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    I have a number of containers of varying types. Mostly it is driven by what themes I build in, and what parts I am likely to need for my builds. Some of it is because I found a container that I can use. My system for thin regular plates and tiles is different than for wider plates and tiles. Colors that I don't use in abundance regularly generally don't get much sorting beyond slope, brick and plate/tile. A part's usage generally determines how and where I store it. As for LDD, I use it as a building medium unto itself. I have created awesome builds that I would never be able to build practically. Discontinued parts, expensive parts, unavailable colored parts. I once created a swampy region using hair, headgear, modified heads, weapons and other kinds of parts in colors that they might never be made in. The Patrick Star head makes for an interesting swamp plant shape. I have many more examples. Also, there is no gravity in LDD, so complex builds don't fall apart when you swap a piece out, or only have a 1x1 round plate connecting two large sections of a build.
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    The newest addition to the Eslandola Fleet: The Firefly
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    January builds: The Firefly: New Speedy Security I gedren_y I Eslandola Inspiration I gedren_y I Eslandola
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    The call went out, the Eslandola Fleet needs armed ships fast enough to protect the new faster trade ships. Hybromicron Design and Shipworks of Nova Terreli responded, developing this beauty. Say hello to the Firefly (5LA Class 4). The designers at Hybromicron built upon their previous two experimental designs, the Island Rose and the Consort's Duty. Sporting a longer deck and more sails than the Consort's Duty, but with a sleeker hull profile, the Firefly can match the speed of the trade ship while carrying sixteen of the same long range, small bore guns. These guns are some of the newest in breach bore technology. These guns were only just now installed, as a rush order following the failed Mardier attack on Nova Terreli. In the hurry to get her ready, shot, powder, and other provisions have yet to be loaded. The Firefly sports the white version of the Eslandola flag on the order of this man, the newly promoted Captain Reynoldo laColm. Let us step aboard the Firefly, and ready her for sail. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More images of her can be found in this Flickr album. For an even better examination of her, download the .lxf (when public) from this Brickshelf page.
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    Did I forget to file the form? Okay.
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    Because his source thought he was revealing too much. So to preserve the trust of his source, @Itaria No Shintaku has stopped his revelation. I am content with all he has shared in this matter. We will continue to speculate. To that end, in the silhouette I believe I saw epaulets under the cape. That leads me to believe the fig is someone more official. If the hat had looked to be a bicorn I might have thought him Napoleon. But it is a tricorn, so my guess remains Marco Polo.
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    All the confusion in the Double Duty trade route seems to have removed the Island Rose from all records. Hopefully @SkaForHire can find out what happened to her.
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    The Conquistador was a Spaniard, was he not?
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    The only thing I can say about the possibility of a One Man Band is that there is a part that might pass as a neck worn harmonica. Beyond that, I don't know. About translations, we've had many a discussion, over many a thread, about names coming out wrong if a word has multiple meanings. Compound that with different multiple meanings in a second language. If you have to then go through a third language, the intent of the name can be lost. TLG is a Danish company, so Danish being translated into Italian can have some problems. If the original names were in English, but went through a Danish translation before going into Italian, more mistranslation could happen. English is such a polyglot language with many words that are similar, or even spelled the same, that mean very different things.
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    Remotes are used for more than televisions. I don't recall him posting that he used Google translate (if I am wrong, okay). Others did, trying to discern a translation. Softened versions of bullfighting have been in media for a long time. I don't claim any part of it is right. Just plausible. Lego could claim that he didn't fight real bulls, but instead that he challenged the Minotaur. This would still be perpetuating the practice, and that is why I think it would be treading the line. In any event, it is not much a representation of the Spaniards, and is found elsewhere as well. The image could be a Highwayman, as many suspect, but what appears to be epaulets make me think otherwise. A Navigator, as in the great explorers in the age of sail, is something I would welcome. A new version of the 2x2 compass makes sense. Marco Polo?
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    Having read the various arguments, I would like to give my opinion. This is about the freedom to license more builds in a single month than the rules currently allow. The cost multiplier idea does seem reasonable. Depending on the property size and type, this extra cost for the license may take longer to recoup, especially for smaller builds. There would be no real incentive to build a large number of easy builds to be licensed in the same month, because the costs would outweigh the benefit for too long. About @Kai NRG's proposal of inverting the 3-2 rule, that too seems reasonable. We have some islands that have little to no licensed builds set on them. An incentive to spread out our builds is something I do think we need. The in-character solve for the spreading of builds is simple; create more characters. I have a number of them, and I have none that are mayors, governors, or council members. @Kwatchi's concerns about junk prospecting builds are valid, so a limit on prospecting makes sense here. I have to reread the current rules to before I make any more suggestions on the matter.
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    Matador could still be one of them. The 'sport' of bullfighting got spread enough that it no longer belongs to a single nationality. However there are forms of it that are quite brutal to the bull, and from that perspective could be seen as out of bounds with the company image. Plausible, but treading the line.
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    That's the Hot Dog Vendor with the new bun piece, first released in an Angry Birds set. It also came later in the Friends line.
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    Are you going to start talking like a Vorlon? "Understanding is a three edged sword."
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    I've done Nocturnian, Mitgardian and Avalonian characters.
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    @MassEditor, do you not know how to add words to the dictionary? I never said it was a comma, and I learned the English teacher thing in sixth grade. I went to a Jr./Sr. high school for half that school year before the new middle school was finished. When I went back in the ninth, they had better English teachers. The Geometry teacher picked up on the fun and left mistakes for me to find. It was in the school library that I first picked up an early version of The Crystal Shard by R. A. Salvatore. You can thank him (mistakes and all) for my interest in fantasy realms. I can forgive the mistakes if the story is compelling enough. Good writing can surpass the well written. Let us strive to create good writing for Guilds of Historica, and accept help, when needed, to make it well written. Shall we discuss our realm more than grammar now?
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    Yuppie? Think new money country club. Slicked hair (too much product), polo shirt, gleaming teeth, if the minifig is male. Female might be a bit different. Either way, a cost saver. Yeti female? Plausible. But not 80's specific. Yoga? You mean Yogi. Difficult given the limits of the minifig limb rotations. Hindi styling? This would be more 60's or 70's.
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    The Nestlands Clans Ambassador to Nocturnus, Fleshmage Neord Bloodmane, decorates his walls with pinks. They are the pinks of living flesh, but they are pink. He sits upon them as well, around his worldviewer. Wish to see? The Nestlands produce many pigments and dyes. By trading or theft, there is color to be had.
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    The minidoll was designed to appeal to the doll buying market, not the regular Lego buyers. The Disney figures buying market overlaps greatly with the doll buying market, so keeping them as minidolls makes good business sense. Also, from the Disney perspective, maintaining the look of the characters has to be a priority, even if the line gets expanded to include more than the princesses and their suitors. As to characters outside the minidoll proportions, just look at the new Elves sets.
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    1) Not at all. The guild colors flags used to be required only for your character intro image, but that hasn't been needed for quite some time. Putting flags in your builds is a choice. 2) Build where you like. 3) Not at all. Characters wear what they want.
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    If we're thinking one of them is Aussie, then a koala, wallaby, or joey might come with. A weathered hat with some animal parts detail sounds reasonable. Also, Rocket Suit Man? Am I going to get my Rocketeer? Or more like a classic Flash Gordon?
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    Dearji the Windsong says, "Blessings of the Triuri be on you, Abraham."
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    Chefs might argue the distinction between pancetta and bacon.
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    I steal a quote from Farscape for the Resistance - "I am standing in your heart, and I'm about to squeeze."
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    Dearji the Windsong is pleased to learn that those of that shape their nation take council from the Crahaish. Let the blessing of enlightened self interest be on them. The Wandering Acolytes share the blessings of the Triuri with all those who will hear them.
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