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I've got a raging migraine this morning that just won't go away, even with the preventatives and the meds.  But I'm stuck at work with no hope of getting out early so I've been occupying myself here.  Wildstar news, I didn't get to play at all last night due to feeling run down as all hell and I slept the night away.  I'm coordinating things for the station's upcoming Shade's Eve Spooktacular weeklong event and figuring the logisitics of DJ'ing for Norah's Shade's Eve Shindig on the 30th.  A lot of awesome stuff coming up.
 
I've gotten Malak to 33.  I've been pushing for a level a night and with the exception of yesterday I've been incredibly successful.  I've been putting off on doing much more to the station than the outer shell since I'm holding off until I can buy the Tier 2 house and do a full build.  I don't want too much of the custom building to get nommed by the upgrade.  But I want to build so bad.  *twitch*
 
How's everyone else doing this morning with the megaserver and their Wildstar-ing?	
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It has been a busy week so far! Extra-Life is this weekend and I plan on doing some WildStar streaming, maybe I'll get something nifty out of my boom box when I open it. Of course, knowing my luck it will be empty. Seriously, if I didn't have bad luck, I would have no luck at all! 	
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			I know that feeling.  I have guildies who have gotten 2 Luminous Equivars out of their boomboxes and Elite fab kits.  i've gotten runes and prestige vials lol.  I'd been considering doing Extra Life at some point but my schedule has really made it impossible for me this year.  My new work schedule starts this weekend and have to drop my Sunday morning show for the foreseeable future because of it.  So no streaming for me. /sadpanda.  Though I may sit and watch a bit of streaming this weekend.  Gonna be all sorts of good content going out.	
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I know that feeling.  I have guildies who have gotten 2 Luminous Equivars out of their boomboxes and Elite fab kits.  i've gotten runes and prestige vials lol.  I'd been considering doing Extra Life at some point but my schedule has really made it impossible for me this year.  My new work schedule starts this weekend and have to drop my Sunday morning show for the foreseeable future because of it.  So no streaming for me. /sadpanda.  Though I may sit and watch a bit of streaming this weekend.  Gonna be all sorts of good content going out.
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Good actual morning, coffee people! How's the science?On vacation! Nothing's happening! ...except peanut butter croissant and a glass of milk. This brings me back to my university days, which weren't that long ago, ha! I do hope you get better, Malak. I had a serious headache last night but not of the migraine kind. Water, meds and rest helps. Migraines, however, are a different matter. They are tenacious. Get well soon :)Malvolio Portius! Even the Dominion dislike this guy, apparently. To quote a famous DnD meme: "Shoot him. In the face. With a hammer."
 
 
In WildStar news, more dyes! I have 123 at the moment and hopefully the count will only go up! I am watching the CX like a hawk, hoping to snatch blue and purple dyes for 1 plat and under. Got to be patient! Also, dailies! 5/4 days left because the Northern Wastes seem to give more reputation than Crimson Badlands. The plan today is...I have no idea! Maybe housing? Maybe more challenges for dyes? Possibly running Crimelords of Whitevale? Time will tell.Danger ahead! Danger behind! Maybe danger sideways...	
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No WS news for me right now.  Friend from WoW wanted me to make a few toons to PvP with in Illidan so, been grinding those to 60 for the booste. ;)
 
Not going to leave WS. Taking this time to refresh, I was getting burned out on WS.
 
I want this game to succeed. I will be playing again soonish.
 
I don't know whether "WoW" is that easy or "I am that good" but, I am raging up the levels on my too new toons ( prolly both ). ;)
 
Play "change the word", "word association", and "food association" in OT! ;)
 
Cheers!!
Kytar	
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I don't know whether "WoW" is that easy or "I am that good" but, I am raging up the levels on my too new toons ( prolly both ). ;) 
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What a night!
 
Contajulie Prime grabbed Houngan Seeger for the R12 and Blighthaven runs, which were an absolute treat!  First, we had so many people show up for R-12 that we needed to make a third raid.  Here, a picture of the train the people taking their taxis to Camp Hellrose...
 
 
What does it look like when 80+ people run into the facility?
 
 
Got to Blighthaven and had someone, even after being told we were going for gold, raise a non-special sproutling.  In the meantime, Klover grabbed my services to clean out the five man Nursery quests.  After clearing some, the tree started again.  We beasted that gold medal; I spent most of the match going to places where there were Grove Breakers and picking up the other side of the stairs as a tank.  We were impenetrable.  I don't think the sproutlings took ANY damage.
 
Then I dropped back into my five man group and flushed out the nursery quests right up to Ely.  Klover had to leave right before, and tonight, Klover, if you need Seeger's services, he's available.  You'd be second in line, though, as the one sad thing about last night was that I got locked up until after I'd lost track of PlasmaJohn.  Plasma's first priority, Seeger's going to help him clear his quest first.
 
I need a scheduling book of some kind...
 
Anyway, work was crazy and I'm back at it.  Looking forward to more awesomeness tonight!  See you on Nexus!	
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Wow Seeger.. you are almost convincing me to go out to do PvE content. And that's saying something.
 
My game time is truncated by Chinese classes plus I crashed out early due to too many late nights. So I didn't do dailies again and I only had time for one character's RP
 
She's in a bind. There's two guys interested in her. One is an upstanding Law man but he admitted having a temper and showed poor judgment once... but he can get better!
 
The other is a cool headed guy who's smart but... he's also a pirate. But he's a -good- pirate! Hmmm... no one's gonna be perfect. She'll have to pick her poison. And it's looking like the pirates gonna win.	
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Wow Seeger.. you are almost convincing me to go out to do PvE content. And that's saying something.
 
My game time is truncated by Chinese classes plus I crashed out early due to too many late nights. So I didn't do dailies again and I only had time for one character's RP
 
She's in a bind. There's two guys interested in her. One is an upstanding Law man but he admitted having a temper and showed poor judgment once... but he can get better!
 
The other is a cool headed guy who's smart but... he's also a pirate. But he's a -good- pirate! Hmmm... no one's gonna be perfect. She'll have to pick her poison. And it's looking like the pirates gonna win.
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Good morning everyone! Hope you're all well and good.
 
So good news is that I won't have to go for surgery(buahahaha you can't get rid of me that easy!) Though I think I over did it and probably should've slept the rest of the day having not eaten much at all the previous day, jumping into drawing and playing Wildstar/WoW.
 
Wildstar related though, last night and the night before we got people to do their first ever riot in the void and they all seemed to have a lot of fun there. It's a personal favourite of mine as well so I'm always happy to go there! I believe we have 2 or 3 more folks that we're gonna try getting a run for tonight as well so they can see Riot too.
 
I fiddled around with my warrior gear and AMP/Abilities a bit and think I've gone as far as I can until the next drop too for what I have currently. During R12 was able to give the other tanks a run for their money on threat, but couldn't quite pull off(didnt want to either) completely. Outclassed and outgeared, but still put up a fight! RAWR XD
 
I started playing my espers(i have 2) a little more, deciding if I like the cassian or chua more. Maybe I'll just level both up and have different specs
 
 
ALSO I'm just noticing that the Z in Tauzwei my signature was capitalized this entire time....*embarassed*	
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What a night!
 
Contajulie Prime grabbed Houngan Seeger for the R12 and Blighthaven runs, which were an absolute treat!  First, we had so many people show up for R-12 that we needed to make a third raid.  Here, a picture of the train the people taking their taxis to Camp Hellrose...
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RP :D
 
I did a write up of Rocio's tribe. I want to write this since I'm pretty sure that Arboria will be an Expansion.
 
 The Preserver, The Wise One of the Silverroot:
 
The first Silverroot Matria discovered this ancient tree unintentionally. Traveling with her Consorts in search of a new home, she followed what she described as a deep and quiet chorus of arboreal voice. After finding the source, she was the first of the Matrias to make contact and to have that bizarre physical transformation. The Preserver does not look any much different from other old trees of the Boglands. Its trunk is only a few hundred years old. The true nature of the tree lies in its ancient roots. When one of the tree’s branches comes in contact with the ground, it sprouts a new root which then connects to the existing root system. When the trunk then dies, the rootstock continues to be fed by the rooted branches until one branch becomes a new trunk. The trunks are a silver color, hence the name of the tribe is “Silverroot”.
 
This cycle of death and rebirth is central to the Silverroot tribe culture. The rootstock of this tree is unfathomably old. Silverroot tribe culture suggests that the tree has “always existed”. Thus The Preserver is worshiped as an ancient god and its wisdom is never questioned.	
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Tsk tsk tsk.... why is this even debatable? :P
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I started playing my espers(i have 2) a little more, deciding if I like the cassian or chua more.
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			Chuas and Female Drakens are probably my favorite Dominion races. I thought I would like Mechari but... then I saw their... "emotes". :unsure:	
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Mooooooooooooooorning loves,
 
I woke up to some lovely tweets about KHT being able to receive information on houses not previously seen as "public" by the server. It made me smile as I rolled back over and went back to sleep. Pretty worn out the last few days, probably because I've been staying up late in Wildstar. Even if all I'm doing is talking in zone, re-familiarizing myself with faces/names. You won't imagine how hard it's been trying to put names to the people who talk to me now. Even if it's the same name with a space in it, there's this moment of "Who are you again?"
 
Feel pretty bad about that.  :unsure:
 
Fell asleep at my desk last night too before I called it a night.
 
Got your mail too, Rocio. Thank you.  :wub:
 
Last night I got a personal tour of Byron Oakby's lovely house, as you can see, my Kaelish makes a lovely addition to most homes:
 	
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You're welcome! I was completely brain dead when I wrote it so, I'm glad it was coherent. :lol:
 
I'll be playing with your consort-in-training. After speaking with her a bit last night this is probably going to be hilarious.	
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Good Mornin' all!
 
Not quite 100% yet, but feeling better, so thank you all for your well-wishes yesterday. :) Malak, I hope your migraine eases off for you. :(
 
I started figuring out WS's macros last night for the first time. It's actually surprisingly simple, although it'd be nice if we could assign an icon to the macro so the utility bar slot doesn't look empty.
 
Anyway...the reason I was looking at macros was so I don't have to type out a recruitment message repeatedly. No spam, but when I need it, it's already typed. I saw several people asking for casual guilds in Illium, so I started recruiting for The Skullkickers last night and got us a few new pixels.
 
Because I was advertising a casual guild (without listing raid progression stats), it caught me off guard that people asked if we're raiding. I mean, I understand that 'casual' and 'raid' aren't mutually exclusive, I just wasn't expecting the question. I do hope that The Skullkickers venture into the raids at some point, but we're not going to push our members into it.
 
Even moreso, I hope we have enough people that are interested in Warplots to get some friendly PvP going, as that's a feature of the game that I was looking forward to already well before launch. I honestly think that Warplots will have good replay value even for people who aren't normally into PvP, especially since we have friends on the Exile side to coordinate with.
 
Speaking of cross-faction coordination, I'm also very excited about the possibility of BDS doing some Dom alt leveling alongside SK in the near future. It'll be really cool to get a bunch of members from both guilds introduced all around.
 
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ALSO I'm just noticing that the Z in Tauzwei my signature was capitalized this entire time....*embarassed*
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Ahhh Halloween is so close yet so far!
*runs around in a panick*
 
Went out shopping today, and while it's not a very popular holiday here in the UK (YET! they ain't seen what I can do with make up and decorations yet -mostly cause we're poor!) My husband, Gole Standt, will be Live streaming a game on Halloween night (amnesia) for the guild to watch as a bit of a relaxing out of game event.. and asked I make him up for the event. So I'm going with an undead zombie clown hence the big red nose! OMG it's gonna be awesome, just need his costume and we're sorted.
 
Ingame wise? We've been training lots of new people on X89 and we wiped on 84k last night D: AHHH *flail* But that's okay cause Venus Rising never gives up. Ever. And we're awesome and had quite a laugh about it. Even had a dev watching and I was like :o cause it's a dev and they're like... :o I don't even know...anyways
 
 
I'm going on a theme of pumpkin carving. I already sketched out a Draken's face. And yesterday I sketched out a Mechari face. And today or tomorrow I'll be having a go at a very fat Chua eating a pie sketch xD I even grabbed a huge pumpkin for it!
 
Here's the mechari!
 
And now Imma go poke someone ingame to help out with this lovely event!
Extra Life- Jabbit!
 
See ya!
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			Not been a great week for me, spent much time resting & blowing nose. Nose is better now but still getting dizziness and migraines. Hoping it be a little better for tonight's raiding. Looking forward to next week as it's a break from college for me. Will use that time to catch up on some projects along with stuff on Wildstar.	
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			Hope you feel better Moska!	
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It has been a busy week so far! Extra-Life is this weekend and I plan on doing some WildStar streaming, maybe I'll get something nifty out of my boom box when I open it. Of course, knowing my luck it will be empty. Seriously, if I didn't have bad luck, I would have no luck at all! 
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Feel better Moska! It's that time of year sadly where lots of people tend to get sick =/
Get your rest and take care of yourself, your health is much more important than raiding *huggles*
 
@Vick - I picked Tauzwei, because....well terminator 2 is my favourite of the series, Tau are my best and favourite warhammer 40k race, and zwei to embrace my inner german while working with Carbines proposed surname lore.	
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Good morning everyone! (it's still morning for me).
 
Moska, I hope you feel better.
 
Kael, you need to get more sleep.  I can start sending you nag-tells around midnight your time if you want :P  "Nephele Veridian:  Go to bed Kael, you'll wind up with the imprint of a keyboard on your face again!"
 
Vic, I'm glad that tree thing worked out yesterday!  I was sort of halfway listening to you and Ore talking about it and it was disappointing that the first attempt got scrubbed.
 
In Wildstar last night, I ended up doing a normal mode War of the Wilds, instead of a vet mode.  We got the group together and realized we had no healer.  Oops!  But then one of our guildmates who wasn't quite 50 wanted to join, so we just did the normal instead.  It was fun, and a first time for a couple of them :)
 
After that we took one of our newer members on his first trip into a dungeon - we did Stormtalon's Lair.  We died a few times just due to folks learning, but it was a pretty quick run.  At the end we were like "So what do you think?".  His response:  "That..... was awesome!!"
 
Yup, another one hooked :D
 
Work today is meetings, meetings, and more meetings.  If there's a version of hell that's eternal meetings and conference calls, I think it would closely resemble my job sometimes.  Can't wait to escape and come home to Wildstar tonight.  We're planning on trying to do the public groups this evening for KV, for new players or people who have never been, but we haven't gotten really any signups on the forum thread (unless someone signed up this morning, I haven't checked yet) for Exile side.  So we may end up just doing a guild run of it instead for our own folks who want to see it.  But still, was hoping that we'd get some more interest than we have.  We'll probably try another couple of times just to make sure it really won't work before we kill the idea altogether.
 
Which reminds me, I need to advertise the new player circles more tonight in-game.
 
In other news, and because this is like the only post I get to make for three more hours or so, it looks like I get to move to my new house irl in a couple of weeks.  I'm actually excited, if only because it's such a nicer house than the one I'm renting now.  I may have to throw a party once I get moved and get all the furniture in place.  
 
If only I could make my Wildstar house look like...well... anything.  Looking at some of the plots from the housing contest, I feel so inadequate :)
 
Oh yeah!  Speaking of which - now that KHT is working (YAY!) housing contest judging should be wrapping up by tomorrow.  We'll get results posted and prizes in the mail asap.
 
Anyway, off to next meeting.  Hope everyone is having fun today, as much as possible :)	
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Good morning everyone! (it's still morning for me).
 
Moska, I hope you feel better.
 
Kael, you need to get more sleep.  I can start sending you nag-tells around midnight your time if you want :P  "Nephele Veridian:  Go to bed Kael, you'll wind up with the imprint of a keyboard on your face again!"
 
Vic, I'm glad that tree thing worked out yesterday!  I was sort of halfway listening to you and Ore talking about it and it was disappointing that the first attempt got scrubbed.
 
In Wildstar last night, I ended up doing a normal mode War of the Wilds, instead of a vet mode.  We got the group together and realized we had no healer.  Oops!  But then one of our guildmates who wasn't quite 50 wanted to join, so we just did the normal instead.  It was fun, and a first time for a couple of them :)
 
After that we took one of our newer members on his first trip into a dungeon - we did Stormtalon's Lair.  We died a few times just due to folks learning, but it was a pretty quick run.  At the end we were like "So what do you think?".  His response:  "That..... was awesome!!"
 
Yup, another one hooked :D
 
Work today is meetings, meetings, and more meetings.  If there's a version of hell that's eternal meetings and conference calls, I think it would closely resemble my job sometimes.  Can't wait to escape and come home to Wildstar tonight.  We're planning on trying to do the public groups this evening for KV, for new players or people who have never been, but we haven't gotten really any signups on the forum thread (unless someone signed up this morning, I haven't checked yet) for Exile side.  So we may end up just doing a guild run of it instead for our own folks who want to see it.  But still, was hoping that we'd get some more interest than we have.  We'll probably try another couple of times just to make sure it really won't work before we kill the idea altogether.
 
Which reminds me, I need to advertise the new player circles more tonight in-game.
 
In other news, and because this is like the only post I get to make for three more hours or so, it looks like I get to move to my new house irl in a couple of weeks.  I'm actually excited, if only because it's such a nicer house than the one I'm renting now.  I may have to throw a party once I get moved and get all the furniture in place.  
 
If only I could make my Wildstar house look like...well... anything.  Looking at some of the plots from the housing contest, I feel so inadequate :)
 
Oh yeah!  Speaking of which - now that KHT is working (YAY!) housing contest judging should be wrapping up by tomorrow.  We'll get results posted and prizes in the mail asap.
 
Anyway, off to next meeting.  Hope everyone is having fun today, as much as possible :)
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Fuuuuunny. :P I can stay up late if I wanna! ... Mostly.
 
KHT wasn't broken though. .-. I made a post about this. The issue existed on Carbine's end, though thankfully they've remedied the problem so KHT can fetch the appropriate data now. Woo! Good luck judges. :)
 
Ooooh tonight, everyone needs to nag me about swapping my spec to drop Homeward bound (nightmarish in vet dungeons). Feel free to glob me with PMs for spec suggestions, if anyone wants. :P
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Vic, I'm glad that tree thing worked out yesterday!  I was sort of halfway listening to you and Ore talking about it and it was disappointing that the first attempt got scrubbed.
 
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Byron gave me a wonderful idea for my housing plot, so if you haven't seen it already, I recommend swinging by for whatever screenies you want. I'll be tearing it apart this weekend as I have time to redo the exterior.
 
http://imgur.com/a/PJ3m3 Imagine Rocio would wanna see the Torine shrine Kael has.	
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Yeah, I can't figure out what everyone was complaining about.  You can try over and over for medals; I wasn't in a hurry to get gold.  Some people threw a fit like that was absolutely unacceptable.
 
That said, it's kind of true that it's hard to troll gold medal parties by planting the wrong sproutling, or to even unintentionally screw it up if you're new.
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Sounds like the same mindset as was common with dungeons at launch. Some people see "we're going for gold" as "if we don't get gold, we've failed."
 
I am amazed that you had three raid groups for a world event. I've only seen Dommies put together one plus a few extra people, and getting even one full raid group seems to be rare.
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I've been taking a break from WildStar to binge on Godzilla films. Anything new happening/exciting happening in the game/forums?	
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I've been taking a break from WildStar to binge on Godzilla films. Anything new happening/exciting happening in the game/forums?
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I've been taking a break from WildStar to binge on Godzilla films. Anything new happening/exciting happening in the game/forums?
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Off in the distance she hears an explosion, several cheers of "Science!" followed by insance giggling. 
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			That reminded me to tell you that your avatar is awesome, Kolba.	
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			That Chua is like: "Electrocution ROCKS" :lol:	
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			Some Chua fully master the cunning camouflage of cuteness.	
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			Remember the crazy Farside event? Well I had some medical problems flare up shortly afterwards and had to step back for a short while... happily I'm back... with-BIG NEWS!!!11We have a website now that'll be the community hub for all events on Warhound AND a chat channel you MUST join *coughifyou'reonWarhoundofcoursecough* at /chjoin WarhoundEventsRead more about this in the warhound forum post I did here, that I'm hoping gets stickied. We're kicking off with a Rumble in the Jungle at wilderrun to discuss with a core group of die-hard pvpers what times/days work best for them to do warplots at on a regular basis. This is a fun little meeting with a dash of bloody carnage!  :D 	
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You guys are an inspiration!
 
No wait...
 
INSPIRATION!!!!!!	
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The PTR will be brought down for maintenance for a while...in preparation for DROP 3! With a bit of luck, it will hit the PTR sometimes this week and go live with the next two weeks.
 
Looking forward to the final patch notes...	
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The PTR will be brought down for maintenance for a while...in preparation for DROP 3! With a bit of luck, it will hit the PTR sometimes this week and go live with the next two weeks.
 
Looking forward to the final patch notes...
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			Also, this: http://www.polygon.com/2014/10/23/7050545/wildstar-carbine-studios-layoffsLet the doom and gloom and vileplume begin! Or not. I dislike where this is going but stuff happens.	
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I read that in Tony's thread. I'm curious why ANet was excluded from the layoffs. Although, I seem to remember that ANet was a comparatively small studio to begin with, so that might be why.
 
EDIT: My biggest frustration with that announcement is NCSoft stating that they want to move into mobile platforms...Apps are great and all, but I don't like seeing so many developers focusing on that type of game. It seems like the era of the PC gamer is gradually ending, which is not a trend that I like one bit.	
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I read that in Tony's thread. I'm curious why ANet was excluded from the layoffs. Although, I seem to remember that ANet was a comparatively small studio to begin with, so that might be why.
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I read that in Tony's thread. I'm curious why ANet was excluded from the layoffs. Although, I seem to remember that ANet was a comparatively small studio to begin with, so that might be why.
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It's not good news.  It depends on who was laid off and why.
 
I'm worried.  I think this is the precursor to NCSoft reaching past the original drivers and grabbing the wheel.
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It's not good news.  It depends on who was laid off and why.
 
I'm worried.  I think this is the precursor to NCSoft reaching past the original drivers and grabbing the wheel.
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EDIT: My biggest frustration with that announcement is NCSoft stating that they want to move into mobile platforms...Apps are great and all, but I don't like seeing so many developers focusing on that type of game. It seems like the era of the PC gamer is gradually ending, which is not a trend that I like one bit.
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If their idea of a good franchise is Guild Wars
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All I could hear in my head was~ Buy 2 lives for 99 cents!!! 
 
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FFXIV is semiMobile with that PlayStation Handheld.
 
The biggest hurdle personally is having a wireless connection that powerful. (Money...)	
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This is not nessarily true.  The entire PC industry is moving to mobile form factors.  PC gaming necessarily will have to shift along with that.  That's going to mean more concepts being incorporated in games such as touch interfaces and camera/accelerometer based controls.  But it doesn't mean a reduction in computing power.  To give an example - right now my Surface Pro 3 outperforms my 3-year old HP Elitebook laptop when it comes to just about everything I do at work.  And yes, it runs games fairly well - I purposely tested that when I got the thing, just to see if I could do it.  The only deficiency it has is local storage - but that's a problem that will be gone in a few years, because SSD sizes continue to increase.  Icing on the cake, it *nearly* outperforms my 4-year old gaming system that sits on my desk at home.
 
As early as next year it's likely there will be tablets on the market that have enough local storage to handle modern MMOs just fine - you might want to dock them while you're playing so you can use a bigger monitor, but you'll probably be able to run Wildstar... on a tablet.  And that experience will be just like the experience you get today on your desktop PC.
 
That sort of changes the paradigm, don't you think?
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It's not good news.  It depends on who was laid off and why.
 
I'm worried.  I think this is the precursor to NCSoft reaching past the original drivers and grabbing the wheel.
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It doesn't for me Nep. I mean I totally agree with your point but I don't want to play games like Wildstar on a 10 inch tablet.
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I think that communication from the producers about how this will impact development schedules is probably needed in very short order.
 
For my part, I'm going to continue to try and be optimistic until bad news actually arrives.  So far as we know, development schedules are not impacted.  Worrying over this without any evidence doesn't really help, and Wildstar is a game that we can all still enjoy the same way we have been while we wait to see what happens.
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Very short order indeed. Silence would be the worst thing here. They are already walking on super thin glass and this announcement just made some serious cracks in it.
 
Good thing the major alternatives in MMOs turned out to be mostly terrible for me.
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But I'm just trying to point out that the shift to mobile doesn't mean that things will be dumbed down.  If anything, I think we may find all kinds of unique new concepts once developers get used to the new platforms.
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It isn't good news but I don't think we know the impact yet, and I'd hate for speculation to get us into a downward spiral like what has happened so many times before.  It might be that the impact will be minimal and that everything will be fine - unless, of course, people panic over this.
 
I think that communication from the producers about how this will impact development schedules is probably needed in very short order.
 
For my part, I'm going to continue to try and be optimistic until bad news actually arrives.  So far as we know, development schedules are not impacted.  Worrying over this without any evidence doesn't really help, and Wildstar is a game that we can all still enjoy the same way we have been while we wait to see what happens.
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I would not blame any player or guild right now for doing contingency planning.
 
That said, Wildstar *has* raised the bar in terms of what constitutes fun gameplay.  When I look out at released games available now, there aren't that many titles that I really feel like I could move to, let alone take my guild (and some of you...) with me.  So let's just hope that Wildstar continues to be home for a while longer :)
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The tablet you have is rare and a beast compared to the bulk of the rest of the mobile market.  Mobile games by and large are dominated by casual games (Candy Crush/Angry Birds).  Sounds like WildStar is NCSoft's last MMO at least in the Western market.
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There is no tablet on Earth capable of keeping up with my desktop, and my desktop seems to be one of the few that can shovel Wildstar.
 
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"...overbuilt water-cooled monster gaming PC at home."
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I think the tablets are closer than you think though.
 
A top of the line SP3 right now is an i7 processor, 8 GB of RAM, and a 512 GB SSD, with a hardware-accelerated DX11-capable video chipset.
 
It's not unrealistic to expect the next evolution of tablets in general to scale up to 1TB SSDs and 16 GB of RAM.
 
I'll let you know when the tablets start beating my ridiculously overbuilt water-cooled monster gaming PC at home.  They're not quite there yet, but they're close :P
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*patching PTR*
oh man oh man...please let this be what i hope it is....
 
edit: looks like drop 3 is back on the ptr weeee	
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*patching PTR*
oh man oh man...please let this be what i hope it is....
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*is going through all the music and ambient choices for housing* >_>
 
dont expect me back on live....hehe	
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*is going through all the music and ambient choices for housing* >_>
 
dont expect me back on live....hehe
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Funny that, I'm cooling an FX9590 with a Noctua NH-D14 without any issues.  I was always afraid of springing a leak the way they used to.  I've heard it happens less these days, but I'm still nervous.  Still, you need a monster case to be able to handle the size of the heat sink.
 
Mine's a great machine.  I've never heard of a tablet or laptop really being close.  I'm currently being choked by my video card (I still use an Nvidia 760 GTX until I scrounge up enough cash for a titan), but otherwise I'm backing it with 32 gb of RAM and a regular old 2 Tb HDD.
 
By the time they make a better tablet, I'll have upgraded my video card, and tablets will be miles away.  Which is good, because I have an inherent dislike of touch screens.  Despite my PC, I got a Motorola Photon specifically for the slide out keyboard, and I still use my PC for pretty much everything.
 
I guess I'm just a really old brand of nerd.
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SSDs are way faster than old-style HDDs, but they're not quite to the same capacity sizes yet - that gap is closing fast though.  I never realized how much disk performance impacts games until i upgraded from 7200 RPM drives to 10k RPM drives in my gaming rig a few years ago - and WOW, what a difference.  The upgrade from an HDD to an SSD is even more dramatic.
 
To be honest, 32 GB RAM is way more than you need for *any* modern game - however I also know that you're an architect, so that amount of RAM is nice for drawings and such.  I run 16 GB on my machine here, and most of the time, I've got lots of room to spare - except when I run into a game with a memory leak, anyway, which is relatively rare.  Realistically though you can run pretty much any major game decently on 8 GB provided that you do two things:
 
- Use a modern OS version (7 has about half the footprint of XP, and 8.1 has a smaller footprint than 7.  10 *should* end up with a smaller footprint still, by the look of things, but it's way early)
- Don't run a bunch of crapware.  I keep my system as clean as possible with only things I absolutely need loading up when the OS starts.  All those updaters and monitoring applications and so on add a ton of unnecessary overhead (and most are poorly written with all kinds of vulnerabilities and performance issues)
 
Dedicated RAM on your video card is helpful for loading textures, but it's not as mandatory as it used to be.  It used to be that every time I bought a new video card, I had to double the RAM size on it to play games.  A couple years ago though that trend levelled off - which is a good thing, too.  If it had continued we'd all be running cards with 4 or 8 GB of dedicated video RAM, which is just silly.  The truth is that video RAM caching requirements are going back down thanks to faster bus speeds and smarter software.  That's one of the reasons that you see more gaming laptops - it's actually becoming viable again to put a serious graphics card on a laptop system board, because you don't have to load it down with all the extra RAM anymore.
 
Anyway, on the touch screen - it's not an all or nothing proposition anymore :)  Next time you're near a Microsoft Store or even a Best Buy, walk in and take a look a the tablets - especially if it's after Black Friday this year.  A fair number of them will be hybrid clamshells or have removable keyboards.  When I put my Surface in the dock with my full keyboard/mouse and the two monitors I have hooked up to it, I forget that it's a tablet - it looks and feels just like my normal PC.  I only actually remember the touch interface when I pop it out of the dock and take it to a meeting (or when I'm using the Kindle app on it to turn it into a giant ebook reader) :)
 
Anyway enough about this stuff, work is done, so Imma stop being technical for the day.  I just got done trying to explain to a bunch of account people what the words "requirements document" actually mean.  Sigh.  MMOs are so much simpler.  Can I just get paid to play Wildstar?
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Vic, don't bother with saving for a Titan, the new GTX970 is roughly the same amount of power for less than half the price. Unless you were talking about the Titan-Z.
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Wow, you're the first person I've heard who has any computer knowledge speak about Win8 without swearing A LOT!
 
I would agree with your brother's assessment, we downloaded a copy of Win10 at work to start testing our software. We are all disappointed that MS didn't acknowledge that Win8 was a failed experiment and bin the whole unified desktop nonsense.	
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Wow, you're the first person I've heard who has any computer knowledge speak about Win8 without swearing A LOT!
 
I would agree with your brother's assessment, we downloaded a copy of Win10 at work to start testing our software. We are all disappointed that MS didn't acknowledge that Win8 was a failed experiment and bin the whole unified desktop nonsense.
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I'm going to be a difficult customer for a moment, because Windows 8 irks me.
 
[rant]
 
As someone whose profession requires that I try to make everything I do as visually appealing as possible, I will never willingly use an interface that is as much of a garish eyesore as Windows 8 is. The default visuals for Windows 8 looks like someone was blindfolded when they created it, and it makes me wish I was blindfolded rather than look at it.
 
Since they're trying to ditch the concept of a desktop (...by making a start menu into a new form of the desktop...perfect logic here...), I could see having a lot of fun customizing the Start screen in lots of ways. Now, I understand that in a lot of ways it can be customized, but when I found out that the system icons cannot be customized, I was dumbfounded.
 
[/rant]
 
OK, all better now. :)	
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			My Wildstar Twitter account is full of depression. :(	
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			Why is it full of depression?	
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			I was following a lot of employees that go bye bye now. :(	
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			Oh. That's not cool. :(	
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I'm going to be a difficult customer for a moment, because Windows 8 irks me.
 
[rant]
 
As someone whose profession requires that I try to make everything I do as visually appealing as possible, I will never willingly use an interface that is as much of a garish eyesore as Windows 8 is. The default visuals for Windows 8 looks like someone was blindfolded when they created it, and it makes me wish I was blindfolded rather than look at it.
 
Since they're trying to ditch the concept of a desktop (...by making a start menu into a new form of the desktop...perfect logic here...), I could see having a lot of fun customizing the Start screen in lots of ways. Now, I understand that in a lot of ways it can be customized, but when I found out that the system icons cannot be customized, I was dumbfounded.
 
[/rant]
 
OK, all better now. :)
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			Psh...even DOS has a better color scheme than Windows 8 does. :D	
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			Since I can't sleep, new coffee thread incoming.	
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			I want to play... but I can't think of a name and I want a good name I like. Payday 2 was on sale so me and a buddy got it and have been playing it fairly religiously. Though we are only like level 67 or so.	
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			New thread can be found here :) 	
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