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Looking for full time work.

Worked on Wildstar from end of 2007-2014

• Created animations for over 40 characters, key framing over 2,800 animations.

• Instrumental in combat development of the enemy telegraph system.

• Assumed lead development of Hoverboard mount in off hours.

I provide evidence supporting my claims on my website, with many additional contributions listed.

https://www.shiftcopier.com/PROJECT%20BREAKDOWNS.html

Scroll down for Wildstar contributions.

transcripts from employee reviews, and a video with the art director of Wildstar mentioning my name as responsible for hoverboards in an interview.

Hoverboard video along with other reels.
https://www.shiftcopier.com/index.html

Direct link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BaIuur0afA

I always go well beyond my job description and provide each team I am on significant financial benefits.  Be it in time saved during development, or adding value to our players.

 “You have consistently demonstrated an interest in bettering the game. Often this is accomplished by your contributions as an animator but it also often goes far beyond that. You do research, participate in prototypes, pitch ideas and propose solutions to problems outside the scope of your job duties.
(…)you have been good at hitting and often exceeding your deadlines and helping pick up the slack when others have fallen behind. You have also cared enough to point out and fix problems caused by others as you came across them in your tasks. You have been good about taking feedback and responding to it promptly without raising a fuss.

i don't want to use my name here as to avoid this being the first hit on a google search.

i'd rather it go to my site. thanks

My bots are the equivelant of two 4 year olds in a grocery store. I find myself saying things like: "Don't touch that!" "Get back here!" "where did you get that from??" "How are you sticky??"

I truly hope i never see flying mounts in WildStar. As a long time WoW player, before flying mounts were introduced, traveling was exciting! You had to be careful not to aggro mobs or perhaps fight your way through areas, you got to see other players along the way and see the monsters they were fighting, you had to meander your way through the environment and sometimes you'd discover hidden, tucked away NPCs and villages you never knew existed before. It made the game feel alive!

Once flying mounts were added the game felt so stale when traveling, you saw a few mountains and poorly rendered villages below that you quickly glided over in a straight line, trying to get from A to B in the fastest way possible. It was boring!

So please Carbine, never add flying mounts, keep traveling as fun as possible.

Just posted this on our main forums:

We left out a key patch note the other day:

• We’ve added additional logging and hack/bot detection into WildStar

The first round of mass bannings for hacking/botting will happen tonight. Thousands of accounts will be banned based on log crawls and cheat detection.

We’ve already banned numerous accounts over the last weeks based on player reports and GM investigations.

Thousands of other accounts are on a watch list – we’re actually pretty sure they’ve been hacking/botting. In the interest of limiting banning potential innocents, we will be looking at past logs and monitoring future behavior to see if it’s repeated and ban accordingly.

Now, what will happen over the next few days:

• Some folks will post over the next few days saying they were inappropriately banned. They’ll fall into three categories:

1. Many were actually hacking, and will stay banned.

2. Some won't know they were hacking but their accounts were compromised and have been used for gold farming. We will resolve these issues on a case by case basis. PLEASE consider enable two-factor authentication, this is way more common than you’d think. https://forums.wilds...g-your-account/.

3. It's possible some weren’t hacking and were caught in the sweep by accident. We’ll work to resolve those cases if they happen. Based on the reports, this shouldn’t be a category – but errors can happen, and in the interest of transparency, if it happens we’ll investigate and use that to refine our searches further.

• We’ll also be further scrubbing the logs to get the next batch of folks. And the next.

We’re also in the process of adding further click-and-report functionality to make it easier to report folks, and we’re working to automate as much of this as possible. There is no exact ETA on this, but it’s in the hopper.

After we ban the first batch, more will come back and their scripts and such will improve. Our logging will improve, and report tools will improve, and we’ll keep fighting this fight.

(An aside, from a place of honesty here - I sincerely don’t understand the player that tries to level up by AFK botting - they make instanced Battlegrounds less fun, and we’re going to ban healthy percentages of them. This wastes money and time (both ours and theirs). And pisses you, the honest player, off. Lose-lose-lose. That being said, I don’t gotta understand the reasons behind such actions – they’re still going to get banned, we’re going to focus heavily on those going forwards.)

(Gold farmers I hate too, but at least I can understand the reasons behind their actions. They’re trying to make money by spamming, ripping off accounts, and gold, and wasting our support/dev time, which is unethical and borderline evil but at least rational. I really suggest not buying gold from them if you actually care about such things).

In any case, we devs have been playing a lot of WildStar too, and have been annoyed as well by farmbots starting to appear at mining nodes, and by folks mucking up battleground games by AFKbotting.

Both suck, and while there will be many stages to the war against these kinds of folks, it’s a battle that has to be fought even if it’s a distraction from what we’d rather be doing - adding content, fixing bugs, and making the game better. We'll keep doing that as well despite the distraction.

Anyhoo, this is the first wave of what I’m sure will be an ongoing battle. I don’t guarantee perfection, but I do guarantee we’ll do our part in the fight. As for what you can do: if you keep reporting we’ll keep banning.

Thanks -

-jg

Apparently I am not the only one, after having this happen to me I looked / asked around. I browse this sub daily and unfortunately I haven't seen a thing about this.

Currently if you buy an upgrade for your mount it will literally suck dry your entire available gold and charge you 3-4-5-6 times in a row at 50g each and not give you a thing.

Wait for confirmed fix before you end up like me with 3 gold at lvl 40 & frustrated as hell that I can't even repair.

For the CRB that browse here & want proof #350972 ticket is filled & for the love of god, stop focusing on fixing quests & fix this. This is so game breaking its unreal to think you haven't done anything about this, at the very least take out the vendor. PLEASE

EDIT: I get some of you think that I'm being overly dramatic about this. Consider this, I have been at this, farming this money since head start, to have it all taken away from me due to a bug that apparently has been around since CB has ruined the plan I had for my character, it erased the time I put in farming that money & judging from the comments of what people got as a response to this issue I will probably not see that money for a few weeks. Having the time you put into the game simply erased based on a bug which is not announced sucks, sure in the long run months from now this may not matter but right now it does.

I am really not trying to gain sympathy or rally people to grab their pitchforks, all I want to do is bring attention to this so other people do not get hit by this as hard as I did & maybe if the devs are listening they will finally do something about this giant mess of a bug. Like put it up on a launcher along side the name change, server transfer & CRED sales, make a vine about it or even maybe throw up a youtube video.

EDIT #2: Possible Fix By Zerve

I posted about this yesterday and someone suggested this: Mail all but ~55g to a friend/alt, then go to the vendor, dismount, and buy the mount upgrade by clicking the purchase button. Then log off and back onto your character. You will likely see nothing happen, and might even get an addon error, but after relogging I checked the vendor again and only saw the level 50 riding skill available. You can easily bounce the gold back and fourth between characters by hitting return mail, and you don't even need to be near a mailbox. This is relatively safe because at most you can only lose all of your money (55g). Key things here is to not be mounted when you buy it, and try relogging after you purchase. I tried this myself and can confirm that my mounts are faster.

Hi all!! I’m Jeff. The composer from WildStar. I was really bummed when NCsoft made the decision to let the distribution lapse on Vol 1 and 2 of the OST… causing it not to be available on digital platforms any longer.

I’ve finally taken some time and reconstructed the OST volumes (a couple sliiiiiiight tweaks in track inclusion) and put them on my soundcloud. If you’re missing the music, feel free to go listen to your heart’s content.

I wish I had the power to put the music back into distribution, but for now, a soundcloud link is all I can offer. Enjoy!!

WildStar OST Vol 1

https://on.soundcloud.com/h9iP37wkbOiNj9ss0t

WildStar OST Vol 2

https://on.soundcloud.com/CP3Q1xXsZPXNNJwCWi

Some players don't have 20/20 vision and others did a honest mistake and bought stuff for platinum because they thought it was silver. Or they wasted Renowed on stuff for the same reason. The icons look too similiar. Here is how I would fix it (or in different colors and shapes).

For colorblind it would be really good to change the shape, too.

I can totally sit in town or in my house and just listen to the music all day.

Don't be dicks

Edit: aaaaaand it's gone. good job guys you ruined it.

Hi everyone, For the past few days I have been collecting useful information on the official WildStar forums, on reddit, reading in game chat, that most of us should know before start playing WildStar. I'll definitely update the list with more tips when I come across new ones. If I missed anything important please share it with the rest of the community in the comments below.

I would also like to thank WildStar community members who answered most of my questions. I also included some up-to-date guides, because I couldn't write all information in this thread.

General

• If you activate WildStar Two-Step Verification you’ll get Progression Boosts: 2% Increase to Experience, Renown, and Prestige gain - http://wildstar.mmorpg-life.com/guides/activate-wildstar-two-step-verification/

• At Level 6 you can start using AMPs (http://wildstar.mmorpg-life.com/guides/wildstar-amps-guide-vendor-locations/)

• If you want to get AMPs, you can buy them from vendor in Thayd for Exile. Look in tech fortunes area. For Dominions look in Illium. Amp Vendors are scattered around the world.

• AMP items can be also obtained as random world drop, quest rewards, rewards from Scavenged Supplies boxes for completing challenges, from end dungeon bosses.

• You can get your first house at level 14 (http://wildstar.mmorpg-life.com/guides/wildstar-housing-system/)

• Teleport button to your house is on the right hand side of the action set, where Recall button with an arrow is located.

• You’ll be able to edit your costume at level 7. Costumes can now be edited at the Protostar Dye Specialists in Thayd and Illium. and in major questing hubs in almost all areas. Costume slots unlock at levels 7, 14, 25, 35, 45 and 50, for a total of 6 available to each character. The total number available at launch is in flux, but there will certainly be more than 2.

• If you want to see past tutorials pop ups – Press ESC then Tutorials

• Where I can find a bank to store my stuff? Banks are usually next to auction houses. For EXILE: In Thayd-Fortune’s Ground, next to an auctineer.There is also a permanent bank inside a house in gallow and the lopp village. Settlers can make a bankbox 10 meters from the house in gallow. For DOMINION: Illium-Fates Landing (East part, next to an auctioneer’s house )

• Bank slots need bags, thus, don’t sell off your extra bags until you use them for bank slots.

• How to link a quest in chat? Shift+right click quest name

• Shift+Scroll Wheel while hovering over a stacked inventory item will split stack.

• Taxi stations show up as white circles on the mini map when they need to be discovered (You can discover them by right click a taxi station)

• To preview the telegraph for an ability, simply mouseover the ability icon for a moment.

• You can make your character walk by clicking [.] key on the number pad.

• Recall – works similar to a Hearth Stone in WoW – you need to bind it to one of the portals located in large hub points to be able to use it first, once you’ve bound it you can teleport back there without running, when you move to a new area you can move the bind point.

• You can ctrl+right click items to preview their looks.

• When gaining reputation with a faction, Beloved is the max, anything over that is discarded.

UI/Configuration

• Press ALT+F1 if you want to see FPS and Ping

• On your innate skill (skill with R at the bottom) and the recall skill (rightmost skill on the central skill bar) you have little arrows that give you options like changing stance or porting to your home (if you have one).

• Yellow hexagons on your map are quest objective areas and orange hex are path mission areas.

• You can disable the channels in your chat frame by clicking the little spanner icon, then pressing the button next to Advice. You can turn it back on using the same trick.

• If you have problems with the UI, try /reloadui before camping and returning back to the game.

• If you stuck inside a drill, trapped beneath a crate, or free-falling indefinitely, use the command /stuck.

• There is a key bind C for communicator that you can pop up to submit some finish quest.

• Ctrl+drag with Left Mouse Button removes items from your action bar.

General and Fast Leveling Tips

• Do not skip any mobs. Constantly grind your way from Quest start, to questing area.

• Always have some direct healing medpacks in your inventory – you are going to use them a lot.

• Put 1 knockback/knockdown on your bar. Interrupting mobs cast causes your abilities to deal increased damage for a short period, next to saving you from fairly high damage abilities.

• Once you hit level 14 and get a house, always sign out while in your house to get rest XP.

• There is an exp bonus board inside the personal housing zone. The buff cycles from 10% to 5% depending on the day and it lasts 24 hours. It is worth the small amount of time spent to pick up the buff. Once the buffs’ duration expires, the buff can be reapplied from the board.

• Make sure to create an alt and get it into an area with a mailbox. This way you can extend your own inventory without having to hit the bank as often. It took about 25 minutes to blaze through the arkship and the first island from 1-6 level if you don’t do all challenges. 25 minutes early in the game will save you several hours of time teleporting back and forth from the main town.

• It also sets you up to not be broke at 50 because you will be sending things to your alt that you will want to sell, instead of just blindly vendor and salvaging it all in order to keep your bag room up.

• Keep both a support and assault set as much as possible while leveling so you can queue as both support and DPS for instances. Also the first time you hit a 3-5 man quest try and add anyone in your group that seems competent to friends. Being able to grind 2-4 levels in a dungeon helps to take a bit of the monotony out of the normal grind.

• If you focus on fast leveling for later PvPing, spend some time in the pvp queue, because of the way gear is currently rewarded in game. Spending 5-10 hours in pvp could provide a ton of long term benefit, even if it temporarily stymies your leveling progression!

• For Fast Leveling take Settler or Soldier as your path. Settler is the only path in the game where you gain the items needed to use its abilities from just killing mobs. It also gives you a portable sell station, so you can empty your inventory with less need to run back to a hub or station. Soldier gets special weapons for completing Swat missions that allows you to defeat mobs pretty fast.

• If you focus on leveling through PvP, you will not have enough money to buy a mount on level 15 for 10 gold. The first mount available for PvP currency Prestige is available on level 25.

• If you can, level with a friend.

• Leveling guide - http://wildstar.mmorpg-life.com/guides/wildstar-leveling-guide-exiles-dominion/

Paths

• You can activate your Path Action by pressing G key.

• Grouping with someone who has a different path means you share path experience when either of you completes a path objective.

• Built settler stations can give you some awesome buffs or even offer more taxi routes.

• Settlers can build small camps with vendors and reputation quests

• When there are multiple settler terminals, you can get buffs from all of them.

• Active settler stations are highlighted with a sky beam.

• Explorer’s Scavenger hunts have both physical items you can click on, and items you have to Dig up by standing in the right spot. Pay attention to the meter on the Path UI widget. It will be full and a green ‘Dig’ button will light up when you’re in the right spot

• A small raised stone circle with cracked ground in the middle are explorer only 'points of interest' that will spawn random buffs or open up into otherwise inaccessible areas

• Path mission database with location screenshots - http://wildstar.mmorpg-life.com/path-missions-database/

Questing

• If you click the little number next to the quests name in your quest tracker it will open your questlog on said quest.

• You can use quest items by pressing T

• When you click on a quest title in the tracker you get arrows pointing you in the right direction.

• While questing, look out for special settler-taxi stations, those usually travel short distance to your current quest areas.

• You can get special weapons from named monsters. If you complete a mini quest connected to your weapon, it will give the weapon a special effect

• If you haven’t completed a challenge don’t panic, you can restart a challenge after a cooldown, in the challenge menu.

• You can restart challenges even if you achieved the gold medal.

• When you’re doing a challenge and you don’t know where you can find more of X monster, look at the map. Purple hexagons indicate the zone you can find those monsters or anything else related to your challenge

Mounts

• You can buy riding skill and your first mount at level 15 for 10g - http://wildstar.mmorpg-life.com/guides/wildstar-mounts/.

• You can buy Hoverboards at level 25 – price ~24g

• You can also buy a Hoverboard for 4000 Renown from the Renown vendor in the capital cities

• Advanced riding skill comes at level 40 (costs around 35 gold, increases mounted speed by 15%).

• Once you buy a mount, it goes into your inventory. Use it from there.

• How to mount? Press Z

• Mount button is placed at your bottom left corner. It is activated by keyboard button “Z”. There is a small arrow on this same button. You can use it to bring up a pop up menu with list of all mounts you have in your possession.

• Summoning mount takes around 1,5-2,0 seconds. If you move during this time, it gets canceled.

• You can use Hoverboard on water.

• The sprint key also works on your hoverboard

• Mounts can’t be used in PVP or PVE instances

Crafting/Gathering

• You can start salvaging items at level 8

• You can start crafting (tradeskill) at level 10 - http://wildstar.mmorpg-life.com/guides/wildstar-tradeskills-guide/, http://www.wildstarfans.net/2014/01/chief-sarcans-basic-guide-to-crafting.html

• You can right click on nodes to harvest them instead of attacking them.

• If you cancel mid-craft you lose all your mats.

• How do you craft a rune? At lvl 15 you got a quest at the engraving station. Make sure to scroll down and do “show all”.

Instances / Groupplay

• Completing Dungeons and Adventures earn you reputation with your faction

• The group finder has a button to teleport you to the instance, while in an instance party. This is quite useful in case you end up outside by accident.

• If you plan to visit the early dungeons / adventures, try to acquire some support gear first, because they are pretty hard if you go in with the DPS gear (either as a tank or healer).

• When you mentor down you can’t use potions above the level you are mentored to.

• You can gather a group and walk into a dungeon/adventure 3 levels before you can use the dungeon queue.

• Warplots require 10 Warparty members to be online before the Warparty can queue.

Ohai,

I seriously love this thing in WIldstar, the best thing I have ever had in an MMO! So thank you for this feature!

Also I've been busy with the housing since I leveled 14 in headstart... I finally finished.. okay it's around 98% done, but here is it:

http://youtu.be/pk8Gkq4enjY

It's for Role Play purposes though, but I hope you guys like it :) I also reached the maximum decor limit for the exterior part.. which is apparently around 300 or seems like it.

Edit: Apart from Hoogle-henge, the Mineral Deposit and the actual house.. they are all decors. Also if anyone curious the little additional house is a part medical station and the little separated room in there is for massages and relaxing ^{(while the patients suffer and die next to you)}

Edit2: I did not expect this much... like. I wake up check WS reddit, thinking "Aw yeah maybe some guy likes the thing I did!" just to go "HOLY S***" and see I got a reddit gold and tons of replies including Carbine responses! I'm kinda so shocked by this, that I don't even know what to do or say apart from saying an honest thank you to you guys. I love this community and the game. I also really love the voice of the Protostar guy at Carbine, this was off topic, but I couldn't resist to not say.

Also a little help if interested in the walls of the other house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSAkHxp3c2s

Edit3: as many people ask ^{(it's at the end of the video)} how much did it cost, it did cost roughly 280 gold.

I did put my "house" on Nexus Cribs site as someone told me :)

Firstly, let me just say that Wildstar is an absolutely fantastic game, Carbine you've done an amazing job and I look forward to seeing where you can take the game over the coming months and years.

However there's one thing that's really bugging me.. Nexus to me feels more like a series of interconnected instances, than a planet, it feels kind of.. disconnected.

To put it into a picture, this is how Nexus feels to me.

There's 2 reasons that I feel like this -

• No world map means that I don't have any appreciation of where things are or where I'm going, continents feel more like large instances.

• Inter-continental travel is instantaneous and offers no sense of distance or terrain travelled, I simply click on a ship and teleport, where the hell did it take me?

I really hope Carbine take the time to address the 2 problems above, they've put in a tonne of effort into making the landmasses breathtaking, now I just feel they need to mesh them together to make it feel like the breathtaking planet it should feel like.

I recently found out of a new public server that lets you go and walk around a lot of the in game maps
(If you wanna play too: Omechron Discord https://discord.gg/Y6tDDXWNJW )

Since I am currently developing a game with a small team and i thought of going around some biomes to get some inspiration.
I ended up wasting hours flying around the world and taking these raw screenshots, no edits, just raw screenshot from a 21:9 monitor and UI hidden.

Makes me really think of what waste of potential this game was :(
Unfortunate story, but still kudos to the work done here. 11 years ago now....

Anyway, just wanted to share with you all some nostalgic pictures!
Have a good one!

So, we're here in the office...getting close. Just wanted to take a moment to thank the folks in this sub - I remember when there were a few hundred here, and now it's over 33K.

So thanks so much for the support! We'll do our best to repay that support by putting our heart and soul into making the game great at launch and better yet each month.

We're hoping for a smooth headstart - no known big issues as I write at least - and the history of MMOs says we have at least a 10% chance of actually pulling this thang off without major issue. :)

Hopefully things don't completely explode - but if they do, we'll be here working through the night on it. If not, we'll still be up keeping an eye on it.

Sincerely, thanks so much guys.

Edit: Running smoothly at record concurrencies at 2:10AM. You folks should be in bed not breaking concurrency records!

-Jeremy

*Edit: Working on it, updates will be coming.

Links from below:

Pajama party in the office - and bubbly at the ready

PJs!

I dunno how many of you out there are in a guild, but my guild bank's AMP tab is horribly difficult to navigate. Even with them organized by class it's just a giant wall of the same icon. If the classes at least had different colored AMPs then we could at least easily find ones for our class in the guild bank!

Anyone else with me here?