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On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

- Autumn and Halloween Events Abound!

- More Blizzcon News

- Abovan and Jehdai come to chat with us about Final Fantasy 14, A Realm Reborn!

All that and more coming up right now on Abovan’s Favorite Podcast...

 

AIE NEWS

In STO news, Cap’n Hunter has let us know that they recently hit tier 3 with the Starbase, and are building up the Dilithium mine. Fleet activity seems to be up with the recent return of the Crystaline Entity and STO is going to add Voths to the game (the Dinosaur species from Voyager).

 

We mention this quite a bit as the date gets closer, but to paraphrase our favorite anchorman “It’s Kind of a Big Deal”, for AIE in WoW, the Craft Faire gets ever closer! Check the thread for how to donate, help out, or just participate!

 

We’re getting a few responses in the thread about Book of Heroes but we’d love some more! It looks like currently we possibly have Dignitas, Liberates and Verendus, but condensing these down to 1 strong guild seems to make the most sense! More news as we have it!

 

The winged guardian mount (AKA Falcor the amazing flyin’ lion) is on sale! You can save 33% until October 22nd, which means that he costs 16.75 instead of the usual 25.00!

 

Blizzard has stepped up their blizzcon news today! To get us all tons more excited for the upcoming convention, they released their schedule of events and map of the show! so if you want to start planning which panels you want to attend or your travel route around the convention (To maximize your time at the guildhall of course!) the information is up on their website!

 

Rift has started their autumn harvest event! This event includes special holiday rifts, costumes, quests, a new area to explore and all the amazing stuff you come to expect! The event is running until november 4th, but why wait? Log in to rift (it’s free!) and join the fun!

 

Not to be outdone, guild wars 2 is also having a halloween event! (You’d think this was some sort of major holiday or something!) They are calling it ‘Blood and Madness’ there are open world events, two story instances, new achievements, a mad king and tons of awesome stuff for players to check out!

 

GAME NEWS

 

Abovan  Settlement Leader

Jehdai Officer

 

Settment Officers

 

Abovan Settlement Leader

 

Senior Officers

Pelell

Max

Watoolfa (Bofbir)

 

Officers

Jehdai - Xerryx in game

Kelseer

Bonroku

 

Settlement Phase in the GERP.

 

Settled on a server. UMAMI is active.  Playing and grouping up.  As of 8pm on 10/17, 139

 

UMAMI may be slightly different than other games.  Since FFXIV does not have public chat channels (chat channels, or linkshells are moderated, as in invite only), we will be using the Jabber channel ffxiv_lfo to manage invites.  Using the pre-configured client on the main aie page, it has proven to be a very easy and successful way of getting an officer for our member’s invites.

 

About FFXIV.

 

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

 

Square Enix’s 2nd crack at FF XIV.  First one was a steaming pile of moogle poo.  It was universally looked upon as a flawed game.  However, the folks at Square Enix changed teams, and re-wrote the game from the ground up.  The plot events in the previous game, did happen, but it’s knowledge is not required for understanding in the previous game.  All you need to know is the end of the era video, the now textbook way of showing how to end a mmo. :) This plays when you first open up the game.

 

The game has been rebuilt into a very defined modern MMO.  The zones are new, and feel like MMO zones.  Places to explore, little nooks and crannies, zone variety, and adventure around every turn.  The Engine was re-written from scratch to run on a much wider array of machines.