That's easy. Ma3a is more complex than the MCP. The MCP was a 1982 program, right? Ma3a is a 2003 program. It only makes logical sense that it's more complex and takes up more space, and has more system requirements.

That being said, I DID notice this stuff:

1. There's an Email from Lora Bradley to the CEO of Encom at the VERY beginning of the level where you have to free Ma3a from her docking routines. It's in the room you start out in, with the big energy pool in the middle of it, and there's some ICPs on the other side of a door, talking about how they hate reformats.
Well, the point is, Lora's Email address is: LoraBradley@fcon.ind
What's she doing working for fCon?

2. Why on earth does the old 1982 mainframe that you "overclock" not look like ANYthing we'd seen in 'Tron'? I mean, I didn't recognize any of the layout, the colors, anything. I fully expected to play through that level and see familiar terrain and locations like we saw in the original 'Tron' movie (i.e., "walk in the footsteps" of Tron, Flynn, and RAM)... but I didn't recognize anything except the tanks.
And since it's an old server that's never been updated, I expected to see old-school Recognizers floating around trying to kill me (as that was their original programming, correct? Only in later updates were they modified as transport haulers). But no. Nothing.

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MCP was not in just one system, he was in many. Multiple Processing power. He was 4000+ times smarter than the day he was written. He used the power of all the computers in his network and other networks to make himself stronger and smarter.

How do you know what the Encom servers looked like before the MCP took over?

And thanks DaveTRON for summarizing what I was trying to say.

As for the emails, well, I don't have an answer. Maybe they'll address it in a patch?

You only saw the outside of the servers. We were in the inside.

Didn't I just say that?

Cliff Wrote:Either that or it was a typo I never caught during the proof reading. (ahem) Those things do happen, ya know. Remember when Marvel used to give our "no-prizes?"

Don't you mean, "when Marvel used to give out "no-prizes"?

When you saw The Power being returned to the systems, you were looking at the outside of the buildings (the representations of individual server units). When you were overclocking the system it was taking place inside one of those buildings. Didn't you notice that both had the conical archetecture?

Scuzzy Wrote:As for Ma3a, she is much more complex than the MCP. The MCP only looked very complex becasue of the programs he had appropriated, but he was spread out over a number of servers (remember all the red lined that lead to the MCP? Those were his tendrils, if you will, to the other systems where he had data stored. Remember that Yori said that "this is the heart of the system".)

I don't agree, about the MCP being less complex.

I mean, the MCP had to have the same correction algorithms as Ma3a in order to digitize Flynn, right? Imagine the computational power needed for those algorithms. It would be enormous. Yet, the MCP was still somehow able to do it, back in 1982.

Also, practically Ma3a's whole reason for existence, is those algorithms. She serves no other real purpose, that the game revealed, other than solving math problems with a verbal interface. Yet, the MCP became much more than that. It appropriated hundreds, maybe thousands, of other programs and added them to its code base. It became very powerful and ambitious, and virtually no program could threaten its existence. Meanwhile, Ma3a is vulnerable and needs protection.

All these reasons, lead me to believe that the MCP was more powerful and complex than Ma3a.

DaveTRON Wrote:MCP was not in just one system, he was in many. Multiple Processing power. He was 4000+ times smarter than the day he was written. He used the power of all the computers in his network and other networks to make himself stronger and smarter.

That was one of the explanations I came up with. It was either: 1) There's more than one old Encom mainframe, but only one was re-activated. If they'd all been powered up, then there might be enough power to run the MCP. Also, it would explain why the Encom server level didn't look the way some people expected. 2) The MCP networked, and tapped into other computers for its processing and storage requirements. That would make even more sense. It would explain all the "tendrils" Scuzzy mentioned, and would also explain how the MCP could have even survived the end of the film.

Of course, explanation #1 begs the question, why are old Encom servers still sitting around connected to Encom's network, ready and waiting to be powered up? Shouldn't they be completely mothballed, or sold for scrap?

But I have an explanation for that, too.

Scuzzy Wrote:Point 1: Ma3a has the same computing capacity and the algorithms in a little floating ball. The MCP was a huge pillar and a networked program. Ma3a > MCP

So you're saying Ma3a is a highly optimized program, while the MCP was bloatware?

Hey, I like that idea!

In that sense, you would be right. Ma3a is highly efficient, tightly optimized code that uses the computer's processing power to its fullest.

And meanwhile, the MCP is like a super resource hog . . . with lots of useless code that doesn't tax the CPU's capability but still consumes a lot of energy.

Hmm. Scuzzy, I tip my helmet to you (since programs don't have hats ), I think you may have come up with a solution to my concern.


As for Lora's e-mail address, I can buy the explanation that the e-mail had been converted over to the fCon domain.

And as for why there are no Recognizers in the Encom level . . . again it's either because there's more than one old Encom mainframe, or all the Recognizers have been moved to the newer systems to function as tug boats.

So I guess the Resource Hogs could be what's left of the original MCP? Or maybe they're his "children"?

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