147936-morning-coffee-8-12-15-the-great-space-chase

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 ... is on tomorrow!
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mmmm don't those breakfast packets look absolutely delicious? Yuck...
 
So the Space Chase is coming in less than 24 hours --> http://www.wildstar-online.com/uk/news/2015-12-01-the-space-chase-is-on/<-- and I'm kinda excited. Started a new build recently on my alt Administrator Akko and it's supposed to be a hard sci-fi remake of my academy plot from awhile back. The timing on this event is pretty good since I've already built three plots since F2P and have been feeling a bit dry for inspiration; the decor currently available just isn't enough unless I do some mass purchasing, which... I'm not super enthusiastic about. :P But Space Chase seems to have like 30 new decor, plus the music unlocks and more NPCs (love 'em, though I do hope they have non-aggressive poses). So I'm hoping this will be a good booster to my building motivation.
 
My main hope though is that the decor cases are reasonably priced. If so I'll be scooping up quite a few of them and will likely have extras available for trade, so if you're on Dominion Entity and looking for stuff from this event, feel free to whisper me tomorrow night or Thursday night, when I'm online.
 
So are folks into the idea behind this event? Going after any specific reward? Plan to farm the living crap out of any expeditions with friends?
			
				
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Good morning spacey coffee drinkers!
I'm soon about to start work, last day until sunday.
I'm looking forward to the event =) Tried an solo for first time in my pvp spec and pvp gear yesterday. Got a bronze, but I got through. Had no idea at first where to go and what to do but I think that if running through it a couple of times it might do good. Well, you only need to complete it to get the parts so =)
I will only be doing it on my main, and I want all ships. Got plans how to make them fit in to housing plot... hopefully it will work =)
So I hope it's easy to get all separate parts and not many doubles, I need to study for an exam that I have on saturday as well :/	
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Morning folks!
 
I need to grind out the golds on a few alts for the AMP point so I'll be all over the Expedition grind.  And yeah, I think I'm going to need some of that decor but I absolutely refuse to pay for gamble boxes.  Did that a few times in TOR (using the sub stipend) and always regretted it.  Need I point to the Boom Boxes here to underscore how awful those things are?  Yes I got a handful of nice things but I had 160 of those boxes so lightning was bound to strike.
 
As predicted, the content completion pace I maintained last week fell off the cliff as I'm back to being a responsible adult. Tried to do the contract on Elsa but an alt-GA formed so I jumped on that instead.  We did manage to get X-89 down.  I only managed to do Defile and Blighthaven dailies on LJ and the World Boss contract.  By the way are the Blighthaven ones broke?  There was only one solo daily offered when there's usually three.
 
Tonight we're back in Datascape so I doubt I'll get any dailies done.  I have tomorrow off again to deal with some errands in the morning so maybe I'll catch up a bit.	
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Oh yeah. The Space Race thingy. Cool deal. Yeah, I'mma get me summa that action.
 
Nothing new to report. Still battling this chest cold. Still working on Christmas ads. Didn't even log in yesterday because I came home, took medicine and fell asleep on the couch.
 
Hopefully I'll be feeling better tomorrow. Gonna charge up some NCCoin shortly, since my subscription finally ran out yesterday. I have to admit to feeling kind of dirty about being a Freebot ... I just have to keep telling myself that I *am* supporting the game and I am doing it the way Crabine wants me to do it.
 
Have a great day, everyone. I got stupid holiday work piling up.	
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Didn't get to do much Wildstar last night, had hang out night with my friends where we watched the latest episode of One Punch Man, then watched a few episodes  "The Best Of The Worst" on You tube, Then the Nostalgia Critic doing Dragon's Lair. I logged in long enough to get my log in reward and my boom box. Then did a quick match or RWBY Grim Eclipse Played Yang as a usually do. (Weiss is OP as hell right now her AoE is just ridiculous.) I really wish that it was a bit longer but it's early access and it's not done. But it's a super fun CO-OP game, that's like Dynasty Warriors with MOBA leveling. Good for a brief distraction of fun.
 
Tonight, after I visit my Mom after work for a bit. I plan to do Galeras Explorer Missions while queued for dungeons. Then, hit up some Whitevale!	
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Definitely intend on taking advantage of the shiphand craze, though possibly not until the weekend. I've got all my students' exams prepped finally - well, except for the one oral exam I'm giving to a student who literally just arrived (wat) - but there's still a lot to be done before the end of the semester. >_<
 
That said, I can't wait to spam shiphands! If I wait until the weekend, my friend may be level 50 by then too, so we can all do vet ones together. :3 Excited!
 
One thing I'm not excited for is RNG boxes, though. Ugh. Sticking the housing music behind those things reeeaaaally grinds my gears...
 
Yesterday, I did some Dominion rp! Gasp! Shock! I love my Cassian. She's so bureaucratic and finance-minded, trying to manage an entire research vessel, while one of the crew members is continuously finding new ways to strain her budget concerns... xD	
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I'm definitely not a fan of putting unlocks in the cases, either... the ship parts decor doesn't seem bad to me since we can farm it up (and choose what we want that way) and the full ship decor aren't really a big thing. Then there's precedence for RNG NPCs at Madame Faye's, which we all know were stupidly cheap on auction a day after she started up (I think the Guard decor are still around 10-20g each)... although that was a bit different cause Faye was also selling mounts and costume pieces... but anyway, I'm sure the auction house will end up with a bunch of 'em and the price will likely match the demand.
 
But music is a bigger deal, and the unlocks seem like they'll be around a 1/15 chance from case purchases, which is rather meh.  I suppose it'll end up being one of the really expensive auction items from this event.
 
In the end I really hope the cases are like $1 a piece or something. Although I recently argued against getting upset over the cases, I will def be uh, ~displeased~ if they turn out to be like $3 for a single item.  -_-   I mean, I think the cash shop has been reasonably priced so far, and the current decor packs are fair, but this is the first time we're going to see brand new decor on the cash shop. So the price point they set with this event will probably be the touchstone for any future decor additions to the cash shop, and that means that tomorrow will be a defining moment for my own assessment of the F2P model and how it works for builders.	
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I'm definitely not a fan of putting unlocks in the cases, either... the ship parts decor doesn't seem bad to me since we can farm it up (and choose what we want that way) and the full ship decor aren't really a big thing. Then there's precedence for RNG NPCs at Madame Faye's, which we all know were stupidly cheap on auction a day after she started up (I think the Guard decor are still around 10-20g each)... although that was a bit different cause Faye was also selling mounts and costume pieces... but anyway, I'm sure the auction house will end up with a bunch of 'em and the price will likely match the demand.
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Didn't notice there was a chua npc, hope people will sell it on AH.
I already planned to buy the fortune chua guards from AH but haven't yet. 
But two different kinds of chua npc including myself as a player chua... not too bad :P	
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The NPCs are meant as filler loot in the Madame Faye game. I HIGHLY doubt the housing music unlocks are "filler" loot. There's also no indication these will be BoE.
 
Ugh. We've argued about this already. It makes me sick and I'll just leave it at that.
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The NPCs are meant as filler loot in the Madame Faye game. I HIGHLY doubt the housing music unlocks are "filler" loot. There's also no indication these will be BoE.
 
Ugh. We've argued about this already. It makes me sick and I'll just leave it at that.
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I -really- wish the housing NPC's were done much differently: Chop shop design, Posable, Costumeable.  Instead they've been tainted by the cash shop so all we're likely to get is static garbage. 
 
Don't get me wrong, the generics aren't -bad- but they are very limited.  Can't deaggro the guards and all the Dominion guard NPC's are covered head to toe (boooooooo!).  It would have been really nice to be able to create NPC proxies for my characters when I need two of them to interact.
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I -really- wish the housing NPC's were done much differently: Chop shop design, Posable, Costumeable.  Instead they've been tainted by the cash shop so all we're likely to get is static garbage. 
 
Don't get me wrong, the generics aren't -bad- but they are very limited.  Can't deaggro the guards and all the Dominion guard NPC's are covered head to toe (boooooooo!).  It would have been really nice to be able to create NPC proxies for my characters when I need two of them to interact.	
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I actually didn't think the music would be auctionable (where exactly would it show up under housing? all we have are 'decor' and 'FABkits' for categories). But looking at this quote it does say ~anything~ you get from the case will be tradeable/saleable. So if it turns out that some things aren't... we'll at least be justified in pitchforking a bit. :P
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I -really- wish the housing NPC's were done much differently: Chop shop design, Posable, Costumeable.  Instead they've been tainted by the cash shop so all we're likely to get is static garbage. 
 
Don't get me wrong, the generics aren't -bad- but they are very limited.  Can't deaggro the guards and all the Dominion guard NPC's are covered head to toe (boooooooo!).  It would have been really nice to be able to create NPC proxies for my characters when I need two of them to interact.
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NASA is the best.  How do they manage to seal up so much disappointment into such a tiny package?  It says a lot about their cooks that the packets are completely transparent but you still can't tell WTF is in them.
 
I've been playing very little WS recently in anticipation of playing a whole damned lot of it when the Chase is on.  I can't wait to get my claws on a load of those parts!	
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Been waiting for an excuse to get rid of the patches off my lawn. I am looking forward to running some of the expeditions with some folk especally now there's gonna be people asking for others to join groups and such.
 
But for now, cooking and playing wildstar don't mix :mellow:	
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But for now, cooking and playing wildstar don't mix :mellow:
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Tried to do the contract on Elsa but an alt-GA formed so I jumped on that instead.  We did manage to get X-89 down.
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That was . . . interesting. You got an x-89 unlock for Elsa, right?
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The irony was, I had no desire to do GA last night. Nor did Criss. And then I saw guildies looking for a run, and Criss decided she wanted to imbu her healing gloves on x-89. And then we see a group LFM and all those people wanting to do GA.
 
And I can't help myself. It's the siren song. It calls to me and I answer.	
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Kind of a weird day. I just woke up, which is definitely a bit early for me, but haven't even logged in yet today. Been taking it easy after work and laying off the "screen time" as I stare at one all the time when doing such. Ended up passing out this morning on the couch while watching anime...guess I was tired of reading stuff!
 
Definitely looking forward to the Expedition running, they're easily my favorite content in the game to just blast through and have fun with people doing. So, for those that know me, definitely will see me around doing quite a bit of them!	
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SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
ahem.
 
Yes. Shiphands in DS gear =  mucho particles and speedruns out the ass. I plan to just get as much of this stuff as I can seeing as I almost exclusively build spaceships. Plus there are some great items that, as a builder, I think will fill some particular size/shape niches that are relatively bare (looking at you circular columns).	
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