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Breakfast tacos ... GIT IN MAH BELLEH, LITTLE TACO!
 
So, hey ... Shade's Eve is right around the corner and the Double Prestige PVP Weekend starts in a couple of days! In fact, the PVP weekend feeds right into Shade's Eve! That's like the ol' One-Two Punch, right there! A long weekend of melting faces followed up with some awesome thematic Halloweenie goodness!
 
Very exciting time to be part of the game and the community.
 
Now, if mi amigos at Carbino can stabilize them thar servers, the game we all know and love will finally be a living, breathing thing again.
 
*sniff* It's enough to make an old cowpoke a little teary-eyed.
 
So, y'all lookin' forward to the next two weeks or what?!?!
 
Talk to me, Nexus!
 
Obligatory coffee picture:
 	
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Yeah, I also purposefully didn't participate on the Test Server. I've been looking forward to Shade's Eve for so long, no way was I going to spoil it for myself.
 
I didn't even bother to log in last night. By the time I got home, the forums were filling up with complaints about the lag - and honestly, I don't need that kind of frustration, so I watched re-runs of The Flash until bedtime.
 	
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Heh,
 
had Taco's for lunch today....
Small coincidence...
 
 
As for Shade's eve, really looking forward to seeing the even as well.
I deliberately did not engage in it during the test phase on the PTR as I want to experience it completely fresh.
With our costume competition, it fits perfectly.
Just having a really hard time trying to put something together :/
There's not that much spooky/scary stuff, or rather not things I actually like.
But will figure out something, assuming I can draw myself away from Discovery hunting......:P
 
Server yesterday had loot lag again :/
So sharing your pain on that one Tex.
And if it's not loot lag, then it's the connection towards Jabbit that's messing up. Severe packet loss yesterday on the route as well....
Hoepfully Carbine get's a grip on it.	
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Looking into this thread while my food is still cooking was a mistake and you, Tex, should be ashamed of tormenting me so.
 
Also, I still live. Even played a bit of Wildstar earlier. And then I played Blood Bowl, a game which shall henceforth also be known as "frustration simulator". Were I married, this game would cause my divorce. I'm sure of it.	
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I was wonderin' where you'd run off to, Wylf.
 
Well, so long as you're "enjoying" Blood Bowl, have fun. :lol:	
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			It was actually quite fun. Mainly because I got really lucky... started a new campaign with a human team (I'm playing chaos edition, not blood bowl 2... can't afford that game at the moment) and the first tournament pooled me with a goblin team, a vampire count team and an underworld team. All of which are considered "joke teams" for a very good reason. Basically managed to wipe the floor with the underworld team in my second match, at the end only two of their players were still standing on the pitch :X	
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Good morning, coffee people! How's the science?Breakfast is on hold for a little while. Early morning appointment so I am actually writing this from my office. I am not one to go for cafeteria food.
On Wildstar, I think I might have fixed my BSOD problems. I have not crashed or anything like that since I reinstalled it so I'd call that a win. On the other hand, Entity-2 is also becoming victim to prime time lag. I am not sure if I should be impressed by the amount of people playing Wildstar or depressed because I transferred there to avoid the lag and it caught up. In other news, I am short 13 dyes plus the ones on the cash shop. Yay progress! I also hit Beloved with the Champions of the Defile which means I have all my ability points now.More to do! More to do! Also, more to do!	
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I had yesterday off because of Columbus Indigenous People's Day, so I spent most of it, of course, playing WildStar. Though first I had to watch Robin and Marian with the husband because why not. xD Good grief that was a depressing ending.
 
Got my baby stalker tank to level 30, though! And successfully tanked Kel Voreth. Really having a fun time on her, though I keep encountering this bug where my suit power doesn't regenerate... augh!
 
About to leave for professional development at school. I think I'd prefer having this day to teach, considering how this semester is very quickly drawing to a close...
			
				
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I don't like the lag or instability either, but it is damn heart-warming to know it's because there are SO MANY people playing.
 
Just being in the open world, seeing so many folks ... it's a good feeling.	
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Morning coffee, and now recess between classes.  A mild, damp autumn morning outside.  
 
Yesterday was Thanksgiving day here in Canada - really only begun in 1763 with a "Day of Thanksgiving" to celebrate the end of the Seven Years' War [and the end of hundreds of thousands of people dying fighting over someone else's dirt], Canada these days aims to track the Thanksgiving Day all the way back to Martin Frobisher in 1578, and his Day Of Giving Thanks For Not Getting Killed Like The Other Two Ships Full Of Sailors Who Followed Frobisher On His Attempt To Sail Around Canada To The Pacific.  Two thirds of his expedition died in his attempt to sail the Northwest Passage.  "Thank you that I'm not them," as it were.  These days, mind, it's basically an autumn harvest festival - food, friends, family.
 
There's also a federal election on, here in Canada.  Yesterday, I voted in the advance polls [for which I am thankful].
 
Paz Bazza's leveling has slowed, with my October Busy-ness.  Also, trying to farm up the coin to pick up his hamster ball mount before aiming for farther.  Igor's look seems to be coming along decently, though, for such a low-level character.  The holo-wardrobe is a very welcome feature for a roleplayer.
			
				
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Good morning, everyone.
 
I'm just looking into getting further back into the game. I've been leveling my Warrior and Esper, and I think I'm leaning toward Esper. I always saw them as a rather basic class, but after playing it more, it almost feels like it has more depth than my warrior. I just hope I can remain good with it into the later game. :)
 
That said, with all my planning going on and leveling a lot in BGs and dungeons, this double prestige couldn't have came at a better time. This will help me get a good starting set of 50 gear before I hit max level.
 
P.S. I'm starting to wonder why I ever quit. I think it just got so lonely after the rough start. :(	
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			I guess I jinxed it. The game still freezes and crashes on me. I'll post in tech help but if nothing comes out of it, I'll just say farewell Wildstar until I buy new computer parts so I can rule out hardware entirely.	
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			Well, a lot of the lag was due to the World Boss contract again........	
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			I have found that my game freezes and crashes in certain specific parts of the world. One of such is the AH in Illium's Spaceport. As long as I stay away, the game works pretty peachy...until I reached the Bio-domes in Farside. Then my Frames per Second crumbled to dust.	
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I have found that my game freezes and crashes in certain specific parts of the world. One of such is the AH in Illium's Spaceport. As long as I stay away, the game works pretty peachy...until I reached the Bio-domes in Farside. Then my Frames per Second crumbled to dust.
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			OMG, the "need new content" thread is KILLIN' ME, SMALLS! KILLIN' ME!  :lol:	
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I guess I jinxed it. The game still freezes and crashes on me. I'll post in tech help but if nothing comes out of it, I'll just say farewell Wildstar until I buy new computer parts so I can rule out hardware entirely.
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Damn, Frozen. Saw your our PC spec yesterday, and it's already infinitely better than mine. Can't remember what your BSOD error code was..... did you give the good ole "blow out the dust" thing a try? Or lowering the graphics settings?
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Good afternoon here!
I had my coffee and yea the first thing I thought of was Shade's Eve too Tex! I can't wait for the first Dominion Wide Server Event that my guild is hosting! I know I got on about my guild a lot.
We've had 87 new applicants since F2P and it's insane (and no I didn't poach any of them- believe it or not, people come of their own accord). I've got a lot of work to do and yea it's daunting. I'm a little scared to get to know all these new people, but they're probably more scared of me? I dunno, my brain hurts. x.x
 
 Yey photoshop. :) Sign ups start this weekend- more work for me!
 
I finally got a thread up for Bomba's house. Please be nice, I'm terrified of being judged based on it. :( I'm always nervous showing off stuff I work on.
 
Aside from that stuff, it's pure WildStar for me. I've got to sort through my clothes in my wardrobe today to prepare for winter. Maybe I'll find my cat onesie! :D
I should stop procrastinating...!	
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So jealous of your contest prizes.
 
I wanted to do something like this on NA server for Dominion, but I'm not even sure where to start.  /grumblegrumble	
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So jealous of your contest prizes.
 
I wanted to do something like this on NA server for Dominion, but I'm not even sure where to start.  /grumblegrumble
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WILDSTAR WICKER MAN!!!!!!!
 
 
Bad to the bone, K. Bad to the bone!	
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So, y'all lookin' forward to the next two weeks or what?!?!
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Rageface
I'm gonna need to step away from my computer before I throw my keyboard through the wall.
Please excuse the rant here.
My guild's just been referred to as being elitist. When anyone who's followed our progress (I mean I talk about it enough), knows we are casual in every sense of the word. We have real lives and duties outside of the game (although not me lately xD housing!) and our motto is Progressing without stressing and real life comes first and to have someone refer to my guild as such really makes me mad. I've helped people feel welcome in a casual raiding community, I've helped out so many people (behind the scenes), I've hosted events, I do social stuff, I encourage new players...how does that make me hardcore or elitist? Unless it's elitist to expect people to actually play the game the way it's meant to be played? How hard is it to avoid red?
 
I'm just...I'm going to freaking cry. :(	
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I don't know how to share pictures on the Forum, I could check or link my Twitter account for a pick (again I didn't look) but think of a Steampunk'd alarm clock that brews coffee with a science beaker and flasks...... now that is out of the way (ps just about to go to bed so the irony of me posting in Morning Coffee thread is not lost on me, and now you.
 
I was reading up on data analyses (light reading) and I came across this gem of a article, being 'educated' person I am I should link the writer or the article, but then you would know all my secrets... So paste now me am, linkless...
Why Anomaly Detection is Super Useful
Imagine for a moment that you invented a time machine. It is a shiny device that allows you to travel to the future and see what is about to happen. The first time you use it, you arrive in the near future with all the whirring, clanking, and smoke you would expect from time travel. As you squint through the haze, you become convinced the machine didn't actually work, because the near future looks the same as the time you left. You are shortly pulled back to your departure time and slowly realize that the future it showed you is exactly what is happening. Time travel wasn't as exciting as you had hoped because your immediate future was pretty much the same as your present. Turns out you could have predicted the near future without all that space-time continuum stuff. You could simply assume it will be like the present. As it turns out, a lot of our world actually follows pretty regular patterns. Like your realization with the time machine, many are crestfallen when they realize that predictive analytics aren't often necessary to predict the future.
 
 
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I'm just...I'm going to freaking cry. :(
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Bah.
 
You are a duck.
 
Let the crap slide off you like water.
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Rageface
I'm gonna need to step away from my computer before I throw my keyboard through the wall.
Please excuse the rant here.
My guild's just been referred to as being elitist. When anyone who's followed our progress (I mean I talk about it enough), knows we are casual in every sense of the word. We have real lives and duties outside of the game (although not me lately xD housing!) and our motto is Progressing without stressing and real life comes first and to have someone refer to my guild as such really makes me mad. I've helped people feel welcome in a casual raiding community, I've helped out so many people (behind the scenes), I've hosted events, I do social stuff, I encourage new players...how does that make me hardcore or elitist? Unless it's elitist to expect people to actually play the game the way it's meant to be played? How hard is it to avoid red?
 
I'm just...I'm going to freaking cry. :(
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			Is that a helicopter you made? :o that's genius!	
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Gosh, these world boss groups are giving me an aneurysm. I hate new generation snowflake gamers.... every single cupcakes that joins, without fail, will immediately open their pie hole- "where do I go", "summon plz", "I need this", "how to sync" etc etc. Chill the cupcake out people. I don't understand why they can't just wait 20 seconds and observe the chat window for instructions.
 
Even after the leader makes macros, telling people we're going to X boss, Y zone. Use rapid transport to Z location. Or use teleport pad in Whitevale/Wilderrun for cross continent stuff.... nope! Fallen on deaf ears every time. How do these people even put one foot in front of another in real life?!
 
There's a reason why I can never be a teacher. Because I'd end up on death row for murder. :lol:	
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Niliana, just ignore that person. It can be tough to take criticism (especially unfounded types) but in the end you'll be a better leader for thick skin. There's always gonna be someone with a complaint or two and it's worse if you've got a large guild!
 
Wildstar has eaten up quite a bit of my time lately. I finished most of Terra Caelum at 1150 outside / 250 inside— it's a nature-based plot and so didn't require a ton of detail, especially with the spacious open concept Granok House interior. I'll likely end up adding more fine detail over time but suspect this build won't surpass the 1500 mark, with maybe 400 inside if I feel inspired to layer more. Will post pics of this plot on the housing forums very soon!
 
Now I've moved on to Proxima's plot. It's a big change going from tropical nature to gritty cyberpunk and I felt really intimidated by the massive plot size at first. Filling that much space with so much detail, especially trying to create a lot of variance so the plot isn't stale... it's been rough. So I decided to create the basement of the Osun house first, which is an arena for the CNC Dominion events, and am really happy with how it turned out. That gave me some impetus to really dig into the exterior, which led to a few ideas and some fun last night. Will post a few teaser shots in the Terra Caelum thread later, but I feel like this build is going to take me another month or two to complete...
 
I have to say, all together, this drop has been mind-blowing for housing. The big changes to decor limit and plot size were themselves super fantastic, but the sheer number of epic looking new decor pieces I've seen showing up on the auction... wow.... so many amazing concepts. The Dominion Screen is a huge gamechanger!
 
Can't wait to see where this game goes in the future. As long as enough people are kicking in cash to keep the game running, I foresee a very positive future for WS. At the very least, housing is going to give this game an uncontested spot in MMO history. :D	
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Gosh, these world boss groups are giving me an aneurysm. I hate new generation snowflake gamers.... every single cupcakes that joins, without fail, will immediately open their pie hole- "where do I go", "summon plz", "I need this", "how to sync" etc etc. Chill the cupcake out people. I don't understand why they can't just wait 20 seconds and observe the chat window for instructions.
 
Even after the leader makes macros, telling people we're going to X boss, Y zone. Use rapid transport to Z location. Or use teleport pad in Whitevale/Wilderrun for cross continent stuff.... nope! Fallen on deaf ears every time. How do these people even put one foot in front of another in real life?!
 
There's a reason why I can never be a teacher. Because I'd end up on death row for murder. :lol:
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Ahhh, the end of a three day weekend.
 
Good morning Monday Tuesday!
 
As was my plan, my warrior is now level 50, huzzah! Only he is still part way through Malgrave, so lots more to do.
 
I took a break and popped back to my engineer, made a new costume, completed a few quests, but found Whitevale to be a bit too choppy; plus, I had to make dinner.
 
I am excited for Shade's Eve. Halloween has always been my favourite holiday. Here is to a great time all around!
 
On a non-Wildstar note: Undertale has consumed my life. Oh god. Oh god, it is so much fun. If anyone has some hours to spare outside of Wildstar, I highly recommend it	
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Don't really know what is going on in wildstar today. Hanging around in wilderun has proved to be a fool's errand, with another 30 discoveries going past and not one more costume piece. 
I should be leveling my medic, but right now I seem to lose focus too fast to get anything really done. Might give the low level pvp another run to get a costume piece, but I think you have heard me complain about exile bgs more than enough. 
 
Can't wait for shades eve. I tested it a bunch on the test realms, and can't wait to hear what the rest of you think. I'm also hoping that there is going to be a few store outfits that will look good on mordesh. With the way that outfits tend to be styled, I think asking for something Morticia Addams inspired is not going to happen though. 
			
				
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Ya know, I bet I spent about four hours on Sunday zipping around Auroria and NEVER found another costume piece. Not to mention the hour I spend in Deradune trying to find the last piece of the Refugee set (pants) that I'm missing.
 
Seriously, after all the love the game showed me on Saturday, and me coming and bragging on the forums about my good luck - seems like they've changed the drop rate.
 
I mean, I get RNG is RNG, but seriously, I went from finding at least one piece per hour to finding NONE in the last six hours.
 
It is very discouraging.	
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Was in one the other day where the leader decided to AFK for 20+ minutes without telling anyone and the whole thing fell apart,. Had another where everyone was bickering over which boss to tackle. I had one yesterday where I was told to go to X zone and then it turned out the boss was in Y zone. In a different one yesterday half the people who showed couldn't see the boss because of sync problems (I imagine), then someone started talking about 'slow players complaining', which is kind of stupid because... the raid was still advertising in EntityLFM past the point they should have stopped because of full membership. I don't see the logic in telling people there's a raid boss and 'join on x' and then saying they're too slow when literally 5 minutes later the boss is dead.
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Are you refering to regular Metal Maw (Deradune) vs Metal Maw Prime (Whitevale) yesterday?
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Zomgoodness! Hello Nexus! How's the caffeinated beverage this morning, I'm sooo excited for Shade's Eve, i think i'll hit 50 on my dominion just in time, so couldn't be more jazzed!
 
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My guild's just been referred to as being elitist. When anyone who's followed our progress (I mean I talk about it enough), knows we are casual in every sense of the word. We have real lives and duties outside of the game (although not me lately xD housing!) and our motto is Progressing without stressing and real life comes first and to have someone refer to my guild as such really makes me mad. I've helped people feel welcome in a casual raiding community, I've helped out so many people (behind the scenes) 
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I guess I could try and dig up the mordesh thread, but it seems easier to just put it here. 
 
Vunne's mordesh being sci-fi. 
 
 
Hmm this coffee thread seems to have come to a halt, time for a coffee topic
 
If the factions were removed and you could play any of your characters with who ever you wanted to, which one would you choose? 
			
				
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			Mordesh? Mordesh.Deadders is for life.I want Shade's Eve to start already because I need the costume and I'm doing a spooky carnival like feel for my housing plot. Can't do that without the Halloween stuff.Also since we seem to have some folks who are a bit more in tune with the CS folks;How long does it usually take for them to get back to folks? I had to fill in a form for something I won during the launch party but they sent me the wrong one and I haven't heard back from them in like 5 days.	
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Mordesh? Mordesh.
Deadders is for life.
 
I want Shade's Eve to start already because I need the costume and I'm doing a spooky carnival like feel for my housing plot. Can't do that without the Halloween stuff.
 
Also since we seem to have some folks who are a bit more in tune with the CS folks;
How long does it usually take for them to get back to folks? I had to fill in a form for something I won during the launch party but they sent me the wrong one and I haven't heard back from them in like 5 days.
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*sigh*
 
Three full hours in Auroria and not a single freaking costume piece. Dozens of buffs stations and mostly useless packs. Lots of portals to the same mini-zones and monster eggs. No costumes.
 
/grumblegrumble	
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*sigh*
 
Three full hours in Auroria and not a single freaking costume piece. Dozens of buffs stations and mostly useless packs. Lots of portals to the same mini-zones and monster eggs. No costumes.
 
/grumblegrumble
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*sigh*
 
Three full hours in Auroria and not a single freaking costume piece. Dozens of buffs stations and mostly useless packs. Lots of portals to the same mini-zones and monster eggs. No costumes.
 
/grumblegrumble
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			Farm the AH. :D	
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			Yeah, I am just ... I don't even ... It has quickly lost all appeal. That's sad, because I was really enjoying it when there was an actual chance of finding something.	
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Yeah, I am just ... I don't even ... It has quickly lost all appeal. That's sad, because I was really enjoying it when there was an actual chance of finding something.
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Morning tea.  Wolfe's Spice blend again.  1750s mulled tea blend.  Delicious.  Coffee later, when feeling a bit more Revolutionary.
 
 
So far, I've found very few Doscoveries [three, all told], and two have been buffs, one has been trade gear for not my trades.
			
				
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			I took this topic to today's thread. :D	
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