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Good morning folks! Thought I'd make a coffee thread since Tex seems to be a bit busy with all his constructive feedback threads. >.>. Enjoy this steaming hot cup of coffee I found because its 21 F here. I really hate it when its so cold that I have to do my hair at work because 1) hats *cupcake* up my hair and 2) frozen hair is also bad. 
 
Its kind of a boring time at work because there are some big IT systems updates going on that leave me w/o the tools to really do anything. So I'm chilling and drafting things and typing up various projects as well as *cupcake*ing around on the forums, slow moving though they may be. 
 
I still love Wildstar raiding and I love the people, but have gotten burnt out on most other things in the game, which is why Tex's post on player created content was so awesome to me. And seriously Tex, what is that like the 4th time one of Carbine's Dev's has linked you to  their employment page... I'm a bit jealous =D, but my only qualifications would be for some kind of content protection/corporate counsel thing. We had a slow weekend to, with a lot of players doing the BnS founders pack game for its early release period. Don't know if I'll play it though, I usually don't have the bandwidth for multiple MMOs. 
 
With that, let me wrap up my ramblings by asking people, what about wildstar keeps you playing? For me, as I mentioned earlier its without a doubt primarily the people in my guild and the quality of the raids (DS in particular through which we're progressing). 
 
 	
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Morning, Mel.
 
I would love to work for Carbine. I really, truly would - but my current career is ... what's the word ... SECURE. :lol:  And the future of Carbine and WildStar is a unknown quantity left to the devices of the NCSoft Overlords, who are cruel, heartless taskmasters at the best of times.
 
Plus, my boy is sort of a local celebrity in town and around school. He's got a really good thing going and the happiness and success of my children will always take precedence to my career. So unless they're willing to let me tele-commute or live here and fly there for a few weeks at a time, I don't see it being feasible. Plus, telling my wife to quit her job so I can pursue a career in video games? Yeah. She'd just suffocate me in my sleep and collect the insurance before that will happen. ;)
 
That said, I have (obviously) taken an interest in the success of the game and will be doing my meager part to offer my professional constructive advice going forward. I don't need a paycheck to give advice - and there is no greater compliment that could be paid than to see any of those steps come to light.	
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I know the Chinese release is a thing. I know they've been talking it up for a long time.
 
Sadly, I've seen too many "launch missteps" to expect anything but more of the same.
 
I do hope it offers a little more wiggle-room for future development, though. WildStar is more than a little stale (for me) at this point.	
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Yea, 
 
Hopefully the Chinese release of Wildstar will go over well enough to provide a bit more security for Carbine and allow them to staff more than a skeleton crew of Dev's, but I have my own concerns, particularly given China's economic protectionism and socially-indoctrinated nationalism that favors Chinese produced MMOs. I know WoW did well there, but as more Chinese developers are releasing product, I think western/foreign MMOs will have an even harder time competing, especially given the difficulty of protecting ones IP/product/interests in Chinese courts as a foreign company. 	
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what about wildstar keeps you playing? For me, as I mentioned earlier its without a doubt primarily the people in my guild and the quality of the raids (DS in particular through which we're progressing). 
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Good morning!
 
Oh man, do I know the struggle of hair, hats, and cold weather. Thankfully, it's been so mild here, again, that I am tempted not to take a jacket to work at all (or at least a lighter one). I remember seeing a hat once that was specially designed for long hair- had like a little pocket at the back... I think it was more for rain, but I bet it would work in the cold too!
 
Perhaps it is that I didn't play for the first several months (and thus avoided the highs and lows of the early rush and subsequent drops?), but I am still finding the game engaging. I admit it has moved from "wow shiny!" to a nice comfortable pair of shoes I like to slide into; mostly I just enjoy running around, leveling an alt, tossing a few more pieces of decor down, and playing with costumes. I've kind of lost my partner though, so my crime fighting duo is now retired. I always find it difficult to 'reach out' and spend time developing new social links in games, I think years of WoW and then having a group of friends in subsequent MMOs spoilt me some. (Part of why I enjoy the coffee thread, I guess? :) )
 
A few of my friends were trying out BnS as well, but I'm not sure if I will follow suit. Maybe a dabble, I guess? Just to say I did!
 
Anyways, I am sure Wildstar will have a pleasant future, maybe with more mired development than we'd like, but I don't expect it to change all that much. Now, hopefully we can avoid the dark end of lockbox implementation. :lol:	
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A few of my friends were trying out BnS as well, but I'm not sure if I will follow suit. Maybe a dabble, I guess? Just to say I did
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Basically, the PvE endgame alone would have never kept me around. Instead, I stay because of the roleplay. Which is not a thing the game can provide itself. So let us say that I'm staying because of the housing system. That's the closest thing and quite useful for roleplay, so it's not completely inaccurate.
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I don't like Wildstar's endgame paradigm. Too unforgiving for my ping and reflexes. I play games to de-stress myself and the dungeons in this game don't help me there at all. I can tolerate it when my friends are around because they do like them. But then I just get even more stressed because if I screw up I'm wasting their time and not just mine, even if they don't seem to mind.
 
Basically, the PvE endgame alone would have never kept me around. Instead, I stay because of the roleplay. Which is not a thing the game can provide itself. So let us say that I'm staying because of the housing system. That's the closest thing and quite useful for roleplay, so it's not completely inaccurate.
			
				
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Wildstar has great roleplayers and awesome housing. I miss being involved with the scene. I never did get around to fleshing out my idea for a Thayd U class on proto-cassian civilization. 
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DS for me is pretty good, but in a way feels too easy given how high our DPS is. Once we got SD down, we were able to jump to 6/9 in less than 2 months, especially counting the holidays. I would have loved to see more of it (past SD) in its glory days.
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Morning/Afternoon all, 
 
I can officially say that im past the honeymoon period of the game and I have noticed im starting to complain more about stuff than I used to.  Or maybe its the lack of sleep ive had this past week which has turned me into Mr Grumpy but I haven't had much time to dive into the game.  
 
I tried my beginner attempt at engineer tanking but not in a dungeon where I would be thrown into the deep end but in a 5+ area in Widowmaker with my rubbish low level gear on just so I could get used to the class and the rotation before gearing up and taking it for a spin on harder content. I headed up there with my fiancee as she was a Stalker and we bumped into a medic who was legging it out of the area, I added the medic to the group and we ran in and although I wasn't the worst engineer tank in the world as no-one died, I wasn't that good either.  But I will use the excuse it was my first run out with an engineer tank with a whole new skill bar, but as I said no-one died and we got all the quests done with a few hairy moments as someone dragged what felt like the entire room onto me at one point. I did enjoy tanking and trying to position the enemy so that the Stalker and the Medic where outwith the cone attacks.
 
Other than leveling my Slinger where im reluctant to lose wild barrage as it is just too cool ive not been doing much else. End game is still a mystery to me and ive stopped doing my dailies or contracts for long enough as it feels like AOC and doing the villa grinds all over again.  I still have a good few classes to level up and although I find the combat to be the most fun in the game there is only so much of the same zones I will be able to put up with before it gets tedious, so im trying not to burn myself out by doing that constantly. 
 
As for the future of Wildstar and/or me....who knows....there is no other MMO on the horizon that makes me want to play it and I am looking forward to seeing what is coming to Wildstar when that announcement eventually happens. I would love to see them succeed in China and do what GW2 has done but unless they can sort out the PVP issue's with botting I can only see it going the same way as here. 
			
				
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Good evening over here :)
Cold weather outside here as well, -16 celsius or 3.2F in american conversion :P
 
What's keeping me in game? Well, first of all... little game time. And now when bots are gone from pvp, at least from what I've noticed, I can pvp again and I really love the battlegrounds in this game.
The server is dead, but there are a couple of dudes left that you can talk to. So I will probably manage until I get my omnibits and can change server.
Btw when you server transfer, is it only 40p you can take with you as a lvl 50 player?
 
Have a nice day all =)	
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Btw when you server transfer, is it only 40p you can take with you as a lvl 50 player?
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Yep it is only 40p on a lvl 50 player. Info can be found here on it:
 
https://support.wildstar-online.com/hc/en-us/articles/203805289-Free-Realm-Transfer-FAQ
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Afternoon!  This is the first morning I've felt the need to bring a coat to work - our winters are usually a handful of disjointed cold fronts that may or may not even show up from one year to the next.
 
What keeps me logging in is housing, mostly.  I like to do the heroic derring-do stuff, but I've got an hour to play on a good night, and it's from ~1-2 am EST, so multiplayer anything is right out.  I also suspect I'm not that good at it, and too proud to be carried.  I could brush up on the combat and get good at it, but there's always some interesting problem for me to solve on my skyplot, so it waits for another day. 	
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INSPIRATION!!!!
 
Holy crap. I'm a freaking genius.
 
(Y'all knew that though, didn'tcha?)  :lol:
 
Been mulling over the "PERFECT EVENT" article off and on all week - and sitting here, munching my lunching - I just walloped myself in the face with pure awesome. :D	
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I don't know what to do then, can you email characters you have on same server but on other faction?
Else I probably need to buy stuff before I go, and I got lots of stuff from a player leaving the game today so I have almost no inventory left anywhere :P
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Hopefully that's not the name of a new sauce you have on your lunch as that could be embarrassing :P
 
I look forward to reading your other posts you plan on doing as I enjoyed the monetization one.
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and sitting here, munching my lunching - I just walloped myself in the face with pure awesome. :D
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Good morning... sort of.  I guess it's afternoon here.  I finished lunch.
 
Work progresses.  I would be happier if the firmware update mechanism was working to program/configure my FPGA, but I'm still investigating and will likely have to lean on the software guys if I can at least verify that the source configuration is good.
 
Wildstar participation is somewhat spotty for myself though I've enjoyed going on adventures with folks lately.  I'm not really trying to nab all the decor myself but it's a hoot to sort of blow in and absolutely moiderize everything in a target-rich environment.  However beyond that, it's mainly been peeking in for raid days.  And our raids have been good!  Got our Gloomclaw kill quite easily this week and did the weirdo wing after that without much trouble, and finished up with the stuff we already knew how to do.  I guess there's just finishing out a couple of the harder elemental pairs and then we're on to Avatus.  I'll be happy to see and learn that one for sure.
 
In other games, the primary sink of time has been Fallout 4, but I'm getting to the end of that one, and then I'll have to find something new.  Finishing up my book (Stephen King's Bazaar of Bad Dreams) and moving onto the next (Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits).  Winter carries on and I will continue hating winter.  I should move somewhere warmer I suppose.  Soon.	
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Would you believe me if I told you it's based on the Lopp?  :lol:
 
I might be slightly (very slightly) enamored of the little fuzzies. :wub:
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I might be slightly (very slightly) enamored of the little fuzzies. :wub:
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Some kind of Lopp based Easter Event... for shinies?
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 I'd like to see events that are a bit more than just run "x" content, get extra currency, buy decor items, repeat. And gamble boxes.
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What Chinese New Year isn't  big enough for you to call a holiday! I'm frankly offended sir. 
 
 
All joking aside, looking forward to seeing what you put out. I'd like to see events that are a bit more than just run "x" content, get extra currency, buy decor items, repeat. And gamble boxes. That, and there are two international holidays in march that would be ripe for conversion to smaller holiday events. Holi (Indian Festival of Colors) and of course St. Patricks Day. 	
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You'll see. I think it's going to be pretty good. I'm taking the night off from playing D&D tomorrow just to hash it out.
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A non-holiday Lopp event you say? Now I'm intrigued.
Is it finally my time to have an entire event where I can spectacularly fail at being a wedding planner or is that too close to international florist day?	
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What Chinese New Year isn't  big enough for you to call a holiday! I'm frankly offended sir. 
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[W]hat about wildstar keeps you playing?
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I don't like Wildstar's endgame paradigm. Too unforgiving for my ping and reflexes. I play games to de-stress myself and the dungeons in this game don't help me there at all. I can tolerate it when my friends are around because they do like them. But then I just get even more stressed because if I screw up I'm wasting their time and not just mine, even if they don't seem to mind.
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Hooray housing!
 
I am burying myself in two ship builds, and just finished a 2-day build sewer for an RP this weekend. We'll see how that goes.	
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Me and my GF were finally established enough to afford new desktops for each of us, resulting in "badum tsss" her finaly stepping into WS.
 
Running around her in group, mentoring her (which means finishing mobs she strugles to defeat on her own after watching the fight amused for several seconds, telling her where to go, laughing aloud when she fail jumping puzzles and generaly being a troll and bossing her around) is now keeping me engaged in game :)
 
It is acutaly twice as fun if one is not playing solo all the time.
 
And evne though WoW is time consumer for us we still find ourselves several hours per week for widlstar - if for anything, the housing alone.	
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			Dudes! This event idea is making me smile! I can't wait to share this silliness!  :lol:	
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