On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mkallah: New officers have heard the call!

Mewkow: Fallout 76 launch detected

Tetsemi: ESO surges

Mkallah: The Fleet made huge strides

Mewkow: And, we have the AIE Year in review!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode 310 of the the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mkallah: - (hey, guys, there are snickerdoodle cheesecake and homemade marshmallows in the guild kitchen). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are ending the year in style and reviewing the highlights from the past year as well.

Ok, let’s just jump into news and AIE in 2018!!

AIE News

Community

https://aie-guild.org/blog/2018/11/zen-and-bc-our-only-hope/

From time to time AIE evaluates the roles and jobs of the officer group that oversees all our game divisions and does the back end work. In doing that recently we identified the need for a bit more help in a couple areas. In particular, SWTOR 5.10 is going to take what we’ve been doing in that division with the guild “conquest” system and crank it up to 11 (and then to level 65+). Guild leveling, conquest changes and guild perks are going to require additional focus and officer roles. As a result, two new officers have been added! They will continue to be primarily SWTOR focused but we will be calling on them for help and guidance across the community as needed as well.

BCavanagh – Bcav or BC has taken on the role of Conquest strategizer for the guild for many months with his contributions in this area extending out into the greater SWTOR gaming community as well.

Zen – Zen has been with us for a few years now and true to his chosen gamer tag, he’s cool and level headed without fail. He is one of the top “helpers” in the guild, always ready to assist with any ask and goes out of his way constantly to make himself available. Also in the conquest management role, Zen has become a tactical execution lead.

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern

Tuesday - SWTOR 9 pm Eastern

Friday - ESO 9 pm Eastern

FFXIV 9 pm Eastern

Saturday - STO 10 pm Eastern

Noob Raid 11 pm Eastern

Just a heads up, make sure you are checking into each game to find out what games are on hold for the holidays

Streaming and guild podcast news

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 267: Our Guild Goes To 11

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-267-our-guild-goes-to-11/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-267 are joined by two new AIE Officers, Zen and BC, to walk through the three 5.10 guild update posts and details from the recent dev live stream.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 268: Do You Want To Build A Saber

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-268-do-you-want-to-build-a-saber/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-268 talk through bits of 5.10 news from Eric Musco, Charles Boyd, and Jackie Cao, and we finally get to build our lightsabers on Tython

Working Class Nerds - Episode 29: Community Chat with Eric Musco

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/working-class-nerds/id1330089578?mt=2#

Marcus and Nick sit down with Star Wars: The Old Republic's Senior Community Manager Eric Musco!

(As Captain America says to Ironman - “Language!”) Rated explicit due to language from the hosts.

NOMADS

Fallout 76 - Launch was fairly smooth, but as this is a Bethesda game, bugs are as plentiful as attacking ghouls. Servers or ‘worlds’ would occasionally have issues and crash, but there was always a new one waiting to move on to. PvP is a non-issue if you wish to avoid it, almost similar to warmode in WoW where if you don’t retaliate or are set in pacifist mode, it is not worth an attacker’s time to try to kill you. And if they are persistent, you can easily switch worlds and never see them again.