I thought i posted this in general, can I get it moves there?

I was always going to stick around to the end.  However with the lack luster of MXO as it is being "maintained", just is making me loose all interest in MXO, or any SOE game for that matter.  It is just not fun anymore.  Combined with some personal issuse and really needing an mmo break, I will be allowing my mxo subscription to expire at the end of this month. 

All I can say to SOE is that, you may be seeing people still joining the game, however you are not going to keep people who have done everything.  Their is just no reason to stick around anymore.

To all of you who I have worked with in the Matrix.  I want to thank you, you are all awesome people.  It was great to get to know all of you.

Are the winners going to be announced today or tomorrow?

Shinryu wrote:

That Yeung Park shot is a beauty, DeffDog    Always one of my favourite spots in the city.

Thanks.  It is also one of my favorite spots too, i usually sit on the banks of the pond just staring out on the water, thinking.

Debir Court Benches, seem very empty now.  I have this picture in the bigger resolution if needed.

I know... Karate.

Yeung Park Pond

I'm in if I can be there.

This question came to me, and wanted to see what everyones thoughts.

What would you rather have?

3 Person LET - 1 Person for each server.

or

A Developer like rarebit balancing creating items and running story.

I would rather have a the LET Team.  I could really care less about items.  I would like to have a story that I can be involved in, without having to be a part of planning it. The team would have the resources to run events, that they won't give us.

This came on after I was looking through the Archival Science website, looking at old screens.  Screens of the Code Rotting Monuments, Morpheus body turning flys, the signs with the coded messages on them,  & The Code Shapers.  The endless amount of impromptu group and one on one meetings. 

The LET team was the best Idea that made this game different from any other game out there.  I don't know why SOE scrapped the idea.  I know some of you are going to say we still have lesig.  But I ask where are they?  On recursion I have not seen any of our former liasions and Scanline seems to have gone silent.  I honestly can't say that program still exists.

Ive been with this game for 4 years, Ive been through everything, including the limbo of the CR2.  I just want to see this game back to where it was and not being the ghosttown its becoming.

Thats awesome, what did he use to make that video?

And of course as soon as I post it comes back up...

Looks like the Authenication servers have gone down.  Lets hope it does not take as long as it did to fix that margin server problem.

Matrix Online:

Is anything being done about this, it takes me several times to even get into the game.  Any idea whats going on?

Whoa when did they turn on the fly sky?

And the Shadrack and its APU

I'm game.

Since the RP tools are not going to happen like we were all hoping they would.  I would like to make the suggestion of some consumable items that can be done.  In most buildings of the city the roof floor is open, so in set area of the city there could be a small groups of spawns, say for example vampires in a building in westview, there boss would be Malphas.  He could drop a RSI Capture, but he would also drop a consumable item.  Its basically the runtime bit but would spawn normal vampires on any hostile enemy.

Another example would be tactical security.  There is an open floor in the government building or even could use the spawns in the lobby.  The boss could be a security captain, Agent Gray, or Agent Pace.  They would create a group of tactical security to spawn on hostile enemies.

Its something simple, and we know it can be done, because it has been done.  Use the same method that is used for Runtime bits.  With the lack of events going on we really need the tools to make things happen.  RSI Captures are the first step, but spawns would be required to make a fun and challenging event.

Well Since Rarebit is leaving.  Does Lesig still exist?  Are they still running scanline, and the sentinel?

Or has it been disbanded since Rarebit Quit?

I'm curious. What was the plan for this?

Lov is just Awesome

Neoteny wrote:

Dropped by Halborn and Carlyne overrides called Terminators, it kills all NPCs in an area of effect which is moderately large.

If I recall correctly, Deffdog also has one.

Actually I do not have one, don't think I ever did?

I seem to have come upon a strange problem.  I am using my original disk to install, MXO on a PC in my Parents House.  I get through the install just fine, but then on downloading patches i download them just fine but my update bar stalls at the end and just sits here.  Anyone got any ideas?

((Featuring Artwork of Fabio Comin aka Trilateral))

The craft was dropping fast, passing through each EMP field.

“Still have yet to get use to this…”

Deffdog keeps his hand ready over the lever anxiously waiting to return power to the hover pads. Sue stays ready to slow the descent and navigate through the remainder of the tunnel.

The Shadrack passes through the final emp field.

Deffdog begins cranking the lever and starts the engines. He did it too fast the engines did not start; he cranks slower and hits the button. The Hover Pads come to life and begin slowing the descent of the craft.

“Dammit, another close call…” Comm light begins blinking on panel. He flips the comm Switch, “This is the Hovercraft, Shadrack, requesting permission to dock.”

“This is New Zion Dock Control; you may proceed to Gate 3 and dock at station 7.”

“Understood” Deffdog looks over to Suezuki and she begins turning the ship to gate three.”

Deffdog gets up from the co pilot chair and begins moving back to the Broadcast Deck. He passes by Jazz as she begins powering up the equipment.

“Did you receive the inspection schedule from Zion Command, before the… freefall?”

“Yes I did were an hour early, this might be a good time to go through that combat test you have been wanting to take, Deff.”

“Have you contacted the requisition and the training board?”

“Yes, they have one ready for us if you can pass the training test and get approved by the boards.”

“Ok load it up.” Deffdog makes his way to one of the seats. Jazz follows, once seated, she jacks him into loading area.

Deffdog’s eyes open up to the never-ending whiteness of the loading area.

“Alright Deff beginning the program,” Jazz voices boomed from nowhere.

The white begins to fade as it is replaced with a facsimile of old Zion Dock. Deffdog was mounted into an Amored Personnel Unit.
The voice of the late captain Mifune begins.

“This is the APU Combat test, your task is to survive and eliminate 100 Sentinels. We chose this scenario because it is the most challenging situation an APU operator has ever faced. Once you have hit your goal, you can continue or end the program. Submit the code capture of the session to the New Zion Command. After it has been reviewed an APU will be requisitioned to you. Grab the handles of the APU to begin the program.”

Deffdog grabbed the handles, and more APUs fade into the dock..

“I am only going to say this once. If it is our time it is our time. All I ask is if we have give these bastards our lives, WE GIVE THEM HELL BEFORE WE DO!!!”

Deffdog begins maneuvering his APU into his assigned position.

He begins to watch the ceiling for when the first Digger breaks through. A pebble start falling from the ceiling, then the Digger breaks and falls through.

“Knuckle Up!!!” Deffdog moves the controls the load the cannons, pointing toward the new hole in the ceiling.

Sentinels begin spewing out of the hole, firing commences. Sentinels begin falling, but more continue to flow though. Deffdog continues fire as he concentrating on specific sentinels that come out of the hole. They start to increase and begin to avoid the APU Fire. The Sentinels begin to plume out of the whole and begin their hoarding tactics, turning themselves into gigantic projectiles. They aim for the dock command and in moments the dock tower is overwhelmed. Debris begins falling, forcing Deffdog to have to jump away from the debris.

The dock begins to turn bright red because of the multiple fires now ensuing. Deffdog returns his APU to its feet and continues firing. After a few minutes, his left trigger begins to click.

“Dammit. Reload!", he shouts into his radio. Few minutes later the 2 guards and the guy pushing the Ammo Crates arrive. He continues fire as they reload his guns, he catches one of the guards get stabbed through and pulled away by a sentinel. “Done!” he hears a shout from behind as the guard and the run back to the safe area. Sentinels begin to swoop on to them. Deffdog turns the APU back toward them and begins firing on the sentinels making sure they get back to the safe area.

“Your doing Great, Deff,” he hears Jazz through the headset, “Keep at it.” Deffdog continues firing on the sentinels. He sees them return to their grouping tactic to one of the few remaining APUs He continued his fire but watched as the Sentinels take down Bafonney’s APU.

A Sentinel sneaks behind Deffdog and prepares his pincers to strike. At the last minute, Deffdog caught the sentinel in the corner of his eye, turning quickly and sent hot medal into those glowing Red Eyes.

Deffdog’s ears perk up as he hears Commander Locke speaking through the radio. Attempting to address Mifune to get Gate 3 open, the Hammer is coming. Knowing exactly what is going to happen, he begins picking up on fire. Sentinels kept attempting to swarm, but he was fending them off.

Fire is heard from the vicinity of gate 3, it begins to open, and sentinels are b-lining back to the hole. Deffdog lines up on the hole and begins firing. He hears the crashing of the hovercraft busting through gate 3. The Hovercraft is skidding across the dock floor. The EMP emanates from the craft, just as a voice boomed. “Goal Attained! Please submit a copy of this session to the APU Training Board.”

Deffdog eyes open back to the Broadcast Deck of the Shadrack. Jazz pulls the jack out of the back of his head. Deffdog sits up mentally strained from the test.

He looks up at Jazz then notices someone at the Operator Station, it was Commander Roland.

Deffdog instantly jumps to his feet into a salute.

“Sorry sir, that took more time then I expected it too.”

“Relax Captain. That was dammed impressive.”

“Thank you, sir.”

“Your First Mate, Dragonnite, was it took me around your craft for the inspection.”

“And Sir?..”

“I was pleasantly surprised, considering what happened to those other 2 ships under your command.”

The images of the 2 broken hulls of the hovercrafts flash in his brain, even more scarring with his ordeal with BossCardigan.

Jazz looks over at Deffdog, knowing what feeling that the Commander has just started in her Captain.

“What’s the verdict, sir?”

“The Shadrack is cleared to return to duty. However, I would like to ask why you took the APU Completion Course?”

“I can see the use of an APU out in tunnels, sir. Help with finding downed crafts without putting the whole craft at risk. That sort of thing..”

“… Well captain, I certainly hope you don’t pass the boards; we don’t need any more wasted resources. I don’t care what you think; it would be a dammed waste of resources, to take one of those units out of here.”

The commander walks down the ramp out of the hovercraft.

Deffdog sighs and returns to the Broadcast Deck and sits down with Jazz at the operator station.

“You should have pulled me out when he showed up..”

“You know that test can only be taken once a year.. I didn’t want to pull you out of it. That’s why I had Drag take him around the craft.”

He of course was glad she didn’t pull him out, less interaction with Roland the better.

“… Man that program was intense..” Deffdog holds his head from the headache he had ever since he jacked out, getting berated by the Commander did not help.

“… Get the recharge going I want to be back to broadcast depth, as soon as humanly possible..”

Deffdog gets up, “I am going to take a nap, that test took a lot out of me”

Deffdog crosses though the halls and enters his quarters. He falls on his bed and passes out almost immediately.

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Deffdog, standing outside the cargo hold, was checking through a list of supplies being loaded into the Shadrack. Medical supplies, food, some new equipment was being loaded into the hold.

“Excuse me, you Captain Deffdog?”

He turns to the man immediately recognizes him as the Requisition Officer.

“Yea.., can I help you?”

The requisition officer approaches, and hands Deffdog an envelope. He opens it, and smiles as he reads it.

“Think you’ll be able to fit it in there?.” The requisition officer takes a quick glance into the hold.

“I think we can manage, where do I go pick it up?”

“APU Armory can’t miss it, as he points to his right.”

-----------------

Deffdog mounts into the APU unit, and begins pressing the controls. It powers to life as he start walking it back to the Shadrack. He walked it across the dock. When he returned back to Shadrack the whole crew was waiting outside.

“Looks like the captain got his toy,” Jazz shouts.

“Oh you better believe it,” Deffdog shouts back, “let’s get this inside.”

The bay doors begin to open as Deffdog slowly walked it inside the Hover Craft.. Once inside he folded it down and dismounted. He stands back looking at it, knowing that he can put it too good use.

((I recently got ahold of Power Director and thought Id give a go at making some videos. Let me know what you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZHh9xTwlPc

You can find a higher quality version by clicking the view in HD link underneath the video.

))

 All I ask is do not make a mission farming for whatever it is were going to trade iwth.  You have several warehouses at your disposal in Ikeburo, please use them.

We feel your pain Rarebit, And I am happy to see that your becoming involved in this thread.  As a person who has ran a few player events I can understand the time it takes.  Thats why I would hope creating these items or story teller tools, might take some pressure off you.

It does seem like I am the odd man out here, I could really care less if any of our side stories are acknowledged by the LE characters or it to be Matrix Cannon.  I just want to have some fun with stories.  We have such potential in this world.  I just think having story teller tools would be a great advantage to the roleplay community, and make more things to do for other players to get involved in. Just something that can help us plan events, a way to spawn specific types of NPC wether its a tool or a consumable, that would require farming.  Personally if Runtimes were still around I would be farming those Runtime bits, cause I see alot of potential in that idea just need to broaden it.

Please do not turn this thread into a flame fest.

mr-grimm wrote:

perhaps the devs could implement something like swg's storyteller items, which is a myriad of npcs, animals, vehicles, stages, etc that players over there can use to set-up live events.

Thats exactly what we need.

Thats the big reason why main characters should be avoided, you, the player need to consider yourself a main character.  I understand that some players want official story events, but what it boils down too, is that those are gone, replaced with quests that only jack people in for 3 days after a patch is released.  It might not be official Cannon, buts its a alternative just the same.

I would go against getting RSI Captures of the Main Characters outside of Halloween.  To be honest they shouldn't be needed, plus it leaves the option to Rarebit to login as a main character and take part if he wishes.

ArchDuke wrote:

I think what we have now is working because people are still playing.  There's always room for improvement though.

Doesn't seem that way On Recursion these days.

I know some of you are already jumping to respond to say hey, this will never happen, theyll never bring back the LET.  Well thats not what I am writing about, I am at the point, especially as a veteran, that it shouldn't matter if its a Main character running around, we have all etched our chapters into the matrix story.  

However, that being said, our resources, as a player base to run these events are limited. The reason we see little to no player events these days, is because essentually everything has been done.  We need some new avenues to be able to bring stories together, to make our own live events.  Yes, we do have prop items, rsi capture tools, pandora's boxes, etc., but they all have their own limiations.

Not saying we need rarebit running around in the background spawning things and such.  We just need the means to spawn things ourselves, or have some control of that.  I love the idea of the Runtime Bits.  Problem with those are its just accelerated.  We need the means spawn groups, exiles, tactical security, cyperites, zionites, machinists, .etc.

This is what I am proposing:

A lesig member, or a single player is chosen from each server, to have special tools.  A lesig member would be ideal to be able to work with OOC to be able to plan out these events.  That person would have special tools, such as a NPC spawn tool, and maybe an effects tool.  The effects tool, would allow for some of the special effects we have seen, from code bomb explosions, to maybe some of the Fog.  The main reason we didn't have items like this were because of how they could interfere in a live event, but thats not the case anymore.  However, the person who gets the item, needs to earn rarebits confidence, that it would not be abused.

This community is calling out for more things to do rather, than the new quests.  I've had several conversations of late about how people miss the old Lith Days, and how things worked back then.  What is the communitys thoughts on this, I want to know is it just me that thinks what we have now is not working?

The recievers have not been updated.

Ill be there, to help if needed.

Was wondering if anyone has created a document of all the Gangs Backgrounds Details?

They need to change how we farm these.  Its a grind to get these and half the time the bits don't even drop on the npcs, at least not for me. 

I have an idea though to how this can be fixed or at least give us an alternative.  Combine this idea with the corruptor idea in bathary.  The amount of people in a certain area can spawn, a Wright Runtime, where it will continue to spawn the wright npcs, until the hackers take it down.  It can drop a regular runtime bit.  I still really love the idea of spawning npcs on hostile enemies.

This could be a permanent edition to the district or just one for the sub chapter.  I would prefer the subchapter, because after that part of the story is over I think getting those items should be extremely hard to get, even if the only way to get them is grinding the mission.

Sounds intersting, I hope I can catch some of it.  Zion has me patrol till 3 MCT ((Thats the time I get off work))

Just Awesome man.  Great Work!

Good Guess, Fenshire got me for that one.

Alright Ill be doing another Scenario tongiht Between 7 and 8 MCT. 

Youll find me in Datamine, Playing with the Wimps.

Remember act the situation, to get the prize, which will be a Rare mask from the past year and 50 mil.

I am actually having trouble finding a succubus mask this year, I have everything else.