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Good morning/afternoon/evening, folks~   It's freezing cold, windy, and snowing outside, and I don't want to go to class...
 
So with less than 24 hours to go until the 13th— which I believe is bringing the Sim Chase event, a Madame Fay inventory reload, and the NCSoft conference— I'm filled with anticipation and, admittedly, a bit of worry. But more anticipation. :P  Being used to getting new decor offerings maybe once every 3-4 months last year, I'm thrilled to see new stuff for builders popping up regularly now, even if it's a bit sullied by the presence of F2P mechanics. I do believe that overall it's a good thing, as I'm not sure I'd have been able to balance four plots at once without the fun of seeing new decor crop up every now and then, so I hope that other folks will be able to benefit from this event and have fun too without compromising their consumer values.
 
In the near future I plan to farm Adventures to get a bunch of the Exo-Lab decor, especially the red circuit item and that awesome looking honeycomb dome. Also looking forward to the new media decor and ~really~ digging the Defender Construct, who's gonna add a lot of flavour to my most recent build, which is a hard sci-fi starport. Here's a glimpse of the current concept:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I'm also going to make use of this event to farm some of the Grumpel/Ekose NPCs that players can obtain by buying keys and unlocking chests at the end of Adventures. Sim Chase provides a great opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, though if you're not careful with spending it could get a little expensive, so I encourage everyone to have fun but control your impulse buying. :P
 
 
I've also been working on a housing contest that would be Entity-wide, with lots of prizes (currently 8 tiers of rewards worth over 80P altogether). I'm thinking of running it as a "Flash Contest", where I announce it and then the judging begins a week later. While I understand why most other event hosts will give players a good month to build, I feel like there are a lot of cool houses out there built after the F2P drop that haven't been seen, because of the emphasis on winter themes in recent contests. So I'm thinking it could be fun to stir the pot a bit and get housing fanatics a quick community event with lots of different winners.
 
Here's the current list of rewards as a teaser:
 
Hearthhaunt Pack  (one exclusive Haunted House FAB, Gothic Gate décor, 2 Spoopy Green Windows)
Lopp SHINY Pack (Lopp Hunter pet, Lopp Hoverboard mount + Lopp flairs)
Universal Dye Pack (Black-Hole and Supernova dyes)
Ekose Cruiser Pack ( 5 exclusive epic Space Chase decor)
Eldan Temple Pack (5 exclusive epic Sim Chase decor)
Infernal Dye Pack (Shades Eve black, orange, and purple dyes + Fire dye)
Dominion Vangard Pack (one of each Dominion Guard NPC)
Exile Vanguard Pack (one of each Exile Guard NPC)
 
I tried my best to ensure the prizes were all tantalizing, somewhat rare, and generally orient around housing itself. However, there are a few other cosmetic packs in there for hardcore builders who pretty much already have what they want in terms of housing. :P
 
If time cooperates, I'm hoping to start this contest within the next few weeks. Currently I'm going to solo judge, as most of the housing lovers I know would rather be in the contest than judging it, so if you're a familiar face around these forums, who appreciates housing and has a sense of the effort that goes into it, and are interested in helping out— let me know! Although I have faith in my ability to run a neutral contest (especially with my STIPP grading system) it would always be cool to have others involved in any way.
 
 
Anyone else have big plans for tomorrow? Any particular decor or other cosmetic you really want from this event? Any new builds you're working on or events planned?
			
				
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Anyone else have big plans for tomorrow? Any particular decor or other cosmetic you really want from this event? Any new builds you're working on or events planned?
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Nothing new to speak of, though I think I've been away long enough (over a week now), that I can log back in and find something fun to do.
 
As I mentioned yesterday, one thing I really want to focus on is a pitch for Player Created Content. To that end, I am (even now) brainstorming on some ideas and plans for presenting it. I hope I can hash out something provocative and at least semi-interesting enough that it can stand on it's own. Once I have a more solid foundation on the story I want to tell, the next step will be going out in the world and screenshotting the various locations and assests I want to utilize.
 
So, waste of time or not, I'm gonna do it. If for no other reason than as a mental exercise as to what could be possible with re-purposed assets telling vastly different stories.
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Anyone else have big plans for tomorrow? Any particular decor or other cosmetic you really want from this event? Any new builds you're working on or events planned?
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			I do not remember ever having a "level locked Housing item" not working for any character, at any level. Maybe I'm a slacker builder, but it's never been an issue and I thought it was just a "feature" that was wisely removed at one point	
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I love your builds. I keep meaning to visit one or more but can never find the time. :(
 
The Lansaheart is no more.  When the plots got expanded as part of Drop 6 it went from dominating the plot to getting swallowed by it.  And being my first major build there were things about it that I wanted to re-do anyway.  So she's gone.  I'm still deciding what to do with Kitty's skyplot as there are some RP reasons why a massive ship won't work anymore.  Good chance I'll build her a new one but it'll probably be quite a bit smaller.
 
I did save her using Katia's in case I ever feel nostalgic.  Unfortunately I had to use the whole plot feature so I'll need to massage the data some just to extract the ship.
 
The big ship build will be on Jofra Blackrock's plot.  And my old nemesis is back: Level locked housing features.  You cannot install a low-grav pad unless you're level 35.  Jof's only 15, medic isn't exactly my fav class, and at 18 characters on Entity there's no way to change her to something else.  Eh, guess everybody needs goals.
 
Hey Tex if you're curious take a peek at LyttleJon Shalewraith's plot.  I just did an RP event there and built that area up as the backdrop.
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Morning/evening all, 
 
I must admit im looking forward to the event as I hope it means adventures will be active. I haven't had a chance to do alot of dungeons partly due to the armor I had at the time and the times I can normally be on at but I should be able to take part in adventures and im looking forward to it.  I really want the sky remodel but im pretty sure knowing my RNG luck it will be nigh on impossible but at least I will have fun trying but I haven't done adventures before so any tips would help and before anyone says it.....don't die is not a tip im looking for lol. 
 
Other than looking forward to the announcement at some point tomorrow I plan leveling up my third toon my gun-toting spellslinger and im having alot of fun with the class. The only downside I have had this morning was my engineer's amps decided to reset so the 30 gold I spent on an amp reset seems to have been flushed down the toilet as the amps are back to the state they were in before I reset them. I wish I kept better notice on how much my toon had as I cant remember if I got the 30 gold back but im not spending that much again until the issue is fixed just incase I did lose the gold and I flush another 30 gold down the toilet. 
 
Overall im still going good guns in the game and at some point I plan spending my money to get alot better armor as im jumping around with mostly ilvl 65 with some ivl 70 odd stuff on my Stalker. Im just making sure I try a good few other classes out first before I spend all my money on getting him properly gear'd up as I can only afford to get one class reasonably kitted out.
			
				
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 I thought it was just a "feature" that was wisely removed at one point
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2. Have fun! Again, adventures are not dungeons, so just enjoy the story and randomness of it all. If people do for some reason get crusty, laugh it off, give them the finger if needed, and find another group. :P
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That sounds annoying, Scarran. >.<
 
Although, fart in a spacesuit... that's pretty funny. :P	
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INSPIRATION!!!!
 
Oh, holy crap.
 
I'm a freaking genius!
 
OMG OMG OMG. I have to go write. :lol:	
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			Hope this event isn't structured to inspire more totem rushes. I'm hoping to get Bay of Betrayal done, as well as other adventure-related achievements.	
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Hope this event isn't structured to inspire more totem rushes. I'm hoping to get Bay of Betrayal done, as well as other adventure-related achievements.
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Don't you just love Katia? :P
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"Appreciate" would be closer.  I have a few issues with KBT that make me want to uninstall it.  Two of them are reported (just now) here.
 
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Oooo that's an awesome title. I'd love to get that. Is it The Technomancer or just Technomancer? If it's the latter I may have to try for this on Proxima...
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Good evening all!
No coffee for me atm, will eat something and then watch a couple of episodes of Blacklist. 
It's my first hours off in the evening in quite some time. The job I got before christmas, it was quite much more to do than what they originally said. So every day since I got back home I've received giant lists of things to do, and some of them had to be redone, and some eventually removed as well :P But I might be all done now, at least no new list has popped up this evening so hopefully the client is happy and satisfied now :) *fingers crossed*
 
So as you imagine I haven't had much time in game, and even if I did have time the bot issue is still going on so I probably wouldn't have played anyway :( I guess I will just wait until something happens regarding that issue, if it ever happens. The announcement of upcoming content tomorrow will be interesting. Even if it most likely will be focused on pve content it will be nice to hear there are actually some plans for the content, at least some longer lasting content. Events in all honour but atm it feels like events and cash shop updates are all they are up to, while not really taking care of the actual game. I mean... not even trying to deal with bots, I don't know what to say about that. 
 
I won't be taking part in adventure event but I hope those of you that are going to take part will have a great time :) And I hope most of you have better weather than over here, we got some really cold weather sent to us from Russia... and now snow has started to pour down as well :/ But at least we got coffee, and coffee threads :)	
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We're leaving together,But still it's farewell.And maybe we'll come backTo earth, who can tell?I guess there is no one to blameWe're leaving groundWill things ever be the same again?
 
(Just a couple hours til the big day)	
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We're leaving together,
But still it's farewell.
And maybe we'll come back
To earth, who can tell?
I guess there is no one to blame
We're leaving ground
Will things ever be the same again?
 
(Just a couple hours til the big day)
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I'm patiently waiting for the update. Lets hope it's something cool.
 
It's make or break time crabine!	
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I'm patiently waiting for the update. Lets hope it's something cool.
 
It's make or break time crabine!
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