Comic_Relief

I'm glad you're liking the Bayou

Rhynwa, I am sorry the pics are a bit dark. For the sake of atmosphere I made it dark in each room and relied on torch light to give a warm glow effect. But when I get a chance I can enhance the pics to bring out more light

MidFra, I'd be happy to do base tours I have to go run a few errands but should be back in a few hours. Shoot me a PM with your global and I'll send you a tell when I get home

And here it is, my most recent project. Took about 5 days. It is a voodoo/magic themed SG on the Virtue Blue side. The base is "located" in the Louisiana Bayou and travel to Paragon is done via you guessed it, TP.

Click to view the FETISH base

P.S. Thanks to Fire Kittie from The Scratching Post SG for the inspiration for the entry. I saw the plants beneath the entry portal in their base.

Thank you for the compliments everyone very soon I will be posting pics of my current project. Its not quite finished yet.

Coming Soon:

Voodoo/magic themed base made to look like ruins in part of the Louisianna Bayou - virtue blue side.

Projects in the works:

Evil Girlscout cookie factory - virtue red side
PPD Police Academy themed base - virtue blue side
Arcane Library themed SG for a friend - Virtue red side
Night Club themed base - virtue blue side
Comedy club themed base - virtue red side



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Please understand when I say this, it is with the utmost respect.

Gawd I hate you.

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lol Forbin, thanks :P You did great on your bases! We building addicts always enjoy seeing what others come up with. And if you ever decide you want/need help with the magic desk thing, feel free to contact me. I have enough alts, I can throw one in your SG for a while and help you out. Or I can build a room under your supervision if you like. Feel free to PM me here as its hard to reach me in game. I have more than one account and too many alts to count so its hard to say which toon/account I'll be on. Unless you go into the basebuildersinc. channel in game. Then just ask for Comic_Relief from the boards. If I am not in edit mode with my chat window closed, I'll see it.

Snow, simply because you have chosen to interpret my comment as an accusation does not mean it was one. As the poster of the remark, I am clarifying that it wasn't an accusation. If it were an accusation, I would have begun the statement with an "I believe that NCSoft employees have...." which I did not.

Most of what you've responded with has been helpful, save for the parts where you put a good amount of effort into making me feel like an idiot for sharing my thoughts. My interpretation of your posts has been that people are not allowed to contribute to a discussion unless every word they type and the interpretation of their posts meets your approval. Therefore I will bow out of this discussion thread.

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Please stop drinking the funny looking kool-aid and remove your tinfoil hat. It looks silly.


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Come on now, this is a discussion thread, lets not turn it into a flame war please. It was a rambling thought in my post, not an accusation. It is possible for adults to discuss game topics without resulting to snarkiness. If that was a joke, I apologize for taking it the wrong way. I don't know the poster well enough to know for sure =/

My whole point is that it strikes me as odd that I created a few concept characters and had them logged on just long enough to get into the tutorial, then logged them off. They didn't get played after that because I already had too many other alts to juggle, but I liked the characters so kept them. Sure there's a chance one of these characters could have been spotted by a spammer. But I wasn't receiving spam mail back before I quit. Spam has always been a problem in game, but wasn't an issue for me until after my return. Though I can see how creating databases over time would be a tool they'd use. I can also see how sites like City Information Terminal and the like would aid spammers in compiling lists of character names. But I don't use the site, nor are many of my toons on virtueverse.

As for my suggestion on the influence/infamy packages, it was again, a rambling suggestion. Those that wouldn't/couldn't afford to purchase them would definately not like the idea, and I can understand why. However, IMO, the rich are still getting better stuff in game, and the poor are still struggling to make ends meet due to the sellers anyway. If the package feature were available I doubt I'd find myself doing much purchasing either because I have a budget too. However, I would much rather see NCSoft get the profits to go toward development of this game and put a hurting on the spammers, than continue to get spam mail and see the farmers get rich off the game.

Again, just to be perfectly clear, I am merely bouncing off ideas and contributing to this discussion. I'm not trying to argue with anyone, prove anyone wrong, or prove my points are more valid than anyone else's.

Exactly my point Cende. I left the game sometime in Oct. 2007. Before leaving, I made sure the mail boxes on all my alts were empty. I also had several lvl 1 alts at the time that had never made it out of the tutorial, I just made them because I got a nifty concept idea but never took the time to play them. I stopped playing until around March 2008. I had cancelled the subscriptions on my accounts during this time, so I know the characters had not been logged in at all in that time. When I came back, most of my toons had spam mail, including some of the ones still in the tutorial. So again, I wonder exactly how spammers are getting ahold of character names when they aren't around to be logged in even occasionally. Is there a character database somewhere that I don't know about? Are some of these spammers NCSoft employees with little businesses on the side? That might make sense to me considering they'd have access to the game databases with character names right at their fingertips.

I don't think just email limitations/changes should be looked at by the Devs. There's plenty of additional ways to put these spammers and sellers out of business. These are just suggestions, not something I'm demanding. But they're definately food for thought. And I do believe they've been mentioned by other posters, just not in so many words.

A.) increase the drop rates of the items that are costing a fortune. Force the prices down and fewer people will buy influence/infamy.

B.) Undercut the spam sellers by cutting in on their action. The Devs put out costume packages that are purchasable. And pretty soon we'll have purchasable character slots. Why not put together purchasable influence/infamy packages at a rate so low it will force the sellers out of business? Put a limitation on how many times a month an account can purchase these packages. Of course, something may have to be done with the coding so that purchased influence/infamy isn't counted toward the badges associated with the two. I'm not an expert so I don't know for sure.

I'm still curious to see a Dev response to how these spammers are able to get character names when the characters have not been online to be seen on a /who list.

Thank you Flarecat and Rhynwa. I had alot of fun with that base. I was able to give a fella from the base builder's channel a tour in person He then gave me a tour of his base. I fully intend to mimick the jail cells in the Legionaires base in another one of my projects. Thanks Lumos!

Now that the Dojo is finished I can focus on a few other projects. I'll post pics when possible.

My base pics site:
My Base Yumminess

And does anyone have a good walk-through on stacking the short, dark wood book shelves without getting a gap between them?

What I would like to know is how these spammers get ahold of character names that aren't on or haven't been on in a long time. I took a break from the game and emptied my mail boxes on my toons before my hiatus. When I came back a few months ago, each of my characters had tons of spam emails. How did they manage that when I wasn't on for them to see my characters on a /who list? I'm looking forward to seeing what I12 brings us. I use the email system now and then, but not daily. However, it is annoying to see that I have unread mail only to find its nothing important. And to lose the email all together would be a pain in the rear. It does have its uses. I didn't discover the lvl restriction on sending mail until last week when I tried to send a message from a new alt. It was an inconvenience for me to have to log to another character to send my message. But I understand the neccessary fix because of these spammer poop head. Can anyone shed some light on my question above though?