147705-new-upcoming-event-space-chase

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As part of the limited-time Space Chase event running from December 9 through December 18, Ekose ship captains Exchanger Beno and Trader Torio will be letting everyone get in on the secret and unlock the coolest spaceship components in the galaxy—parts you can use to build your own unique spaceships on your housing plot!
 
 
Join the Chase
 
So how does all this work? During the Space Chase, every time you complete an Expedition that's within your level range you'll earn Eko Particles that you can trade with or sell to other players. You can then bring them to Exchanger Beno, who will (as his name implies) exchange them for valuable Eko Chits that you can then trade with (you guessed it) Trader Torio for exclusive spaceship housing décor items! Want to skip the step where you complete Expeditions? Just buy Eko Chits at the in-game store using NCoin or OmniBits—Trader Torio doesn't care where they come from, he’s just got to get those Chits! Of note: Eko Particles can only be earned by playing Expeditions that are at the correct level range for your character. 
 
Learn more in the official preview article here: http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/2015-12-01-the-space-chase-is-on/	
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As long as we can fly them ourselves by next year, I'm in. ;)
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			As long as we can fly them ourselves by next year, I'm in. ;)	
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Ooooooh, Star Wars The Old Republic ship missions ala WildStar version!?! Im in :P
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No. That game's space missions can die in a fire. Star Wars Galaxies Jump to Lightspeed ship system, or don't bother.
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I did say a WildStar version lol. It was just the first mmo off top of my head with ship missions I could think of, although like Coldin they were just a weak Starfox clone to me, also wasnt a fan of the 3!! freaking 3 run limit for the entire week for f2p'ers @@.
 
Yeah, I hope the lockboxes are reasonably priced, in my mind im thinking around/cheaper than the fortune keys (with omnibit equivs) but we'll see next week.	
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			SWG was free flight, had fun stuff like asteroid mining, full ship customization, party barges for you and your friends, huge variety of places to fly, 2 and 3 seater combat ships (Millennium Falcon with 2 friends in the gunner seats? Awesome).SWTOR's fly on rails, fly by yourself, do the exact same thing you did the last 345 times you ran this mission, was sad and pathetic in comparison.I doubt Wildstar will ever have the time and money to invest, but I still miss it and still hope for something like it in other games. If they're going to do it, they ought to do it right.	
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Oh, man.  You have to give us a preview of that new track!
 
Also, do the ship parts come in different colors or something?  When you show them fully constructed, they're bronze.  But the pieces themselves are shown as black?	
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			Oh, I am SO sorry. I didn't see this thread pop up. Please delete my post in General.	
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I actually like rail shooters more than flight sims, so I loved SWTORs space missions. *shrug* Not all of us actually want to be the pilot some of us like being the gunner.
 
On Topic! Sweet I'd love to add some of these pieces onto my Ship House!!!
			
				
	Edited December 1, 2015 by War Siren	
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This. Is. Epic. A fantastic gift to builders this season! <3
 
I strongly approve of the design here too. You've given players from all level ranges a chance to participate and the items are earnable from difference sources (solo or group instance, nCoin, cash money).
 
Assuming the stuff here will be auctionable/giftable, this is pretty much the best offering I could hope to see in a F2P game. Will be buying plenty of those cases in a few weeks~	
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			I really like how they're incorporating events into housing. :)	
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			Serious question here...looking over the available ships...why did you neglect to add anything Dominion themed again? You straight up have an Exile ship up for grabs, but nothing for us. Why can't we have nice things too?	
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One: I wish you'd included the start and end times, like you did for the 2XP event.
 
Two: Could you clarify something? Will Trader Torio be selling the actual parts for Ekose Chits? Or the random-item boxes? I'm really hoping it's the former.
 
Three: What's the point of converting Ekose Particles to Ekose Chits? Why not just sell the items for Particles?
 
Four: Will particles and/or chits be character-bound, or account-bound? How about the items we buy from Trader Torio? Can I run the shiphands with one or more characters, then trade either the particles or the chits or the parts themselves to another character altogether?
 
Five: Is Winterfest still starting on the moved-up date of the 16th? If so, that means that the last two days of Space Chase will overlap the first two days of Winterfest. I assume that means that Trader Torio will be in the veteran-missions area, like Doc Zemmet was?
 
Six, a suggestion: It'd be really sweet if the Gunner and the Tech Shuttle were made available as houses, like the existing Piglet. I wouldn't think there'd be room inside the Gunner Racer, but if there is, that'd be nice, too. I'd pay cash for those if I had to.
			
				
	Edited December 2, 2015 by the infamous Brad	
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A few answers! Note that if I don't answer a particular query I don't have the information to give at the moment.
 
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One: I wish you'd included the start and end times, like you did for the 2XP event.
 
Two: Could you clarify something? Will Trader Torio be selling the actual parts for Ekose Chits? Or the random-item boxes? I'm really hoping it's the former.
 
Three: What's the point of converting Ekose Particles to Ekose Chits? Why not just sell the items for Particles?
 
Four: Will particles and/or chits be character-bound, or account-bound? How about the items we buy from Trader Torio? Can I run the shiphands with one or more characters, then trade either the particles or the chits or the parts themselves to another character altogether?
 
Five: Is Winterfest still starting on the moved-up date of the 16th? If so, that means that the last two days of Space Chase will overlap the first two days of Winterfest. I assume that means that Trader Torio will be in the veteran-missions area, like Doc Zemmet was?
 
Six, a suggestion: It'd be really sweet if the Gunner and the Tech Shuttle were made available as houses, like the existing Piglet. I wouldn't think there'd be room inside the Gunner, but if there is, that'd be nice, too. I'd pay cash for those if I had to.
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No. That game's space missions can die in a fire. Star Wars Galaxies Jump to Lightspeed ship system, or don't bother.
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You better have some dommy things cooking. I feel so neglected :(
 
ALSO! HYPE! I'm looking forward to this :)	
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			Very good concept... except the part taht I do not like rewards :( I prefer housing to be ... a house, not a spaceship. I already traded Cassian house for myrocket house I was using...	
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			Will the Space Chase event come back at an undecided point in the future?	
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Santa got my letter!
 
I just pulled my ship down to rebuild it with more interesting views out the windows.  This is going to give me so many more options!	
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Awesome event.
 
Such a shame you resorted to RNG boxes for the cash shop component, though. Extremely disappointing.	
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No. That game's space missions can die in a fire. Star Wars Galaxies Jump to Lightspeed ship system, or don't bother.
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Awesome event.
 
Such a shame you resorted to RNG boxes for the cash shop component, though. Extremely disappointing.
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The NPCs and the music are stuck in mystery boxes, which sucks, but at least you can buy specific ship parts with cash.
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			Do you need to get gold for items to drop after vet expeditions, or you get drops just by completing them?	
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Hmm good question Tea, personally Id have it award X amount depending on the medal (gold rewarding the most obviously), we wont know for sure til the 9th or a Dev response.
 
Also brings up another question, suppose I want to help struggling new players/guildmates get gold on their runs?  Would I get anything from rallying down to help them? Or would I be getting nothing?	
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You only need to complete the expedition to get the eko particles. No medal requirement! (Though, of course, if you want the other goodies, more renown, etc. medal is still important.)
 
Also, I believe rallying down should award you with the particles if you want to help out your friends. :)	
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Also, I believe rallying down should award you with the particles if you want to help out your friends. :)
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The NPCs and the music are stuck in mystery boxes, which sucks, but at least you can buy specific ship parts with cash.
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			Arrh we thar yet?	
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Awesome event.
 
Such a shame you resorted to RNG boxes for the cash shop component, though. Extremely disappointing.
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Yeah, I'm really sad about the music. There isn't much I want from this event aside from the music. Ah well, I'll probably go through this event without getting it. Wish I could just buy it directly.
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Arrh we thar yet?
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Not sure where to put this, but, when looking at the Racer Cockpit, there is a small triangular fin that is both crooked and off center.  It is incredibly annoying to a symmetrically minded person such as myself and I'm wondering if anyone else is bugged by it.  I just wanted to know if that was intended to be off-set or an oversight.
 
Also... on the same item...
 
WHY did you throw on that ENORMOUS antenna on the back of the cockpit instead of making it separate like the other two ships.  That's even more annoying than the off-center fin.	
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Forgive me if someone's already pointed this out, but on the website it says:
 
TECH SHUTTLE DÉCOR CASE
Initially on sale from December 9 through December 10 
 
RACER SHIP DÉCOR CASE
Initially on sale from December 11 through December 12 
 
GUNNER SHIP DÉCOR CASE
Initially on sale from December 13 through December 14 
 
But the GUNNER ship case is in the shop right now - it shouldn't be for sale until the 13th :) It's not a naming error, either, as I did in fact buy a couple 5 packs of these to get the music and got the correct music for the Gunner case, which is "Smooth." As for the Tech crate, I did receive a free one in my account inventory when the event began, though. I'm not sure what the order we'll be getting these cases will be in now...maybe reverse? Anyway, figured you guys might like to know :P	
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Having just bought the entire Gunner set...
 
Shouldn't these things be a whole hell of a lot easier to assemble?  If you go by the pictures and try to build the actual Gunner ship, the pieces you get are extremely inconsistent in both size and orientation.  The landing gear, for instance, is upside-down.  The wings are placed vertical by default.  The antenna is about twice as big, while the fin is 25% larger - and backwards.  It makes trying to copy the picture to any sort of degree an exercise in frustration.
 
Granted, I know these are supposed to sort of be like Legos where you can use these pieces to make whatever your imagination desires, but at least with Legos, it's still easy to make the picture on the box...	
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Having just bought the entire Gunner set...
 
Shouldn't these things be a whole hell of a lot easier to assemble?  If you go by the pictures and try to build the actual Gunner ship, the pieces you get are extremely inconsistent in both size and orientation.  The landing gear, for instance, is upside-down.  The wings are placed vertical by default.  The antenna is about twice as big, while the fin is 25% larger - and backwards.  It makes trying to copy the picture to any sort of degree an exercise in frustration.
 
Granted, I know these are supposed to sort of be like Legos where you can use these pieces to make whatever your imagination desires, but at least with Legos, it's still easy to make the picture on the box...
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... I'm gonna go to Housing and ask if someone has created a saved set that assembles it correctly via an addon. ...
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This.  We already have Starfox with that cheesy challenge on Farside.
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I don't think the modelers expected there to be a "right way" to put these pieces together.  It's entirely possible that they designed each piece separately, or had some other configuration in mind when they were building them, and then when the collateral and web designers were tasked with advertising the event, they put them together in different ways than the modelers imagined.  For instance, notice the gunner wings look a lot like arkship wings, but in the picture on the crate and the website the aerodynamic part is buried inside the hull, with the piece that looks like it should be the point of attachment sticking out the sides like wings. 
 
That illustration on the website (and on the front of the mystery box) isn't intended to be the "official" Gunner; it's just one possible configuration.	
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Well, despite the confusion with the pieces, I'm pleased with how my replicas turned out:
 
Gunner:
 
 
Tech Shuttle:
 
 
Racer:
 
 
Though, obviously, they aren't identical.  I still don't get why the models shown have completely different textures than the ones available.  Don't get me wrong, the ones we got fit what I'm working on on my plot much better, but it sort of seems like false advertising.  Why promote the event with something you can't even get?
 
Ah well, now the real fun begins:  Smashing everything to pieces and making my own stuff!	
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