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So, the forums are back!
 
How did everyone spend their downtime? Did you get any new levels, take down any awesome encounters? Maybe you spent your time decorating? 
I ended up recruiting two friends to come play with me and I've been making great use of the mentor system. I love this system and I think every game should allow for some sort of mentoring. When your friends are feeling bad that they're not the appropriate level, this is a great way to be able to play with them and help them catch up. 
 
I do have to admit, I am VERY glad that the forums are back! 
 
How about everyone else? :) I have missed our daily coffee thread!
 	
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Good day,
 
I'm personally quite happy to have the forums back. For me they are an awesome place to talk to people from the US, whom I hardly see otherwise, and to kill any dead moments I have at work between development cycles.
I've used Reddit in the downtime period, but I simply do not like the system. It's not that I like dislike Reddit, as I use it often to read up on things not being posted on the forums, I just find their entire system clunky to use.
 
As for WildStar, rebooted C.H.U.A.
One of the oldest guilds on the server. I've actually done some Lua experimenting and managed to calculated the date at which our guild was founded:
 
Sat, 31 May 2014 13:04:16 UTC +00:00
 
For those who want to figure our their own guild age, I've wrote a small article on my tumblr on how to do this: http://askolivar.tumblr.com/post/125187805324/wilstar-fun-bit-guild-age
Just be warned, it's a bit tricky to get it done properly, but I think the instructions are rather clear. The calculation however you will have to do manually or use some scripting language to calculate the correct date. Lua supports unfortunately no option for this in the game.
 
So yeah, working on my old guild, and we're growing with a steady pace, recruiting new members every other day and becoming more and more active again.
We're not raiding yet, but I don't think this will take us much longer if we can keep getting new members at the current rate.
			
				
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ZOMG!!! We're back!!!!! 
 
 
 
I was on vacation when the forums went down so I had no idea what was happening. I had to go to reddit to find out what was up. 
Reddit scares me
 
I haven't been in game that much but I plan on making up for lost time come Saturday  :P What's everyone been up to the last week? 
I missed you guys!	
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I had to fill that no-forums gap with countless hours of reading reddit posts! Thankfully now we are here and kicking!
As for in-game, Omhna is still there waiting us to take her head with my guildmates.. I also convinced some friends of mine to start wildstar and now they are almost level 50! (which means that they enjoy this game a lot)
 
 
 
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For those who want to figure our their own guild age, I've wrote a small article on my tumblr on how to do this: http://askolivar.tumblr.com/post/125187805324/wilstar-fun-bit-guild-age
Just be warned, it's a bit tricky to get it done properly, but I think the instructions are rather clear. The calculation however you will have to do manually or use some scripting language to calculate the correct date. Lua supports unfortunately no option for this in the game.
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Oh the productivity I made at work while the forums were down!
 
Let's see, got some solid pulls in on ohmna. Still fighting the roster boss (amplified due to the summer, I think) and considering a change of raid schedule.
 
Got a chance to see the inside of DS on my alt (buff botting for carries is fun!)
 
My wife is getting more and more frustrated that she can't raid with me consistently, but hopefully with her work schedule changing she'll be able to do more. Last time she raided with us she rocked the meters :D
 
I got the BoE DS pistols on my slinger- haven't used them in a raid yet so I'm pretty excited about that. And I ALSO got the main stat imbument on my gauntlets, so and those will be a new addition the raid this week as well. So I should be hitting pretty hard!
 
Finally, I've gotten my raid management app to the point that I think other people might find it useful, but thus far have been unable to generate any interest. So if anyone is looking for a good app to manage sign ups and assignments during raids, let me know. I'd like to make this available as a resource for others because I think it would be helpful and easier to use than google docs.
			
				
	Edited July 31, 2015 by SlyJeff	
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*clings to the forums*
 
Reddit's format like Slashdot works better for news commentary.  It's awful for holding a conversation or trying to follow new information over time.  Unless I missed it, the sorting is fixed to how the popularity contest shakes out instead of the far more useful chronological.
 
Got my slinger Anna to 50.  Runed out and with the PvP i65 pistols she's now rocking 2800+ AP before food and pots.  Sunday's PvP contracts were the perfect storm, all BG's so that helped a lot.  Heck even got a Daggerstone match (that was fun) even though it wasn't a specific contract.  Going to try to run a few matches over the weekend. 
 
Exile side I've got four of the six classes covered at 50, two of which are GA attuned.  Two more 50's to go :D.  Between kitting Anna out and getting a deal on a Supernova White dye I need to rebuild some capital before I start working on #5.	
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Let me see. We had our first raid night in weeks where we actually had to shuffle people around to get a full group, that was pretty exciting! Slyjeff, I would definitely be interested in testing out your raid management app. *winks at google drive dig* 
 
Other than raiding though I haven't been playing much. Its easier to play when you live alone, but now that I have 3 roommates, I'm always doing stuff with them. 	
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			I haven't been able to play at all recently. Between that and the forums being down, Wildstar was cut out of my life for a couple of weeks. The Wildstar subreddit sucked, too. I'm just glad the forums are back.	
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I don't use reddit, so... I had no idea what was going on until yesterday. xD I am glad the forums are back, though. I love our little community here.
 
Most of my WS time has been spent RPing lately - or working on my new housing project. I've... actually resubbed to FFXIV (trying to ignore all the stuff that annoys me... just wanted to play with a friend @_@), so my game time is getting split between these two.
 
I'm really happy with how the new housing project is going, though, and can't wait to share it with people. :3 Spent waaaaay too much time spamming that eldan expedition to farm renown on my baby stalker oh my god I don't want to see the inside of that place for at least a good month. XD	
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Slyjeff, I would definitely be interested in testing out your raid management app.
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 I don't use reddit either.. finished up my housing plot waiting for the forums to go back up so I can say... WE NEED BIGGER DECO LIMIT DAMMIT!!!! 
I dont care how i have to get it whether its paying for an upgrade or carbine feeling generous.. well now that is off my chest.. hows everyone's day	
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How did everyone spend their downtime? Did you get any new levels, take down any awesome encounters? Maybe you spent your time decorating?
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 I don't use reddit either.. finished up my housing plot waiting for the forums to go back up so I can say... WE NEED BIGGER DECO LIMIT DAMMIT!!!! 
I dont care how i have to get it whether its paying for an upgrade or carbine feeling generous.. well now that is off my chest.. hows everyone's day
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Yesh more decor perlease.
 
I managed to completely max out a plot! Salasazia Skychaser's plot is now 2000/2000. If anyone is Dom side and wants to check it out please do! It is an awesome space base complete with ships, outlandish tech, break rooms, guns, ammo, and laboratory!
 
Here are some highlights, come see the plot for the full experience! :)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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As for WildStar, rebooted C.H.U.A.
One of the oldest guilds on the server. I've actually done some Lua experimenting and managed to calculated the date at which our guild was founded:
 
Sat, 31 May 2014 13:04:16 UTC +00:00
 
For those who want to figure our their own guild age, I've wrote a small article on my tumblr on how to do this: http://askolivar.tumblr.com/post/125187805324/wilstar-fun-bit-guild-age
Just be warned, it's a bit tricky to get it done properly, but I think the instructions are rather clear. The calculation however you will have to do manually or use some scripting language to calculate the correct date. Lua supports unfortunately no option for this in the game.
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Dealing with dates as floats is something I have to deal with a lot.
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My soul just shriveled.  I'm sorry you have to deal with that.
 
Place I worked at insisted on recording dates in server localtime.  With no timezone indicator and honoring DST.  Yes we had servers in different timezones.  Normalizing those records was fuuuuuun.  *headdesk*
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Well done sir, although you have a little bit of floating point rounding error in there, although that probably can't be helped.  You're actual guild creation date is:
   2014-05-31 13:02:01.113 UTC
So it's actually another 2 minutes older. :)
 
And no, I don't plan on looking up everyone's guild to check for y'all.  I was just interested in checking how he did it, and see how accurate it was.  Dealing with dates as floats is something I have to deal with a lot.
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