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damian7
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here's a game i've never tried, mostly because people i know irl, who have tried it, flamed it horribly.
so i have a few questions.
i see you can be one of three factions. are these only in the virtual world? or, do you get to go to zion and/or hunt for zion in ships/as robots? a follow up to this... are there different types of toons you can create? or is your only option a jacked-in human, who will choose to work with one of the three factions?
are there any free trial type things going on?
is there something that shows all the skill trees? from what i've heard, it's like eve, in that, you can learn all the skills (not in the time-skill-raising fashion). is that also true?
thanks in advance.
so i have a few questions.
i see you can be one of three factions. are these only in the virtual world? or, do you get to go to zion and/or hunt for zion in ships/as robots? a follow up to this... are there different types of toons you can create? or is your only option a jacked-in human, who will choose to work with one of the three factions?
are there any free trial type things going on?
is there something that shows all the skill trees? from what i've heard, it's like eve, in that, you can learn all the skills (not in the time-skill-raising fashion). is that also true?
thanks in advance.
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
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You can only play a human who initially works for Zion and then gets to choose between the organizations. You can't play programs or Exiles.
You can, indeed, view the entire ability tree by selecting an option at a hardline, and also activate or deactivate abilities from there. It costs money, but you can actually buy/code any skill there is, and learn it by "loading" it at a hardline.
You can be anything, and change your profession whenever you want.
The limitations:
-Buying and upgrading an ability can get expensive, which makes it unrealistic to maintain many trees while levelling.
-You have a limited capacity of abilities you can have loaded at once.
-You need all required prerequisites (all preceding abilities on required levels) to load an ability.
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
Apart from the last sentence, his post is not misleading.
this genius just summed up why lot of people quit games. the community makes/breaks many many of these online games.
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
this genius just summed up why lot of people quit games. the community makes/breaks many many of these online games.
The MXO community is trash as you can see by the reviews and players who have left. It's real small and filled with Roleplaying elitests who are stuck up about Neo. It's weird that they think they're elite...about RP. /boggle lol
The game offers nothing for peopl who are hardcore matrix addicts and would fit in this this type of crowd.
So L2RPNUB
Please don't. The MxO community isn't always as mature and friendly as portrayed by many (a part is, another isn't, so to speak), but this is just undue.
It's possible that ZippyDodah is right about a part of the community - which I have to take into account, because I hardly know the community from inside the game (only through the forums). Maybe... I'm sure there are dumb "RP elitists" around who are stuck up about Neo, or vampires.
But, it is definitely wrong to portray the entire the community as such. Because I've hardly (and I mean hardly) got this from anywhere in the forums.
Can you be elite in RP? Well...yes. RPing is basically the same as any other activity you can do: music, art, writing, sports, etc.. You can be elite, or very good or professional in any of those areas, but you can also suck.
RP (especially collective RP) can be taken to very high levels, requiring skills and knowledge, as it can be unimaginative vampire 1337.
But there is no need to speak so derogatively about RP itself. If you really think that, you lack understanding of what role play is as such.
If you mean elitism in terms of not letting others in - well. It's justified to some extent. A group that "jacks" into the game and interacts with each other strictly in-character, have my full understanding of not "accepting" out-of-character players. It's less elitism, and rather a principle.
But probably I'm overdoing it with this - I don't even think you've put any thought into your claim, you just want to bash, it looks to me.
How does the game not offer anything for "Matrix addicts", or Matrix fans? I don't get that.
No, the average gamer apparently doesn't get so much from it - it appears to lack in the aspects the average gamer values, otherwise it would have a better reputation.
Nice we can get along.
I've been playing the Matrix Online since October 2004. In that time I've seen the community grow and change to the entity that it is now.
What are my credentials? Well I have 9 characters, 4 of which are 50, and play on all 3 available subscriber servers. I PvP, RP and explore every facet of the game that I can.
The community itself is filled with fantastic members. There are many members who contribute very positively for the community and do everything they can to help others. There are many members who have been around for a long time. Some, like myself, are veterans of Beta.
But in our great community there is also a great many who are bitter and jaded towards the game. They take every chance they can to pass poor judgement on the game but do nothing to help improve it. They constantly demand and are never satisfied. They are what the customer service world calls, "impossible to satisfy".
Being with the game as long as I have been, I've seen its highs and lows. I can recall a time when my buddy list was horribly blank on a regular basis. I can recall a time when my faction (The Collective, est Nov 2003) was all but dead. But as with all wounds, time heals. Now the game is ripe with possibility and MANY people have flocked to it and many have returned. The biggest problem that we experienced was the combat revamp. It took a HUGE amount of time to complete and as a result many of the story elements were placed on hold. Many promises were made and some never came to pass. Once CR2 (as we dubbed it) was finished, the sparks began to light again as story content resumed and the ball began to slowly roll once more.
The Matrix Online is designed mainly for the Matrix fans. It's not designed for your typical MMO player. There is a central storyline that it follows and does not stray from very often. Unlike many MMOs that are end-game designed, MxO is not. The game is built around its storyline and the ability for players to continue the Matrix to the end.
Since the completion of CR2 and the acquisition of the game by SOE, MANY great things have happened:
- Implementation of PERPETUAL story elements. Thanks to LESIG we are provided with story events throughout the course of each month instead of before we had to wait for an "event weekend".
- Implementation of Additional Missions. In addition to our standard missions, we also have an arc of missions called Pandora's Box, as well as a plethora of archived critical missions from the past. All of these are rewarded with RARE items that cannot be obtained any other way.
- Implemenation of Content. For as long as I could remember the white hallways were hidden from us. But now we have access to them as well as official organizational zones. Journey into the Chateau, the Machine Stronghold or Zion's combat dojos.
SOE has also taken the time to give us holiday fun. Each year we get new toys and gadgets that make the holidays memorable. True, they aren't canonical events in the story, but sometimes you just feel like killing zombies or throwing snowballs.
In the end, MxO is a fantastic game and rich with potential. The storyline is getting quite interesting and I'm looking forward to what's around the corner. There will always be haters, but you can't take their word on everything.
Ask an openminded veteran fan of MxO anything...
I am also a long time player, and I agree with the last statement made by Garatachi.
You will get whatever you put into it.
It is a great game and worth the price of a free trial. Did that make sense?
What the MXO community feels about players who don't support the game 100% and people who don't like RP:
WGnub
Honestly guys, what do you expect?
The Matrix attracts the 13-18 year old crowd because of its action and the 19-+ for its Story. the 13-18 year old group doesnt care in the least for the story or just dont grasp the meaning that the story was trying to deliever, so when MXO came around, this same group thought "alright! I can kick *CENSORED* just like neo and pwn everyone!" But then you have the other group who wants to explore the storyline, do events, further the philophy (sp) of the story and so forth. They may like combat, but they arnt going to flag up because someone coughed. This, for lack of a better term, pisses the 13-18 age group off royally because they cant engage them, assuming they arnt on vector that is. So they get agitated, fed up, and leave. Most to greener pastures for their style of play, others with the idea stuck in their heads that they can single handedly destroy the game. So they seek out review sites and, in their typical way, rip the game apart. However they defeat themselves by using bad language, using leet speak in their review, and just bashing the game without providing examples and such.
Anywhere you look that a site gives a player submitted review, if the review is not checked for value, there will be negative posts, and alot of them as the 13-18 group, atleast most of them, dont have a job and thus alot of freetime to post multiple bad reviews. Anyone who looks at those reviews and is influenced by them is the same type of player that posted it to begin with. This community has demonstated time and again we only tollerate BS and so forth so long before we effectively show them the door and make them unwelcome. In my view, any review site that doesnt moderate their forums or reviews is not worth the webspace that occupies the server that is on and I would rather have a small community of good decent players then a large community of *CENSORED* hats and exploiters who make it their life mission to the idea that they can destroy a game by posting negative reviews with colorful language.
So if you don't like MXO or RP, you're just an assholle. Cool open minded community eh.
this genius just summed up why lot of people quit games. the community makes/breaks many many of these online games.
The MXO community is trash as you can see by the reviews and players who have left. It's real small and filled with Roleplaying elitests who are stuck up about Neo. It's weird that they think they're elite...about RP. /boggle lol
The game offers nothing for peopl who are hardcore matrix addicts and would fit in this this type of crowd.
So L2RPNUB
I've been subscribed to MxO since the very start, the only reason I'm here posting is because of the total trash talk that the community here spews out at MxO.
IMO the MxO community can beat flat out most other MMO communities, we usually stick together and we tackle things as a community, you get the odd few who are ignorant 12 year olds who just want to stir up trouble but you get that on every single forum. I'm here because one member of the MxO community saw a rating here and has made a post on the MxO boards and let me tell you there will be alot of annoyed MxO players including myself who are gonna give this community a real insight into MxO
The MxO community has no problem with people expressing their views, it's just when their views are incorrect that the community will start to get a little aggressive.
and if your going to take something from the MxO boards and post it here, then post the link to the thread