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Coffee?  Breakfast?
 
 
I really have to drop the hammer at work today.  Our CD set has to go out in like two weeks and we're not even done with DD yet.  It's going to be brutal to get everything done on that schedule.
 
I did manage to get on last night and saw a ton of new members on last night.  I haven't really been on in about a week or so, and suddenly I'm logging in and seeing this huge influx of new members.  I didn't even know that many people were around; I literally was shocked at the new player count.  So I did what I could in a half hour, handling some admin stuff I needed to take care of and making an item for one of the new members.  I gave our spiel and had to get off.
 
And that sucks, because there were a ton of runs getting put together.  I really hope I get the TL;DR done quick tonight so I can play.  I've really missed being in the game world.  I also hope my brain can handle life after finishing this set.
 
But I'll be back soon, and really in the mood for content!  What's on everyone's agenda this week?	
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... I didn't even know that many people were around; I literally was shocked at the new player count. 
 
... What's on everyone's agenda this week?
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What's on my agenda?
 
 
new Addon called Cozmotronic, PDA's successor
job interviews
LARP Preparations for upcoming, huge play
hand-over at work
Clean the appartment
Kill System Deamons
Don't know yet about the order I want to do these things in....	
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			I have decided to join the Wildstar Facebook page. Those poor people need more positive voices. I think a few upbeat people could do wonders around that place.	
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Worked like mad on my add on. Put it out last night- a bit nervous not having a QA team working with me. Hope it works as well in the field as it did testing it between my wife and I . . .
 
Will try to take a break so I can play the game a bit, then go for a big refactor and UI redesign.
 
Trying to figure out with the raiding circle if we are going to add nights or a second group. We're at that uncomfortable place where expanding more means sitting a LOT of people but not yet enough people to run two groups. But it would be nice to have people be able to raid during the week (we'd need to change the circle name from "Weekend Raiding"- haha). I can't raid consistently during the week, but I'd be able to help out with an alt . . .
 
My wife's children are with her ex for the rest of spring break, leaving just my son and she and I. Will be a different dynamic for a few days. Hope to get some WS time in with her tonight, but not certain. Looking forward to GA this week, and hoping we can go far night one so we have time to work on convergence on night 2.	
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I have decided to join the Wildstar Facebook page. Those poor people need more positive voices. I think a few upbeat people could do wonders around that place.
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What's on my agenda?
 
 
new Addon called Cozmotronic, PDA's successor
job interviews
LARP Preparations for upcoming, huge play
hand-over at work
Clean the appartment
Kill System Deamons
Don't know yet about the order I want to do these things in....
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Good Morning Everyone!
 
This is me today :)
 
I haven't logged in to Wildstar in 2 days. Was having some couch time with the hubby. :wub:  But did catch up on Bones and NCIS. So I'm all set for another 2 weeks or so lol.
 
I want to run some group stuff, vet shiphands or adventures or even dungeons. I also need to come up with a good idea for Yalanna's house. She has a huge space that is empty and I have no idea what to do with it.
 
Hope you all have a fantastic Wednesday!	
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Social media is the one force on earth that makes you consider the value of a totalitarian police state.  Yeah, the Facebook's a hive of scum and villainy.
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I have decided to join the Wildstar Facebook page. Those poor people need more positive voices. I think a few upbeat people could do wonders around that place.
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Truly it is.
 
Every post ... and I mean EVERY SINGLE POST ... within seconds some jackass has to post F2P yet? Five seconds after that, the next post is "People still play this?" followed by "I played but it's dead. All my friends left and went back to WoW."  Over and over and over and over again.
 
It's like clockwork. I just don't understand why the page mods don't just take that crap down immediately. Oh no, they just let it sit there and fester and continue to make the game look like crap.
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Sometimes I wonder as well.  It's really bad for the game's image, when you're trying to get new subscribers, and you've got people saying that the game is dead or going F2P.  It doesn't matter even if that's true or if that's the kind of stuff people pay anti-marketing companies to do.  Doesn't matter if it's from a player who subbed for the first month or so and left.  The game has been completely remade, so the information is completely out of date.
 
But if the game was really bad, people wouldn't be trolling the Facebook page.  Apparently, it's good enough to have amateur haters.
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Moving sucks and with looming deadlines it double sucks :( I really hope to see you back in game soon Vic!
 
In Wildstar news, it's farming, farming and more farming. Cloth is by far the worst for me to try to farm up. In particular Whimfiber and Manaweave, the drop rate is very low and the plants, Logicleaf and Witherwood are just as bad if not worse to gather. The prices to buy these items is stupidly expensive.
 
The issue is that these are two of the main things a tailor needs to do the crafting dailies. Here's the break down, I have to farm for roughly six hours to be able to do Wilderrun and Malgrave crafting dailies for two, maybe three days. On the weekends I get up about 4:30-5 am EDT and farm until my sleepy headed guildies get up and get coffee which is about 11-Noonish.
 
Basically, this whine is about the need for the devs to up the drop rate or respawn rate of items needed for dailies.
 
Weaponsmithing, I have only made it to Journeyman level and has been pretty easy going. My Expert Tailor works very hard to keep enough crafting vouchers in the bank. At this point (level 2 Epochos) I'm not sure if it's even worth the hassle.
 
Edit: Level 2 Adventus....not Epochos  :wacko:
 
Other then that, I'm just having fun doing stuffz :D	
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too. Facebook is ubiquitous in today's world, and for many people, one of the first places they go for information about a game. I know I was on there for a long time, but rarely paid any attention, preferring to spend my time here.
 
I wonder if Chillia could point us toward the folks to talk to about this? I mean, I understand letting people talk freely, but OH MY GAWD, there is no discussion there. It's just endless trolling and taking a dump all over this beautiful game. :(
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Hi er'body! 
Been busy the last few days working on a new plot (not Uta's). Someone contacted me last week about a commission, and it's the first time a player's directly asked me to build for them so I couldn't refuse. :rolleyes:
 
It's been a journey so far. Building for another player is quite a different experience, and I'd say overall, a very positive one. While the pressure is amped up a bit (I'm personally working within a 10 day window to finish the 1K exterior), it's incredibly freeing to have a patron willing to buy everything you need. While I admire Wildstar's ability to create a reward system that doesn't involve gear chase, and it's quite satisfying to finally put your hands on a sought-after decor piece, I've found the whole process is becoming cumbersome as the game finishes its first year— especially because of the lack of alt support in WS. I can easily get a new character to 14 for their plot unlock, but getting everything needed to build is quite a pain and not fun as it was with Proxima. This is probably in part because Proxima now has so much useless decor in her crate... several hundred in fact, easily over 100 plat worth... so without BOA crates it feels somewhat pointless grinding up a healthy crate selection for my alts.
 
So yea, there are some areas for improvement with the roommate system (forced reload UI when first entering, unlocks inaccessible, having to mail items to be crated), which I hope will be addressed with Drop 6 if it does turn out to be a housing-focused release. Otherwise, it's a real blast making a plot without having to be the bread winner. It's also been interesting trying to work with someone else's desires, getting comments as the plot evolves, etc. I think I'll probably go official as a contractor if guild/linked plots become a thing. :lol:
 
The current build is supposed to be Eldan-themed, but I fell off the wagon a bit making the superstructures. So I've started to Eldanize the inside of the building. Playing around a bit, this was constructed last night with some input from the plot owner, Ven Vicious. Ignoring the side pillars and media screens, it's a 12 piece cobble.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Today I'm going to finish up the outer walkway's structural detail and get serious about the central Eldan building. I'm also going to be listening to plenty of  http://www.newretrowave.com... check it out if you're into that kind of vibe, I find Wildstar quite suited to retro stuff, especially the kind you might find in '80s anime. :D
 
Oh and I'd love to support the game on FB but I deleted my account on that pos website like six years ago. :rolleyes:  Rather than try to fight the tide of hate, I suggest deleting your account as well. It's a miracle remedy! :lol:	
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too. Facebook is ubiquitous in today's world, and for many people, one of the first places they go for information about a game. I know I was on there for a long time, but rarely paid any attention, preferring to spend my time here.
 
I wonder if Chillia could point us toward the folks to talk to about this? I mean, I understand letting people talk freely, but OH MY GAWD, there is no discussion there. It's just endless trolling and taking a dump all over this beautiful game. :(
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I like FB. But my friend's list is small and they are generally an intelligent, articulate bunch :)
 
I do try to post some positive responses on the WS page from time to time.	
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Lots of little things were accomplished.  We had our attuning runs for a couple of returned guildies and also helped shepherd additional random folks through a few world bosses.  (Would seriously appreciate someone at Carbine taking a look at Zooetic and that damnable bugged thunderstorm that is not always interruptable.)  Did Kythria too so folks are caught up to GA now should they want to take advantage of it.
 
Tweaked Glory's PvP build a bit but only had a chance to run one BG to try it out.  Might have some potential.  I DID like making an engineer melt, but it'll take a bit more work on it to get all the features seamless.
 
Also took the alts out for an Ultimate Protogames spin and we managed silver and a cleaner run than I've seen on people's mains.  So that was a nice cap to the evening.
 
Tonight, GA farm content, hopefully at high speed to maximize days on progression content.
 
Weather, stormy.  I like it.
 
Also apropos of nothing, a new Deus Ex game announced.  Since DE:HR is one of my favorites, this is pretty cool news and looking forward to it.	
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Question... Does morning tea count for this? Some of us cant drink coffee.  :P 
 
Moar leveling for my Spellslinger this evening... and maybe a dungeon/adventure with lower level guildies. Just gotta make it through work first.  B)	
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Question... Does morning tea count for this? Some of us cant drink coffee.  :P
 
Moar leveling for my Spellslinger this evening... and maybe a dungeon/adventure with lower level guildies. Just gotta make it through work first.  B)
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Question... Does morning tea count for this? Some of us cant drink coffee.  :P
 
Moar leveling for my Spellslinger this evening... and maybe a dungeon/adventure with lower level guildies. Just gotta make it through work first.  B)
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Morning folks :)
 
Yesterday was a series of minor compound frustrations.  In particular was the lack of sane tree manipulation methods in a library I'm required to use.  Oh joy I get to re-parse, implement my own tree and then use the library's minimal interface to rewrite the structure.  Kiss performance goodbye.
 
So yeah... I decided that many many pixels had to die until I was fit for social contact.  Thankfully it was reset day and I've knocked off 40% of my weekly :lol:
 
Last night was the Nexus Spring Fun Fair (RP Event) hosted by SCAR Corporation.  That was an absolute blast!  Looking forward to their next event. :D	
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The worst part is, I actually like coffee... but I cannot drink it.
 
I love tea, though. Sweet tea (Iced for you northern folk) or hot tea.	
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The worst part is, I actually like coffee... but I cannot drink it.
 
I love tea, though. Sweet tea (Iced for you northern folk) or hot tea.
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Hey, I had fun watching your game stream last night! I think it was you at least... if it wasn't, well, someone on twitch uses the same user name =X I know you were asking viewers how they were doing etc, but I was still working and had it playing on my 2nd monitor so I couldn't do a whole lot of interacting at the time :)
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That was me and thanks for watching!  
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It was hilarious when you and your group mate were trying to get folks flagged for PVP =X 
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 :D That was so much fun. They just kept coming for us!
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I didn't know (or I forgot) you had a twitch channel. I will have to watch sometime :)
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Haven't used it much. Mostly just for friends to be able to watch me play games, but there's a lack of people streaming WildStar, so I figured what the heck. I just hope I don't suck at streaming.  :mellow:
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Tweet out when you do stream. I would be happy to retweet and come watch you, providing I am up (ol' lady needs her sleep, after all :P ).
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He does tweet it out, using the #WildStar hashtag, that's how I heard about it (and re-tweeted, hehe). I don't tend to say anything on my streams at all, but I also don't think that necessarily makes a bad streamer, some people don't enjoy being vocal on their streams and just want to show off the game. :) Just like some people don't want to listen to strangers talk, and just want to watch. There's room for all sorts! 
 
(edit: Added link) 
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Am I the only one who boots up the game and then sits at the Character Select screen for a little while, just to hum the music?   B)
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			Am I the only one who boots up the game and then sits at the Character Select screen for a little while, just to hum the music?   B)	
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lol, yes  :P
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Happy Anniversary to Carbine!
 	
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			I got today.	
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