My latest mega scoop for all you non-able-to-play-LEGO-Universe people:
LEGO Universe is like a LEGO Starwars/Batman/Indiana Jones/etc. kinda game but with MMORPG steroids. Here's how this works though. First, you got quick build. As you know and as the title suggests, you click and hold to quickly create. Then there us detail build. This is where you have a blueprint, and must build off it, but you may have the option to use various items (I will clarify just keep reading). Then there is free build. Appearently (for I have not gotten this far), you have your own build space to build all the crap you want.
The Beginning:
After your minifig creation, you find yourself on a dying space ship. The game tells you how to move, jump (there is double jump too :3), fight, and interact. Your game then tells you to talk to another minifig named Bob (I think that's his name, I forgot). When you talk to Bob, you recieve a quest. This is where quests are introduced. Bob asks you to collect 6 imagination points. These are used to build, and I mean all the kinds of build (quick,detail, and free). When you collect all 6, you return to Bob and recieve the ability to store imagination points. Then the game cam zooms in on a lady minifig person an tells you to talk to her. When you get down to the platform she is on and talk to her, she gives you a quest to gather some spacecraft parts. This is where I will clarify detail build. If you hadn't already smashed some boxes out of curiosity and gathered some pieces, you will have to go find certainty boxes that contain parts: nose, roosterpit, and thrusters. But wait! There's more! You can collect iether steam punk pieces or modern pieces. I was curious so I went with the steam punk. When you get your pieces, you go back to the lady and complete the quest. Your reward is a thinking cap witch is essential to all builds that are NOT quick build. You do not give up your pieces though. You are told to go to the blueprint area where you build your shuttle. In the blueprint area, you ente the detail mode. Here you drag and drop the pieces you collected onto the area it goes (so no you cannot have a wierdo ship with the nose in the back and the thrusters in the front). When you complete the build, the shuttle is saved in you inventory. Then the game tells you to go to the launch platform. There, you drag and drop your shuttle from your inventory onto the pad. When you do so, the game launches a cut scene where you are escaping and (for those who want to see crash, oh well) narrowly seats the the shuttle onto a pad on a brand new world.
Hope you enjoy this tid bit. :3 Exuse any spelling for I did this all on my iPhone. This took me 15 minutes or less.
