148571-morning-coffee-1229-anything-good-edition

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Come in out of the rain and cold. Pull of a comfy chair and have a warm cup of caffeinated love.
 
Maybe it's just me, maybe it's the holidays, but the rest of the Forums are just a mess right now. No one has anything good to say about anything. Squabbling, fighting, insulting ... and none of it's worth reading or even participating in. I mean, if the smack was good, or the subject matter provocative, that'd be one thing. As it is, meh.
 
That said, I took the night off from Nexus for the first time since Winterfest started. Got Star Wars: Battlefront installed and played a few games on-line. It was okay, I guess. I mean, it looks great but at it's core it's little more than a shooter-game in a Lucasfilm-flavored wrapper. The wife had me install Elder Scrolls for her before I went to bed, so my days on Battlefront are numbered anyway. :lol:
 
As far as WildStar goes, I haven't done more than fiddling with dailies and Mall-In-The-Sky in over a week. Been stocking up on the better Winterfest decor and planning some kind of toy store area on Lola's plot, but otherwise, I am just waiting for the season to be over so I can get back to building. I did get one of the unique hat drops, but have yet to see the Present Bot pet. :( 
 
ANYWAYS, tell me something good, Nexus. I have a long day of New Years specials to work on, but seriously, how much beer and tater chips can these people hope to sell on one night?	
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Good morning all,
 
I know what you mean Tex the forums are starting to wear thin on me as the amount of complaining for complaining sake is unbelievable. I have never seen a forum have this much negativity and maybe I have my tinted glasses on but I don't see what all the fuss is about, there is a couple that may have a point but overall it seems like folk go "hmmmm what can we complain about today....I know lets complain the grass isnt green enough".
 
I haven't had much time in game, my fiancee treated me to a Xbox One for Christmas which was nice of her and then I realized how bad it is having to install every disc I put in the thing.  Never went for Battlefront although im a Star Wars fan and I do enjoy my fps games I hate CoD and although the sound and graphics are nice the multiplayer reminds me of CoD maps where everything is just a mess, with no battle lines and random spawning next to the bad guys.  I have been playing Forza 6 as I like my racing games and out of 6 games I got with the console that is the only one I like as I forgot how bad I am at using a controller. 
 
But overall the time I have been in game I have been working up some of my crafting which may or may not be a pointless endeavor. I normally run around in the game with my fiancee and because she was in San Antonio visiting her aunt whilst I spent the time with my family over Christmas there wasnt alot of time for going into Wildstar. I then found out a tornado hit a couple of blocks away from the future in-laws house, so their house was nearly re-located to a different state but thankfully they were safe and the house was untouched.
 
Im hoping to get some game time in today and tomorrow before its back spending it with the family over New Years Eve and New Years day. Plus luckily ive been off straight through which is a bonus as no need to worry about work and I can concentrate on my drinking arm. 
			
				
	Edited December 29, 2015 by Scarran	
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Maybe it's just me, maybe it's the holidays, but the rest of the Forums are just a mess right now. No one has anything good to say about anything. Squabbling, fighting, insulting ... and none of it's worth reading or even participating in. I mean, if the smack was good, or the subject matter provocative, that'd be one thing. As it is, meh.
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Yeah, I'll have a long weekend (again) with ZERO chance of being out on Amateur Night. That's just asking to die in a city filled with drunks like Houston. :lol:
 
And you guys and your damned awesome plots. UGH. I just don't get it. The only plot I've ever "finished" was basically destroyed with the Housing Expansion at F2P and I just have not gotten over it, I guess. I keep getting these "great ideas" and jump into them, and then two days later I find a video of someone who'd already done it - and done it like 1000 times better than my meager skills even imagined possible. And then I get discouraged, Crate the whole damn thing and sit there on an empty plot, kicking dust.
 
On top of that, I just don't know where to farm up all the various bits - and even if I did, the best stuff is probably locked behind content that I'll never see once, much less see enough times to actually get a couple of pieces from.	
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And you guys and your damned awesome plots. UGH. I just don't get it. The only plot I've ever "finished" was basically destroyed with the Housing Expansion at F2P and I just have not gotten over it, I guess. I keep getting these "great ideas" and jump into them, and then two days later I find a video of someone who'd already done it - and done it like 1000 times better than my meager skills even imagined possible. And then I get discouraged, Crate the whole damn thing and sit there on an empty plot, kicking dust.
 
On top of that, I just don't know where to farm up all the various bits - and even if I did, the best stuff is probably locked behind content that I'll never see once, much less see enough times to actually get a couple of pieces from.
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			Well, that's the thing that always tugs at me. I am a graphic artist and have been for over two decades. My entire life is creating things of functional beauty - but when I sit down and actually start building, I just can't sit still for more than an hour or so before I feel like I'm working. Then I want to go home. :lol:	
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Well, that's the thing that always tugs at me. I am a graphic artist and have been for over two decades. My entire life is creating things of functional beauty - but when I sit down and actually start building, I just can't sit still for more than an hour or so before I feel like I'm working. Then I want to go home. :lol:
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I'm usually not exactly a nice person to talk to for any extended period of time but I can do positive, occasionally.
So, in positive news (for me anyway) I scrapped together enough Omnibits to get the CE upgrade.
The Eldan Green is just the dye I needed to finish my Exile Stalker's costume, I had the look put together for a while now but due to the oddities of WS's dye system I never quite managed to make the Botface helmet's lenses work.
Now with the eldan green they turned out exactly the way I wanted and are a perfect match for the claws I'm using to boot.
I'm rather pleased with the result.
 
Also, a free hoverboard for my characters that weren't able to get one during Shade's Eve, that's pretty nice too.
 
I'll go shut up now before the snark takes over again.	
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There are still players that don't have hoverboards?
 
Holy crap. I never even THINK about boards or mounts any more. I start every new character with like ... five or six mounts (and an equal number of pets and almost ten Dyes, it seems) right off the bat. :lol: :lol:	
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ANYWAYS, tell me something good, Nexus.
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Aye, there's some of us that don't (didn't) have hoverboards in the account inventory :lol:
I missed whatever it was that gave the free board back when the game initially started because I only got on board the WildStar train after it had been out for two months and then only played off and on (why yes, I'll go sit in the shame corner after I finish posting) and while I have quite a number of ground mounts from cosmic rewards and the 2FA thing I didn't have anything account wide that went over water until now.
The next cosmic rewards mount I'd unlock would've worked but I don't have the money to throw at the game just for the sake of getting the tier done. :)	
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 In housing if you spend your time worrying about what others are building you'll never complete a plot. I'm constantly reminding people this. 
 
As far as holiday moods are concerned.. this is to be expected this time of year.. im not a big fan of xmas time myself. To many bad things has happened around this time of year. So a lot of people are on edge right now myself included. in a week or so things will go back to being same o same o.
 
I did take a short housing break and started back up last night.. my plot i started at f2p still isnt finished so i decided to take the initiative to get er done. This build has taken way to long now.	
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I have been enjoying rp in-game, so that's something!
 
I have not been enjoying having to spend all my plat on a dps set that I will hopefully never use. But that's not what this thread is for.
 
Back to rp! Yay! Been trying really hard to "wrap up" a plot (as much as any plot of ours is ever... wrapped up - at least move it on to the next stage) before the end of Winterfest so that our characters can actually rp Winterfest, but... I don't think that's likely to happen. :\ A very sad for me, but it is how it is. At least the rp is very good. ^^;
 
I have lots of housing ideas - some already in-progress - but have been lacking in motivation to get to work on them again for some reason. Instead I end up playing GW2. Ack!	
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			Hey, Tex... you know you're in a guild with a bunch of builders, right?  That you can ask for advice, help, assistance, whatever, and we're more than happy to give it to you?  For example: I have a master architect alt who is more than happy to make things for the price of materials for guildmates.   As for people doing it 1000 times better?  Don't worry  about them.  Make your plot for YOU.  Lock it up if you feel you need to, but don't let other people's skills stop you from building.  If we all did that, the only plots would be Katia's and her friends :P  She blows me away with every new thing she makes, but I use it as inspiration for things to do on mine or other peoples' plots.  Don't feel obligated, but don't feel like you're burdening anyone to ask for help.  Seriously.  We enjoy working together.	
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You know, I’ve never really been into an MMO quite like that first one.  For me it was Earth Eternal.  Mainly it was free and it was the only thing that would run on my old PC.  That went away then I discovered City of Heroes on its last year of operation.  Both those games never sported the best graphics but overall was fun and exciting to explore and find all the things the world had to offer.
 
Having  lived in the old commodore 64 and colecovision era,  PC games that had you explore and buy and sell and improve, like Battletech: the Cresent Hawks inception and it’s sequel, along with so many games of its type.  Mines of titan and so on.    When there was more of an adventure element into it, we always focused on the story, the plot, the guide and figuring out things at a pace the game allowed.  Then playing again only to find out the developers change things if you start over!
 
I’ve heard of Wildstar and a lot of other MMos.  I’ve been hearing a lot of the same things.  Hype never matched the reality.  Player base shrunk after a year.  Unbalanced and  level walls.    Well, after finding out that Wildstar was suffering, actually made me pay more attention to it.
 
I wanted CoH to continue, it did not.  I do miss that first time free Earth Eternal, but it’s gone. 
Ive tried DCUO and just cant stand it now.  I still have a place for SWTOR but found that with all that Star Wars has going for it, it just blasted my expectations to ashes.   I put a lot of time and even money into that game, but here I am, playing Wildstar
You know, I know why people don’t like Wildstar and have issues with it.  I also know that depending on what stage of an MMO you start playing, you tend to lean one side or another, yet again, here I am. 
 
I am thrilled with the winter event.  I was told the Halloween event was something else but I just joined 2 weeks ago.
 
I’ve already figured out how to craft guns, how to balance a low level character with their skill (so far),  and been able to grow with the game and find out new things every day.  It feels like the old DOS games of long since past.  The music is not overbearing and fits into the motion of the travel itself.    Though I wish my character had more of an interactive part in the game rather than a reactive one.  I cannot get enough of the environment.  It’s absolutely beautiful.  I get around walking because I run into things I’d normally fly past with something faster.  I’ve  found rich sources of metals, traveled to high tree and mountain tops,   found an underground mine (that I didn’t know I had a time limit on), and that’s just the 1st map area.   I am drawn into the game.  It’s colors and content keep me coming back and this kind of environment is absolutely perfect for the atmosphere the game gives. 
 
I plan to unlock a few things later on, but I hope the older players don’t abandon ship and that new players don’t flood the boards with selfish requests.  I also hope Wildstar stays around for a long time. 
 
Now all I want is an Ekose crew and a Starship, maybe a robo tail whip beast	
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Welcome aboard, Captainspire, enjoy your stay.
 
Don't pay too much mind to the negative threads and selfish requests. 'Tis the way of MMO boards these days.
A good chunk of the people happy with the game are busy playing and don't come to the boards to post a lot. Those that do are generally outnumbered by the people who complain about something or other.
Even among those of us that do complain is a subset of people who do so because we enjoy the game, a lot, we want it to be perfect and it irks us when something is not.
The devs told us they are listening so in an effort to make the game even better we're telling them what we perceive as wrong. Some manage to articulate that in a constructive way better than others.
Of course there's also the usual crowd of people complaining just for the sake of complaining, the doom and gloom prophets and the people who come to a game's board just to tell everyone why they don't play the game.
To get to the point I was trying to make half an hour ago, don't judge the game by its board, judge it by the people actually playing the game.
 
And don't get discouraged should the leveling zones feel empty, a sizeable portion of the population is at the level cap doing endgame content of one variety or other. Or housing. Housing has so many nice people in it but I swear it sometimes doesn't let you go until your gaming time for the day is over.	
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It's like playing in the middle of a city to going to the county side and not a single person there.   
 
Wildstar has it all.  I don't listen to the banter when it mainly comes down to want / need / deserve.   I'm a F2P and Im already excited from what I've experienced.
 
I'll get into the housing on my own time.
 
And thank you.  I was drawn to the conversation by the coffee. 	
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Yeah, the forums have been entirely too negative considering the holiday season, it's a bit depressing!
 
I've been mostly doing the usual world bosses. But my internet has been very unstable lately and right now, for example, I can't even stay connected. They're supposedly fixing it tomorrow so we'll see (apparently it's an issue in this apartment complex so we're not the only ones). I want to play! :(
 
I did run the holiday instance a handful of times. I want the pet but I don't know the drop rate, it's obviously pretty low. I've done it a dozen times now, mostly gold, but I keep getting lame decor I could have bought with cold cash. I did get one of the winter hats, which is fine, I just want that pet! My boyfriend, who didn't care about the pet, got it his third time running the instance (he also got the Avatus toy yesterday, which I've been wanting forever). AND he got an ability tier point and a discovery costume that same day >_>.
 
I don't really work at all until mid-Jan (besides my online sales) so once the internet is fixed I can get some good gaming in :). Hopefully I can get that holiday pet!	
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And thank you.  I was drawn to the conversation by the coffee. 
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