Rift Dimensions
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What’s the point in housing?
In a post musing about the problems with housing in MMOs, Roger from Contains Moderate Peril said that you can ask 100 players and will get 100 answers as to what makes good housing good. And this made me think when is housing good for me? For example, I love the housing in Rift and…
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Rift: A Halloween for dwarves
I’ve been wanting to make a dimension for Halloween ever since I realized it’s only six months away. ;) however, as is with everything when I really want to do something creative, I had no idea what to do. Sometimes I think it’s a good idea to just check what other dimensioneers have been doing.…
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Rift Dimension building project: Tempest Island IV
I switched to different projects thinking I’ve run out of ideas how to continue with this dimension, but in the end, I always get some ideas for little things I can add. I’ve made a list now and am slowly working through it. Comparing yourself with others is always a bad idea, because there will…
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Rift Dimensions: Hey look! Another dimension project!
I didn’t really continue with my tree house project, but I decided to start yet another one. The thing is that I’ve been playing my Primalist more recently. She’s still tiny (level 22), but she wants a place to call home. While walking through my storage dimension that’s filled with buildings only, I took a…
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Rift Dimensions: Tree House in Moonshade Pools
For months, I’ve been dreaming about making a tree house for my elf (Kelari, actually) rogue in Rift. I had chosen the Stone Grove already, but something didn’t “click”. It has a huge big tree in the middle and is just asking for a tree house to be built. Yet, nothing happened. I started by…
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Rift Dimension building project: Tempest Island III
I just realized that the last time I showed my Tempest Island dimension was almost one year ago. I did not add too much to the main rooms on the lower floor of the house. The kitchen got a little kitten and some more bottles, mugs and the like. The stove got some control “knobs”. The…
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Rift Housing: Stone Grove
My newest housing project is “Stone Grove”. I want to build a house up in the trees. I guess I’ll also have to plant a few more trees, as the ones existing in the dimension only look strong on the ground, but get too thin up there. Anyway, it is currently a mess and I…
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Rift and Trove are giving me… SAB?
Us poor Guild Wars 2 players have been yearning to set foot into SAB (Super Adventure Box) again for months now and it doesn’t look as if we’d get it back any time soon. Now Rift and Trove (both developed by Trion) have one of their special cross-promotions again. If you play Rift, you can…
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Rift Dimension building project: Tempest Island II
It has been one week since I showed you my newly acquired dimension “Tempest Island”. Don’t worry, this will not be a weekly column. I am sure building will slow down soon anyway. Right now, there are just so many parts of the island that I want and need to fill, that it’s growing so…
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Rift Dimension building project: Tempest Island
For weeks, I’d been waiting for patch 3.3 to arrive in Rift. With it came new dimensions and I had set my eyes on “Tempest Island”. I used to build in “Faen’s Retreat” but some things in there annoyed me a bit. While I do like the “oasis feeling” that it gives, I would have…
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My personal oasis in Rift (December 2014)
The last time I have shown you my dimension was in November after the expansion had landed in Rift bringing with it the minion system which led to an influx of dimension items. I’m still more or less drowning in them, but I’m also slowly getting a better feeling for the variety of items and…
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My personal oasis in Rift
With the new expansion, Rift added the “Minions” mini game. I won’t go into how the “game” – let’s rather call it “activity” – works. I will save that for a later time. But there are dimension adventures where you get dimension items and can even get keys for dimensions (more on how dimensions work…
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Nightmare Tide CE’s dimension items and Bloop
With the expansion being postponed, my plans to play said expansion during my vacation (it was a coincidence that my 5 day vacation was exactly when the expansion should have been released. I thankfully did not take days off to play that one! ^^) were almost cancelled. That is, until I realized that the expansion…
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Housing in MMOs: Rift
This is part 3 of the series “Housing in MMOs”. After looking at Lord of the Rings Online and Aion, I will focus on Rift today. The most important difference to other games is that you do not get a “house” in Rift. You get a “dimension“. This dimension is a small instanced map of…
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