118789-morning-coffee-20nov2014-stayed-up-way-too-late-edition

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Good Morning Everyone!
 
I wanted this for breakfast:
 
But only had time for this:
 
I stayed up too late last night doing my house. I was comfortable sitting in my desk chair, sipping on hot tea, listening to music, and doing my house. Before I know it, my hubby taps me on top of my head and tells me it's 12:30am and way past my bedtime LOL.
 
Made great progress on the inside of my house. Replaced the spacious aurin with the spacious human house and started building my rooms and floors. Took a little bit to decide where I wanted the rooms, but once I did, it went smoothly.
 
First floor is the kitchen/dining room area (when you first enter the house) with a little half bath. In that same area, I made a second floor for the living room area. Working on the logistics of this floor to decide how I want to put it together.
 
Upstairs I also made two floors. The first floor is going to be a library/office/reading area. The second floor is the bedroom and full bath private area. Again, still working on the logistics of these two floors.
 
I am just happy to have a starting point, at least inside the house. Most of the outside is going to have to wait until I reach level 50. I don't want to build around my garden, thicket, festival plugs just to have to remove everything to update them. I will, at some point, start in one of the corners and start placing things.
 
Anyone can stop by anytime to see the progress on SpousalUnit Fitch - Entity server - Exile. My lot is open to the public and is named Homestead, for now. I need a better name :)
 
Hope you all have a great day!
 
EDIT: to add faction	
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			Oh! Thank you for the housing details, I love going to visit other players and nosing around their homes. :) 	
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Oh! Thank you for the housing details, I love going to visit other players and nosing around their homes. :)
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I also spent last night in housing to give you this!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
It's coming along!
 
I'm about to hit the outdoor decor limit and I know I still need artillery on the poop deck, so I may do some Omnicore tonight and give myself a break from housing.  Feel free to visit and leave comments by visiting Nightengale Donne.
 
Next time I get onto the plot, I start on the inside of the housing plug.	
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Sounds like fun, Cirinde. Are you Dominion? I see a chua in that forum pic. :P
 
I'm also having a ton of fun with housing, spent most of yesterday detailing the security/bounty collections room on my starship. It really is amazing when you realize you've been working on something for hours and hours... on the really intense days I average about 12 hours. My time is going to hit a chokepoint soon so this won't go on for long, but it's definitely an experience completely unique in gaming, for me. To think I've spent a few hundred hours since launch, doing everything I can to get decor and then using it creatively; unprecedented!
 
I've still got a lot of work to go, but am hoping to finish the ship early next week, and will post a thread with a link here. :D  For now I highly recommend this for anyone building sci-fi who wants a break from the in-game music (I personally haven't bought most oft he music options yet, gold is needed elsewhere): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX1UuJMfQfk
 
I would say ME and WS have my favourite game OSTs. WS is more diverse, but the grittiness and 'space ambient' style of the ME stuff really hits home for me. B) 	
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			Looking good VicVan! I will have to check it out :)	
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Shame I can't see it in person, Vic. Looks like a big build, kind of thing you need to see live (or in video!)
 
Damn this Exile/Dominion segregation... Mister Donatelli, Tear Down That Wall! :P	
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Sounds like fun, Cirinde. Are you Dominion? I see a chua in that forum pic. :P
 
I'm also having a ton of fun with housing, spent most of yesterday detailing the security/bounty collections room on my starship. It really is amazing when you realize you've been working on something for hours and hours... on the really intense days I average about 12 hours. My time is going to hit a chokepoint soon so this won't go on for long, but it's definitely an experience completely unique in gaming, for me. To think I've spent a few hundred hours since launch, doing everything I can to get decor and then using it creatively; unprecedented!
 
I've still got a lot of work to go, but am hoping to finish the ship early next week, and will post a thread with a link here. :D  For now I highly recommend this for anyone building sci-fi who wants a break from the in-game music (I personally haven't bought most oft he music options yet, gold is needed elsewhere): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX1UuJMfQfk
 
I would say ME and WS have my favourite game OSTs. WS is more diverse, but the grittiness and 'space ambient' style of the ME stuff really hits home for me. B)
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Next time I get onto the plot, I start on the inside of the housing plug.
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Rocio is spending his days in deep meditation to try to master all 6 of the primal forces and elements. He doesn't know how long he will take to get in balance but this he believes is the most worthy goal to aspire to and is dedicating his life and his property and funds to this endeavor.
 
In Rocio's compound you'll find Challenges to each of the Elements that Rocio needs to work on. Rocio has Life downpat and his guides are telling him he has a natural affinity to air and water.  But he's weak in restraining element of earth, poor in the guiding force of logic, and the Cleansing fire in his heart is close to guttering out. Every day he trains to balance these and hopes to some day attain the Tao of Harmony.
 	
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Vic your house is awesome!!
 
I know I haven't been online a lot due to RL 'stuff' but would you please explain what you mean by 'inside of the housing plug'?
 
Did the 'flat plot' make it into drop 3?
 
Thanks :)
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OK! Now I understand. I have been neglecting housing, mainly because I have plans for....something... :ph34r: but I need the flat plot to make it work.
 
I started a farming toon called Crystal and I'm learning about crafting. Yes, I realize that I'm way behind on all that stuff considering I've been here since winter betas but RL has been tough lately. It's amazing how much time and money goes into crafting.
 
Does anyone think that doing the work orders is the way to level your crafting skill??
 
I will be on tonight for a few hours (YAY) starting around 6-ish eastern.	
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Does anyone think that doing the work orders is the way to level your crafting skill??
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Just working through the tech tree did it for me on Tech and Tailor.  Armorer seems similar but I haven't gotten very far with him.  The side benefit is that you get the crafting skill points which get really useful.
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Good morning(ish) folks!  A bit late to the thread this morning but thought I'd drop in.  I had a frustrating night trying to level my DPS Esper last night.  For some reason I'd have half the map aggro on me.  I even swapped my build around several times to make sure I wasn't overshooting something and catching mobs I couldn't see.  So I gave up and started working on my new Warrior's house.  I'm building his house on top of a mountain so it's a bit more of a challenge than the things that I've tried before.  I've got the basic mountain laid out and the basic paths so that all of the area is accessible to those who actually are part Rowsdower and look around.  It's kind of nice in that it's not easily just "walk up the path and there's his house" type of thing.  The character is more of a wandering blade type of warrior-poet character.  So I'm going more for a sort of traditional japanese themed set up.  not quite themed but more inspired by.  It's turning out sort of nice so far.
 
So that was my night.  I thought it were better to work than just get more frustrated by something that may have been out of my control.  Much like Minecraft, the housing in this game is sort of my zen.  I can sit back and waste hours coming up with ideas and implementing them.  The plateau that I've got the house actually on isn't on the 0/90/180 axis so it was a bit of a new challenge building on an 161.66/71.66 degree angle for most of it.  Hooray for Math! 
 
Anyway I've rambled enough and the ship is looking damned impressive so far.  it's really making me want to go back and re-evaluate how I built my Esper's ship.	
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Breakfast: Same old.  Tomorrow is our monthly bagel day at work :D
 
Wednesdays tend to be limited game wise.  I get home later due to shopping and it's one of the three days that I make "real food".  A full belly plus a glass or two of wine tends to make me really sleepy so unless something really interesting is going on I tend to knock off early.  The wife was going to be home late so I prepped most of it to where I just needed to heat it up when she got home.  To hold me over I had a snack.  I wasn't feeling all that hungry at that point so didn't have any.
 
My plan was to take another crack at Omnicore-1.  Took the alternate choices, got the two TALES pieces I missed the first time around... and failed miserably in the console room (gave up after the 4th or 5th attempt).  I was so utterly discouraged that I was questioning if I should just hang Wildstar up for good.  I mean people were going on about how it was no big deal.  If I couldn't deal with this how the heck can I show my face in vet content?
 
Took a 20-30 minute break to cool off (read: throw my laundry in the machine, read the comics, etc.).  Was trying to motivate myself to log back in when I remember that I didn't read the TALES entry yet (I was busy dying at the time the unlock popped up).  The read was typical and slightly spoilerish if you hadn't finished the instance but it did have a rather unexpected touch to it.
 
So I'm here anyway I may as well go smash my face in again.  Chose the options I knew I could get past and made it to the end boss.  Round 1, went down in flames hard.  Round 2, switched to Evasive skin and made it to the final phase but couldn't quite peel off the last sliver of health.  Once more with feeling!  Managed health a bit better and... the boss dies.  And I sit there starting dumbly at the screen for a good minute+ before triggering the final cutscene.
 
Something's had to be wrong.  I haven't had that much difficulty with anything unless I was trying to solo an elite with 2+ IA as a squishy DPS.  If it is a skill issue I'm screwed :lol:.  I checked my gear and yeaaaahh there were a few green pieces so off the AH!  3 plat poorer (ow) and 4 items richer I've added almost 300 brutality and 500 AP :blink:.  Oh yeah, I haven't runed anything yet either.  Would like to take a pass or three through some of the other content to see if I can get some more upgrades before going crazy on the AH.
 
Haven't quite figured out what I'll be up to tonight.  Probably CB and NW and maybe run OC-1 "just to be sure" :ph34r:	
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Does anyone think that doing the work orders is the way to level your crafting skill??
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Some of the crafting guides I've seen recommend doing the work orders. I'm not sure if that's to level faster or just to earn crafting tokens for Expert Research.
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			Gonna fight Avatus to the music of Battle on the Big Bridge.  #epic	
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Not the greatest day, I ran out of both stevia and milk (gave the rest of the milk to my son... Oh those mom sacrifices)
..And so I used normal sugar for my coffee. It tastes the same, but the consistency of the coffee was... Thicker? So meh. 
 
Off to the store to run some errands (aka get milk and stevia), then Goat MMO simulator (No words, I can't wait to try it!!) andddd...
 
Going to work on a little Omnicore cinematic trailer/teaser/gameplay footage...video. 
 	
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*waves to all the coffee people*
 
No breakfast for me actually. :(
 
Interesting to see a theme of housing on the morning coffee thread! I have been visiting houseplots lately, mostly to see what other restless minds are up to.. and I have to say I am VERY impressed with some of the things designed. Hopefully I can think of something as special for my plot as well.
 
So far I have tried to create something that would be suitable to a typical Aurin.. mostly organic patterns and layouts, but I would love to expand with something that would look more out-of-the-box. :)
 
 
here is a night-time of how the candle lighting shows:
 
 
 
Breakfast area.
 
 
 
Tried to make an organic staircase.. still needs work to make it look more fruid.
 
 	
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			New thread is up, yay! 	
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