I am sorry to see you go after everything you've done for the playerbase. It was fun fighting alongside you with various EPN events despite whatever disagreements we had regarding how LESIG was run. Coming from someone that did not have the time commitment to play this game as much as I used to compared to 2005, it took me a very long time to understand what lengths and painful measures you went through to run these events despite the miniscule amount of resources you had. I hope things go well in your life and wish for the best.  Semper Fi.

Dibol

Cadsuane wrote:

Canbus wrote:

Regardless of this being a multiplayer game, it doesn't mean someone should be *FORCED* to get a friend to help out on the mission.

I'm sensing a fundamental flaw in this sentence. 

Besides, if you can scrounge up a couple of mates for a couple of hours, as you say, then you can get anything you like.

Easier said than done. My schedule just doesn't allow me to do so period, and by the time I'm able to spend a few hours on the game, my Italian faction members are already sleeping or at work. Things don't help much now that 98% of my friends are gone due to real life. I could just as well cancel my subscription altogether.

Cadsuane wrote:

This is a multiplayer game. 

Besides, if you can scrounge up a couple of mates for a couple of hours, as you say, then you can get anything you like. 

Regardless of this being a multiplayer game, it doesn't mean someone should be *FORCED* to get a friend to help out on the mission. I jack in only to see how many of the people I know are online. If I see less than ten people on my buddy list in terms of who's in-game or not, it's not worth my time. Getting a reliable level 50 Zion/EPN friendly player is as common as a needle in a haystack, and this is coming from someone that lives in the same time zone as the devs.

Cadsuane wrote:

When most of the content in MxO is perfectly soloable I don't really see the problem of making some things that require a group to complete.

 

Unless you have a faction that loves to play the game 24/7 without dealing with real life, you're royally screwed. As I mentioned in multiple posts, I was around since Nightfall and had a lot of fun with the game, but the recent set of updates have been consistently leaving a sour taste in my mouth. Right now, the overall interest in the game has been so diminished I only see ten to twelve players on my buddy list tops whenever I jack in. I've already mentioned that I don't have the time commitment to jack in as much as I'd like to considering that I have to worry about real life than wait for 5+ hours or so just to get a reliable partner to help me out, or jack in for only ten minutes before I have to take off for martial arts lessons or work. Forcing group work for critical missions just already pushed me away as it is considering the maximum team size I can only take ranges from two to three teammates from my most active faction members depending on whether or not I can jack in around the same time as them. Hell, doing one standard mission solo as it is forced the whole game to rely on luck rather than my skill.

As someone who watched both the 1989 Dolph Lungdren and the Thomas Jane film, War Zone is actually true to the source material. If you want a decent R-rated action movie, this is a decent ticket. Hell, I prefer this over the Nolan Batman movies in terms of being able to watch the hand-to-hand fights.

Chuui wrote:

I agree with the need for making some of this content more readily available to players who need to solo. It's not that people want to always solo, but for some timezones it can be far too challenging to find any other players. For example when I was playing last night, I only found 5 other players in my hardline hopping and none were over level 20.

When I first bought this game I was attracted to the fact that most, if not all, of the content back then could be handled solo. Too much of the new high level content is aimed at group work now. That's all well and good if you can find a group. But for those who can't, why deny them that content?

I think it would be helpful if something was done to ease this problem. I'm sure there must be something that could be done, even if it's by way of temporary simulcra or something that are specifically purchased for the task for an example - although it's probably better if I keep any real ideas to my own topic, if I ever come up with something feasible.

Chuui hit the nail on the head here. As it is, I don't have the time commitment for MxO as much as I used to in 2005. I'm busy with college and martial arts training, something I'm not willing to give up. As it is, this game is gearing more towards the unemployed or school students than it used to be. Hell, I barely have any friends online just because they have a personal life to attend to (pretty much every U.S.-based players in my faction.). The only thing that keeps me subscribing to this game are the critical missions since my chances of attending Live Events have been nill since last Spring, and with the recent format, I feel partially screwed on soloing missions when it comes to dealing with multiple level 51 NPCs at the same time, and god-forbid the scripted level 55 Agent.

The main problem with this current format not every single player has connections, nor knows when each server has a "hot jack-in timeslot" because pretty much 90% of us are either in school, college, or have a job. Real life comes first for everyone, and I barely have enough time for this game as it is. Right now, I'm jaded enough to cancel my subscription two months from now if this system stays in place permanently. I've been around since the end of Nightfall, and this game is not solo-friendly anymore (don't say "Use facebook/Myspace/etc.". I only see ten lvl 50 Zion/EPN players max on my buddy list if I'm lucky enough, and only have three active faction members whenever I log in, which means my chances of enjoying the content are pretty much nill).

Even as a level 50 EPN operative, my chances of completing every single mission is pretty much slashed, unless I am lucky enough to find a player willing to help out like MindsweepX. Problem is not every single player has connections, nor knows when each server has a "hot jack-in timeslot" because pretty much 90% of us are either in school, college, or have a job. Real life comes first, and I barely have enough time for this game as it is. Right now, I'm jaded enough to cancel my subscription two months from now if this system stays in place permanentlyh. I've been around since the end of Nightfall, and this game is not solo-friendly anymore (don't say "Use facebook/Myspace/etc.". I only see ten lvl 50 Zion/EPN players max if I'm lucky enough, and only have three active faction members whenever I log in, which means my chances of enjoying the content are pretty much nill.).

KanoR wrote:

Canbus wrote:

 

Uh, if you haven't been keeping up with current events, the U.S. has a very bad economy right now which makes it moot (i.e. no job= no cash to spend). Even as of today, Vista is still touted as being problematic and unless you have been working as a member of Geek Squad or managed to have the spare time doing computer work as an "engineer in training." I'm not technically savvy with installing a new graphics card or motherboard mainly because I don't have the training or proper knowledge to do such things (does that make me an idiot? Hell no. I'm just not good at that stuff, never will be.)

My current PC is technically supposed to run FEAR, and was slightly above minimum spec requirements from SystemRequirementsLab.com website, but it only does the bare minimum at best without any major slowdowns. PC gaming has been dying mainly due to bad programs, system-hogging resources, targetting only at least 5% of the population that can afford said hardware, the crap that is SecuRom, and gaming in general is just too expensive as it is already. No one should have to buy or upgrade a new PC yearly just to play the next recent game only to find out that the game three months later will render the recent computer obsolete. BTW, that mentality is why we're facing global warming.

 

From your last paragraph I can tell you're just splurting whatever you can think of to sound smart. I'm sorry, I'm not going to get in a tout with you, but you're completely wrong.

 

 

 

#1 about Vista. http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/
Until you've tried Vista for at least two to three months, you cannot comment on its integrity as an operating system.
#2 about PC gaming dying.
It's quite the opposite as a matter of fact. Just recently Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning came out, which is now boasting nearly ONE MILLION subscribers in a month, making it the fastest growing MMO to date. Guess what, you need a pretty nice PC to run it.
#3 With the introduction of DX10, most computers can last 3-4 years without even a graphics card change. If you've got an 8800+ or a 4850+, you'll be set for at least 3 generations.

 

 

 

 

 

I'd rather you know what you're talking about before you pull facts from no where.

#1. Did Mojaveexperiment target gamers? Was there any article from G4 or any other internet websites that Vista's problems just went away? No.

#2. From The U.S. Census Bureau's Popclock website, the population for the United States is 305,484,522, while the global population is 6,732,139,449. From those numbers, only less than 1% of either population can afford expensive PCs and/or the expertise to build them.

#3. What's to stop someone from creating Direct X 11 three months from now?

Shinryu wrote:

Quoting clipped to avoid massive walls of text.

I'm not advocating that at all, Canbus.  I haven't honestly upgraded my PC in years either beyond a new gfx card that is now weaker than what you get on board in even newish PCs.  I don't have the cash to do it, and I honestly don't play enough PC games to have the interest even if I was rolling in dough.

Take MxO as an example though.  MxO has "realistic" graphics that look, in many cases, better than what we're seeing in new MMOs and it was made how many years ago now?  Plus, MxO can run on pretty much any PC you can buy now a days, even baseline off the shelf systems (barring the Vista incompatibility situation anyways).  Sure it's got issues of it's own, but using MxO as a baseline we know an MMO with extremely good realistic graphics can be made that can run and run well on almost any PC out there today.

Like I said, I feel your pain on the PC power side of things but choosing cartoony graphics is not a technical choice, it's a stylistic one and something of a cop out.   

Ah, okay. I'm sorry for misunderstanding. I started going, "Wait a minute, am I reading this right?". After reading your current post, I do agree with you that MxO does have realistic looking graphics that looks better than most new MMOs to some extent for a three-year-old game.If MxO didn't have its own set of technical problems, I'd definitely agree with you on the "almost any PC can run it" department. As far as cartoony graphics is concerned, I can understand why you dislike it, as I normally hate those myself (namely Wind Waker's cel-shaded art).  As of what I've seen in the recent screenshots, I feel slightly indifferent to the issue, but if it does make the game more playable than a resource-intensive engine (namely the Unreal engine), I'll be content with that if BioWare says it is the only option they have.

KanoR wrote:

Canbus wrote:

Shinryu wrote:

I'm not a SW fan by any means, and on the surface this doesn't appeal to me much at all.. after reading some of the proposed details, however, I wouldn't mind giving it a try.  Can't see grabbing it straight off the shelf though.

And I agree the graphics are a little.. actually a lot of meh at this point.  While I realize "realistic" graphics don't age as well as cartoony graphics, and thus tend to fare better in an MMO due to it's extended creation time and hoped for life length after release, they just don't look very good.  Okay, we get it, it works in WoW, that doesn't mean it's a good design choice.  While MxO isn't anywhere near as popular as it should be, it still looks great even now compared to pretty much any (every?) other MMO out there and *gasp* it has a more realistic graphical style.  Do it right, and you don't need to comprimise.

Shinryu, I hope you're not insinuating that the MMORPG be restricted to only players that have $5,000+ to get a recent top-of-the-line PC hardware compatible with the game.  I mean, I have a three-year-old PC that I spent $4,000 on just to play MxO when it was under Monolith's control, and the recent technical decisions made by the powers that be for MxO really dwarfed my PC in half (i.e. "ZOMG, combine nine small servers into three large ones!" being the main problem), and I am not interested in shelling out a similar amount of money to get another top-of-the-line PC to deal with the pain in the rear  problem that is Windows Vista, and/or suffering with a similar fiasco for the Old Republic should relationships with LucasArts and BioWare get sour. I really want the game to be as accessible as WoW in terms of being able to play the freaking game without having to steal a PC from NASA (I'm looking at FEAR, Company of Heroes, and Crysis for being that problematic). As it is, I've already abandoned PC gaming mainly because of Vista, lack of time for extensive gaming, and money problems.

Mate...
Upgrading your computer is a part of PC gaming.  If you're not willing to deal with that buy a console, it will last you longer.


I'm tired of developers trying to reach a 'larger' group of players because they refuse to upgrade their PC.  If you can't run FEAR at this point in time, you need to upgrade.


I miss the days when games were about innovation, not money and corporate lust for it.  I miss when games pushed to have something new, IE MxO with it's cutting edge realistic graphics, interlock system, and on the fly class changes.  Now they're all 'four button' clones.  WoW has it's piece of the pie, and it can't be bitten into.  I want companies to start pushing the graphics line for MMOs again, like AoC (ran like butter for people who knew what to customize, don't give me that bad engine bs)


Like I said in the begining.  Upgrading your computer is a part of PC gaming.  It has been since the first AGP slot was created.  If you're not willing to fork out the change for your hobby, then play with old toys.  Some of us enjoy progression, not regression.

Uh, if you haven't been keeping up with current events, the U.S. has a very bad economy right now which makes it moot (i.e. no job= no cash to spend). Even as of today, Vista is still touted as being problematic and unless you have been working as a member of Geek Squad or managed to have the spare time doing computer work as an "engineer in training."  I'm not technically savvy with installing a new graphics card or motherboard mainly because I don't have the training or proper knowledge to do such things (does that make me an idiot? Hell no. I'm just not good at that stuff, never will be.)

My current PC is technically supposed to run FEAR, and was slightly above minimum spec requirements from SystemRequirementsLab.com website, but it only does the bare minimum at best without any major slowdowns. PC gaming has been dying mainly due to bad programs, system-hogging resources, targetting only at least 5% of the population that can afford said hardware, the crap that is SecuRom, and gaming in general is just too expensive as it is already. No one should have to buy or upgrade a new PC yearly just to play the next recent game only to find out that the game three months later will render the recent computer obsolete. BTW, that mentality is why we're facing global warming.

Shinryu wrote:

I'm not a SW fan by any means, and on the surface this doesn't appeal to me much at all.. after reading some of the proposed details, however, I wouldn't mind giving it a try.  Can't see grabbing it straight off the shelf though.

And I agree the graphics are a little.. actually a lot of meh at this point.  While I realize "realistic" graphics don't age as well as cartoony graphics, and thus tend to fare better in an MMO due to it's extended creation time and hoped for life length after release, they just don't look very good.  Okay, we get it, it works in WoW, that doesn't mean it's a good design choice.  While MxO isn't anywhere near as popular as it should be, it still looks great even now compared to pretty much any (every?) other MMO out there and *gasp* it has a more realistic graphical style.  Do it right, and you don't need to comprimise.

Shinryu, I hope you're not insinuating that the MMORPG be restricted to only players that have $5,000+ to get a recent top-of-the-line PC hardware compatible with the game.  I mean, I have a three-year-old PC that I spent $4,000 on just to play MxO when it was under Monolith's control, and the recent technical decisions made by the powers that be for MxO really dwarfed my PC in half (i.e. "ZOMG, combine nine small servers into three large ones!" being the main problem), and I am not interested in shelling out a similar amount of money to get another top-of-the-line PC to deal with the pain in the rear  problem that is Windows Vista, and/or suffering with a similar fiasco for the Old Republic should relationships with LucasArts and BioWare get sour. I really want the game to be as accessible as WoW in terms of being able to play the freaking game without having to steal a PC from NASA (I'm looking at FEAR, Company of Heroes, and Crysis for being that problematic). As it is, I've already abandoned PC gaming mainly because of Vista, lack of time for extensive gaming, and money problems.

Jackson was meant to be doing a Halo movie as far as im aware. But progress has been held back and held back for whatever reasons


Hollywood screenwriter, Stuart Beattie, who was responsible for Gears of War screenplay for New Line Cinema last year, has written the new Halo script. Word says that Microsoft like it and that they are discussing possible plans for it to be made.

Bettie beleives the old style Halo movie incaration is dead and is ready to release his vision, Halo: The Fall of Reach, a prequel to the first game.

Yeah, lame that it was cancelled.  But re: C&C3 being average:

Yes.  But that was more than made up for by Kane's Wrath.  The global conquest mode, plus the use of differing sub-factions allowing for complete tactic mix-ups, really did a lot to add depth.

Was bad. Will not buy.

Canbus wrote:

shearman wrote:

Canbus wrote:

shearman wrote:

http://spoilertv-24.blogspot.com/20...work-print.html

Not sure how many of you are 24 fans, but here is a leaked work in progress trailer of the 24 TV Movie to air on November 23rd. Personally, I'm stoked and I can't wait until 24 finally starts up again.

Lost hope after Season 4. Not sure how much things are going to change at this point. Season 6 sucked. Season 5 tried TOO HARD to be like Season 1, but failed.

How can you say Season 5 tried to be like Season 1? The plots were not even remotely close, and the whole stature of the show was different. In Season 1, the threat was much more local and personal, there wasn't a huge threat. In Season 5, there's was a huge threat, much like those after Season 1. And I dissagree with you on Season 6, but it doesn't seem like you're the kind that can be perssuaded of anything.

Season 5: Plot twists were non-sensical and were just placed in for the sake of shock-value, and multiplied by 100.

Season 6: First four episodes were great. Everything else just went downhill.

I agree that Season 6 went downhill after the first 4 and that it was the worst of the six. I just don't think it sucked. I disagree with you about Season 5, but even if I didn't, I don't really see how that tracks back to Season 1.

Canbus wrote:

shearman wrote:

http://spoilertv-24.blogspot.com/20...work-print.html

Not sure how many of you are 24 fans, but here is a leaked work in progress trailer of the 24 TV Movie to air on November 23rd. Personally, I'm stoked and I can't wait until 24 finally starts up again.

Lost hope after Season 4. Not sure how much things are going to change at this point. Season 6 sucked. Season 5 tried TOO HARD to be like Season 1, but failed.

How can you say Season 5 tried to be like Season 1? The plots were not even remotely close, and the whole stature of the show was different. In Season 1, the threat was much more local and personal, there wasn't a huge threat. In Season 5, there's was a huge threat, much like those after Season 1. And I dissagree with you on Season 6, but it doesn't seem like you're the kind that can be perssuaded of anything.

http://spoilertv-24.blogspot.com/20...work-print.html

Not sure how many of you are 24 fans, but here is a leaked work in progress trailer of the 24 TV Movie to air on November 23rd. Personally, I'm stoked and I can't wait until 24 finally starts up again.

privaron0 wrote:

Ill pass this game looks like COH except not fun.

That was the impression I got too. I don't know, it just seems like everyone has given up on MMO's. Like everything has already been exhusted at this point.

phi wrote:

Christian Bale is on a hot streak.



Excellent choice for John Connor.



I will be waiting for this one.

Exactly that is the only reason i have faith in this movie Bale usaly only does movies he thinks will be good and look at the movies he has been in i dont recall one bad movie yet.

Panderai wrote:

I'll miss Snake.



Anyone hoping for a clone of the clone?

donno if you played MGS4, but Its mentioned Snake/Liquid cant be cloned as they were only designed for battle and War so there genes were changed incase they were ever captured and and the enemy try to make clones of them that it wouldnt be possible so there wont be any clones of the clones. Yet if they make another MGS im hoping its on the very orginals "Metal Gear" and "Metal Gear 2" where you were have ment to kill Big Boss and Gray Fox

That looked more like a budget thing than a censorship thing to me. They still showed blood, they just didn't show the action sequence. Personally, I love the way it was handled, leaves you wondering exactly how it went down. And the Johnny Cash song worked really well.

Canbus wrote:

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Uh, Imax, at least a dozen law enforcement (L.A.P.D.) and government agency operatives were killed (F.B.I., C.T.U., Secret Service, etc.) throughout 24's entire run on all six Seasons.

Uh, Canbus, that many if not more were killed in the course of 3 minutes in one episode of Sarah Connor.

Don't be a smartass

Canbus wrote:

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Uh, Imax, at least a dozen law enforcement (L.A.P.D.) and government agency operatives were killed (F.B.I., C.T.U., Secret Service, etc.) throughout 24's entire run on all six Seasons.

Uh, Canbus, that many if not more were killed in the course of 3 minutes in one episode of Sarah Connor.

Don't be a smartass

1. they were cops/FBI

2. it was a LOT of cops/FBI

1+2 = Lots more violence and more cop killing which '24' does not have.

FCC rules are stupid I agree, but they are the rules.

my view on this is jaded.

it comes from the early days of live. Many pe's were just self serving events to further a specific group,faction, person, etc. rather than to tell an intriguing story and help the community/game.  just my opinion but one i feel was backed well. eventually it got to where i didnt even care to look at what was going on.

the leg10n vs prophet of the martyrs pe was a lot of fun because it was kept quiet and simple. few outside factions knew of or were involved in it. it easily kept 25 or so of us occuppied for an evening and it led to my eventual fall from zion and re-birth in leg10n. the problem being, it could not have been done as well or been so easily adaptable on the fly if it had been org wide or involved massive amounts of people. and roleplaying a zion spy caught invading a machine meeting was just too much fun

the other side of it:

i still remember when player actions did change the storyline. small events could happen at any time of the day or night on more than one server at a time. maybe frag collecting during big events sucked but at least an org had a chance to change things and maybe the shapers event didnt matter as much in the long run but at least some org had to take the win. maybe neurophyte was a LET creation but at least it came from the top and was open ended enough to feel like it mattered. once things like that were left behind, for good, the entirety of the story lost some meaning for me. now it was just any other game

over time, i have come to enjoy the story again and even tried to get back in to the roleplay circles but the final problem with the rp is elitism. wear the wrong tag for a few months/years and people will not work with you. not jumping into "their style of rp" and they will ignore you or push you off. and then lesig is and will always have corruption tied to this elitism. yes, i did benefit from such things as well. leg10n got to be the first to say anome was a villian and i jumped at the chance to share that with the community. and maybe leg10n used some insider info to get back at some elitist machines, talk about player events gone wrong woooha, but it just goes to show that any player event can be suspect while a live event is by design to be the story.

it just an issue that cant be resolved without financial investment from sony to bring in more LET and give the players back the game and let the professionals entertain us. player events would actually gain more meaning with a larger scale story evolving before our eyes again and not just coming up like messages in a fax machine. it would provide a sturdier backdrop to build pes within and help eliminate two years of rp going down the drain over a technicality. it would also give more options for let at pe's. which in the early days was truly amazing to have a random party and someone "famous" walk in. especially when it happened to more than just the large favorite factions.

Canbus wrote:

Crowlos wrote:

I was blown away by last night's episode. I always thought that a show like this was too good for network television but I have been proven wrong.

When Johnny Cash's "The Man Comes Around" started playing towards the end I got chills down my spine. Such a perfect song to play during that scene.........

 

"And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, And I looked and behold: a pale horse. And his name, that sat on him, was Death. And Hell followed with him. "

 Can't wait for season 2.

Depends on the audiences' taste. I really didn't like the song and found it that it just added insult to injury when it came to filming the F.B.I. raid(i.e. "We'll just record S.W.A.T. agents drowning in their own pool of blood in a swimming pool."" />  I also never expected the raid to happen fifteen minutes before the show ended only for it to last literally two minutes especially with how the trailer built up on it. I expected it to last three minutes longer.

you can't show that kinda violence on a prime time tv show man...  thats what movies are for.

I was blown away by last night's episode. I always thought that a show like this was too good for network television but I have been proven wrong.

When Johnny Cash's "The Man Comes Around" started playing towards the end I got chills down my spine. Such a perfect song to play during that scene.........

 

"And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, And I looked and behold: a pale horse. And his name, that sat on him, was Death. And Hell followed with him. "

 Can't wait for season 2.