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Get a coffee.  I know I'll need one.  I have to work today, but I couldn't sleep until it was all done, pics were taken, titles written.  Let's get some breakfast.
 
 
There.  So, this weekend was a complete disaster in terms of getting my Wildstar time.  I fought for every hour.  All I wanted was to finish working on this one project.  It's been that way for a few weeks.  Finally, though, after probably two months of work, tonight, it's done....
 
 
 
Who never doubted, never half believed.  Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow."
 
-Philip James Bailey
 
 
 
 
THE SHADOWCASTER
 
I finally finished work on the Shadowcaster, the <Blazing Saddles> giant, brutal, flying galleon.  That's not to say nothing will change anymore; I might tweak things here or there.  Definitely the coming blank housing plug will change things as the housing plug will disappear, I will probably make sure everything is spaced equally after that, and everything should iron out.  But, for now, there it is.  I put together a nice long photoshoot here and listed all the features I built in.  I've been working on it almost constantly since before drop 3, so to finally finish it is really exciting.  I just wanted to show everyone!
 
Although for RP purposes, you need someone to invite you on or the teleporter won't work, for peoples OOC viewing pleasure, the plot is public.  It's on a character named Nightengale Donne (I recommend you guys get Kael's Housing Tour or Visitor if either or both are updated, since I don't know any other way to visit public housing plots save to get lucky rolling the dice on the random visit wheel).  I'll neighbor up with anyone who wants to see it but can't visit, so just let me know when you'll be on and keep an eye out for Nightengale Donne.
 
I just wanted to take a moment to tell the developers at Carbine how much I appreciate this game throughout, but especially housing.  Everyone will spout something about the game being derivative or the MMORPG world just being chock full of games like this, but no MMORPG I've ever played has had anything as excellent as Wildstar's housing.  I haven't had anything this fun in an MMORPG as far back as I can remember.  As someone who practices architecture in real life, I love how precise you can be, how much fun you can have with just designing space and playing with lights.  I love just about everything in this game I've ever experienced, but housing is just head and shoulders above any other game out there.  The decor limit increase was heaven to someone like me, building a plot like this.
 
I can't wait to see what's coming down the pipeline in the future.  The blank plug is already not just looking promising, but is going to necessitate me pretty much removing a huge chunk of the Shadowcaster and rebuilding it with a bilge and a gun deck.  In all honesty, despite the effort I put into this thing already, I'm really looking forward to improving it.  Even when I'm not particularly feeling like hitting the combat grind, there's always Wildstar's housing to keep me entertained.  It really is a roleplayer's dream, and sometimes I wonder why a roleplayer would want to play any other game when they get this much control to put together a setting.
 
How are your housing plots going?  Anyone need any advice?  Have any cool tips you'd like to share?  Any pictures you want to show?	
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Oh dear that was early, it's not even 12/8 yet in my little corner of the planet.
I would love Low Gravity on my housing plot, but otherwise my housing is done. :<	
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I should be sleeping.
 
Vic, you need to enter the Shadowcaster in Lifestyles of Nexus II.  Please do this when you get home from work today - or you know, when you can sneak a few minutes on the forums.
 
 	
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I should be sleeping.
 
Vic, you need to enter the Shadowcaster in Lifestyles of Nexus II.  Please do this when you get home from work today - or you know, when you can sneak a few minutes on the forums.
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Saw the house plot Vic and was blown away! As for my house plot, the overall look of it is completed but I still need to add more small details as a lot of spaces feel a bit empty. Looking at real places on Nexus provide much inspiration though, as many objects there can also be used in housing.
 
Haven't been getting much sleep either, one heck of a weekend due to birthday party and college work to finish. Going to be busy this week too. Late November & December are often the hardest part of the year work-wise until the 2 week holiday starts, where I can finally recover and relax.	
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Saw the house plot Vic and was blown away! As for my house plot, the overall look of it is completed but I still need to add more small details as a lot of spaces feel a bit empty. Looking at real places on Nexus provide much inspiration though, as many objects there can also be used in housing.
 
Haven't been getting much sleep either, one heck of a weekend due to birthday party and college work to finish. Going to be busy this week too. Late November & December are often the hardest part of the year work-wise until the 2 week holiday starts, where I can finally recover and relax.
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Oooh coffee!
 
Another weekend come and gone.  RL friends perform in community theater so I went to one of their shows Saturday night as much to get myself out of the house as it was to see them and the show.  My Wildstar accomplishments were pretty banal.  Mostly dailies and Defile though I did get Scorch, Ely and Tree done on Sunday. 
 
Oh and Omnichore-1.  I like certain aspects of it... but I have to sink an uninterrupted hour to do it.  It would make me very happy if all I had to do was the end boss.  It would make me less irritated with the instance if progress was saved so I could spread the pain over the week instead of having to complete it in one sitting.
 
Most of Sunday was spent working on addon code.  Should be able release something later this week.	
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What kind of look are you going for at your plot?
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Here's some screenshots, though they are a bit outdated. After a tragic incident during a halloween roleplay event there, I added exanite trees and blocks around the plot, which aren't shown in the pics.
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It's a chua amusement park with a restaurant overhead for the less hyper to relax. There's also a lab at the center where Moska lives.
Haven't really added much decors since the decor limit increase, so there's still much room for improvement.
 
Here's some screenshots, though they are a bit outdated. After a tragic incident during a halloween roleplay event there, I added exanite trees and blocks around the plot, which aren't shown in the pics.
 
 
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Good morning all,
 
Lovely houses btw, love the layouts and details. I need to finish my studio up, won't be anything big or grandeous, just an art studio I'm working from home today so it's rather comfy, but same time awkwardly busy lol.(conference calls from bed wooooo!). Tomorrow HEX is launching shattered destiny which I'm really excited to see ^_^
 
In Wildstar it sas a good weekend for me and Red Bastion I think. We got our first guild tab, helped one of our members get to 50, and got two new members as well so I was really happy about that. Also since it's the giving season(though ive always been a giver) helped someone with their sub so they could play longer ^_^	
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Lots of pretty cool stuff here. Can't wait to see what the amusement park will look like once it's touched up a bit.
 
So, good afternoon everyone! Haven't been posting here for a while due to work and being sick the last few days. Finally finished the Defile reputation grind, so I was able to upgrade my gear a teensy bit (Weapon attachments that give support power? Amazing!). I also completed a veteran Ruins of Kel Voreth run while sick! Never doing that again, sickness definitely did not help my reaction time. Still, revenge against Drokk for killing my last run is still revenge against Drokk.
 
I told myself I'd improve my housing plot after the Defile grind, and yet I haven't done that yet. Soon, though! I already have ideas for a few areas of my plot left untouched, Kolba's gonna have a nice shiny new weapons lab or two once I'm done with this.
 
Vic, I've seen you mention the Shadowcaster plenty of times but I have yet to check the place! I'll have to do that sometime, it looks cool from the pictures.	
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I wonder if you can build a roller coaster track out of metal plank, 2x4, and one of the wood pillars.
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New thread is up :)
 
- Team WildStar 	
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