147425-morning-coffee-1123-community-events-edition

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How amazing was Sunday?
 
TOTALLY FREAKING AMAZING!!!!
 
So amazing, I made pancakes on a stick!
 
If you missed it, then you missed out. You can have your silly raids, your hardcore dungeons and your uber-leet PVPness - I'll take a good, old fashioned Community-Sponsored Event any day of the week.
 
Seriously, we could do this kind of thing once a month and I'd be pleased as punch. It was the perfect return to the Exiles and the best part about having your ear to the community.
 
Chestnut, DJ Malak, Fitchy, Red and Ku, Pappy, Katia ... the list goes on and on. Through the efforts of folks like you, this community continues to grow and thrive and live again. I was proud to be even a tiny little part of it.
 
That said, I am truly inspired. As much as I wanted to try something different, the Exiles are my home and it's where I belong.
 
Thank you, one and all.
 
Now, what other kinds of community events would y'all like to see? Is there already a "Community Events Planning Group?" If not, we should start one. If so, someone throw me an invitation. Did y'all like what you saw at Thaydfest?
 
Today, let's not talk about what the game gives us. We're all familiar with that. Let's talk about what we can do amongst ourselves.
 
Have a great day, Nexus!
 	
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			Thanks, Fitchy! I was great seeing you yesterday! :wub:	
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Good morning...
 
Spent my weekend getting my Draken to 50 and proceeding to get my butt handed to me in my first few PvP matches in that bracket, then slowly turning it around as I got more geared. Not as geared to the teeth and some folks, but enough to give folks a run for their money which made me happy.
 
Event wise, personally I think the one thing I've not seen much of is full on capital city raids. I used to love doing those in rift, WAR(part of progression anyway), etc...Just wrecking an entire city till the server crashes. Good times..simple, fun, and plenty of wtf moments to be told throughout. Something my old guild in WAR used to do on Tower of doom(still one of my favourite server names) was hold a server wide treasure hunt with clues. Both factions were given a place to go to and we had volunteers as ambushers at places we knew people might get clues wrong and go to, but if you beat the ambushers they point you in the right direction.
 
I'd also like to see ummm plays. Something we used to do in GW2 was around the holidays host several plays at different times, but thats more of an RP thing I guess. Really fun though I could see that being done here with how housing is setup. Maybe write up something silly like "Three little Chua and the big bad Granok"	
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Good Morning!
 
Yes, yesterday was a great time! I love our community! You can look at pictures and lists of winners here.
 
Tegasi Violetwind did all the raffles. Thanks to her, people were able to roll on some pretty nice items, including mounts!
 
Costume contest:
 
 
 
 
 
 
Footrace sponsored by Blazing Saddles and held at Castari VanGore's lot. Amazing job on the plot!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
WildBall at Coach Katia's lot. It's a must see!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
There are 2 holiday housing competitions that will be going on, that I know of. I don't have all the details, yet. Details will be posted as soon as we have them. So get those houses ready for WinterFest!! You have been forwarned LOL.
 
Hope you all have a wonderful week!	
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I've been out of the loop as far as Wildstar is concerned. Been to busy working on things and getting distracted by other stuff. I do want to say that I appreciate Tex spearheading not just the coffee threads like he has, but also the effort to naturalize new players after the transition, even if I don't get the chance to play anymore. So, Here's to Tex. *Raises Coffee*
 
I also wanted to catch those who wanted to see the finished product of my Spindrifter prop build. The thread for it is here: https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/147426-spindrifter-replica-build/
 
 
 
 
 
 
Glad you guys are still in game and having fun. Long live Wildstar!
			
				
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Aaah ThaydFest. I didn't actually realize it was happening until Cast told me a couple days ago. xD Y'all really should have advertised more! But... Sunday was Via Colori, and I have my priorities!
 
Needless to say, I have lots of photos of cool chalk art now. :D This year felt even larger than last year... Colder too. Augh!
 
In WildStar-verse, my patience is wearing thin for the same leveling paths over and over again... There are things I'd like to do, alts I'd like to level - and then dump at 50 because I'm apparently incapable of doing anything endgame on more than one character - but...guh. @_@ Luckily roleplay and housing are still a blast, as are raid nights. Drew some more WS art. I can't remember if I've shared these yet:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I'm a teacher, so things are getting reeeaaaally crazy at work right now. Have today and tomorrow, and then when we come back from Thanksgiving break, there's only two more weeks of classes before final exams. @_@ Crunch time for prepping students. What's more, a new student just came in, so I'm having to figure out on the fly how much he knows, work up new lesson plans, and try and at least teach him enough of SOME kind of content over the next two weeks that he has SOMETHING to be tested on in December... gah!	
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I wish I had more time to engage in community.
I remember back in the days when I played wow wotlk. I had lots of time back then and alliance side wasn't big at all so I knew all guilds and guild leaders and we had fun with the half impossible task to win wintergrasp from horde, to organize 25-man raids, to help eachother out.
I know that luminai dominion side might be the smallest faction side of the entire game if all servers are considered, so if there is no big and active community there is nothing to blame. However from my experiences in wow being on a server and on a low population faction usually encourage a more close community compared to being on a larger populated one. However I think that when most game content comes from instanced content you queue for community becomes less important. And also just having a good guild might be good enough to get to do what you want to do and gives you enough friends to do it with.
 
Being on a pvp server I ofcourse wish for some server pvp events between factions. I haven't yet heard of any. I also don't know how it works with guards in capital cities, one side has been that there are many and they are impossible to kill so you can't invade enemy capital cities, and on the other side that guards hardly attack you so invading enemy capital shouldn't be any problem. However I haven't heard of any attacks of any kind so I don't know. I would however like it if such invasions did happen, it's fun to kill members of the opposite faction =) Overall, any event that would be pvp oriented I would love to take part in =)
 
But overall I'm also well aware that my gaming time is limited these days and also that I'm not active myself in creating an active community so I can't expect much and even if events take place I'm not sure I can participate at that time. But one can always dream about what a perfect community would be like and wish for certain events to take place =)	
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We have cross-faction volleyball on the beach in Malgrave every so often. I imagine that would be a LOT more entertaining on a PVP server.
 
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If you missed it, then you missed out. You can have your silly raids, your hardcore dungeons and your uber-leet PVPness - I'll take a good, old fashioned Community-Sponsored Event any day of the week.
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Wait did i hear that right, Tex did you defect to the Exile side  :angry:
 
I had a great weekend, I spent absolutely zero time in WS though, I was playing a ton of Swtor. 	
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Wait did i hear that right, Tex did you defect to the Exile side  :angry:
 
I had a great weekend, I spent absolutely zero time in WS though, I was playing a ton of Swtor. 
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Love these topics.
 
I'm taking my time with the game as usual.
 
Enjoyed Hot Tea and Ramen with cold weather yesterday.	
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Love these topics.
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Hello Everybody - 
 
Ack!  Tex revealed my secret Team Speak nickname Pappy to the public.  Now everyone knows I am old and I will lose my street cred with the young people.  But that doesn't get me down because I had about the best weekend ever in Wildstar.
 
Saturday night the little raid circle that could (official name Hold My Beer raiding circle) downed PhageTech Prototypes on our fifth pull.  We are now officially 4/6 in GA, past the half way mark.  That fight was awesome!  I am sure the last two just get easier  :P
 
Sunday was all about Thaydfest.  Our Guild hosted a no mounts steeplechase event.  Hats off to the course designers and builders Red Lotus and Haiku Jarax.  The course and entire plot got rave reviews.  To understand just how incredible these builders are, here are the only instructions I gave them:
 
"Need a course that reflects the spirit of Nexus.  Sections of the course need to have the ability to be modified between heats so no one can memorize them.  Need a course that balances speed vs decision making.  Needs to have a really good viewing area for spectators.  Here is 10 plat and a plot.  Oh, and it needs to be built in 48 hours."
 
What they came up with was just amazing.  There are four zones to the track, Earth, Air, Fire and Water, all zones are connected by a tunnel, and each zone has three paths through it, Eazy, Medium and Hard mode.  Ran the first heat on easy mode, second heat on medium mode, and the final heat on hard mode.  Each zone has three entrances from the connecting tunnel, so they just built it with the each path entrance having the ability to be blocked.  It worked great and I think a fun time was had by all spectators and racers.  Track is now open to the public, all paths are open and each is designated by a color, green for easy path, yellow for medium path, and red for hard path.  Follow whichever path you like or mix match.  When you enter the plot, finish line is to your left, starting line is to your right and middle tunnel leads to the viewing area.  The course in on Castari VanGore's plot.  So proud of my Guild.
 
And it was good to get to talk with you again over the weekend Tex.	
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And it was good to get to talk with you again over the weekend Tex.
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Thaydfest was super fun!:)
 
 
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We have cross-faction volleyball on the beach in Malgrave every so often. I imagine that would be a LOT more entertaining on a PVP server.
 
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Thaydfest was super fun! :)
 
 
 
I'm curious how this works, maybe I can whip together a mini-game out of it :)
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GO GO KATIA SKILLZ!!!!
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			No *official* cross-faction channels. Didn't Killroy used to translate for us? I hadn't tried to RP in a while.	
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No *official* cross-faction channels. Didn't Killroy used to translate for us? I hadn't tried to RP in a while.
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