"That's no moon."

So over a 5 day span I have been working on my biggest minecraft build to date! We will see how long it takes you to guess what I am working on.

(note: I am still not done! I have some minor details to add, and possible an interior. I will post the finished project whenever I get there.)

Priorities:

18 Hours spent building

About 4 hours a day for 5 days

Virtually Virtual:

I only had used one picture to go off of. I did use creative mode and fly, otherwise no mods, no world edits.

The first step I took was deciding how long it should be. I then tried to judge the angle of the

perimeter. There are no slanted blocks on minecraft; the most difficult part of the build was calculating the inclines. I needed to find out how many blocks to go before going inwards a block, to make a sloping effect. I overshot my first time, building the outer right outline, but got it right the second time.

In this first picture I am flying high above to try and get an idea of the outline. I was using waypoints to mark the tips and middle of the ship to know where they were. It helped a lot since the length of the build was out of the visual range. Which unfortunately means it is next to impossible to ever see the ship as a whole.

I got the middle perimeter layed out, you can already tell what its going to be! (hopefully)

Around day 3 I had finished the bottom of the ship and was nearing completion of the top. Using some simple math I figured out the incline of this 160 block long beast!

The finished product! Minus the piece in the middle that was having loading issues due to the distance.

I will post more, and a video, when I finish the trimmings.

Thoughtful gab: My Star Destroyer is so win! My wife says its cool but I can tell she is kind of just saying that. Does she realize how many blocks this took? Or how difficult it was to figure out with no blueprints?? lol anyway...

She hasn't played minecraft with me for a good while.. I will keep pestering her to do so though and when she does... she will love it.

Our Youtube channel, and catch-up

I realize I really dropped the ball on blogging. But that's what gaming can do to you. I have taken a break and I am back with a fresh start.

I have a Youtube channel for my blog. I have downloaded some Minecraft tutorials so far, and plan on downloading other games on there as well.

Here is the link

http://www.youtube.com/user/TodaysMarriedGamer?blend=1&ob=video-mustangbase

Priorities:

Today I did a lot of building in Minecraft on my new server, Unlimited craft. I also played Old Republic.

Virtually Virtual:

I got a new monitor! Yay. Finally a nice looking 20'' widescreen. All my games were so much different when I first played them.

As I mentioned before, I am no longer in Legendary craft. Well that's partly true.

Here's what happened:

I finally got mod, I got super mod, Felipe (the owner) was being a corrupt fool that only cared about making money, I joined a branch of of LC called UC, I become assistant (equal to mod), that's where I am now.

The people on this server are real. I like it better :)
So now I am working hard in the forums and in game to try and get admin/head-staff some day.

Here is a link to their forums

http://www.unlimited-craft.com/home

Thoughtful gab:

Its funny how you have to be in the right mood to play games sometimes. For example, today when I was playing Old Republic...

When I got home from work I was ready to play some Old Republic! I looked forward taking my time, killing every enemy, listening to the entire conversation, and exploring the world. But then after playing games (minecraft) for 5 hours, when I finally got on Old Republic my feelings were different. I was annoyed by all the enemies I had to fight, I didn't care to explore, I skipped through most of the conversation because it was redundant, and I generally rushed through the game.

If I played Old Republic when I first got home from work, I would have truly enjoyed it. The way games were meant to be played. Rushing through it is a waste of time. You aren't enjoying the game as much and you are skipping things you wouldn't normally. From experience, I suggest that if you find yourself in this rushed state, take a break from video games. Go do your chores or read a book. Then come back later and you should have a fresh pallet, much better to really enjoy the game with.

Cant talk, old republic

I'm busy playing Old Republic

Yes its out

Yes its awesome

Some things are better and some are worse from my expectations

Took some getting used to an MMO (yes this was my first)

I plan on writing longer blog posts, I just cant now... must get back to game lol

Star Wars beta: storm before the calm

Me:

In 24 hours time from this time I will be playing the Old Republic beta. Between then and now I will be working black Friday at Target.

It is a weird mix of dread and excitement. Honestly I have tunnel vision and the fact I will soon be playing Old Republic will keep me smiling the whole time.

I promise either during, or as soon as the beta ends, I will post some sort of review on it.

I plan on being a class I do not plan on playing for a while when the game is released. The smuggler. I will review this class and the game itself.

In other news my xbox decided it does not want to play CD's anymore. So no more Battlefield until I get a new one. Christmas? Tax return?

More info on SWTOR:

The game will be released on December 20th but will be playable via internet download for people who pre-ordered on the 15th.

I highly recommend http://db.darthhater.com/ for detailed information on planets, classes, skills, and more.

Home front:

My wife and I are doing well. She thinks it is a waste of money that I have donated money to the Legendary Craft server that I play on on Minecraft. The donation not only give me more abilities in the server, but shows the admins I care for the server, increasing my chances at mod, and keeps the server running smoothly.

She is afraid that when Old Republic comes out I wont pay any more attention to her. I already addressed this in a previous post. I myself realize the game will be addicting and hard to leave at any time. But I know over everything my wife comes first. No matter how hard it is I will make time to be with her during my "new game craze" phase.

Im back

So I am back

Long story short

I played a lot of Battlefield 3, got to rank 33, bumped the xbox while game was running and scratched the disk, now got back into minecraft, been playing a lot on legendary craft server and forum, trying to become a moderator on legendary craft, was invited to semi-open Old Republic beta which will happen sometime within the next two weeks.

Last night I went with a friend to the midnight release of Assassins creed revelations

My wife has really gotten into Soul Calibur 4 on 360

It is one of the only games she has more achievements than me

So I will try to update the blog more, get back into the habit.

Priorities:

9:30am-4:30pm (7)

minecraft

7 hours of Minecraft

Virtually virtual:

Played a lot on the LC server and did things on the forum. Got to be very active to become a Mod. Gotta get noticed by the staff.

I built most of a tie fighter! Ill post a pic of it when it's complete

BF3 release: night before the storm

Battlefield 3 comes out tonight and I am super excited!

I am going to the midnight release where I will finish paying for, and pickup my pre-ordered copy.

Then I will play until 6am ish. Take a 3 hour nap, and play all day :)

I have already warned my my wife about the amount of time I will be dedicating to BF3.

Since I am able to play the game next to non stop since the moment it is released there is a good chance I can get a high rank on the leaderboard and that is exactly what I am going for. A week of almost non stop BF3 in an attempt to get a good leader board rank record.

I bought 2 redbull to help out for the next 48 hours

I will record my time playing and post another blog, probably the end of the week showing my time played. A day or two after that, I will review the game and share my thoughts.

See you on the battlefield, otherwise, in a week!

Segway

Sorry I haven't been adding new posts lately. Iv'e been sick and watching a lot of the office. Two things that don't pertain to my blog.

In Minecraft LC server news we finished building that town.

I put my old house up for auction. Started at $3000 and sold for $5000. I was pleased :)

Battlefield comes out in a few days!

Think of this lull in blog posts as a segway between my Minecraft days and my Battlefield 3 days. Its taking some time for servers to switch over, so there is downtime. Metaphorically.