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[Wildstar] PTR Announcement This Week(?)

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  • IshtaarIshtaar Fun is underrated. Registered User regular
    My friends rolled on Mikros and I haven't had a queue at all, so it's not a terrible idea.

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  • RadiationRadiation Registered User regular
    I demand more rage in this thread.
    Seriously, all of you need to be more ruffled about this. Most people are able to play, queue seems to work. The game isn't broken.

    But I can't play! Dis game is doomed! Dooooooooooommmmmmmeeeeeeedddd.
    Preorder canceled!

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  • FairchildFairchild Rabbit used short words that were easy to understand, like "Hello Pooh, how about Lunch ?" Registered User regular
    The que timer, for Stormtalon anyway, is not very accurate. My que has dropped in half in the past five minutes.

  • HunnehKayBunnehHunnehKayBunneh Registered User new member
    Hiiiiiiiiiiii! I'm Bonepart's wife. I'm addicted to WildStar after today and I'm Hulking out over not being able to play! I have to WORK tomorrow... I gotta get my time in tonight. *sobs uncontrollably*

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  • NoxyNoxy Registered User regular
    I'm pretty bummed about the long wait times but I completely expected it.

    Eventually the queues will clear up and we will have a nice healthy server population.

    Radiation
  • FairchildFairchild Rabbit used short words that were easy to understand, like "Hello Pooh, how about Lunch ?" Registered User regular
    Get used to it. Your best bet, seriously, is to start an alternative character on a different, less busy server to get you through the next couple of weeks.

  • HunnehKayBunnehHunnehKayBunneh Registered User new member
    I know... but... but... I dun WANNA. LOL I have the attention span of a gnat these days so doing the starting area content again would just serve to annoy me more. I promise not to whine TOO much.

  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    Does crafting in this work like wow I that I can be a miner a weapon Smith and a cook of some kind?

  • NoizlanifNoizlanif MMO-Whore Registered User regular
    Yes, You can have 2 primary professions, like a miner / weaponsmith, and have cooking, and farming, and something else.

  • 5xad0w5xad0w Lower Earth OrbitRegistered User regular
    Bucketman wrote: »
    Does crafting in this work like wow I that I can be a miner a weapon Smith and a cook of some kind?

    http://wildstar.gamepedia.com/Tradeskill

    You can have 2 Tradeskills and everyone has access to hobbies.

  • KarozKaroz Registered User regular
    Yup, right now cooking is the only hobby craft available. Others have mentioned fishing but that seems to be incomplete/scrapped for now.

  • KyanilisKyanilis Bellevue, WARegistered User regular
    Bucketman wrote: »
    Does crafting in this work like wow I that I can be a miner a weapon Smith and a cook of some kind?

    Basically exactly this. You get two tradeskills, which includes gathering and crafting skills so miner and weaponsmith would fill those slots.

    Cooking is a hobby (the only one, I think), which is separate from tradeskills so it's independent of your two tradeskills.

  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    Noizlanif wrote: »
    Yes, You can have 2 primary professions, like a miner / weaponsmith, and have cooking, and farming, and something else.

    Is there fishing. Strangely that was always one of my favorite things to do in wow.

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  • ElementalorElementalor Registered User regular
    I demand that launch be delayed 3 days so I can have a proper headstart.

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  • devilmanVISAdevilmanVISA Registered User regular
    1904 users logged in to the queue. 1904 users logged!

    When one gets in, sing it again! 1903 users logged.

  • KyanilisKyanilis Bellevue, WARegistered User regular
    anoffday wrote: »
    Noizlanif wrote: »
    Yes, You can have 2 primary professions, like a miner / weaponsmith, and have cooking, and farming, and something else.

    Is there fishing. Strangely that was always one of my favorite things to do in wow.

    Nope. They mentioned at some point that fishing is too passive for what they want in Wildstar. I think the intent is to find a way to liven it up a bit and eventually add it in, but fishing as we know it in other MMOs doesn't really fit in so it's not exactly a planned feature anytime soon.

  • FairchildFairchild Rabbit used short words that were easy to understand, like "Hello Pooh, how about Lunch ?" Registered User regular
    The game has a lot of water and clearly spent some time on the water effects, so I'd expect Fishing to appear eventually.

  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    Kyanilis wrote: »
    anoffday wrote: »
    Noizlanif wrote: »
    Yes, You can have 2 primary professions, like a miner / weaponsmith, and have cooking, and farming, and something else.

    Is there fishing. Strangely that was always one of my favorite things to do in wow.

    Nope. They mentioned at some point that fishing is too passive for what they want in Wildstar. I think the intent is to find a way to liven it up a bit and eventually add it in, but fishing as we know it in other MMOs doesn't really fit in so it's not exactly a planned feature anytime soon.

    What? But cooking isn't too passive? I hope they add it some time. I'd love to catch some alien fish.

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  • KyanilisKyanilis Bellevue, WARegistered User regular
    anoffday wrote: »
    Kyanilis wrote: »
    anoffday wrote: »
    Noizlanif wrote: »
    Yes, You can have 2 primary professions, like a miner / weaponsmith, and have cooking, and farming, and something else.

    Is there fishing. Strangely that was always one of my favorite things to do in wow.

    Nope. They mentioned at some point that fishing is too passive for what they want in Wildstar. I think the intent is to find a way to liven it up a bit and eventually add it in, but fishing as we know it in other MMOs doesn't really fit in so it's not exactly a planned feature anytime soon.

    What? But cooking isn't too passive? I hope they add it some time. I'd love to catch some alien fish.

    Have you tried cooking in the game? It's uhh, not quite just click a button like it is in other MMOs, heh.

    I'm sure eventually they'll add in fishing, but from the way they've talked about it I don't think it's coming soon, and it'll likely have a spin on it. Personally I feel like fishing is usually the "relaxing" activity. Like, hey, I don't want to think about doing anything but I'll sit around and fish and chat. So I really hope they don't try and make it too much work.

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  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    Kyanilis wrote: »
    anoffday wrote: »
    Kyanilis wrote: »
    anoffday wrote: »
    Noizlanif wrote: »
    Yes, You can have 2 primary professions, like a miner / weaponsmith, and have cooking, and farming, and something else.

    Is there fishing. Strangely that was always one of my favorite things to do in wow.

    Nope. They mentioned at some point that fishing is too passive for what they want in Wildstar. I think the intent is to find a way to liven it up a bit and eventually add it in, but fishing as we know it in other MMOs doesn't really fit in so it's not exactly a planned feature anytime soon.

    What? But cooking isn't too passive? I hope they add it some time. I'd love to catch some alien fish.

    Have you tried cooking in the game? It's uhh, not quite just click a button like it is in other MMOs, heh.

    I'm sure eventually they'll add in fishing, but from the way they've talked about it I don't think it's coming soon, and it'll likely have a spin on it. Personally I feel like fishing is usually the "relaxing" activity. Like, hey, I don't want to think about doing anything but I'll sit around and fish and chat. So I really hope they don't try and make it too much work.

    Nope haven't tried it. Excited to now though! And I agree about the fishing being relaxing. It was always nice in other mmos when you wanted to take a break.

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    I would urge everyone to not worry about server queues. They'll be horribly annoying for a day or three, probably tuesday and Wednesday, and then they'll likely be fiiiiine.

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  • KyanilisKyanilis Bellevue, WARegistered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    I would urge everyone to not worry about server queues. They'll be horribly annoying for a day or three, probably tuesday and Wednesday, and then they'll likely be fiiiiine.

    Yeah, it's a relatively minor annoyance that will lead to a better experience. People just really want to play right now because hey, it just went live. I get the excitement, but this is the truth, the queues are temporary. A month from now? Most people will likely have forgotten there were queues.

    And look on the bright side, once you get into the game it's super solid, aside from some lag late last night when there were literally hundreds of people in the same area everything has been smooth. As far as launches go, I've seen muuuch worse. People just tend to forget about the negatives once they get fixed.

  • NoxyNoxy Registered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    I would urge everyone to not worry about server queues. They'll be horribly annoying for a day or three, probably tuesday and Wednesday, and then they'll likely be fiiiiine.

    Yup. It's always a big deal at launch because everyone takes time off to play constantly. When schedules go back to normal, the queues will probably not exist or will only last a very short amount of time.

  • FairchildFairchild Rabbit used short words that were easy to understand, like "Hello Pooh, how about Lunch ?" Registered User regular
    A que that started as 2400 just lasted about 35 minutes for me, so not too bad for Saturday nite early access.

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  • Man of the WavesMan of the Waves Registered User regular
    Logged out for a minute to change my audio and come back to a 3 hour queueueueue

    Radiation
  • devilmanVISAdevilmanVISA Registered User regular
    edited June 2014
    I'm not sweatin' the queue at all. Just trying to find the most constructive use of that time. Like watching the tonight's Orphan Black and NOT watching Pranka twerk videos with my wife.

    I thought about reading the stalker forum, but the I don't want the toxicity counter to hit 100 and then have to respawn and run back.

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  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    I'm waiting for Chua-style fishing.

    Throw bombs into the lake, watch it rain tasty fish chunks.

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  • KyanilisKyanilis Bellevue, WARegistered User regular
    Logged out for a minute to change my audio and come back to a 3 hour queueueueue

    It probably won't be a full 3 hours, 45min to 1 hr would be my guess. The estimated times are hilariously off.

    But as a piece of advice, instead of using the log out buttons if you're just popping out for a second use alt+f4. To the game it'll think you disconnected randomly so your spot is "held" for a few minutes. As long as you log back in before that time is up you'll skip the queue. I'm pretty sure exiting out normally doesn't do this.

  • Man of the WavesMan of the Waves Registered User regular
    I did use alt+f4. Then, changed my audio settings, started up mumble and went back in.

  • NotoriusBENNotoriusBEN Registered User regular
    Kyanilis wrote: »
    anoffday wrote: »
    Kyanilis wrote: »
    anoffday wrote: »
    Noizlanif wrote: »
    Yes, You can have 2 primary professions, like a miner / weaponsmith, and have cooking, and farming, and something else.

    Is there fishing. Strangely that was always one of my favorite things to do in wow.

    Nope. They mentioned at some point that fishing is too passive for what they want in Wildstar. I think the intent is to find a way to liven it up a bit and eventually add it in, but fishing as we know it in other MMOs doesn't really fit in so it's not exactly a planned feature anytime soon.

    What? But cooking isn't too passive? I hope they add it some time. I'd love to catch some alien fish.

    Have you tried cooking in the game? It's uhh, not quite just click a button like it is in other MMOs, heh.

    I'm sure eventually they'll add in fishing, but from the way they've talked about it I don't think it's coming soon, and it'll likely have a spin on it. Personally I feel like fishing is usually the "relaxing" activity. Like, hey, I don't want to think about doing anything but I'll sit around and fish and chat. So I really hope they don't try and make it too much work.

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  • EgosEgos Registered User regular
    they just released another PVP server named:
    ROSDOWER

    THIS IS MADNESS!!!

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  • BeezelBeezel There was no agreement little morsel..Registered User regular
    hahaha I guess they underestimated the demand for pvp servers

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  • SaldonasSaldonas See you space cowboy...Registered User regular
    Man, I hope all these new PVP servers stay well utilized after the initial release.

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  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    edited June 2014
    Egos wrote: »
    they just released another PVP server named:
    ROSDOWER

    THIS IS MADNESS!!!

    ROWSDOWER!

    HE'LL SAVE US ALL!

    From the queues.

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  • Dangerous CheeseDangerous Cheese Registered User regular
    Any officers from the dominion guild online to invite me to the guild? :smile:

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  • EgosEgos Registered User regular
    Beezel wrote: »
    hahaha I guess they underestimated the demand for pvp servers

    so far the tactic seems to be: try to lure people off the overloaded ones by offering them servers with cooler names

  • PA DallasPA Dallas Registered User regular
    Between loads of laundry and making dinner for my son I managed to log in and create my rock dude (ArturoSlate) and do a couple of quests. Awesome graphics and fun to play but I'm rethinking my choice as an explorer since I'm not digging the whole running and jumping thing and I heard that there are jumping puzzles as part of some quests.

    I may just start a new character since I haven't gone far in the game.

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  • 5xad0w5xad0w Lower Earth OrbitRegistered User regular
    Beezel wrote: »
    hahaha I guess they underestimated the demand for pvp servers

    I usually roll on open PvP servers (and am horrible about sneaking into what should be enemy safe zones) but actually went PvE on Wildstar since I felt that between BG/Warplots/arenas there was enough structured PvP content to keep me happy.

    Kind of surprised by all the people going open PvP.

  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    Thing that would be nice:

    If there was a option to turn the main menu music off while you're in queue, and instead make a loud noise/beep notification when you're through the queue.

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  • surettesurette kill the switch Boston, MARegistered User regular
    I think I'm probably done for tonight... logged out for a few minutes to use bathroom / take contacts out / brush teeth and now I have another two and a half hour queue, so yeah. Got to level 11 though, so it was a fairly successful first day.

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