145367-morning-coffee-1026-weekend-is-dead-long-live-the-monday-volume-2

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Good Monday morning Nexus.
 
Technically it is past lunch here in Europe but I since I woke up an hour ago anyway... One of the pros of home office. Cons would probably be, I cannot play wildstar whole day, I mean I could but without any work done I would get fired. Sometimes life really takes a lot of discipline.
 
Also almost out of milk and trying to support two people with coffee is not helping. I guess its time to go shopping.
 
Meanwhile I realized, that after doing dailies and Jack shade several days in a row, even such great even gets repetitive and slighitly boring. I am getting WoW event flashbacks. When you realize you are not having fun anymore and just collecting tokens for tokens sake, it is time to get back to whatever you normally do in the game. Unless you want to get sick of it and quit playing for a week ot so. Hey! Has happened before!
 	
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That's what I think of Mondays....
Today has been super hectic so far for me....
Ordered new tires for my car, turns out they don't fit in the rims I have, so waiting for the company to come pick them up again...
Realised at 08:30 this morning that I had a dentist appointment at 09:00.....
So Mondays.....yeah totally not my thing :/
 
In WildStar I've enjoyed the hoverboard racing.
I'd be a fan of having this as a permanent thing in the game to be honest, with changing conditions in the races and scoreboards.
Like host a weekly grand-prix event where you need to beat specific times to win prices, and the top 3 or something get something extra.
If the races have variable conditions in it like wind tornado's alternate routes, or triggers this could be such a big thing.
I remember SWG having these things at some point.
 
Spend some time on Weaponsmith crafting as well.
I totally dislike the current implementation. The money drain for simply doing your crafting dailies in Grimvault is insane.
Doing 2 out of 3 cost me 3 plat.....
 
So yeah....... no crafting for me atm.	
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Actually got a group to "pop" for my poor level eleven and quest-geared mordesh last night, so kudos to the other two for effectively carrying me.  Small bug from the loading up - when the cinematic ended, my poor mordesh was dropped out of the sky, crashed to the ground and died on impact.  I then spend many, many seconds failing to find my way out of the holo-crypt and back to the map, with the little cupcakes constantly respawning throughout the graveyard, until my flares were gone.  Yes, including the extra flares in the coffin.
 
In case the same bug happens again, how does one leave that little graveyard?  No gates would open, paths were all dead ends that I could find.
 
Now, time for a morning coffee, before my first class of the day comes in.	
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(To be fair, every job is a job for coffee!)
 
Gooooooooood morning, Nexus!
 
Had a pretty good WildStar Weekend for the most part. Got around to doing all the races, getting the Titles on my two favorite Dommies and unlocking the zGarb set. Would like to have gotten that hoverboard, but since Crabine would rather give us free stuff than give us account-wide mounts, I didn't buy it.
 
I *did* enjoy collecting all the free stuff and sharing those links with people in chat and guild. It's always fun when you can direct people to giveaways. :D
 
I have also started to suffer from Shade's Eve Burnout, but not from the instance. They could add that to the Expeditions roster and I'd do it every day. No, I'm afraid it's the normal dailies that are getting to me. Mostly it's the "Scare People" and "Burn Effigies" ones. Now, I did them over the weekend at 5AM, so they were easy peasy, but when I did them again on an Alt later that day ... holy crap. The frustration is real. Either we need to burn fewer effigies/prank fewer people or the respawn timer needs to be like ... 100% faster. When it's just a couple of folks doing it, it ain't so bad - but at prime time, it's hair-pulling awful.
 
Still need Jack's Hat. Bought the Shade Hoverboard and the bat-wings flair. Don't really like the punkin-face or cauldron flairs, so I probably won't bother. Made Lana a "Huntress" outfit so she can ride her Bat-Hoverboard with style.
 
 
Ended the weekend on a sour note. Finally decided to get my low-level PVP on ... and the Bot Infestation made it quiet humorous and completely frustrating, depending on the match and how many actual humans were on your team. *That* is a topic for another thread, but suffice to say, it's bad. Really bad. Really, really, really bad.
 
Well have a great day, Nexus! Off to do some work.
			
				
	Edited October 26, 2015 by Tex Arcana	
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As cor collecting, I've managed to get enough Silver to nab the two key elements I wanted for my mordesh - the wrought-iron gate decor [for when he's of level], and the Shadeling vanity pet. A top hat is third on the list, but if the give-away is still on tonight, I'm likely to have that one, covered in the glowing skulls of the damned. Fetch me more damned souls, Igor! Yes, Doctor.
 
And yes, coffee. "The Cup which Cheers but not Inebriates," okay, admittedly Cowper's quote is actually about tea, but the V&A Coffee House has been coopting it since at least 1881 in 'The Graphic.'
			
				
	Edited October 26, 2015 by Gnapoleon	
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Oof mondays. Had to maneuver around a very flooded road that cuts through the reservoir I drive through to get to work. That was fun! There was strangely no traffic on the tollway though so now I'mean here an hour earlier than I'd intended. Too bad they don'the pay me for all this extra time... *grumbles about being a teacher on an hourly wage*
 
Allllllllmost done with collecting all the Shade's Eve stuff, though! Just one more hover board flair and the ground mount flairs left! Then I think I'll just stock up on decor. :D
 
Friend of mine who returned to (edit: I'mean honestly not sure what I originally typed here but for some reason my phone decided to correct it to WEDNESDAY? Wat) hit 50, so now the pressure is really on for me to rune my gear. Ugggfffggh. Do not want. x_x
			
				
	Edited October 26, 2015 by Naunet	
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Ahoy Monday.
 
This was pretty much a tanking weekend for Kitty.  I needed to fill in on Convergence (Sword is a right pain to move) and System Daemons.  Funny enough it took me more pulls to get comfortable with Sword than it did with SD.  Of course we were only getting to the first pillar phase anyway and with all the random client crashes we weren't really making a serious attempt.  But hey, we one-shot Ohmna :D. 
 
Managed to replace the last piece of purple gear in my tank set and picked up a class set for my dps gear.  I did have to burn some Omnibits to pick up more Service Tokens so I could extract the exceptionals from my shoulders <_<.  Those are going to either an alt or probably her Eldan Gloves (stalker DPS still trying to do the Kuralak imbuement, *cues laughtrack*)
 
Tanked SSM for the first time, that was fun.  Other than that got to RP with folks a bit and ran my bebe medic from 30 to 43.  And she's just starting Malgrave.  *does the no GrimGrimBlightFile for me dance*	
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And she's just starting Malgrave.  *does the no GrimGrimBlightFile for me dance*
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Now, if we can just get *everyone* to skip that zone, maybe the devs will take it back to the drawing board. Too many eyeballs across too many zones.
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Heh.  I don't hate it exactly but four zones of the corruption zombie apocalypse is too much.  That that plotline makes the reason for hard factions meaningless is just the cherry on the top.
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			I actually like the strain aesthetic. xD All the twisted monsters and creepiness is fun. *sits in a lonely corner*	
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I actually like the strain aesthetic. xD All the twisted monsters and creepiness is fun. *sits in a lonely corner*
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Body 'horror' is too easy and that's really the only thing we see in the Strain. Everything's a zombie with bones and organs in places that shouldn't be there. I thinkt he most scary creature it has in its army are the jabbits.
But the thing that bores me the most about it is how it's essentially a retelling of the Zerg/Scourge from Starcraft/Warcraft in almost every important way. Including the 'our leader is a Sealed Evil in a Can who can't move' part. I'm seriously expecting the next story beat to be the Strain capturing Artemis Zin or Belle Walker or some suddenly important shmuck to transform them into Wildstar's version of Kerrigan.	
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			Good morning, coffee people! How's Shade's Eve?Getting ready to head to work. Monday and Thursday are lecture days. I am also handing back mid-term exams which went surprisingly well for everyone. Happy professor is happy.As far as Wildstar is concerned, I pretty much dropped the idea of going to Warhound. I got my second Shadeling pet from the dungeon this morning but they are soulbound so I could not give it away. I am only missing the Shade's Eve hoverboard so hopefully I'll get it before the event ends. I'll have to skip on decor and costumes this year. I dislike grinding currency if it involves doing the same dungeon over and over and over no matter how easy and short it is. Beyond that, I am suffering from adventure/dungeon anxiety. I can't bring myself to solo queue for either.As for Grimvault, I have nothing against Western, Blighthaven and The Defile but Southern Grimvault? That zone was terrible the first time and just god awful the fifth time. Here's to hoping we do not end up with Artemiggan or Kerribelle, Queen of the Strain.Danger ahead! Danger behind! Maybe danger sideways...because heeeeeeere's Jack Shade!	
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Uhg, today. I loathe today. 
I'm stuck with a not too dissimilar face as my mordesh today. 
I might have this face because we are out of coffee
Or maybe it is the headache that caused us to be out of coffee because I drank it all. 
I think probably it is the "Secretarial error" that means I am not getting paid this week, which caused the headache that made me drink all the coffee.
 
I might get to play some wildstar tonight if my brain does not squirt out my tear duct before I get home.  
			
				
	Edited October 26, 2015 by Arachnaas	
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Monday faces!!!
 
 
but it's clearly because its still early enough for me to think it's not really monday. :D	
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Espy ... dear heart ... HOLY S**TSNACKS!!!!!!
 
 
That plot is FREAKING AMAZING!!!! I want to transfer to EU just to play in your plot.
 
It's all BLADE RUNNER and OMG OMG OMG.
 
(So jealous)	
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			That. That looks amazing.	
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Morning everyone! today is gonna be a bit of a rambling post (not unusual for me, really). :P
 
I spent this weekend slavishly working on Proxima's AnNex Machine City plot. Despite nearly killing myself doing a 14 hour day on Saturday, it's coming along quite well. I'm proud to say that this will be the best build I've ever produced! And it would have never been made without Carbine's completely surprising decision to raise the decor limit to 2500 (such a HUGE increased from 1000) and to give us all nearly double plot size. <3   It seems that now, finally, my dream of a city-style RP hub can be realized, including rentable apartments!
 
On that note, cannot wait for housing communities. I can already see there will be some difficulty deciding who to link with. In the end I'll likely go with the plots that will best fit AnNex's theme and can provide function for the RP community, but it's also tempting to start constructing new plots with my alts— using the same structural style as AnNex— to create districts. Hmm...
 
So AnNex currently has a few main areas; I decided to chop it into quarters like I did with Uta's Terra Caelum plot, which I find makes the meta design easier.  This time around the sprawl has a central plaza (where you first enter), a small housing ward, security checkpoint at the Wolf Gate, slums w. ascending living areas, a stretch of industrial machinery, and then... then you get the buildings. The Core is the center structure, plus we've got three highrises— Adabine (wealthy flats), Sercus (criminal/slummy holes), and Gorat (abandoned building, mostly just boarded up and filled with trash). The inside of the Core is a crime mall— nostalgia from one of my earlier builds on DoAndroidsDream, the mall will have 4-5 fully realized shops (weapon, tech, eldan relics, general), another half-dozen or so apartments, and then the basement is an arena/bar/casino layout for the CNC.
 
 
 
 
Here are a few teasers. I'm at about 900 placed so far, roughly 1100 more will go to building up and detailing the highrise towers, then the last 500 will be layers of detail on the city streets.
 
Entrance Plaza
 
 
 
 
 
Core, Sercus, and Wolf Gate
 
 
 
 
 
Core's Arena
 
 
 
 
 
 
I'm super excited about this place, and am getting more and more invested in the idea of RPing in it. I've always been more of a builder but have recently taken an interest in RP for pretty much the first time ever in an MMO. Largely it's because Wildstar has such amazing cosmetics/art/immersion opportunities, as well as a creative community. In fact, just now I got so caught up looking around AnNex that I decided to make a new character who would become a part of the scenery— a slum-runner, ex-soldier, meatshield-for-hire despondent type. Loda Thaen is the current name, and though he hates the idea, he'll be one of the reluctant 'heroes' of the slums.
 
 
 
 
 
 
I had a blast making this guy (love the new character designer for WS), especially creating him with a specific locale in mind, which is something completely new in my experience. Then I had even more fun claiming a bunch of account-bound stuff to spruce him up with various costumes, which is a whole other thing in itself....
 
Now I just need to find a vendor so he can get some money for dye. And beer. ;)
 
 
 
In summary, WS has been the most unique MMO gaming experience I've had to date. Love the character and love the customizations.
 
I truly hope this game continues to bring in players for years to come! :D
 	
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Espy ... dear heart ... HOLY S**TSNACKS!!!!!!
 
 
That plot is FREAKING AMAZING!!!! I want to transfer to EU just to play in your plot.
 
It's all BLADE RUNNER and OMG OMG OMG.
 
(So jealous)
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But my dear Tex... I'm on Entity! :P
 
Come on by anytime! It's still WIP but, as I've become hopeless addicted to this build, it'll probably be done in 1-2 weeks. :D  Right now a lot of time will be going to constructing the 10 inhabitable apartments. :)
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But the thing that bores me the most about it is how it's essentially a retelling of the Zerg/Scourge from Starcraft/Warcraft in almost every important way. Including the 'our leader is a Sealed Evil in a Can who can't move' part. I'm seriously expecting the next story beat to be the Strain capturing Artemis Zin or Belle Walker or some suddenly important shmuck to transform them into Wildstar's version of Kerrigan.
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*likes gnapoleon'so post a thousand times*
 
Maybe I just havery a soft spot for sci-first horror. That's not to say WS's version is particularly well-written (game development apparently approach writing with the attitude of "anyone can do that", which is frustrating - you wouldn't say the same about visual art), but it does pull on elements that I very much enjoy. And I have kind of a freakish ability to just enjoy things for what they are while filling in gaps and shortcomings with all the awesome it needs. xD	
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Lovecraftian horror is difficult to pull off well. The more cosmic horror that we find in some regards from "In the mountains of madness" regarding the great race of yith, or the mi-go from the "whisperer in darkness" is more of long wind up of implied alienness that comes to full light in a staccato punch. It really does not lend itself to the length of the strain zones, which become more grotesque spectacle rather than horror. 
 
This is neither, but cute anyway. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kQuMVffbWA	
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Lovecraftian horror is difficult to pull off well. ... It really does not lend itself to the length of the strain zones, which become more grotesque spectacle rather than horror. 
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Good evening! Joining in late for some evening coffee :P
Had exam today, so taking it easy this evening, doing some bgs to slowly level up.
Did the dailies for shade's eve. Have stopped with the hoverboard, since I got costume and titles and I'm not bothered with the consumables. It was fun though, but they could have some bigger reward to unlock through the event, I don't know if hoverboard was it in beta?	
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			The hoverboard event got pulled at midnight, so it's gone for now.	
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The hoverboard event got pulled at midnight, so it's gone for now.
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			too occupied to start one atm, so passing.	
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			Anyone got today? I'll give you until 7:45 or I'm on it. :D	
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			Okay, I got it. Mods, please lock this one. Thanks!	
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