123981-3-23-15-morning-coffee-the-wake-me-up-in-wildstar-edition

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So.... breakfast?
 
 
It wasn't a good weekend.  Well, at the very least, not an enjoyable one.  We spent most of Saturday packing up the stuff in our apartment for our move in less than two weeks, and then we spent most of Sunday at the condo we're moving into getting the old furniture ready to be picked up (we sort of inherited the condo, sort of not, it's a long story).  So I got almost no Wildstar time.  It was a monumental PITA, and my poor wife's getting burned out on the whole process.  I can't wait until we're moved.
 
I did get SOME time to play, though.  Sort of, since one of my days was spent mostly restructuring some ranks to insert one into the guild list.  We did also get time to run everyone in a veteran Skullcano, one where some people are doing their first major run through.  It's really fun learning how to double-dutch with Mordechai, but props on the guild making their whole way right up to the end.  And a big shout out to travis for hopping in on his stalker and helping to teach the new guildies to dance.  We ended up blowing through veteran shiphands for a while the day after to make some cash back.  All in all, it's a lot of fun, and I figure one more night would teach everyone having problems what to do.
 
So I hope I get a chance to do that around moving.  Parthenia and I might be on a bit later tonight if we're on.  We could really use a little while to relax.  Unfortunately, I've got really energetic music on right now.  Yngwie Malmsteen is on my schedule for Metal Monday today.
 
Hopefully, I'll see you all on Nexus soon!	
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Was a good, but exhausting weekend for me. Had all four of our children (my wife's three plus mine) by myself all day Saturday. Whew- that wore me out. And then raiding after they all went to bed Friday and Saturday night and then played bass at church on Sunday. Man, my life is busy!
 
But I still managed to tie a bow on my raid signup page (version 1) AND get to work on my add on (yay!) AND we got Phage Maw down. Here's to 19 manning Kuralak two weeks in a row :D
 
What didn't get done: installing a new video card in my wife's PC. She complains that the UI windows are getting in her way because she can't run in as high a resolution as me (this wasn't a problem when she couldn't see my screen!), so I bought her a video card, but haven't found time to get it put in. Guess that will happen tonight or I'll be in trouble!
 
BTW, vic, if you ever need an extra healer for SC, let me know to grab my wife for you. She's addicted to that place. :D	
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Breakfast is for weak organics. The coffee is pleasing though. 
It was a good weekend for the Dominion even if I was busy and didn't get to play.
 
 
Vunnu's Draken got through whitevale and is now in farside! And she didn't take any pictures for me to post! Grrrrrrr! 
This is the first character she has ever gotten through to farside so it is all new stuff for her. She seems to be genuinely happy seeing the new areas. 
 
In thanks, Typrop, you can come get your mechari hug at your leisure. Good new icon too, that Aurin looks to be up to no good. 
 
Have fun, stay safe, and I will see you all on nexus. 	
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Was a good, but exhausting weekend for me. Had all four of our children (my wife's three plus mine) by myself all day Saturday. Whew- that wore me out. And then raiding after they all went to bed Friday and Saturday night and then played bass at church on Sunday. Man, my life is busy!
 
But I still managed to tie a bow on my raid signup page (version 1) AND get to work on my add on (yay!) AND we got Phage Maw down. Here's to 19 manning Kuralak two weeks in a row :D
 
What didn't get done: installing a new video card in my wife's PC. She complains that the UI windows are getting in her way because she can't run in as high a resolution as me (this wasn't a problem when she couldn't see my screen!), so I bought her a video card, but haven't found time to get it put in. Guess that will happen tonight or I'll be in trouble!
 
BTW, vic, if you ever need an extra healer for SC, let me know to grab my wife for you. She's addicted to that place. :D
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She does decent DPS too :)  (She should- she ninjad the pistols from Vet SSM from on accident!)
 
I think tonight we're gonna get her MT done so all she has left for attunment is the quests and WBs. I did buy a pristine genesis key this weekend in case I can get her in a raid before that's all done, though. If we can get her attuned, I'm thinking of giving it away to promote my group finder when it gets more feature-complete.	
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This weekend was a blur, and not long enough, as it never is. But first, some more breakfast!
 
 
I wish my breakfast was that tasty, it was greek yogurt fruit and granola this morning.
 
Friday night consisted of frantically building a plot last minute for a guild meeting. Props to all of the amazing officer team that came out to help with that, because I suck at housing, and they made it AMAZING! Saturday we used said plot for a guild meeting and party, and had a bunch of fun. Chaide and I also played some tabletop games with a friend Saturday night (SmashUp and Quantum) and then I watched him play zambies (Last of Us).
 
Sunday was normal dungeons/adventures and vet shiphands for guildies to welcome new and returning members and just have bunches of fun hanging out in TeamSpeak. :) Some guildies are also planning on putting together a costuming workshop, and it sounds like it's going to be LOTS of fun, so keep your eyes out for their announcement! I'll probably be pimping their post for it, too, in Housing Zone and such once they finalize date/time. :)
 
Tonight is going to be a bit of relaxing and finishing chores. I probably won't hop on WildStar tonight because I just got a beta key to Heroes of the Storm, and it looks like fun!! I'm not usually a MOBA fan, but I've been watching videos of it, and I want to try it out. Tomorrow, though, is PTR night! Excited to try out the new adventure. I should probably roll up Chestnut on PTR tonight...	
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She does decent DPS too :)  (She should- she ninjad the pistols from Vet SSM from on accident!)
 
I think tonight we're gonna get her MT done so all she has left for attunment is the quests and WBs. I did buy a pristine genesis key this weekend in case I can get her in a raid before that's all done, though. If we can get her attuned, I'm thinking of giving it away to promote my group finder when it gets more feature-complete.
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Had a decent weekend. My son was with my stepmom, so saturday was childrenfree. First time since a few weeks. Had a little argument on how to spend this free time with my wife, but we ended up with going out on diner and  watching Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and O brother where are thou afterwards. And a bottle of wine, Drum n Bass and Wildstar for me as she slept.
 
And I decided to not play engineer but stalker instead. It's much more fun for me right now. But I really dislike Deradune after level 10 or so.
 
Now my mondays work is coming to an end already. Have to go shoping :/	
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Weekend went by way too fast, but just means I was more productive then usual.
 
I got myself up to level 32 and then took some time from leveling to work on crafting and settler. I could go faster with a DPS build, but I like leveling as a tank(it's in my blood to tank and heal!)
 
Finished up the first of a few pieces for the costume contest winners in Thaydfest:
 
https://40.media.tumblr.com/1a36a57e5474ecb02970b98d397664e0/tumblr_nlnbwzVaCg1s6noato1_1280.png
 
 
I'll probably have the 2nd piece which is a sketch done today and then I need to poke the 3rd person.
 
I've started working on an Exile version of the default UI, It's nothing mechanically changing, but thought it'd be fun to do on the side while I fiddle around with an idea I have for a LFG addon.
 
I'm hoping to get some dungeons and adventures done this week. So far I've only run STL a couple of times since I've come back and while I'm in no rush I'm a bit itchy to get back into the others. If anyone is interested in doing something up to....32(hopefully ill be 35 for skullcano soon) lemme know!
 
 
Outside of Wildstar though I've gotten a game I've been making to a "boss in a box" type of stage now and it's been really fun to play with. The hardest(more of a time thing) part so far is doing the sprites as traditional pencil and paper animation as opposed to more common methods like 3d, flash, etc...	
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I posted over on the add ons forum, but if any of you are interested in giving me feedback on my first attempt, I'd appreciate it: http://wildstar.curseforge.com/ws-addons/228801-lfg-board
 
This is my first iteration at a better LFG tool. Right now all it does is capture any messges containing "LFG" and put them in a window for you. So it's a pugging tool- not helpful if you don't pug. But if you do, might be nice for seeing who is looking for a group so you can find out the details before jumping in.	
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I posted over on the add ons forum, but if any of you are interested in giving me feedback on my first attempt, I'd appreciate it: http://wildstar.curseforge.com/ws-addons/228801-lfg-board
 
This is my first iteration at a better LFG tool. Right now all it does is capture any messges containing "LFG" and put them in a window for you. So it's a pugging tool- not helpful if you don't pug. But if you do, might be nice for seeing who is looking for a group so you can find out the details before jumping in.
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I posted over on the add ons forum, but if any of you are interested in giving me feedback on my first attempt, I'd appreciate it: http://wildstar.curseforge.com/ws-addons/228801-lfg-board
 
This is my first iteration at a better LFG tool. Right now all it does is capture any messges containing "LFG" and put them in a window for you. So it's a pugging tool- not helpful if you don't pug. But if you do, might be nice for seeing who is looking for a group so you can find out the details before jumping in.
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Oh cool! I'll give it a try after work. Maybe compare notes and such to get it up n running. I should really check that forum section more lol
 
The main issue I'm having is trying to make it as easy to setup as possible for the user as right now the best way I can think of making it work is having a custom channel created that will read and write keywords for different types of interested grouping. It's really rough and juryrigged at the moment, but can always clean it up later hehe
 
 
EDIT: OH OH OH I forgot to mention. My friend got me the gamescom code as a gift, I am loving the dye and the top hat
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What is the dye, I was only aware of the top hat and monocle? 
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Morning all.  Apologies ahead of time, I'm in a surly mood and haven't quite been able to put a finger on why.  I will be making an effort to be pleasant at least in this thread :lol:
 
First up.  The ship is "done" with 987 items placed.  More like 98% but I don't see it changing much until we get some better building blocks.  I did manage to acquire a new Low-grav FABKit so I might redo the elevator.  Either way I need to carve out some time to take some screenshots.  The plot is public (Kitty Starwraith) so feel free to poke around.  I still need to rebuild her lab in the bunker.  I did get a small start but wasn't really feeling up to diving back into obsessive build mode.
 
Since the ship monster kinda ate her home I've been working on my Esper alt's plot to be her getaway spot.  In an RP context they're sisters.  That build won't be as extensive and I'll probably keep it neighbor only.  I've laid out the plugs... and gotten reminded how badly we need to be able to reorient them.  Since I don't play that alt all that much I've only got about 4.5p on her.  Maybe I'll focus on her for a few weeks.
 
The RP lately has been a bit deep.  A bar patron lost the last of 22 kids and I attended another character's funeral/memorial.  It's definitely made Kitty reflective and is threatening to retrigger her depression (she's much better grounded this time around so probably not).
 
I finally got around to creating my Dominion Medic (Medica Daemon, mechari ofc) and almost got sucked into playing through Levian Bay :lol:.  I did goof and forgot to tick the "skip arkship" box.  Oh well it only took me about an hour and I spent some time exploring.  Kinda curious what's behind the door underneath the Destiny's bridge.	
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Morning all.  Apologies ahead of time, I'm in a surly mood and haven't quite been able to put a finger on why.  I will be making an effort to be pleasant at least in this thread :lol:
 
First up.  The ship is "done" with 987 items placed.  More like 98% but I don't see it changing much until we get some better building blocks.  I did manage to acquire a new Low-grav FABKit so I might redo the elevator.  Either way I need to carve out some time to take some screenshots.  The plot is public (Kitty Starwraith) so feel free to poke around.  I still need to rebuild her lab in the bunker.  I did get a small start but wasn't really feeling up to diving back into obsessive build mode.
 
Since the ship monster kinda ate her home I've been working on my Esper alt's plot to be her getaway spot.  In an RP context they're sisters.  That build won't be as extensive and I'll probably keep it neighbor only.  I've laid out the plugs... and gotten reminded how badly we need to be able to reorient them.  Since I don't play that alt all that much I've only got about 4.5p on her.  Maybe I'll focus on her for a few weeks.
 
The RP lately has been a bit deep.  A bar patron lost the last of 22 kids and I attended another character's funeral/memorial.  It's definitely made Kitty reflective and is threatening to retrigger her depression (she's much better grounded this time around so probably not).
 
I finally got around to creating my Dominion Medic (Medica Daemon, mechari ofc) and almost got sucked into playing through Levian Bay :lol:.  I did goof and forgot to tick the "skip arkship" box.  Oh well it only took me about an hour and I spent some time exploring.  Kinda curious what's behind the door underneath the Destiny's bridge.
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Is there a way to tie it to the actual group finder addon so that GF has a sort of text scroll running on the side?  And maybe you can add a bulletin board to the other side?  Long term ideas, of course, that wouldn't be immediate.  But that way, you could have one pane, strip out all the stuff from Group Finder that doesn't help, and have three stations, one that queues you, one that gives you a bulletin board, and one that runs a mirror scroll on the LFG channel (would require all channels to be LFG and the addon to join it).
 
Also, even though we don't have a way to queue multiples yet, maybe there's a way to simulate it.  Have the addon have a true random button, and it starts intermittently queueing for random dungeons, adventures, and shiphands for a few seconds apiece in cycles, then keeps running in circles until you get a pop?
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Oh cool! I'll give it a try after work. Maybe compare notes and such to get it up n running. I should really check that forum section more lol
 
The main issue I'm having is trying to make it as easy to setup as possible for the user as right now the best way I can think of making it work is having a custom channel created that will read and write keywords for different types of interested grouping. It's really rough and juryrigged at the moment, but can always clean it up later hehe
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Ugh,
 
Sorry I'm late to the discussion, but I've been rather busy at the moment with the programming assignment I need to do for one of my job applications.
I've been required to program a small TicTacToe game in a web browser using a Ruby back-end and a Modern Javascript Framework as Front-end.
I've spent around 2-3 hours on it, and I'm almost done. The only thing left to do is program out the rankings, which I will do tomorrow.
Those interested can see the source code here: https://github.com/NekoNova/tictactoe
 
Funny thing is, I will most likely decline this job offer, as I cannot find myself working happily in their dev-environment or agree to their dev-policies.
While I can understand people like to work more with emacs or vim as editors, I find it simply wrong that this is being enforced on any new employee.
Best development comes from letting people develop in what they want as IDE.
 
Back to WildStar!
Tonight taking another attempt at doing System Deamons.
Fine-tuning our tactic and attempting to get closer to a kill. The tactic we use seems to be sound and working, it's now a question of keeping people alive properly so we can actually transition through the phases properly.
So far we managed to get almost through the second phase, but people still make too many mistakes.	
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Morning all.  Apologies ahead of time, I'm in a surly mood and haven't quite been able to put a finger on why.  I will be making an effort to be pleasant at least in this thread :lol:
 
First up.  The ship is "done" with 987 items placed.  More like 98% but I don't see it changing much until we get some better building blocks.  I did manage to acquire a new Low-grav FABKit so I might redo the elevator.  Either way I need to carve out some time to take some screenshots.  The plot is public (Kitty Starwraith) so feel free to poke around.  I still need to rebuild her lab in the bunker.  I did get a small start but wasn't really feeling up to diving back into obsessive build mode.
 
Since the ship monster kinda ate her home I've been working on my Esper alt's plot to be her getaway spot.  In an RP context they're sisters.  That build won't be as extensive and I'll probably keep it neighbor only.  I've laid out the plugs... and gotten reminded how badly we need to be able to reorient them.  Since I don't play that alt all that much I've only got about 4.5p on her.  Maybe I'll focus on her for a few weeks.
 
The RP lately has been a bit deep.  A bar patron lost the last of 22 kids and I attended another character's funeral/memorial.  It's definitely made Kitty reflective and is threatening to retrigger her depression (she's much better grounded this time around so probably not).
 
I finally got around to creating my Dominion Medic (Medica Daemon, mechari ofc) and almost got sucked into playing through Levian Bay :lol:.  I did goof and forgot to tick the "skip arkship" box.  Oh well it only took me about an hour and I spent some time exploring.  Kinda curious what's behind the door underneath the Destiny's bridge.
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What ate up all your decor John? I took a quick gander at the place this morning and I didn't immediately see anything that eats up a lot of decor. Am I missing something? Point being, I've seen similar/larger ships and yours feels pretty sparse for how much decor you're saying you used.
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I spose if you're alive for 500 years you'd pop out a lot of kids...
 
I'm still not convinced about the decor, I'll have to take another look. Maybe the color palette is giving me trouble or something. Is there anything else built up on your plot?	
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I'm still not convinced about the decor, I'll have to take another look. Maybe the color palette is giving me trouble or something. Is there anything else built up on your plot?
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just back from another night on System Deamons.....
This is my member's reaction now every time I call out to wipe:
 	
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just back from another night on System Deamons.....
This is my member's reaction now every time I call out to wipe:
 
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I'm still not convinced about the decor, I'll have to take another look. Maybe the color palette is giving me trouble or something. Is there anything else built up on your plot?
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It's getting very late...but just wanted to share the gamescom bluer-purple dye shots as promised before heading off.
 
Night everyone, see you all tomorrow morning!	
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