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Hey guys!  CRB Sunshine wrote out and formatted a great post here that you can count as the official Nexus Report recap.  It's a damn sight easier to read than my system.  However, I will continue to do these unless asked to stop, because I know by now that these were always a horrible way to get the actual information.  And now, having watched the Nexus Report to the end, I know we must harass Tony.  So unless it gets locked for thread-consolidation purposes (which I would understand), I would like to continue my summaries of the Nexus Report.  Otherwise, vital reporting about the rate of Non on Cheez gun violence will be swept under the rug!  Without further ado, the week's report in bulletpoints.
 
This week's Nexus Report focuses on the overall state of the game report released by Product Director Mike Donatelli.  It features the timetraveling, grizzled, war-weary alternate reality version of Danny Dyer.  He must have informed Tony and Frost both of the impending takeover of the machines and subsequent massacre of humanity, dark atmosphere abounds.  It also features CRB_Sunshine doing a better job than me and probably being a lot more professional about it off-camera.  The report is dense with information today.
 
-Frost is wounded early in the show by gunfire.  Poems are apparently not metal.  Frost has apparently not read the works of Alan Seeger.  Frost has a rendezvous with death at some disputed barricade when spring comes back with rustling shade and apple blossoms fill the air.
 
-Community votes on megaserver names are in.  They are Entity, Warhound, Jabbit, and Lumenai.
 
-Wildstar Town Hall meeting will be tomorrow on October first.  I will be there.  So will Tony to gather feedback, nominally.
 
-Donatelli is brought on to explain his post, the State of the Game.  It is nothing but an intro, as there is a hospital-specification stack of patch notes.  100+ pages.  They want this to be the tightest patch they've ever released.
 
-Itemization is a little too pervasive in the system to separate and drop in before drop 3-4.  Lots of rune changes in how they are added and customized, to reduce RNG are underway.
 
-He will do another State of the Game this week to go over a few more details.  AP and SP is being changed as well as other stat weighting.
 
-Megaservers are due within about two weeks.  If it's not safe to drop in without screwing something up, they will push it back, because if this screws up, it's not going to be good.  Drop 3-4 (as it is now named) will be late October to early November.
 
-There is not enough time to do QA to drop in holidays reliably.  To drop things in bug-free-ish, they need to very thoroughly test everything.  Apparently, they talked about redesigning Shade's Eve to release in late November.  That was shot down in the meeting.  Apparently, not everyone celebrates Halloween every day like I do.
 
-Donatelli says that while they would have liked to continue the monthly content drops, it's not worth it if it's buggy.  So they're doing what we said when we told them to hit the brakes on content and fix the game.
 
-There's a lot going into the game answering our initial feedback.
 
-There will be rental mounts so people with lower level alts can use mounts before they can buy them.
 
-There are a lot of changes coming to money so we can afford more, especially at low levels, but extending up into abilities, AMPs, et al.  Donatelli doesn't want us to choose between abilities and mounts.
 
-There will be a lot of bug fixes.  If it hasn't been very deliberately stated, they're not on vacation at Carbine.  Donatelli would really like to turn the booklet into a file we can access and read.
 
-Protogames will be in the following drop, tentatively scheduled for early January.  It will include the Protostar training dungeon.  Apparently, even Pappy can do it.  So everyone can do it.
 
-Donatelli doesn't want to nerf difficulty.  People were jumping straight into dungeons without training in shiphands and adventures.  Donatelli blames himself.  Apparently, there will be a level 6 Shiphand and shiphands will be added to the duty queue.  And Donatelli mentions veteran shiphands.  This is mentioned to show up in the January drop.
 
-Q and A begins.  Tony actually reminds the thread Sunshine will be writing a summary.  I'm not joking, I literally tuned in at work after a meeting RIGHT THEN!  Tony somehow dropped that as soon as I showed up.  I think Tony may be psychic.
 
-Donatelli wants to keep content giant, but keep it quarterly.  They originally had teams working individually on each drop (he says there was a team on drop 12).  But QA was overloaded.  They have shifted their internal organization.
 
-DONATELLI DON'T CARE, HE'LL TALK ABOUT IT ALL!  Dungeon XP is being retuned in January, and I caught that in a stream of new things being kinda sorta announced for the January drop.  I like you, Donatelli!
 
-They will still have weekly or biweekly hotfixes for relatively isolated and important bugs.  They want to still fill these drops with a LOT of content.
 
-They are looking into changing raid sizes (they have heard player complaints about logistics in fielding 40 man Datascape teams).
 
-Donatelli would like to offer some kind of free trial.  So would Tony.  They know it's the best way to increase the sub base.  They can't do it with the current bug situation.  Donatelli is confident that once that's taken care of, there will be a push.
 
-They looked into advertising, trials, et al. to get new players in.  They have plans.  They want to make sure the game is in a solid state before doing that.
 
-Tony recommends word of mouth if players want to get more people into the game.  It's the best advertisement.  Donatelli shall now be known as the Entslayer.
 
-Donatelli, unlike EVERYONE IN GAMES, mans up, apologizes for the bug situation, and asks us to judge the drop by what we read in the patch notes.  I promise to read them first.
 
-Tony is shot for profanity.  Nobody likes a tattletale, Frost!
 
-Donatelli says that there will be a system in January to reward people who stay subscribed consistently.  It's a larger system coming in, so it won't be in this drop.
 
-Nothing is being removed from the drop to throw into the game early.  Unfortunately, QA won't be able to stop what they're doing and test it in earnest with the megaservers coming.
 
-Donatelli is very excited about optimization.  Lots of technobabble that neither Donatelli, the other presenters, or 99.99% of the human race understands.  The wizard in charge of optimization says it can result in a 15-20% increase in performance, especially for AMD hardware.
 
-Donatelli reveals they pulled the ENTIRE TEAM to do bug fixing (hence the content shift).  Instead of 3500 or 8000 bugs the way they dealt with in this drop, they want every drop thereafter to have to deal with maybe a few hundred.  That meant fixing them all right now.  This will be the hardest drop due to how many bugs they are dealing with.  They will do content still though.  If it's ready by the 21st of October at the earliest, they will drop it by then.  If there are still player bugs to deal with, though, they will keep it until it's ready (hence saying it can fall into November if it must).
 
-Donatelli says gold sinks are reducing, specifically AMP reset costs.  We will also get increased functionality to report botters and hackers.
 
-Someone brings up the NPC and elevator stutter bug.  Donatelli writes it down to find out what's going on.  He will talk to someone the second he walks out of the room.  He sounds like he's going to kill someone.
 
-Donatelli still wants us to get monthly rewards for subbing and new boom boxes with better rewards for our monthly subs.
 
-Sunshine is working harder than I am, apparently.  She did this live.  That sounds insane.  She should do what I do and wait for the end of it and just watch it over again.  It's easier.  *nod*
 
-Frost hits the button to start the art segment, but Non is contemplating the finer points of the expressionist works of Kafka, and is late to show the title card for the art segment.
 
-Tony is interrupted by the art title card again.  Twice.  Three times.  Donatelli is encouraging him.
 
-Sylvan (of Wildstar-core.com) lost his dog Mischief to cancer recently.  One of the devs immortalized Mischief in the game.  Quite epic.
 
-Frost finally expires from his gunshot wounds, asking us to carry on his legacy.  RIP Frost, we shall mourn your passing.  He sends himself off with one last press of the button.
 
Right.  That's done.  If this is my last one of these and I get locked, then... well... not goodbye since I'll still be here.  But.... you know.  Whatever.  If it's not still.... you know... whatever.  I'm going to log into the game and kill something, because today was depressing.
 
DONATELLI, GIVE ME THE FILE!  I want to know what I'm getting for my anniversary this Halloween in your drop!  That will perk up my spirits.
 
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If anyone deserves this, its you!
 
 
Your TL;DR is a thread I'd race to find because I zone out if I do manage to catch the stream.	
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			Thanks, VicVanMeter :)Your thread is the only reason I visit this whine festival of a forum now.	
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			Ty Vic, and please don't stop with these. Please.	
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			Unless the forum mods or devs want to consolidate and lock this up (which, again, I'd understand and not be angry at them for), I'd like to continue doing them.  CRB_Sunshine does a great job being informative.  I do a great job misleading the public into thinking Frost had been killed in a hail of gunfire.  If the people still want it, I'll take the time to do it. :)  We need a little fun on the forums.	
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Unless the forum mods or devs want to consolidate and lock this up (which, again, I'd understand and not be angry at them for), I'd like to continue doing them.  CRB_Sunshine does a great job being informative.  I do a great job misleading the public into thinking Frost had been killed in a hail of gunfire.  If the people still want it, I'll take the time to do it. :)  We need a little fun on the forums.
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If you enjoy writing them up I certainly enjoy reading them, initially came to the forum as I do any gaming forum to complain and throw a fit. Articulate people such as yourself and others helped me to enjoy the forum and helped me not fly off the handle *as much*
Props to CRB_Anlath for giving you a shout out! Yesterday I was huffing and puffing "How can they kirby the credit for ONE TD;LR when its been a thing for over a month!" I vented through a rage clinched jaw.
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			I love the thread and all the effort you put in Vic, it's greatly appreciated!	
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To be fair, Sunshine does a lot better job than I do, with quotes and everything.
 
I said Frost died, FFS!   :lol:
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I love these threads, they shall remain!!!!  However if anyone wants to provide feedback to the game updates please put them in the Official Recap Thread so it is all in one place.   And thanks again to Vic for making these highly entertaining recaps and for including the link to the official recap!
 
 
 
PS. Yes, I am psychic  ;)  	
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You're WAY too kind! Thanks Vic!!! :D
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PS. Yes, I am psychic  ;)  
 
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			personally Vic, I think its Long Island medium psychic or Tony would sense those nerf darts coming LOL. Love ya Tony :)	
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How psychic?  Like, Professor X psychic, Obi-Wan Kenobi psychic, or Long Island Medium psychic?
 
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You forgot...Miss Cleo psychic.
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