You can only get $info, XP (Experience) and Reputation from those missions the first time. Even if someone else is leading the mission team, once you have completed a mission from that set, completing it again will give you no rewards.