Dacy

Hey, just letting people know, if you have a base that you made early on, maybe you made it and never did much with it? There's a market if it's got a low number. The lower the better, 3 digits or less, and especially if it's got an easy to remember aspect to it, like a pattern such as 515, 246, etc. We're well into 5 digit numbers, and just saying, if you're not using a base with a low number, there are people who'd very much like to have that number, and some who are willing to pay large sums of influence for it. If you have a low number base you'd like to let someone else do something with, please reply to this topic so that anyone interested can see. Seems like we should have a system that puts the numbers no longer being used back into circulation so we don't end up with eventually 6 digit codes.

New Series: Building Skills, when you're ready for a more in-depth look at an aspect of base building. Building Skills: Lettering! -Dacy

And, trying to catch up on some promised videos...here is another one. -Dacy

Isn't it, tho? If they ever took away alphabet letters and stall panel walls, I'd be doomed. Banners are pretty high on the list for versatile items, as well! -Dacy

Finally, got another one done: (hoping to get more out soon). COH Base Quick Tips: Using Banners: More Than Just Decoration! -Dacy

I changed my URL to something custom, not sure if this affects bookmarks or not, but the new custom URL is https://www.youtube.com/c/DacysBaseBuilding.

New base tour!! (Sorry for the long delay)

Did you see my haunted house? You can do lots of things with NPCs if you're creative enough. 🙂 Sadly, there isn't really a "writhing" pose, but some of the dance poses work in some cases. (Still actually open, go see some of what I mean in BOO-17189 on Everlasting). But it would be AWESOME if we had some way to animate objects or NPCs so they'd circle, or walk down a path and back, or something. -Dacy

Base editing can be used to create a wide, wide, WIDE variety of looks and feels. DEFINITELY can be used to create "homey" feeling places, and you can even hide the functions of the base in various places and still have it look like a home. You can also find in the base building community: space ships, space stations, city blocks, tree houses, naturescapes, fantasy lands, underground worlds, haunted mansions, island villages, shops, coffee houses, bars, and many, many, MANY more things. And fireplaces don't have to be quite so huge, if you don't want them to be: -Dacy

Topic edited so that it should now go to the correct place!! Thank you so much for finding that! -Dacy

Odd!! I will edit that. Thanks!!! -Dacy

Well, if it's a curse, I guess I'll take it, nice work! If you'd like specific feedback, I can be reached in game @Dacy. 🙂 Yes, I did go see it all. -Dacy

Just a note here: the DawL House did provide a lot of funding and other help for that event, but they were not the primary fundraisers. 😊 Lots of people helped with that! The biggest contributor was @BlackHearted and Associates. I love the enthusiasm that streamers and such bring to the game! -Dacy

Encountered bug in Sutter TF 12/2/21. We had defeated Praetorian Duray in the final mission. Primal had called his clone. We defeated the clone as Primal teleported somewhere out of sight, and the mission completed as if we'd defeated the AV. We went ahead and finished off two more clones and the AV after mission completion. Character A-157, two teammates. -Dacy

Bonfire. But almost no one uses this, they turn it into a kd fest, instead. Because in general, teams HATE knock back.

To only select an NPC, and not be worried about re-positioning, (like, when you just want to delete it), simply place your character near the NPC, and hit tab until you see that NPC's box lit up (and confirm this in the item window to be sure of your selection). Nicely explained, El D! -Dacy

Nope, can't do one with these, as far as I can see. They disappear if you move, the self-propelling pieces put you in the "slipping" animation, which would break other animations, AND, you have to be floating in water to use the innertubes, which is also a position from which it's impossible to be propelled under current conditions. Sadly, lazy rivers will have to be bobfests, no moving. But hey, now you can bob in style. 🙂 -Dacy

I keep setting this to not expire, hopefully it stays this time! https://discord.gg/hmygsKT4qA -Dacy

I have left it open, for those who still care to stroll through, tho of course, none of the afk characters or scares that really brought it to life are still there. 🙂 I'm unsure at this point whether or not I will leave it open until the season draws near again, or if I will again shutter it and only have it open for Halloween. But for now, yes, it's still open. 🙂 -Dacy

I just wanted to say, THANK YOU to all you amazing RPers who came through my haunted house! YOU are the star, really, the house and everything I put into it would not be much fun without people like you who come through and, with your visible reactions and amazing dialogue, make it come alive. You made us laugh, we've shared a lot of what came through our house, and it was absolutely awesome. THANK YOU!! -Dacy ❤️

The Halloween Giveaway was, by all reports I've gotten back, a huge success. ALL the servers participated, a fact I am very proud of and very happy about! I want to thank all the AMAZING BASE HOSTS!! Give them a round of applause!! All of them invested time and great effort into presenting their awesome bases and dedicating time to stay there and hand out treats to guests. They did this with no promise of anything besides being able to hand out treats! These leaders are: @BBBadger, The Last Judgment, Everlasting - 4 hours @EnnVee, Mischief Manor, Excelsior - 12 hours @Dr. Feedback, Future Dead, Excelsior, 4 hours @GoblinBoss, base host, together with @SuggestorK, Halloween Hall, Reunion - 3.5 hours @KingofMonkeys, Nightcastle, Torchbearer - 4 hours @Etched, base host, and @TraumaTrain, active host, Slackers, Indomitable -6 hours Total attendance overall is higher than I had expected! It is notoriously difficult to get people into bases on any server other than Everlasting, and together, we got hundreds of people to come into these bases from these shards! They saw things they were impressed with, things they may not have seen before, and they got fantastic treats. Good will was built all around. I hope everyone involved is proud of the effort they put in, and what was accomplished. And I need to call out my crew!! Oh, how blessed I was to find such a fantastic group of people! I hope I don't miss anyone here. From the person who first came up with the Halloween Extravaganza idea, who prefers to remain Anonymous, who funded it last year and continued to fund it this year, to every last wonderful person who came through my base, you all have a dear place in my heart. So my call out list (forgive for those whose forum names I do not know): My sponsors! These people contributed various amounts of influence and/or IOs: @Stryk, a huge, generous donor @Ignis Volant @Rugor @Bran @Marine X Then, a group who went way above and beyond simply donating!!! The fabulous @BlackHearted, who, with her friends and associates, donated over half of all the funds we used. AND, she joined the supergroup so she could promote it while doing her many events, AND, she would park BlackHearted in the base while she was afk as part of a scene, AND kept some of our afk characters logged in! Such a huge supporter! ❤️ Wonderful @DawL, super kind and generous, kept pushing influence and IOs on me every time I turned around, AND helped populate the base, as well as RP and occasionally, help lost souls find their way back. Big hearted @IIIXJokerXIII, who not only contributed generously, but also gave of his time and expertise, and designed the much loathed/loved Killer Clown, and showed us how to play him. @EnnVee. Man, this woman, she farmed her heart out to supply the treats for her 12 hour stint on Excelsior; I gave her some supplemental funds, but she basically had it covered, and she put her heart into her base! She managed to attract pretty close to 200, unheard of for a base on Excelsior. Dr. Feedback, who also had a base open on Excelsior, who not only staffed his base but also contributed to the overall effort, and also had a really successful run. @rookery. contributed, but also helped with scare acting! @GENI,aka Dallas, who helped me with promotional posters and advice. @Conventus, who helped with promotion on Twitch, @Nightfall Raven, who streamed music on many nights. @Ellyz, whose amazing costuming skills brought us gems like Lost Girl and the Hell Spiderlings, and she even helped with some of the scares! Thank you all!! My scare actors!! Oh, how they improved the whole experience for visitors!! If you went through the house without them, I'm so sorry, because you really missed something special. I had an early crew, helped us get things off the ground, set the bar for everyone who came after: Some got sick, some couldn't continue due to other reasons, but all were so very welcome and great to work with! @aalyasenai,@amph, @Arklide, @betsumei , @ChaosGirl, @choochus, @Gillbombs, @Inq Blot, @juliantwopointoh (Discord handle), @Thurgon, @Mystical Bovine, @Sirena, @Texas Jane, @Wravis, @xxshadowcat95, and my awesome GM participants, @GM Sparky, @GM Willow, @GM Kal, @GM Impervium...you all made it rock so hard, it was SO MUCH FUN, and a big part of that is because of you! I can't express thanks without thanking the main reason my base is so much fun, and that is the RP crowd on Everlasting!! You all, you just don't know how much more fun it is to work with people who react and lean into what's going on, rather than running through, never slowing or looking around. Thank you! You all are AWESOME And finally, the biggest shout out to my right hand people: @VV and the amazingly creatively awesome @Easter Bunny!!!! @Easterbunny sparked several ideas used in the base, such as the twist that the door that used to lead out from the black house path last year, THIS year, tempts you into a hole that leads to the carnival. He encouraged me that the fall I had accidentally created in the fire zone wasn't too much to keep, and so, the little ride into Hell was born. Heads instead of balloons? Yeah, I'm not shy about using a great idea when I hear it. And then, all the afk character ideas, and then the PRODUCTION of all of those afk characters and most of the scare characters. He collaborated with @Ellyzto make the demon clown and the Lost Girl, AND he helped with scare acting as much as he possibly could! @VVwas so helpful in her organization, and she was just there so much of the time, doing things that needed to be done. Just even knowing she was there to help was such a relief I can't even express how important, and she was typically perched on a scare Spiderling, participating in the scares. As you can see from this huge list, it was something that required a lot of participation from a lot of people!! Thank you all so very much. There were a few glitches, yes. We learned several things! I learned that accessing storage during haunting time is not a good idea (flickers even on a good day, crashes if you did it too fast, sorry about that!). Next year's event will probably trim down the live actors to just the week of, to cut down on burnout from everyone. Pretty sure no one wants to hear another promo for the Witch's House for a while! That was certainly made clear to @EnnVee on Excelsior regarding her promos; she was only allowed to post once per hour, and I'm sure a lot of people missed out because they didn't hear about it. I probably need to have some guidelines for base layout for all the participants, because some players want or need a straight line to the treats, extra experiences in the base not desired. And, the base on Torchbearer had some problems keeping to their posted hours. I think overall, it still went really well, and lessons learned will definitely help next year, and, there is now a growing awareness of this event, so promotion will be easier next year. Let me know if you are interested in being a coordinator for your shard for next year's Giveaway. All the materials are in place, so it will be pretty easy, and it would be nice to only have to coordinate what is going on at my own base. You don't even have to have a base, just be someone who likes to coordinate and help others. ❤️ <3<3 Dacy <3<3

There was much more to ELLO, but unfortunately, it seems you missed it. Probably a more straightforward design will work better next year. The builder wished to try some more complicated paths. I was unsure if people would take to it or not. Some loved it. Some, obviously, did not want to mess with it. She managed a pretty good giveaway, so hopefully more liked it that didn’t. 😊 -Dacy

The witch’s house code is BOO-17189, and it’s one of the codes listed, but it isn’t the only place to get treats! -Dacy

It’s only on Halloween. -Dacy

This is still SET to go on on Halloween. I'd load the current posters, but there is a lifetime limit on how much you can upload to the forums, and apparently, I can't do that now. I'll get someone else do to it. 🙂 -Dacy