ZETAX101 wrote:

Oh god, Another Star Wars game? Talk about beating a dead horse...

True, but at least it isn't owned by SOE, which is always a plus for any Online game.

Demedrian wrote:

I'll probably head to SW:TOR.  Go Sith!

 Yes it is indeed sad to hear MxO shutting down. Been here 4 years and it's sad to see it go. The Community here is great also *huggles everyone* and even though hardly anyone knows me that much, I still think the people of this game and the game itself is the best and well worth it.

Might go check out SWTOR myself, LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC

Walrus wrote:

Villemar_MxO wrote:

ArchDuke wrote:

Walrus wrote:

The lack of communication is my fault. With nothing in the pipeline for MxO and another game in development, it was hard to find the time. I should have made the time. This community's treated me so well over the years, it's the least I could've done.

We still love you.  We're just heartbroken at the moment.

/manhug

What he said.

QFE

Ut oh. Raijiin's gonna lock me.

*Huggles Walrus* Yes we al love you. I even made a House hold statue of you to worship, Walrustianity will become the new Religion .

Weskie wrote:

Oooh, I've only ever had one character. And that's Weskie, I swear!

LIES!!

 I will reveal my alts abit later before the end.

 Dreami you can not post your kills in this post, it is for EPN and Zionites who kill Cypherites and Machinists ONLY. You already have a post for the exact opposite, so I suggest you go post your stuff here:

 http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/...id=363000021225

 Try to spam this thread with anymore of your screenshots however, and it will be seen as harassment and will prove how petty and pathetic you are, good day.

 Ah fighting Cypherites, a favourite past time.

I like the Bluepill Rank too.

 It's funny that you call them terrorists, when you yourselves are terrorists, a great exmaple of the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black."

 Well Considering that Pentothal just made a post about eliminating Mechs and Cypherites, I think reviving this post would be a good idea. Any Mervs who want to post their Mechs/Cyphers Kills can do so here. Also as for prize money, I was thinking perhaps if Mana could organise something in that regard, what you say Mervs?

Considering the fact that other organisation hack their way into these places, you have still yet to actually give a reason why you disagree. Although I suppose could be made Org specific, they would be good for quests.

letsrock wrote:

I agree with SampleNow  100%.   have a nice day

You know you don't have to be sarcastic about it. Anyway I don't agree with you two, Have a Nice Day.

 Well considering That in Rarebit's storyline he outlined for us that Zion goes to the Source anyway, that seems abit pointless to not allow anyone to go to The Merovingian's Chateau, Club Hel or the Source, so I'm not seeing the logic in your opinion. Also considering that in Live Events Zion, Machines and the Merovingian steal access keys to get to Contructs owned by each other. Also your forgetting that distance doesn't matter if one has an access key to access the Merovingian's Chateau.

Garu wrote:

A floor of the chateau is already available to players with the Merovingian Org Key.

 

The Source has been described in Rarebit's story as "the black room".  This was seen when the Architect stood before several characters (Oracle, Halbon, etc) and monologued.  The area before the Source is described as "Golden Hallways".  Another thing that could be done.

All we would need is a dev to it.

 No offence but I think we could do with more than have just a floor of the Chateau than just the floor, we could do with a seperate big Palace itself, we do pay for this game afterall.

Also the Source composing of nothing more than a Black Room sounds abit silly, heck programs are created there and They manage certain parts of the Matrix from there. It's probably made of just Gold rooms and everything. Alot of stuff would go on there. 

 In my opinion there are Four Important places they should add to this game, as they are talked about alot but people can't really visit them.

 The Source,

 The Merovingian's Chateau

Club Hel

And The Merovingian's Blackwood Prison.

 Now in my opinion in order to create these places, perhaps they should turn them into constructs, perhaps base them on the Datamine model in terms of size, since that place is big. As to what to put in these places well, I guess that is up to the devs and perhaps some input from the players would be nice.

Ok sure the Merovingian's Palace Keys are good, but they are just small constructs really and not the Actual Proper Chateau itself, would be nice.

Also it would be great if they could make Club Hel a proper place everyone could visit to instead of having to keep using the Pandora's Boxes to access the place.

Apart from that, that should do it. Unless anyone has anything that should be added to these places?

Dreami wrote:

Reports confirm the March 9 delivery was successful. The were no terminations or revivals of the courier so there are no secondary objectives to be completed for this delivery.

Cypherite spies in Zion have confirmed that the next delivery will be Wednesday, March 18 at 4pm, City time.

Also updated here.

  Fixed it for you, perhaps you were tired.

 Student, looking for a job.

 Yesterday the Package was successfully delivered right under the Mervs and Machinists noses, better luck next time guys *blows a kiss at Dreami and winks* .

Outlaw wrote:

xenin wrote:

 

 I was just reading IceBerg's going away thread he posted, and then while reading it, I came across the part where he said "Walrus made an announcement that the game will continue but there will be no new story content" I thought WHAT!!?? I mean is this even true? if it is then that would officially be the nail in MxO's Coffin, that would kill this game for good I think. And if it isn't true and they are still thinking about it, then you might want to think that not releasing new Story Content would be a extremely bad idea.

Can anyone confirm or deny this? a Dev or Walrus saying so either way would be nice.

Um well Walrus isn't sure what MxO is doing in the future...but ya, since Rarebit left as of right now there won't be really any story content updates. Rare released the storyline to chapter 14...now we will still get anniversary but i won't expect any new items

you haven't been reading much of the forums lately have ya? =P

  Lol yeah I haven't really been reading the forums much. Wow congratulations Devs and SOE, thank you for finding a great way of wasting everyones monthly subscription money, brilliant work for killing the game in the end.

 I was just reading IceBerg's going away thread he posted, and then while reading it, I came across the part where he said "Walrus made an announcement that the game will continue but there will be no new story content" I thought WHAT!!?? I mean is this even true? if it is then that would officially be the nail in MxO's Coffin, that would kill this game for good I think. And if it isn't true and they are still thinking about it, then you might want to think that not releasing new Story Content would be a extremely bad idea.

Can anyone confirm or deny this? a Dev or Walrus saying so either way would be nice.

 Looks good to me, but what you guys think?

 http://www.totalwar.com/empire

ZippyTheSquirrel wrote:

It's a great lead forward, but nut that I am, I still insist on at least some explanation of the removal of the Oligarchs, and in keeping with Ye Olde Matrixe tradition, you could put more mystery into your idea. I'm not bashing it or anything, just saying the "O hai its Morpheus" thing could be a lot more subtle or mysterious.

 Well I did say it wasn't concrete. But Yeah as for the Oligarchs, I would go with Rarebits notes and said the main body of Oligarchs were wiped out, while the remnants or those who weren't all at the No Fly Zone gather and restart, which by the way will take a long time.

And yeah I could have left out the Morpheus/ Link conversation to make it more mysterious. I enjoy constructive critisicism. Thanks Zippy

Oops sorry double post.

cloudwolf wrote:

So it looks like theres 3 main suggestions popping up:

• Chapter 8, perpetual war, before the Oligarchs.
• Chapter 12.1, perpetual limbo with the current situation.
• Chapter 15, post-Rarebit's outlines.

Now the question is which one should "the devs" mark as "official", because lets be honest, we'll never agree among ourselves.

((Definately Chapter 15, post-Rarebit's outlines. His notes will needs a few tweaks but it is ok. As for afterwards, well I been thinking about that, but for obvious reasons this isn't concrete.))

Okay here is what I thought about for Chapter 15.1 Cinematic and story:

 Basically The Machines contact New Zion about a renewed Truce, and talk about important issues that need to be resolved, for example, the status of New Zion, The Machines cutting of all aid to the Cypherites, Zion cutting of all aid to E Pluribus Neo etc etc.

Meanwhile the Merovingian ponders about the idea of having his existance and the existance of his fellow Exiles extend to the Real World by using the Androids the Oligarchs constructed for themselves and somehow transfering their RSI code to the Androids. The Merovingian orders the General to search the No Fly Zone to find any data regarding this matter.

Meanwhile E Pluribus Neo get's a New Controller, who goes by the name of Hestia, who was a close friend of Shimada's and is still upset about the loss, but she is willing to take up the mantle of Controller.

Also last but not least, a Cypherite ship in the Real World near the Machine City stumbles across a ship they don't recognise. At first they try hailing the ship but get no response and then tell them if they don't respond they will open fire. All of a sudden the mystery ship fires of a EMP and the Cypherite ship goes dead, while the mystery ship just open fires with it's guns at the ship killing the pilot and some of the crew and then takes off. On board the ship you see the Operator Link talk to someone you can't see as he is blackened, the conversation is as follows.

 Mystery Figure :  This location is no longer secure, time to move on.

 Link: We been out here so long, do you still think we will be able to find him?

 Mystery Figure: I promised I would never give up looking for him so long as I live, I do not intend to stop now.

 Link: Ok sir, I trust you sir. It will be good to see him again, even if he is dead.

 Mystery Figure: Yes It would be good to see him once more.

 Meanwhile on board The Hovercraft: Blue Dreamer, Veil is at the communications terminal talking to someone. Conversation is as follows.

 Veil: Are you sure about this dearie?

 Random Cypherite: yes I am sure.

 Veil: Ok I will tell Cryptos dearie.

 Comms terminal goes blank and Cryptos walks in.

 Cryptos: What is it Veil?

 Veil: The Nyx was attacked by a unknown ship, their location was near the Machine City.

 Cryptos: That is odd, no Non-Machine aligned ship ever goes that close to zero one. Have people look into it Veil, both in the Matrix and here in the Real.

Veil: *does a blowkiss at Cryptos and winks* Will do dearie.

((I know this won't be official but I am just spouting out an idea))

Rarebit wrote:

It's hard to think of what to say. I'm glad I didn't try reading this thread in the office; I'd have had to keep telling people passing by my cubicle that I had something in my eye.

I was asked in the game this evening if I expected all the people who re-subbed in the past few weeks to have come back like they have, and I really didn't. I fully expected this thread to devolve into flaming almost immediately and get locked. It just goes to show that even after years of eavesdropping on private channels and pouring through server chat logs, there are still a lot of things I have to learn about people.

I'd like to thank all the people who took the time to write. I'm especially awed by the posts here and there from people who've been here all along in the game, but haven't really visited the forums; those posts are somehow the most heartwrenching, I'm not sure why.

I'm glad you all have enjoyed the game one way or another. I hope that some of you who came back to say hello will stick around a bit. There are folks here who have missed you.

Ahh I was about to insert a Morpheus quote there but it would've sounded corny.

There may not be a Matrix here in this crazy world of ours--yet--that we know of--...--but we do have this big Internet thing where we're all only a few milliseconds apart. If you keep pressing enough buttons you never know what kind of hole you might end up tumbling down.

Oops, one got out, in a mangled sort of way.

Take care, guys.

 

Wow this message is just as stunning as the first message you made to start of this thread. And yeah Aqua is right, the internet is kind of like our very own Matrix. And yes, people definately will always surprise, that is what makes this world of our so interesting and fun to live in.

 So farewell Rarebit, take care and keep in touch *hugs* .

Also found this video on youtube, since this program kind of reminded me of the Matrix

 Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L9ZnAMwn1A

Delicho wrote:

Brommerz77 wrote:

Sad times. I think we all agree that you have been wonderful for this game, and probably the sole reason it is still here, I wish you all the best with your future and appreciate everything you did.

Sadly this could be the final nail in the coffin for this game...

byond wrote:

All the best to ya Rarebit. I can only have negative thoughts about the future of MXO from this point foward. Hopefully i am wrong.

 

Aizehn wrote:

You will be missed Rarebit.  I'll always think of you as one of the only people who showed a genuine interest in this game and its players.  It won't be the same without you.

Archangel wrote:

Well, somebody just pulled MxO's jack.

 

Phluff wrote:

I am so sorry to see you go.  But you must do what is right for you.

You will never be forgotten by everyone here.

 

 

Brommerz77 wrote:

You made this game, and it is really is a sad day... You are pretty much solely responsible for what this game is, and it simply will not be the same. Like I said previously, all the best, and your efforts (despite the occasional poor reception) will never be forgotton and were never taken for granted. But yeah, sadly, this is probably it for MxO.

 

Fen wrote:

My heart just sank.

 

Croesis wrote:

An Era has ended.

 

 

 

Goodbye Rare.  It's been real.

I don't think I could have said it any better than what these people have already said. Rarebit, you really did make the Matrix Online for what it is, I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Take care Rarebit in RL and good fortunes in whatever endeavour you embark upon *hugs*.

As for everyone else, well I guess we will have to see what will happen after this, cross our fingers and hope for the best.

 Farewell Freelancer, You were one heck of a RolePlayer in my opinion, good luck with RL and take care.

 YAY Havo welcome back and do put some decent clothes on lol

Rarebit wrote:

Oh them wacky animators. ^

~~~~~

Here's an example of the ugly way I sometimes go about laying out a scene--quick blobbos to get the scale, perspective, and poses figured out before I start trying to draw them in a more detailed way.

 

 This is so ugly that it's enough to win an Art Deco competition lol

 Leprechauns decided long ago that one thing they love doing besides counting their Pots of Gold, was to turn into White Dot Code and get a good view of someones Knockers.

The boots look cool to me and I have always wanted Pheonix gang shirts for a long time too

And finally they set a crit in Ikebukuro so yay

Rarebit wrote:

Whoah!! Agent Pace is seriously pumped up, She looks like a person I would not want to make angry.

Keep it up Rare

 Right, sorry. It's just when the Cypherites, or Masked Men as they were known back then, first appeared, people RPed with them, sure some people they didn't effect too much but people liked the idea of RPing with them. So when EPN suddenly loses it's golden tags and can't get official representation at Live Events , people think otherwise. Ok I see why people think as they do, but the idea of Extremism does appeal to some RP wise so I doubt they are going to die and even if they do, it will have been a nice ride, perhaps thats why I am too optimistic lol .

Criingey wrote:

xenin wrote:

 

 Look all they did was remove the Golden EPN tags and cancelled Live Events, Rarebit didn't say anything about removing them completely from the storyline, especially considering there is a few things left to tie up and people still like the idea of EPN and CYPH.

Denial much?

EPN are back to what they should have been all along.. nobodies!

Ok first of all I am pointing out what has happened and what is going to happen, even if it means that they will be killed off. Second of all, don't you try to force me to except your point of view, unless a dev, like Rarebit says otherwise, I am not excepting what your saying, so get lost and leave me alone if all your going to do is shove it down my throat without constructive criticism.

 Look all they did was remove the Golden EPN tags and cancelled Live Events, Rarebit didn't say anything about removing them completely from the storyline, especially considering there is a few things left to tie up and people still like the idea of EPN and CYPH.

 I was thinking, with Shimada now gone, you think EPN is going to get a new controller? I mean it is custom for every org to have a controller and I doubt the Kid could do all that work load.

 I dunno for sure, but I do know if anyone is going to, they might have some problems considering some of the Gangs don't have descriptions attached to them.

odj wrote:

lol is it me or does the Merovingian in that pic look like President Abraham Lincoln?

Anyway good first attempt Rare, very good indeed. The Veil looked like a female Counterpart to the Joker in that Cinematic lol

 My Favourite mask of all time has to be Gargoyle, I love him to bits, Balthial would be my second favourite and Trainman third.

 Yay, Happy Halloween everyone. BRAAAIIINNNNSSS

 I loved how Persephone was brave enough to stand up to  Wright like that, strong lady she is .

 Also I just noticed that Persephone's new outfit is what's showing in Rarebits recent Sig.

 Now These are a cool idea, espcially for RPers and It would be nice to look like someone other than yourself.

 Also for some reason, Sylphia of the Disciples looks alot like the Joker out of Batman: Dark Knight movie but in female form.

 Also wasn't Mammon killed back in chapter 4.2 in the Mech crits?