I've had an event get rescheduled to Monday night, so I will be late to our EU meetup.

Buffy will be there for the NA meeting on Tues. Perhaps some Hi Isle dailies might be in order? Gosse says she hopes to make it. I'll remind mALX about it.

I just fed the puppy, heading over to the EU Guild Meet now.

Meeting was met.

Proof

My nefarious plot to have mALX spend more time on EU backfired a little. I showed her a lead for the Druidic Provisioning Station, so she would have to raise her scrying level to use it. Now we can't get her off of Arteum until she does, and we're not getting any dailies done.

Getting the attunable stations reminded me that I wanted to add Clever Alchemist to the EU guildhall, so Fleaur did a few writs for the Jewelry one, and we've got them in.

Now we don't have to wade through No Shira Citadel every time. Feel free to propose other nuisance sets for the todo list.

Made a scouting trip to Galen on the PTS to find the new crafting stations, and their nearest way-shrines.November is coming fast!



The way-shrine at the town (lower left) is open to start with, and none of the crafting locations is guarded.

Laurie has the vouchers for a set.

Nice - thanks!

Great, thanks!


For EU is there a set we need? I got a jewelry station to round out my free attunables, but I don't have an idea of a set to add. If no I will stick them in a box until a pain in the neck one presents itself.

My reason for the scouting trip was to check if they had added any of the new sets in quest-locked locations, before using the reward stations for Clever Alchemist. Since there wren’t any, that made up my mind.

Next on my “inconvenient” list would be one of the Blackreach ones that are a long trek from way shrines. Navigation down there adds to the problems. But I think we’re past the needed, and onto the desirable.

DLC drops in one week! Laurie has sent a set of tables - how many more are needed?

NA, of course, EU isn't going for completion, just "enough".

I'll ask mALX via PM. I plan to send her a second set of four then. And can spring for a third if needed.

Okay, after receiving Ghastley's set this morning (Thank you so much!!!) = we need:


1 Blacksmithing Station
1 Clothier Station
2 Jewelry Stations
1 Woodworking Station

(I had one set already that the game gave us a while back; but it didn't have a Jewelry Station).

I'll be happy to provide a set of four stations.

That leaves only one jewelry station to go and I can certainly provide that if no one else jumps on it.

Edit: Okay, I sent a set of four stations to mALX. I believe that just leaves one jewelry crafting station to go. I can also provide that one is no else wants to.

Having the EU meeting tonight lets us sort out the last station before tomorrow’s drop. We’ll maybe plan the attuning run, too. It would be good to have that done before the NA meeting, as we will have a few way shrines already discovered.

EU meeting tonight then. Thanks, ghastley. I'll make sure mALX knows as she was wondering. Obviously, I won't make the EU meeting.

For the NA meeting, I'll go ahead and send that final attunable table (jewelry) to mALX so she'll have everything she needs for the NA meeting. Hopefully, we can tag all the wayshrines and crafting sites. Maybe even the WBs as well. For NA, it looks like ghastley (I hope), me, Gosse and mALX.

I'm so sorry folks, I've been out of town and forgot to send stations before I left!

I brought family home for a visit but I can slip away tonight for a minute if we still need that jewelry station. If not, thank you Acadian for taking care of it! I will throw extra on the pile for the next round.

No worries, Grits. I did send that final table to mALX earlier today so I'm glad you saw that before getting one. There'll be plenty more tables/dlc I figure.

With today's patch the "GMT" in the MOTD got changed to "**T" because GM is not allowed to exist. I changed it to UTC. So you might get two notifications of change.

They also broke EHT's Guildhall link by removing "@" which is an essential part of the mechanism. If I can get back the tip on how to fix it, I'll be doing so, but that at least in only in the "About us" section, and won't cause notifications.

Thanks, ghastley.

The scheduled reminder that Monday and Tuesday night coming up are the EU and NA guild meeting nights. No events in progress, so we get to choose what we do!

Unless the TheCheshireKhajiit turns up, and we just talk about Skyrim mods.

Buffy and I'll be there!

I will be there with probably Ericka and then Jerric. I'm so looking forward to it!

The Guild Meet in EU was a blast last night! Here are some screens; and some from a previous EU Meeting!

https://imgur.com/a/sJWB61o

And now one without all the UI stuff

It took a long time with us all searching through the Settings to find out how to turn it all off. Health bars, group indicators and the general UI (cross-hairs) all need to be turned off separately.

We still couldn't control the cat. or the companions.

And then on NA, we had a Pool Party instead of of a meeting.

Discussions after the NA meeting have led to structural work at the EU Guildhall.

We have access to the roof
Another view

A boardwalk joins the other balconies
And reaches the harbour wall
And it doesn't obstruct the windows

Totally unsafe without any handrails, but you're all adventurers, aren't you?

Brilliant, ghastley!

Great job with the EU Guildhall additions, ghastley! Jensa went to check it out.



Thank you both for the Guild Meet screenies! It looks like Ever's cat tried to steal the show!

After our Guild Meet I played around with the new housing links and found that we can put links to multiple houses on a guild page. It works from both the Message of the Day and from the About Us section, as far as I can tell. You click on the link or use the prompt (I forgot what it is) to flip through on gamepad.

When we were playing around earlier it seemed that an add-on could interfere with this, possibly EHT. Also the traveling player has to have permission to visit the linked house.

So far I’ve seen this used to list one guild’s multiple crafting houses and another’s holiday themed house in addition to their guild halls. I’m quite pleased with this.

We have an extra limitation, because the guild name is the same on both servers. If the MotD is not identical, the client thinks it changed when you log in on the other server. So the Guildhall link, and any others, has to be in the “about us” section, which doesn’t have that problem.

The effect of the profanity filter may not have been resolved yet, either.

I took a run around the balcony boardwalk at night and it either needs handrails, or more lights. The latter may be possible …

I am also considering a high-diving board off the harbour wall for the Jerrically inclined.

High dive, yes please!!


I almost forgot, Jerric and Taminwe ended the evening upstairs at Jerric's favorite kahve shop and book store, Tales Resold. That was the first time I managed to wiggle the camera into place to get a picture up there.

What a cozy looking spot!

The dive is in, but needs steps. Otherwise you might fall off before you can jump off.

Edit: Steps have been installed and tested. They do double duty, getting you over the inner parapet from the bridge, and onto to diving board. Spare blocks added so you don't get stuck between board and tower. Tested with a tall Nord, and a short Bosmer, Step heights seem to work for the whole range of characters.

Steps and board
Depth of water

In third person, you reach at least 15 ft down. Tiddli jumped off carrying her heavy hammer and the depth didn't change. First person mode stops you at the surface.

It takes two players to get an action shot because you can't get the camera that far away on your own.

And here's a version of the book shop picture that's not centered on Jerric.

We just did the Snow Bear Plunge again at the festival, and now I want the “furnishing” that changes your animation when you jump off those places. I can’t imagine where I would put it.

I haven't done the snow bear plunge since last year. Is that the animation where you grab your knees?

That’s the one! And I stll want a furnishing that triggers the fishing animation.

They just introduced customized actions, which are single-animation overrides, unlike personalities covering multiples. So it’s not unreasonable to hope that an animation trigger could become a furnishing, using existing resources. Still, equally valid ideas, like guild banners, using tabard heraldry, haven’t happened either..

Regular monthly (and annual) reminder. Guild meetings are tomorrow and Tuesday at the usual time. Bring your diving gear for the EU one, as I'm sure we'll start off with a plunge.

Thanks for the reminder, ghastley. Buffy will be at the NA one. I'll remind Gosse and mALX.

Yikes! Is tomorrow today, or was it yesterday?


Whew, it's today. See you at the beach!

A lot of jumping into the water tonight. First, we all did the Snow Bear Plunge for the New Life event, and then went back to the guildhall for some serious diving. After jumping off the high board a few dozen times, we moved the Fan of False-face nearer the board and repeated the process as monkeys. But you can't take a screenshot from close enough to see the monkeys, so then it was jumping off the roof, while the photographer stood in the pool.

Roof Monkeys

And the reason the light was good was the use of the Hourglass of Alkosh.

These turned out to be a total blast due to their proximity to the pool and the ocean respectively! And that was before we turned into monkeys with that "Fan" and tried to group jump into the waters! What a fun Guild Meet!









This sounds like a really great idea; if someone can walk me through what I need to do and coordinate it with whoever is running the Guild Home page, that might really be a help for anyone trying to navigate to the Guild Hall!








From the looks of that screenshot; there is a definite story behind Jerric being in there after dark in a closed bookstore, lol. I would love to hear that tale! .









It was a total blast!!!

Roof Monkeys!

It was hilarious. I am still experiencing bouts of cackling whenever I think of it!

Uh oh. Can't log in to PC NA. PC EU had been having problems earlier today. As of about 1 hour before the NA guild meeting, players are posting in the official forums that they cannot log in to NA. Gets stuck at 'Requesting log in' and times out. I tried from the exe and got the same result. Tried again from the launcher with same lack of success. 25 minutes before meeting time now.

Ugh, me too. Fingers crossed! I did get on PC EU after a period of the same problem.

NA, we're in!!

Since the server wouldn't let us log in at first, Grits and I spent some time looking at the Colossal Aldmeri Grotto on the PTS. But after about an hour, the NA server was back, so we logged over, and ran a few WB's and Vents on High Isle, followed by a quick FG1 run, to make a start on the weekly endeavors.

Lots of discussion of where the NA guild should put its diving board, but no decisions made.

Urgh, I gave up on getting the game online and missed the Guild Meet if it ran last night.

Yeah, I gave up about an hour after start time too. Glad ghastley and Grits got to get in and play some though!