During the missions for the Sculptress you eventually have to pass information between the Sculptress and the Landlord.  It appears the Sculptress wants permission to build her own construct/hideaway.

Need I say more?

P.S.  This is just in case a new construct is ever a possiblility down the road.  Put lots of statues and stuff like that in it, after all, it is the Sculptress' construct.

While helping some fellow redpills on the Recursion server today a message came across my screen.

"Spiderman triva contest at Mara Central Hardline"

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Before I continue I'd like to say that I usually remain positive and optimistic in most of my posts.  This one will not be so optimistic or positive I guess however, it's not a 100% negative rant.  I'd just like to say how this made me feel and what I think.

Spiderman has nothing to do with the Matrix.  The only similarity the two have is that they are both a work of fiction, or science fiction.  Players were turned into cats and I'm not sure what else and my guess is for answering a question correctly.  Neat, funny seeing cats jump around Mara Central.

My point is, couldn't the time spent on this have been better placed on bug fixes, or the extreme lack of content we've been dealing with since launch?  I mean, live events happen and a subscriber has to be very lucky to actually be directly involved in them anymore but the whole server needs to know and should be a part of Spiderman trivia?  I know this happened on Vector as well and it was Matrix trivia but still, is it necessary?

Has Paul Chadwick left MXO?  Has developement come to a screeching hault?

Thoughts? 

Nearly every thread I see in here has X amount of people responding to it saying "never gonna happen, would take too long, no resources, not a large enough DEV team", etc.  The last part seems to be accurate as far as I know.

A new Matrix film would be an excellent marketing vehicle for MXO.  I doubt this is going to happen although a friend of mine said he read an article with the Wachowski's in RollingStone that said they were working on a prequel to what we've all seen in the current trilogy.  Don't quote me on that as I have not read said article and have not found anyting about it on the net.

That aside, my question is, is there anything we (the community) can do to get the word out on MXO and successfully bring more people into the game and generate more bling to make this game what it *CENSORED* well should already have been a year ago?  I mean beyond the free trials and word of mouth.  Can the people at SOE or the ones working on MXO give us any ideas/thoughts on this?  I mean, we've got the time.  Look how many hours we've been in-game with very little variety and content for well over a year.

My faction (The Daemon Contingency-Recursion) is looking at some things we could do.  Like t-shirts and hats and cards etc, coupled with word of mouth.  What else can we do?

Put your thinking caps on everyone and lets get those Coppertops outta their pods damnit!

I had a thought the other day about what we see in the city.  I've seen posts on having a bus line to go with the bus stops.  I have no interest in riding a bus in the Matrix. . .I'm a superhero for God sake!  However, would it be impossible to put buses in the bluepill traffic?  Maybe the odd police car or firetruck?  Maybe even the odd 18 wheeler?

On top of that throw in a fire station, police station and maybe an army base?  How about an airport as well with some air traffic overhead every once in a while?  I'm wondering if current buildings that exist in-game could be slightly modified into said structures?  Avoiding the need for a whole new expansion pack. . .(even though we need that terribly).

I know started small and turned into a mini expansion pack I guess. . .These are just things that I feel have been missing from the game since launch.  For me the city just seems too small. 

I had just a little idea pop into my head the other day while watching the Osiris (Animatrix) flick.  The female lead in the flick jacks in to drop the information on the Machines digging their way to Zion.  She does all her fancy stuff, then bumps into an elderly bluepill (we need some variants on bluepills!) and drops the information into a mailbox.

In-game, we currently always take said item (or whatever), to so and so with a silly name.  It would be kinda neat/cool to have the waypoint lead us to a mailbox every once in a while for someone else to pick up.  Like maybe during a courier mission you have to take this or that to so and so and then to finish you drop the item or whatever in a mailbox to be picked up later by whomever.  (The last part there the player never see's as it marks the end of the mission).

Thoughts? 

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Message Edited by Praey1 on 11-15-2005 10:51 AM