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We've got Jabber! We've got Wiki! And we've got DILLS! All that and more coming up right now. THIS is the A-I-E Podcast...

We've got a great show today, with special guest Dills standing by to talk to us about Book of Heroes but first, the news...

AIE NEWS

We now have a real life Greenwall! That's right we have finally got a Jabber service running as discussed at N12! So what's Jabber? Well Abovan put it best "A chat and IM service, where we own the server. It's neat because it supports a lot of clients, on just about any platform you can think of. PC, Mac, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, you name it." Just load up Jabber in your favorite chat client (Trillian, pidgin, more examples here!) and use your UMAMI password to log in! It's fast, it's friendly and it's aie!

Ever want to contribute to the AIE wiki? Yes! We have a wiki! And we want you to add information about your character or raid team! Thankfully now the wiki is using UMAMI log ins and passwords, which means you already have an account! Head on over and update your info, show off your raid team, or that other group that you have going on!

Who is heading to PAX East? If the answer is you, then you might want to check out AIE meetups happening during the convention! It's still a little ways off in March, and 3 day passes ARE already sold out, but this is one of the great gamer cons out there. Check the thread to see who might be going! You can also RSVP on the meetup.com site!

Our leader tiger Henry put this up on the forums, but it appears that GW2 Free Transfers are coming to an end! Also, there will soon be a 'guesting feature' that allows you to play in 2 other worlds, being able to swap one out every 24 hours. See the post for more details.

Because we KNOW we've sold so many people on The Secret World, you'll certainly want to check out Cthulhu Wednesdays! Sokotep and his crew in the AIE Cabals are looking to get some new folks into Dungeons from Polaris to Slaughterhouse and everything in between! The first official run will be this next Wednesday, the 25th!

Please remember that the AIE invite period for new members is the first week of the month. We have a lot of people popping back into games and we love that you are bringing friends, but the only way your friendly neighborhood officers can keep things under control is by restricting the enrollment period

Funcom Montreal has closed it's doors! As part of a major restructuring of the company the montreal branch of the studio has closed down. This is all going 'as planned' to make the company more profitable, and will not impact their games.

And with that, it's time to welcome the one and only DILLS...

GAME NEWS

Book of Heroes has taken hold of AIE! Ghomus somehow ended up being the Director of this branch and he fully blames Dills for this mess!

8 guilds full, hopefully a 9th opening soon! Currently 1 character per guild per member. We're trying to make room for everyone, but with a 60 character cap per guild, you can imagine how fast they're filling up. Thanks to all the quality AIE folks that are helping Dills and Ghomus get things going! Caoboi, StupidGenius and Korann get a shout out from Ghomus! Keep in mind, if the AIE guild does NOT show up in the AIE Forum post or Wiki, it is NOT an AIE guild. We've had 2 already do this.

Because we'd like to know who folks are, we're asking that everyone have a VenanID within 2 weeks. That will allow you to have alts, and us to see who the overarching nick that you are using will be. If you do not log in for 30 days, your character will be removed from the guild to make room for someone a bit more active. You can always come back though!

All characters who are accepted into the guild and have a VenanID are automatically promoted to Member status. When members have reached 1000 might, we tend to promote them to Veteran status. Veterans are able to start raids and that is really the only difference.