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Good Morning Everyone!
 
Happy Friday!! :)
 
 
Changes happen: in our real lifes, in our games we play, in every aspect of our lifes. It's how you deal with the changes is what matters. Some people get the 'sky is falling' or the 'doom and gloom' syndromes, and some just 'go with the flow'. I am in the latter catagory. Yeah, I may not like the changes, but I will try to accept them and make the best of the situation. I love WildStar, so won't be going anywhere anytime soon. Some people with leave before any final announcement is made, those are the first catagories.
 
We all make our decisions on how we are feeling at that moment. Please try to be courtious and respectful to each other. There is no need to be disrespectful or call each other names, just because we don't agree.
 
I did not log in last night. Had some RL stuff that came up. But have kept up with everything from the forums. This is why I am making this post. I see all kinds of bickering back and forth that get heated on both sides. We are a community who love WildStar. Please keep that in mind.
 
Hope you all have a great day!	
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G'morning, Fitchy!
 
No gaming for me last night, either. My little girl's Spring Band Concert was last night. She was the best saxophone on her row. :lol:
 
As for how I'm feeling about the game's future - pretty good, really. I don't have the emotional investment that others seem to have, so I can't get too bent out of shape over "whatever" changes are on the horizon. As I've said all along, I'll play when I'm enjoying myself and won't when I have things I'd rather do. That feeling of "I'm paying $15/month for a game so I must log-in every spare moment of my life" is a completely alien concept to me - and I'm going to pay my subscription regardless of any other freemium models we might see.
 
Plus, it's Friday. Finally get some time to play again!	
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Sometimes change is good, like I can finally logon to the friggen forums and post from something that isn't a cintiq. I don't think I will ever try typing that much on an android touch screen again lol.
 
i didn't get to play much last night, spent most of my time doing paperwork and contract stuff, but i started on my spellslinger typrop schrodinger. Got her to level 10 and leveling her up with my granok buddy. Hopefully get to play more during this weekend.
 
Outside of wildstar I got a working build of a game ive been making, family has enjoyed it so far and couple of friends too. It's fun doing it all with traditional animation sprites...
 
I am a bit sad though I guess I won't be taking my gf to New York comic con this year. Ticket purchasing issues resulted in me being unable to get our tickets...oh well..	
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Oh Lord, the rest of the forums, still going strong 36 hours later, saying the same things they've all said over and over and over and over and over again.
 
Maybe this hamster will run out of steam over the weekend.	
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Oh Lord, the rest of the forums, still going strong 36 hours later, saying the same things they've all said over and over and over and over and over again.
 
Maybe this hamster will run out of steam over the weekend.
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Yeah, and it will start ALL OVER AGAIN as soon as a formal announcement is made.
 
Gamers.
 
Sheesh.	
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Got myself something different as well from dunkin' donuts, thought I'd try a butter pecan swirl hot cofee, its not bad so far.
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If it helps try reading all the posts in voices of peoples avatars. Really helps take the edge off some of the more passionate posts hehe ^_^
 
I'm hoping also to get my reputation maxed out with Exiles this weekend then I can move on to the next phase of attunement! It would help if adventures were retroactive like dungeons and world bosses as I love doing adventures, but same time I don't want to burn out on them just for the aim of getting reputation. 
 
Got myself something different as well from dunkin' donuts, thought I'd try a butter pecan swirl hot cofee, its not bad so far.	
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I logged in yesterday and managed to do a few dailies, a couple contracts, and a veteran adventure before the frustration of all this uncertainty really caught up with me.
 
I hate that it's already hurting my enjoyment of the game. ._.
 
Maybe I'll try and convince the SO to poke around on our Dommie alts today (after we go see Mad Max). That might feel like far enough from everything to let me relax.	
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That sounds AMAZING.
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			I think Nua is in the Saddles ... I *think* ...	
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			Yup, I am. Love the Saddles. :) I'd be happy to do stuff with you, though, Typrop!	
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I think Nua is in the Saddles ... I *think* ...
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I knew I wasn't crazy. I just get confused because so few people use their forum handles in-game.
 
Am I weird for doing that?	
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I knew I wasn't crazy. I just get confused because so few people use their forum handles in-game.
 
Am I weird for doing that?
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I knew I wasn't crazy. I just get confused because so few people use their forum handles in-game.
 
Am I weird for doing that?
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You're not weird, Sharice.
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Good Morning All -
 
Last night I got my dailies done in CB and NW and then did some contracts.  Then I sat down and figured out the Holo-Wardrobe.  I am getting tired of looking like a slob every time I group with Fitch.  Lots of discussion in the Guild chat about the potential changes.  I am taking the wait and see approach.  If it impacts my enjoyment of the game then I'll make a decision, but as long as I am having fun I am happy.
 
Wondered where you were last night Fitch.  May must be National Couch Time month.	
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Never really participated in these threads much, but love that they stand for whatever positivity we can focus on as a group! :)
 
Most of you know how I feel about the future of WildStar with a business model change, so I won't address that here.... hehe
 
I decided to take a trip to Korea (on the internet) and get Black Desert installed. It's an amazingly beautiful game with really cool systems, especially around crafting, housing, workers and knowledge. Anyone else messing around?
 
Short of that, my mom visits this weekend and there's the Zellwood Corn Jamboree going on, so there's that ;)	
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I knew I wasn't crazy. I just get confused because so few people use their forum handles in-game.
 
Am I weird for doing that?
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Good Morning All -
 
Last night I got my dailies done in CB and NW and then did some contracts.  Then I sat down and figured out the Holo-Wardrobe.  I am getting tired of looking like a slob every time I group with Fitch.  Lots of discussion in the Guild chat about the potential changes.  I am taking the wait and see approach.  If it impacts my enjoyment of the game then I'll make a decision, but as long as I am having fun I am happy.
 
Wondered where you were last night Fitch.  May must be National Couch Time month.
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I knew I wasn't crazy. I just get confused because so few people use their forum handles in-game.
 
Am I weird for doing that?
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			We might not be the most #hardcore guild, but we look damn good standing around in Thayd. :lol:	
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Well, I'll just offer my viewpoint and leave it at that at the change.
 
1)  It'd be nice for Carbine to address the leak, unless they are contractually incapable of such (sometimes dates of information release get written up).
2)  I will play as long as I find it fun.  The things I find fun are dungeons and raiding and story.  If they cease producing these things I will likely stop playing.  The current model has suited me just fine, but there are multiple ways to skin a cat, and if they think they can produce those things via other funding methods, more power to them.  If they cannot, then it's time to part ways.
 
I don't get the sturm and drang about it all.  Frankly I've never really seen it as an interesting topic of discussion other than for troll who like to rile up those who growl when poked.  What is, is.  What will be, will be.  Carbine will do what it does.  It's a game, and we can all make rational choices about where we enjoy spending our time and resources in pursuit.
 
Anyhow, onto play topics.  It was raid night and farm night and we blew through the entirety of GA in one night, a new record.  Now, the Ohmna kill came minutes before our usual end of raiding night and was sloppy as hell, but it was a kill and the loots dropped.  So... quite the transformation from 3 weeks ago!  We're very proud of our raiding team and everyone did a really bang-up job throughout the night.  So, Monday will be another entire night of Init Core progression, and hopefully we can smack that one out of the park and move onto System Daemons.
 
On a hunt for Exceptional runes of Logic Bomb.  Hell I'd even buy a few but the ones I'm looking for aren't for sale at the moment it seems.  I guess I got reasonably lucky the first week of contracts, but have only needed a lame one this week.  However this evening, should be able to hit the end of the contract bar and I will find out what "small number of exceptional rune tokens" means.  Technically "small number" could mean 1.  With any luck though, small number might be say... 3.  That would give a decent shot of getting the combination I need to make the support system from Ohmna work.  My tanking set is quite full of rune sets.  I have no general runes to spare, so it's a matter of getting things socketed in more or less perfectly now.
 
Anyhow, it was all fun.  And now it's Friday and that's a great thing too.  Hope everyone has a wonderful day off and on Nexus.	
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Anyone know a good casual Dominion guild ...
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I decided to take a trip to Korea (on the internet) and get Black Desert installed. It's an amazingly beautiful game with really cool systems, especially around crafting, housing, workers and knowledge. Anyone else messing around?
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Anyone know a good casual Dominion guild the SO and I can drop our Dommie alts in?
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			Haha well I wouldn't be against it, John, but I was kind of hoping for a guild who could make low level instance queues less painful. xD	
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Off the top of my head...
 
Old timers guild and The exalted astro rats may be worth looking at.	
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Thanks! I'll ask around for them. Maybe I'll post in the server forum, too...
 
Oh if I'm allowed to be a little off-topic...
 
My husband's first major novel released today! :D I think it'd be right up the alleys of a lot of people here. I'm gonna be pretty shameless here and ask people to check it out!	
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I did some Gold STL tries, cleaned out some mailboxes and put a few levels on a lowbie alt. I would have done some contacts, but I was hoping for the dungeon or adventure level 3.
 
Tonight I'm hoping to run a friend through some vet dungeons he's never done, really looking forward to that! 
 
Change is inevitable. If there'd been no changes, we'd still be playing the game as it was at launch! I will never understand the doom and gloom or "I'm really worried" posts. I suspect the shouty "I'm quitting" people are in the minority and the rest of us will play while the game is fun, which bodes well really, the game is great fun.	
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If I knew how, I probably would simply for the character creation tool. I'm a sucker for just messing around in those things and making characters (s'why I love the FFXIV benchmark xD).
 
Anyone know a good casual Dominion guild the SO and I can drop our Dommie alts in?
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Haha well I wouldn't be against it, John, but I was kind of hoping for a guild who could make low level instance queues less painful. xD
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This morning is for contract busting and trying to find fire starter fragments.. On the ship hand I made a new little friend!
 	
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Nice Mordesh, Tatyana!
 
For me this afternoon, while the SO works on his next novel... Wilderrun, here I come. :)
 	
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Naunet, you play Antimony right? Were you the one I was talking to yesterday about my new radish pet?
 
I'm pretty excited about that radish.	
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Yes, the radish! Soon I, too, will enslave vegetables.
 
Soon...	
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Yes, the radish! Soon I, too, will enslave vegetables.
 
Soon...
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This morning is for contract busting and trying to find fire starter fragments.. On the ship hand I made a new little friend!
 
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Thanks! I'll ask around for them. Maybe I'll post in the server forum, too...
 
Oh if I'm allowed to be a little off-topic...
 
My husband's first major novel released today! :D I think it'd be right up the alleys of a lot of people here. I'm gonna be pretty shameless here and ask people to check it out!
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I'm just sad I haven't spent more time in these threads since launch!
 
A+, would read again! :)	
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Okay, so did y'all hear about the Mass Banning that Blizzard just did? They caught 100,000 accounts using a bot to farm PVP battlegrounds.
 
 
I had never heard of this bot (not that I'd use it, but I was curious to see what it's users were saying about being caught after over two years of cheating. Schadenfreude, what can I say?) ... so I went to their forums just to poke around out of morbid curiosity.
 
Well, their forum was (of course) filled with people bemoaning their loss of accounts - but what really made me want to scream is the number of people (read: number of cheaters who just got caught) talking about coming to play WildStar while they waited out their bans.
 
Even worse, one of the guys over there said he was already working on an bot *JUST FOR USE IN WILDSTAR* and he is gonna share it with all the other cheaters who plan to migrate here.
 
Just a head's up, Carbine. Blizzard's banhammer is going to make sparks for WildStar. You have been warned.
			
				
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Yeah I heard, personally it's one of the reasons I quit. Mythic raiding was a joke, people were using HB to do rotations and scripts for interrupt bots and hacks.
 
Arenas were utterly unplayable as well, which is what I was trying to do a lot of, it was just not fun.
 
I hope noone makes a bot for here, it will ruin the already hurt pvp.....	
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Okay, so did y'all hear about the Mass Banning that Blizzard just did? They caught 100,000 accounts using "HonorBuddy" to farm PVP battlegrounds.
 
https://games.yahoo.com/news/blizzard-drops-ban-hammer-popular-082800842.html
 
I had never heard of HonorBuddy (not that I'd use it, but I was curious to see what it's users were saying about being caught after over two years of cheating. Schadenfreude, what can I say?) ... so I went to their forums just to poke around out of morbid curiosity.
 
Well, their forum was (of course) filled with people bemoaning their loss of accounts - but what really made me want to scream is the number of people (read: number of cheaters who just got caught) talking about coming to play WildStar while they waited out their bans.
 
Even worse, one of the guys over there said he was already working on an HonorBuddy-type bot *JUST FOR USE IN WILDSTAR* and he is gonna share it with all the other cheaters who plan to migrate here.
 
Just a head's up, Carbine. Blizzard's banhammer is going to make sparks for WildStar. You have been warned.
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Yeah I'd send that to like...  the Red Phone email or something.  *cupcake* that.  Last thing this game's admittedly-damaged PvP needs is someone making a tool to make it worse.
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I had thought about that, but (as far as we know), they haven't started showing up yet. Can't really "report" something that may not even happen.
 
Bots were a HUGE problem at Launch and for a couple of months afterward. We're *still* dealing with the changes WildStar made so botting wouldn't be so easy (that's why mining nodes are level locked, because bots would take a level 3 toon into the highest level zones, speedhack all over the map and farm every node in Malgrave in three minutes.) It was AWFUL.
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Honor-buddy: Pindlebots revenge!
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Okay, so did y'all hear about the Mass Banning that Blizzard just did? They caught 100,000 accounts using "HonorBuddy" to farm PVP battlegrounds.
 
https://games.yahoo.com/news/blizzard-drops-ban-hammer-popular-082800842.html
 
I had never heard of HonorBuddy (not that I'd use it, but I was curious to see what it's users were saying about being caught after over two years of cheating. Schadenfreude, what can I say?) ... so I went to their forums just to poke around out of morbid curiosity.
 
Well, their forum was (of course) filled with people bemoaning their loss of accounts - but what really made me want to scream is the number of people (read: number of cheaters who just got caught) talking about coming to play WildStar while they waited out their bans.
 
Even worse, one of the guys over there said he was already working on an HonorBuddy-type bot *JUST FOR USE IN WILDSTAR* and he is gonna share it with all the other cheaters who plan to migrate here.
 
Just a head's up, Carbine. Blizzard's banhammer is going to make sparks for WildStar. You have been warned.
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Even if you just think there might be just a rumor for this kind of thing, we'll take it. I PM'ed you about it as well.
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I knew people who botted and got banned who were in top 50 raiding guilds. (in particular some old raiding friends said 12 people from the same guild eu in a mythic raiding guild including the raid leader, healing lead and main tank got banned...)
 
It's just made people question the legitimacy of the raiding logs for some guilds.
 
Frankly, it took too long for them to do something about honor buddy, it's been running since 2010... that's a long time for a bot program to go "unnoticed" by the devs...	
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I had thought about that, but (as far as we know), they haven't started showing up yet. Can't really "report" something that may not even happen.
 
Bots were a HUGE problem at Launch and for a couple of months afterward. We're *still* dealing with the changes WildStar made so botting wouldn't be so easy (that's why mining nodes are level locked, because bots would take a level 3 toon into the highest level zones, speedhack all over the map and farm every node in Malgrave in three minutes.) It was AWFUL.
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I remember this. Watching people zoom through rocks and trees to farm a node, then zoom away and vanish. They were like ants man.
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So apparently the guy talking about making that bot is a currently subscribed player.
 
Oh, I bet he's a real winner and super-hardcore.  :angry:	
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Even if you just think there might be just a rumor for this kind of thing, we'll take it. I PM'ed you about it as well.
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I remember farming a node to get nothing out of it.
 
And the battleground bots, hahaha they were so funny to watch. One game at night we had a low level game of myself and a few guildies vs a WHOLE exile team of bots, we /follow one of them, and it was literally the whole team in a line going through our cave, into our base, picking the mask up, going back through cave... to us killing them in their base... so silly but funny.
 
To be honest, carbine stomped it out very quickly. You'd get the odd bot here and there but a couple reports and I'd notice they were gone.. :)	
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And the battleground bots, hahaha they were so funny to watch. One game at night we had a low level game of myself and a few guildies vs a WHOLE exile team of bots, we /follow one of them, and it was literally the whole team in a line going through our cave, into our base, picking the mask up, going back through cave...
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Even if you just think there might be just a rumor for this kind of thing, we'll take it. I PM'ed you about it as well.
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Just goes to show the length people will go to 1, avoid the leveling process that keeps them from end game and 2, get the best pvp gear because it's no fun competing against people who have it when you don't even if the difference is minimal.
 
Botting is cheating yeah, but it does make one wonder why it happens.
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Botting is a way to make RL Money. It is how the Gold selling sites get their inventory. Call me an Ass, but I ALWAYS report bots when I see them. But I have to be sure they are botting. Not always easy.
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I almost got banned from ESO for reporting so many bots. Zenimax called me a liar.. I had proof. tons and tons of screenshots. I never uploaded them or posted them to a forum, I sent them directly to zenimax and they yelled at me.
 
I quit because I didn't want to compete with 50 bots. I was also a templar; bots favorite class; and was in fear of being reported along with them.
 
 
I hope if these cracker jacks come to Wildstar we don't get yelled at for reporting bots.	
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I almost got banned from ESO for reporting so many bots. Zenimax called me a liar.. I had proof. tons and tons of screenshots. I never uploaded them or posted them to a forum, I sent them directly to zenimax and they yelled at me.
 
I quit because I didn't want to compete with 50 bots. I was also a templar; bots favorite class; and was in fear of being reported along with them.
 
 
I hope if these cracker jacks come to Wildstar we don't get yelled at for reporting bots.
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I had thought about that, but (as far as we know), they haven't started showing up yet. Can't really "report" something that may not even happen.
 
Bots were a HUGE problem at Launch and for a couple of months afterward. We're *still* dealing with the changes WildStar made so botting wouldn't be so easy (that's why mining nodes are level locked, because bots would take a level 3 toon into the highest level zones, speedhack all over the map and farm every node in Malgrave in three minutes.) It was AWFUL.
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