On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Tetsemi: AIE is getting together in real life

Mkallah: Wow tokens, get your tokens here

Tetsemi: The state of AIEU

Mkallah: Crafting in Heavensward

Tetsemi: Velazarius is here to talk to us about board games!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #230 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has ben podcast. This is Mkallah, and I am making a mess in the guild kitchen! To my left is Tetsemi - (Darn it I rolled a 7!). Alludra is off digging in the dirt, but should return next show.. This week we are joined by special guest Velazarius who is here to talk to us about Board Games! Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be chatting with Vel shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Meetups- With the arrival of spring comes many a meetup! Head on over to the meetup.com site and sign up for any of the upcoming meetups that the AIE group has to offer. Don’t see one in your area? No worries - you can plan one!

Current upcoming meetups are:

Retro Video Arcade Game night on April 4th at 7 pm at Neon Retro arcade in Pasadena, California - http://www.meetup.com/Alea-Iacta-Est/events/221049316

Raid on Chompies Deli in on April 8th at 6:30 in Phoenix, AZ - http://www.meetup.com/Alea-Iacta-Est/events/221452487

Central New Jersey Brew Pub Invasion at 5 pm April 18th at HARVEST MOON BREWERY & CAFE in New Brunswick, NJ - http://www.meetup.com/Alea-Iacta-Est/events/221167568

And two big events coming up- Nerdtacular from July 30- August 1st in Snowbird, Utah and the Guild Hall at Blizzcon on November 6th and 7th.

SWTOR:

Don’t forget Mandatory Fun nights in SWTOR- Tuesdays at 8:50 PM eastern. This week, they planning on doing something on Imp Side!

Also, GrowlyDidge has shared some amazing progress pics from his Jedi costume and lightsaber from his work with the Rebel Legion charity costuming organization. Just beautiful- take a look on the forums.

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/55892-cosplay/

And speaking of Star Wars, the Escape Podcast # 83 is up!

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-83 talk about game update 3.2 which showed up in the recent dev stream, in the forums and on the PTS. They talk a little about Ziost, the Costume Designer and the handful of other features we’ll see at the end of April. And as always, they cover news for the week from SWTOR in general and from AIE. Find the Escape Podcast at www.newoverlords.com

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-83-update-3-2-on-the-pts/

EVE

Hoots has posted some very important corporation topics in his March 2015 annoucements, including:

The 2015 Corporate Restructure, AIEU POS Empire, Fleet Up and Slack, and the Future of AIE EVE.

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/55914-march-2015-announcement/

Re-Org is on the wiki - http://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=EVE:Our_Corporation

AIEU POS (Player Owned Starbase) Empire

We have a POS Empire that is pretty much fully operational as of this Sunday. It’ll get us a modest amount of money every month, and I'm really glad it's finally (mostly) done.

In order to manage the empire that I’ve slowly built since-we-invaded-Catch, I told Stu to place less of an emphasis on trucking duties and more of an emphasis on moon goo maintenance

Fleet Up and Slack

Fleet up has some pretty amazing work going on. If you aren't on Fleet-up.com, do make it a point to get signed up. I’m going to be moving skill plans to there.

As for Slack, get on Slack. It’s where everyone talks to everyone else in AIEU, and you're probably going to be really bored if you aren't there.

Future

The future holds a few challenges for us. As a sov corporation, the sov changes come June are going to require a great deal of planning and execution. They place a really heavy emphasis on small groups and mobility,