147105-some-probably-stupid-noob-questions

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Hello, all, King Crazy here, with a couple more questions. Unfortunately, I'm a noob so forgive me if they sound stupid.
 
1: When is Update Day? By "Update Day", I mean the day of the week when servers are brought down for maintenance/updates.
2: What time zone does Wildstar run on? I ask this because its different time zones for different games...for instance, WoW and Rift run on Pacific time. ESO runs on Eastern time. What does Wildstar run on?
3: What is the game engine that Wildstar runs on? Is it an Unreal engine, a Gamebryo engine, or something different?
4: Whats the difference between the Auction House and the Commodities Exchange (when it works, of course)?
5: What's the difference between CREDD and NCoin?
6: Why does the Level Up animation and the "LEVEL UP" text remind me of Rock Band?, and
7: If I were to take a mass army of 120 Level 20's, would I succeed in taking down the Dreamspore event boss, or should I just leave the event to the professionals?
 
Anyway, that's all the (probably) stupid questions I have for now. Good night, folks. May the Eldan watch over you.
 
Signed,
 
King Crazy
			
				
	Edited November 16, 2015 by KingCrazy	
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Howdy,
don't have (reliable) answers to everything, but then who does? Not this guy here, that's who.
 
1)Right now the devs are really busy updating the game, squashing bugs, introducing new ones and then squashing those in turn. Your best bet is having a look at the server status sub-forum.
I'm sure there's a usual maintenance day but far as i can tell right now the game gets maintenance whenever it needs it and patches are ready.
 
2)I'm not even going to pretend to understand any timezone that's not GMT.
 
3)It's their own engine, aptly named Engine as per this interview.
 
4)The Auction House is the auction house you probably know from other games, just with a terrible interface.
The Commodity exchange (CX for short) basically is the dedicated interface for trading crafting materials, dyes, CREDD and other items that are, well, commodities.
Main differences off the top of my head are not seeing individual listings of the same item, instead you'll see the total available number of that item and the lowest price available copies have been listed for and the ability to put up buy orders.
Like, say, you need 12 potatoes and want to spend 10 gold for each. There's 47 potatoes listed on the CX starting at 14 gold each. You could put up a buy order saying you want to buy 12 for 10g/ea and once someone matches your price the game will buy them for you. When you sell something on the CX you see the highest buy order in addition to the price the item is currently listed for so to stick with my potatoes you can put them up at or around 14g or match the buy order for 10g. It's basically the decision to wait for a trade at your terms or get one instantly for slightly less favourable terms.
 
5)NCoin is the currency used in the cash shop. CREDD basically is a tradeable month of signature service subscription. Buying CREDD from the CX is the only way to get a signature subscription without paying real money. Selling CREDD used to be the only way of turning real cash into game money without using shady goldsellers (don't support goldsellers, kids) but it may have now been overtaken by selling cash shop goods to other players. It's still the only officially supported way of turning cash into plat.
 
6)I never played Rock Band. They deliberately went for an over the top look for these things, though.
 
7)I have no idea whatsoever.	
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Hello, old fart here, I even have the Salty Old Crabmobile to prove it.
 
1: When is Update Day? By "Update Day", I mean the day of the week when servers are brought down for maintenance/updates.It used to be Tuesday morning, but I think they moved it to Wednesday morning recently.
 
2: What time zone does Wildstar run on? I ask this because its different time zones for different games...for instance, WoW and Rift run on Pacific time. ESO runs on Eastern time. What does Wildstar run on?This is kind of a complicated question. The servers are located in various places, Carbine HQ is in California, and player run events (raids, RP, etc) are usually given in Eastern time. The game itself doesn't really care, it displays your own local time in either 24 or 12 hour times. I believe it also can display "server time" but since nothing actually references it I don't know offhand what it equates to. The game world runs on a four hour day cycle, and there are a few things that depend on that (The Goldensun Dawngrazer spawns in Whitevale at exactly 22:00 game time, for example) and game time is what is returned with the command /time.
 
3: What is the game engine that Wildstar runs on? Is it an Unreal engine, a Gamebryo engine, or something different?It's unique to WildStar.
4: Whats the difference between the Auction House and the Commodities Exchange (when it works, of course)?The Auction House is where you bid on items, and the Commodities Exchange is where you buy items for a set price. There are different types of items on each. You'll find gear, housing decor, pets, and mounts on the AH, and crafting materials, food, and other hoardable things on the CX.
5: What's the difference between CREDD and NCoin?They're not remotely related. CREDD was originally used to pay for game time, now it provides Signature status. Players buy it from Carbine using real-world money, and then sell it to other players for platinum. It makes gold selling obsolete. NCoin on the other hand, is used only in the in-game store. You can also use OmniBits in the store if you don't want to buy NCoin for real money. CREDD and NCoin can't buy each other's services, or each other.
6: Why does the Level Up animation and the "LEVEL UP" text remind me of Rock Band?You've been playing too much Rock Band, somehow. ;)
7: If I were to take a mass army of 120 Level 20's, would I succeed in taking down the Dreamspore event boss, or should I just leave the event to the professionals?Dreamspore (who was called the Hoarding Stemdragon in my day) is a world boss, and like all world bosses is a flexible raid boss scaled around a group of 20ish people at level 50 in fresh-50 gear. However, unless he's been strongly nerfed for F2P, he's rather difficult due to some of his attacks creating large telegraphs that are hard to get out of in the tiny glen he spawns in. Level 20s would rapidly get mowed down, especially whoever has aggro.
 
In MY day, world bosses weren't all level 50. They were the same level as the surrounding mobs, and would scale up if attacked by higher level players, though not very well. It was entirely possible to solo Metal Maw. I once three manned him with some buddies, though I don't remember why. Attunement probably.	
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