Dacy

Do you like Halloween? Do you like it when people come in to see your base? Maybe you even want to make a base for Halloween? Would you like to give away treats for Trick or Treating that are just GIVEN to you to give away?? Looking for hosts for the Halloween Trick or Treat Extravaganza! Especially from servers Excelsior, Torchbearer, and Reunion! All you need is one or more people willing to be in your base to hand out goodies (no contest, no judging required), and a willingness to help promote this so that you get visitors! Sponsors who'd like to donate additional goodies for the treats also welcome :). I did this last year, had a great time making a base for it, and it was a LOT of fun handing out all those amazing goodies! I love being able to give stuff away. So join me this year! Let's make Halloween extra fun! -Dacy

Sorry, the editor is weird sometimes. Was this -in- the doorway, by chance? The doorways don't act like room walls. Close, but still janky in some ways. -Dacy

Like Halloween? (I know, it's an American holiday, but it's a fun event!) Do you love the idea of sponsoring a Halloween community event, without the work of earning the goodies? Do you have (or do you want to make) a base you'd like to decorate or do up in a Halloween theme, or just show off? Looking for a SG or just a dedicated individual who is willing to give away tons of great stuff on Halloween (stuff will be provided). All that's needed is a base and at least one person (preferably more) to be present to give away goodies during Halloween. Help promoting this event is also needed/appreciated, so that you actually get visitors! Feel free to tie this in with, say, your SG's costume contest, a fun base to visit, or anything else that sounds good and makes for a good community event, but the treats must be given away just like you give them to Trick or Treaters who come to your door: no one has to win a contest, everyone gets treats. Sound like fun? There's even time to make a Halloween themed base if you're into that! Let me know if you'd like to be a host! -Dacy

Like Halloween? Do you love the idea of sponsoring a Halloween community event, without the work of earning the goodies? Do you have (or do you want to make) a base you'd like to decorate or do up in a Halloween theme, or just show off? Looking for a SG or just a dedicated individual who is willing to give away tons of great stuff on Halloween (stuff will be provided). All that's needed is a base and at least one person (preferably more) to be present to give away goodies during Halloween. Help promoting this event is also needed/appreciated, so that you actually get visitors! Feel free to tie this in with, say, your SG's costume contest, a fun base to visit, or anything else that sounds good and makes for a good community event, but the treats must be given away just like you give them to Trick or Treaters who come to your door: no one has to win a contest, everyone gets treats. Sound like fun? There's even time to make a Halloween themed base if you're into that! Let me know if you'd like to be a host! -Dacy

Like Halloween? Do you love the idea of sponsoring a Halloween community event, without the work of earning the goodies? Do you have (or do you want to make) a base you'd like to decorate or do up in a Halloween theme, or just show off? Looking for a SG or just a dedicated individual who is willing to give away tons of great stuff on Halloween (stuff will be provided). All that's needed is a base and at least one person (preferably more) to be present to give away goodies during Halloween. Help promoting this event is also needed/appreciated, so that you actually get visitors! Feel free to tie this in with, say, your SG's costume contest, a fun base to visit, or anything else that sounds good and makes for a good community event, but the treats must be given away just like you give them to Trick or Treaters who come to your door: no one has to win a contest, everyone gets treats. Sound like fun? There's even time to make a Halloween themed base if you're into that! Let me know if you'd like to be a host! -Dacy

The first time, when we had no ambrosia, we did kill the quarry. On subsequent tests, we did not kill quarry. It did not seem to affect results either way. -Dacy

Okay, I am very sure this has been brought up before, but I have new information on this troublesome bug. The bug: you get to the room before the mold wall where there are groups containing Greater Devoured on bridges over a pool in the Eden Trial. The mechanic is, you kill the mobs, and the Greater Devoured drop Ambrosia, a special inspiration that is NEEDED in the final fight, as in, you aren't surviving long enough to be able to kill the Crystal Titan without this protection, because, like Hamidon, the Titan does special damage there is no defense to, unless you have this ambrosia. Which sometimes doesn't drop. So, I was leading a team of 50+ on the Eden. We get to the Ambrosia room, and nothing drops for us. Super. I bought some VERY expensive inspirations off of the AH, and we finished up. Then a teammate and I went back in, only this time, I lead with a level 40 character. THIS time, ambrosia dropped for both of us (he was on a lvl 50+ still) at the expected rates. Originally, Eden Trial was meant as end game content way back when the level cap was 40. Now, when you do the trial, you aren't set to lvl 41, like you are exemplared for most task forces that are below your combat level, it puts you and the mobs at your level if you are above lvl 40, such as for our group, who were lvl 50+. So, (and you can follow much of the discussion on the Discord In Game Help channel), we tested a few times, at +0, at +3, at +4, as did others (and at different notorieties), and in our limited sampling, it seems that if you run Eden at +3 or +4, you may (rarely) get an Essence of the Earth drop from the bosses, but not ambrosia. Possibly this is a level limitation, seeing as the trial used to be capped at 41? Ambrosia lists as dropping from 45-55, but clearly this isn't working, either that, or the bosses are considered to con above 55 when it's a 50+3 or 4. So, could we fix this, please? I'd be happy to have the trial auto ex us to 41 again, I don't need to be 50 to run this. It was never intended to be incarnate content.

It's my pleasure to be able to debut one of the most spectacular bases I've ever seen. If you know the editor at all, you're going to be blown away. You gotta see this! -Dacy

Another base tour up and ready to view! Please note, change the quality you watch (corner, gear on viewing screen in YouTube) to the highest your connection will allow, because the autoplay quality makes this look horrid. Karma

Oh! And I can't believe I forgot this person until now, @Christopher Robin! Oh he of the orange text posts and the never ending encouragement of the artistic side of COH. I am pretty sure he isn't an actual editor in RL, but man, he's good at it. If you ever want a piece critiqued helpfully, he's your guy. He is everywhere on the Arts and Media topic, just everywhere, encouraging everyone. -Dacy

I forgot to directly thank @EmmySky for the original call out/compliment! Doh. Also thanks to @agentx5 and @Tahliah. It feels really nice to get such compliments. 🙂 You all rock, and I love this topic! Seriously, what other game would even have this? -Dacy

Yes, I learned how to make the link permanent! This invite won't expire. 🙂 https://discord.gg/5btRzdv4 -Dacy

What a wonderful topic, and thank you so much, Emmy! I love @EmmySky, she contributes a lot to my Discord by way of comments and encouragement, along with a few other regular contributors, most notably @Easter Bunny, who is always ready to go see someone's base and give them encouragement! I want to call out @VileTerror, who set up a Halloween giveaway last year, using several people as the faces of a giveaway that spanned all servers and gave away billions just for visiting bases, prompting and inspiring my Halloween base. I'm still giving away stuff from that!! I also would name @Conventus (who apparently doesn't go by that here in the forums, or by his Discord handle) as someone who's helped me get literally hundreds of badges on my badger, and @agentx5 and @Vududawl for just being super friendly and opening up their Discord to just everyone to come team with them. And I'll name @Veracor, too; he set up the model for Hami runs and iTrials which give instructions so that even players who have zero clues can follow along with what they need to be doing, resulting in organized and effective runs that happen regularly. I owe a lot of badges and merits to these events, and I've experienced and remember from Live some of these same events that were not run with instructions given, and the resulting chaos and confusion. I think we've gotten so used to it here that we rather take it for granted, and for him and his Everlasting TF helpers to show up all the time and put on these events on a regular schedule like they do is really helpful for the community, and quite the commitment. Same for the folks at Chaos United; they put on MSRs regularly and also regularly host events like trivia contests and the Everlasting Base Competitions, both of which give away influence and are, again, generally helpful. Thanks to all of these great people! -Dacy

I've done this mission before, and recently, but this time, in the last mission (set on the moon) when Yin has set up her protective bubble to protect you against the Apocalypse beam, it afforded zero protection! Even Yin died, although, to be fair, I don't know whether that was the Apocalypse beam, the mobs that we couldn't deal with because of the defeats, that had surrounded us, or a combination of the two; I just know that Yin has never died on me in that mission before. In fact, the last time I did this mission before this, we could safely ignore the apocalypse beam to a degree; heals and Barrier were enough. Not this time. I was playing a plant/nature affinity controller, and I could not keep up enough heal to stay alive. The rest of the team (Stalker, Tank, Blaster) struggled (blaster died also, but not as much as I did, because I can heal the blaster faster than I can heal myself), but did not experience the frustrating number of dirt naps that I did. I put in a support ticket, they told me to post it here.

I believe the Pagoda was entered in the very first (or possibly the second?) Everlasting base contest. It was already a stunning base, but somehow only got, as she said, basically a mention as, "hey, nice base". It's now a much more extensive and refined base, and deserves another chance (and hopefully this time, more recognition!). -Dacy

Plus, since the quote was of the question of entering the contest twice with two accounts, I don’t feel like it was specifically targeted at you. And I think your reasons are legit. -Dacy

Well...at the rate I’m going...no. Putting it that way, it’s not fair. I’ll take it down. -Dacy

Next in base touring series is out: -Dacy

It would be wonderful to have badges for base building! There are a great number of us who have both addictions. 🙂 Perhaps a badge for being in the editor 100, 500, and 1,000 hours. Another for having bought/placed 20k items (the item limit for a base). Another for, say, creating a base with all the teleporters to the zones connected. Another for having deleted 10k items (call it "Destroyer of Worlds" or something). "Bughunter" is very difficult to earn, maybe a badge to go with the titles for being one of the winners of a HC contest? (That one should be account wide; I'd favor "Master Builder" for that one). Those are just a few thoughts, there could, of course, be many more! But to be fair, that's a significant group of people in the game that is totally ignored by badges. I -know- there will be howls of "But I don't like to do bases!", but lots of people don't like to do PVP, and wouldn't if there was no badge attached to it, and there are ways to get the badges without doing a whole lot of actual PVP; this would just be similar, in a different category. Other than that, I favor a "Grand Master Of" badge for doing the current MO TFs at +4x8 and no deaths. -Dacy

Hi! Okay, little trick to keep the editor from booting you to the entry in the first place: fill the entry, make it solid. When you finish, this means you will be ported to someplace outside of the entry room, to the side, usually; for this and for any time you are booted somewhere you don't want to be, or are stuck, type /stuck to return to the entry portal. I will be making a tutorial sharing these tips; I haven't been able to make new ones, and am just, now that we're about two weeks in, making up for some lost time. I am also unable to edit the existing videos without losing them altogether, but I think I will do that, once I make new ones, I will delete the older ones that are either incomplete or have outdated information. If you have the entry portal in the entry room, and you are using an intrabase portal to get out to the rest of the base from there, and the room is enclosed, then yes, you'll need to do something else to be able to get out of the editor into the rest of the base, such as: either move the entry portal out to the rest of the base, or, open up the ceiling so it appears to be open sky (you can fly in and out of the open sky while in edit mode and ONLY in edit mode), or make a doorway from the entry room to the rest of the base. OR, and here's another editor quirk: enter edit mode, exit edit mode, move to where you want to be, enter edit mode again. The editor will only kick you out to the entry the first time! It will, however, ALWAYS kick you back to the entry (or outside of the entry, if the entry is filled) when you exit the editor. I would suggest this one, rather than the first one: It's more complete, and should do until I can redo it to make sure it covers everything. I hope that helps! Please feel free to join my Discord channel for 1 on 1 advice from me and lots of other talented builders (screen sharing available when helpful). https://discord.gg/XrcSAvpa -Dacy

Night Ward, at least, I believe keeps your night lights on, and has a fairly bright cast to it, for a night sky. -Dacy

First in a new touring series. First up: the Pagoda, by @Squidget -Dacy

Another video hits the channel... -Dacy

I love this idea. And I do not see how it would be any more unobtainable than many other of the more difficult badges to obtain. After all, you just need to join a team that does it. I predict that there will be leaders who step forward and are able to do it efficiently. Do not forget, when the "Master of" badges were first introduced, there were no incarnates, no IO set bonuses, and if memory serves, they are also older than the notoriety system lowering difficulty. They have gotten to be extremely easy, given all of the incarnate powers and the lowered difficulty option, they've really become meaningless. I remember working very hard with my team (we always ran at 4x8, and that was before the IO system was a thing) to earn those badges, and we were so proud when we did. I believe a "Grand Master of" badge would restore the honor and weight the original used to carry. -Dacy

Okay, had a moment. Here is a link to my Discord server, if you're on Discord, and there is also a HC base building topic that is quite nice. https://discord.gg/2QkPXjmD Also, in game, /chanjoin Base Builders Inc (I think that's right...) or give me your global and I'll invite you. There are a lot of people in all of those areas very willing to come in and give opinions on your base. I do recommend getting a few, so you can pick and choose those which appeal most to you. Critiques are basically just another person's interpretation of your vision, and it's important that it be true to your vision, so sort out which critique appeals to you according to what you're going for. 🙂 Sometimes critique can feel like criticism, so, before ANYTHING is said about anything, I wanted to put that out there, that no matter how things are said by whomever, and some are more tactful than others, please remember that it's not anything against what you've done or your talent, it's just their vision or interpretation of what they think works, which you are free to agree or disagree with. 🙂 (As you may have guessed, some issues along these lines have arisen from time to time, and I like to avoid wounded feelings if possible. Art can feel like a personal extension of yourself, so, criticism can be tough to hear at times, and I totally get that.) Welcome to base building! 😄 Feel free to global me, my in game is also @Dacy. -Dacy