DUST Search - For ALL Mercs and Devs: Open Beta Party

BroKeN X wrote:

CookieStein wrote:

G IA N T members and leadership have been discussing the need for the Dust community to come together in further celebration of reaching Tranquility and the fast approaching open beta.

The night of extended down time for the TQ migration a few of us got together in the Event Horizon Lounge (dressed in drop suits of coarse) sat at the bar and shot the breeze with some other Mercs. I decided to put out a twitter call for anyone to join us but with the instancing in PSHome if you came out we likely missed you. After some childish avatar dance contests and posing for photo ops we hit the bowling alley and then on to our club house.

After sitting around our war room, arranging furniture and geeking out on Dust chatter an idea struck us...

G I A N T presents to you the beta testers that on the eve of open beta as many Mercs as we can gather collect in PSHome for a flash mob.

So on the night of the 21st take some time off from the SP grind, get your party hats on and let's give OUR game a little pat on the back. Get on in the Event Horizon Lounge, play some games of Slay to grab your favourite Drop Suit, practice your 'running man' and 'robot' for we will party like its YC1999. Consider this a community wide slosh op, all Mercs and Devs are welcome, put aside corp rivalries, forum QQ and let's celebrate how far we've come and all we have to look forward to.

Details to follow. Be there or be square.

How about get ur fat a... Out of ur house and go to a real bar! ........ Wow.... What gaming has done to some ppl??! And ur married.. Uummmmm huh


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CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.16 23:25:00 - [1] - Quote G IA N T members and leadership have been discussing the need for the Dust community to come together in further celebration of reaching Tranquility and the fast approaching open beta. The night of extended down time for the TQ migration a few of us got together in the Event Horizon Lounge (dressed in drop suits of coarse) sat at the bar and shot the breeze with some other Mercs. I decided to put out a twitter call for anyone to join us but with the instancing in PSHome if you came out we likely missed you. After some childish avatar dance contests and posing for photo ops we hit the bowling alley and then on to our club house. After sitting around our war room, arranging furniture and geeking out on Dust chatter an idea struck us... G I A N T presents to you the beta testers that on the eve of open beta as many Mercs as we can gather collect in PSHome for a flash mob. So on the night of the 21st take some time off from the SP grind, get your party hats on and let's give OUR game a little pat on the back. Get on in the Event Horizon Lounge, play some games of Slay to grab your favourite Drop Suit, practice your 'running man' and 'robot' for we will party like its YC1999. Consider this a community wide slosh op, all Mercs and Devs are welcome, put aside corp rivalries, forum QQ and let's celebrate how far we've come and all we have to look forward to. Details to follow. Be there or be square.
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.16 23:34:00 - [2] - Quote Monday January 21st 10 pm Est / 03:00 Gmt Pre-drinking will be in the Event Horizon Lounge at 10 pm Est, the owner still owes me ISK on an old bounty so the Quafe is on the house. For a seat at the bar or a booth table I would recommend calling ahead for a reservation as the staff has said they expect a busier than normal night with the number of Mercs interested and the turn out is usually high anyways with it being Karaoke Mondays. I expect we'll mingle for a bit, enjoy some hor d'oeuvres and chit chat on the current OP Dust items and players. Once the fashionably late have arrived and the not-in-the-know patrons have changed into Dust Drop Suits it'll be off to the races so to speak. Look for tomorrow's update to explain how we'll make sure we are instanced together in the same Event Horizon Lounge and a mini PSHome guide for those that need it. Remember to spread the word in game and local chat. ===============================================Update=============================================== Alright Mercs two more sleeps until we deploy into PSHome and execute our roam of tomfoolery. Need I remind you that Concords presence is strong in the Sony region and the instancing of PSHome is designed to prevent the type of mass invasion that this Op calls for. To that end G I A N T techs have been hard at work developing new advances in Cynosural Field Theory that would allow a new grade of jump clone to act as a beacon. All Mercs on active duty for this Op should have their mission prep done and be ready to deploy by following the mission brief below. Update your PSHome client. If you have never logged into PSHome before take a minute to make your avatar. If you do not have a Drop Suit outfit to wear on the night then head to the Event Horizon Lounge, turn left at the bar and head into the room with Slay. Play a round of Slay, you do NOT have to win a round, simply hit L1 ending your turn until the match ends and you will be awarded a Drop Suit. A brief guide to PSHome Start - opens your main menu, from here you can go to Navigate to move between spaces, Social is where you can connect with your friends and make a Group (limit of 8) Triangle - allows for free-text chat, if using a keyboard you do not need to hit Triangle to text R1 - brings up the gesture menu R2 - hold down to use your headset for voice-chat, this ONLY works in Groups Dpad - will bring up your text chat channels, I recommend sticking to local, after all part of why we are there is to promote DUST Now as far as getting around the instancing I've created the PSN ID GIANT_Flash_Mob. A friend request should be sent to that ID so that under the Social tab you can select to Go To that friend. While anyone wanting to be a part of this event should send a FR if you are planning to go with a bunch of corp mates as a group only one you NEEDS to have GIANT_Flash_Mob on your friends list, consider them the 'leader' of your group and you can just Go To that friend. If you are already on Twitter great, if not I highly recommend it or at least have your Group leader on. I've made the account @GIANT_Flash_Mob to facilitate moving between spaces, announcements and dealing with any problems that come up. Following @GIANT_Flash_Mob is strongly suggested to help this run as smoothly as possible. One more minor update tomorrow, hope to see as many Mercs out as possible. Lets crash PSHome. TL;DR HTFU and read it.
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.17 00:55:00 - [3] - Quote dent 308 wrote: Great idea. I'll check my PS Home install is up to date. Should also take it out of the lounge and go on a roam. Lounge was just where we kicked it to start off on migration night. Absolutely NO intention of this being a static thing...we'll own the hub and then take over PSHome One District at a time until Planetary domination is achieved and SOV flips ;) If enough are down for this I'ld love to see us fill the hub before trolling off elsewhere. While we will be doing recon for fun places to go before the event I'm by no means a PSHome expert so if anyone has any location suggestions by all means let me know.
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.17 18:46:00 - [4] - Quote dent 308 wrote: Posting this to a few other places. Lets try and drum up some numbers for this. Edit : anyone able to confirm voice comms works in PS Home? According to the internet R2 is the push to talk button, but I have never used comms in there. R2 for push to talk is correct. When I post up details tonight I'll try and write a bit of PSHome primer (I'm not expert but I had to figure all this stuff out so it should help).
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.18 02:55:00 - [5] - Quote Update under the OP
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.18 02:58:00 - [6] - Quote Jayquan18 wrote: Arunis Gen wrote: Don't see why not. It'll be fun and good PR. If anything it can also be fun. I like the idea said earlier about 'roaming' or something and taking over one area at a time until 'sov' flips. Make a video I don't currently have the ability to do this but if anyone else can that would be amazing!
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.18 03:04:00 - [7] - Quote Belzeebub Santana wrote: A few things... 1.SEN is down for maintance ( old PSN) so home is down. 2. Home is not a ghost town, go one every few weeks and there are plenty of people on and crap to do. 3. Tell Zion Shad bout this (zion tcd leader) he does a lot of things in home and has a club house,plus he is a good planner with a large corp. 4. Sooner the time frame is known the better 5. Sounds good, flash mobs are all sorts of fun This was mentioned to Zion 5 days ago, he didn't express any interest at the time but he's just as welcome to come as anyone else. I would hope for some CEO's in attendance and as I said in the OP we have a club house as well but it won't help in this as it only holds 32 people and you need to be a member to enter.
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.18 20:19:00 - [8] - Quote DJINN Avez wrote: sounds awesome! any word from CCP on participating? perks? I think some kind of perk is asking a bit much for a player organized event (would be nice though). CCP has discussed it but no answer yet and no promises, it would be cool if even a few showed up but as we all understand they have a lot on their plate right now.
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.18 23:55:00 - [9] - Quote NORIC verIV wrote: Ill go if ccp frame goes. Can we role play at all? Might as well since im wearing my fat suit! At least you'll be able to keep up with everyone in PSHome. GIANTFlashMob declares no fatty shall be left behind.
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.19 15:42:00 - [10] - Quote Yay Adski wrote: I would get involved but very bad timing for EU members. I was worried about that and I do apologize for the time inconvenience for the EUers. I had toyed around with doing this 3hrs earlier but then my west coasters wouldn't be able to make it and my wife would probably kill me. If all goes well and we ever do this again we'll do it earlier on a Saturday to give all time zones a better chance of getting involved. Btw further update coming later today when I have more than 5 mins free.

CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.19 22:24:00 - [11] - Quote SILENTSAM 69 wrote: Sounds like fun. I might just have to get on there. We will of course have to put people on friends lists to get them onto the same shard, or whatever they call it. Each area of PS Home is duplicated and run many times with different groups of people. That is correct, tonight's update has the solution for just that...just need to do the RL things of dinner and dog walk...check in later, it's all been planned for ;)
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.20 03:11:00 - [12] - Quote Update under the OP
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.20 07:40:00 - [13] - Quote BroKeN X wrote: CookieStein wrote: G IA N T members and leadership have been discussing the need for the Dust community to come together in further celebration of reaching Tranquility and the fast approaching open beta. The night of extended down time for the TQ migration a few of us got together in the Event Horizon Lounge (dressed in drop suits of coarse) sat at the bar and shot the breeze with some other Mercs. I decided to put out a twitter call for anyone to join us but with the instancing in PSHome if you came out we likely missed you. After some childish avatar dance contests and posing for photo ops we hit the bowling alley and then on to our club house. After sitting around our war room, arranging furniture and geeking out on Dust chatter an idea struck us... G I A N T presents to you the beta testers that on the eve of open beta as many Mercs as we can gather collect in PSHome for a flash mob. So on the night of the 21st take some time off from the SP grind, get your party hats on and let's give OUR game a little pat on the back. Get on in the Event Horizon Lounge, play some games of Slay to grab your favourite Drop Suit, practice your 'running man' and 'robot' for we will party like its YC1999. Consider this a community wide slosh op, all Mercs and Devs are welcome, put aside corp rivalries, forum QQ and let's celebrate how far we've come and all we have to look forward to. Details to follow. Be there or be square. How about get ur fat a... Out of ur house and go to a real bar! ........ Wow.... What gaming has done to some ppl??! And ur married.. Uummmmm huh Lol your troll smells of Clearasil and musty tissues...try harder next time tweener.
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.21 02:37:00 - [14] - Quote So Eve time/Gmt, still trying to get myself used to that kitten...dent just messaged me pointing out the contradiction in start time, first to mention it tbqh. To 100% clarify Monday the 21st at 10 pm NA Est would be Tuesday the 22nd 03:00 Gmt. Since no one else has brought that up I really hope no one was confused derp.
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.21 03:09:00 - [15] - Quote James Thraxton wrote: CookieStein wrote: So Eve time/Gmt, still trying to get myself used to that kitten...dent just messaged me pointing out the contradiction in start time, first to mention it tbqh. To 100% clarify Monday the 21st at 10 pm NA Est would be Tuesday the 22nd 03:00 Gmt. Since no one else has brought that up I really hope no one was confused derp. in addition to this, any ideas/plans/solutions on how to get everyone on the same shard? It's all explained on the update under the OP from the other day.
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.21 03:13:00 - [16] - Quote Just got confirmation...we will have CCPers out for the event!
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.21 08:12:00 - [17] - Quote A reminder to those that are planning on coming out to read the update post under the OP. *You need to be able to either 'Go To' the event PSN ID or 'Go To' a friend that is on the event ID's friend list.* That is the only way we can all be instanced together. *If you are on or can join Twitter follow the event Twitter ID* It will be used for announcements, coordinating moves to other spaces and fixing any problems we may encounter. Look forward to seeing you out. Look for any last minute update tomorrow pre-event on the update post under the OP ( basically if I realize I've forgotten anything).
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.21 13:11:00 - [18] - Quote Noraa Anderson wrote: Welp, been around every section I could in PSHome advertising the event. Good luck for tonight. Thank you for that!
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.21 19:00:00 - [19] - Quote Jathniel wrote: Kept forgetting to post, but yes I'll see you there Cookie. I'll know you wouldn't miss it Jath...props to G I A N T 's for keeping it on the front page. My boys are excited how bout yours?
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.21 20:44:00 - [20] - Quote BMSTUBBY wrote: Its all fun and games until we crash SONY servers and then open beta does not happen. Crashing PSHome would be considered an overwhelming success. We accept nothing less than a complete disarmament and full surrender. Tonight we take Sov one District at a time. Tighten the boots and blob up.

CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.21 23:12:00 - [21] - Quote T E X wrote: I bought a Unicorn for you to ride on during the party Cook. Its name is CuddleNuts. He won't respond to anything else so don't even think about trying to rename him. Wouldn't think of it...it was a cold day so I look forward to him living up to his namesake.
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.22 01:44:00 - [22] - Quote Baal Roo wrote: Nothing quite like a bunch of creepy adults parading around in front of a bunch of creepy 14 year olds. Sounds just like Reddit...you'll feel right at ;)
CookieStein G I A N T 62	Posted - 2013.01.22 16:40:00 - [23] - Quote A G I A N T thank you to everyone that came out for the flash mob last night and all of those that helped promo the night. We had such an overwhelming response that the Event Horizon Lounge was full an hour before the event even began. The numbers were great enough that despite trying to get around the instancing we overloaded the districts and had multiple groups in different versions of the Event Horizon Lounge. It was such a success that we will look at doing events like this in the future taking what we learned from last night and making it bigger and better. A fuller response to last night will be coming later but right now I GOTTA PLAY!