The Agency

[Tbone]

The Agency is a new MMO currently being developed by SOE. It will be the next game that FA heavily concentrates on. We plan on involving ourselves intimately with the community and world of the game, potentially shifting our focus primarily towards this game. This forum will be used to discuss the development of the game and ideas to involve ourselves until we have designed a website that caters more to this game.

[Strod]

Thanks for adding this Tbone.

[Anonymous]

Thanks T!

[Manic Velocity]

I meant to bring this up in the discussion on TS last night, but should we work on developing FA's backstory for The Agency?  I know FA had an intricate backstory developed for MxO before the game was even in beta.

I know we don't know much about The Agency's storyline yet, but I think it would be great if we could pull some ideas together and build a story around FA's injection into the game.

[Tecknik]

I meant to bring this up in the discussion on TS last night, but should we work on developing FA's backstory for The Agency?  I know FA had an intricate backstory developed for MxO before the game was even in beta.

I know we don't know much about The Agency's storyline yet, but I think it would be great if we could pull some ideas together and build a story around FA's injection into the game.

I like this idea.

I really like this idea.

Good thinking, Manic.

[Anonymous]

I meant to bring this up in the discussion on TS last night, but should we work on developing FA's backstory for The Agency?  I know FA had an intricate backstory developed for MxO before the game was even in beta.

I know we don't know much about The Agency's storyline yet, but I think it would be great if we could pull some ideas together and build a story around FA's injection into the game.

I like this idea.

I really like this idea.

Good thinking, Manic.

Would it be too much to ask for a stickied thread to start throwing together ideas for this underneath this announcement?

[Manic Velocity]

Like I said, it might be good if we knew a bit more about what The Agency's story is before we start work on our own story for it.  As of right now, all we know is that it's spy vs. spy.  We know there are two rival spy organizations, but we don't really know why they're rivals, how they formed, or what their respective goals are.  Presumably they both have the same goal, and that's where the rivalry comes into play, but we don't know that for sure.

MxO was different because anyone who had seen the movies pretty much knew exactly what to expect from the game.  Ultimately, our expectations fell short pretty damn quickly, but that's beside the point.

[Heironymus]

Um... like you said, until we know more we can't really do a toooo much but I would just like to point out that if we did continue with the "ships" it would be more like Countries if we chose NATO.. (and that means the Canadians finally get a ship)

My question, can someone outline the steps to get involved. I haven't really ever alpha or beta tested a game and would like to get as involved as time will allow but for lack of experience i am at a loss as to how. I know someone posted an email to send to but what do you send? I am interested in getting involved in testing your game?

[Anamodiel]

My question, can someone outline the steps to get involved. I haven't really ever alpha or beta tested a game and would like to get as involved as time will allow but for lack of experience I am at a loss as to how. I know someone posted an email to send to but what do you send? I am interested in getting involved in testing your game?

To get potentially involved in The Agency:

-Send an e-mail to jointheagency@soe.sony.com.
Subject Line: "Confidential: New Recruit from Furious Angels"
Body: "I, #name, would like to enlist in The Agency. Thank you."

We think it's just a database to build up names at the moment.

Beta testing is really just about playing the game normally while finding every bug that you possibly can, and then reporting it to the development team. It's also about testing the limits of the game and trying to find any exploits so that they can be squashed before release. It's basically trying to perfect the game before it Launches.

[Tecknik]

"#name" being your actual name, or your in-game name?

[Anamodiel]

I don't think it matters. I believe that I used Anamodiel, but you can use your real name if you want. o.0

[Tecknik]

Email sent, from Tecknik.

[Tecknik]

Like I said, it might be good if we knew a bit more about what The Agency's story is before we start work on our own story for it.  As of right now, all we know is that it's spy vs. spy.  We know there are two rival spy organizations, but we don't really know why they're rivals, how they formed, or what their respective goals are.  Presumably they both have the same goal, and that's where the rivalry comes into play, but we don't know that for sure.

MxO was different because anyone who had seen the movies pretty much knew exactly what to expect from the game.  Ultimately, our expectations fell short pretty damn quickly, but that's beside the point.

Spies vs. Private Army, actually.

[Heironymus]

Yeah, I know the concept of beta testing I was just saying generally, some games, allow early beta testing to people active on forums and whatnot... that is more the angle I was wondering about.. but it is probably different with every game developer.

[Lits]

you know i really don't want to have anything to do with soe, but if you guys are going.... are you SURE there's not a better game out there?