The AIE Podcast #281 – A Murder of Crows and a Hitching of Guildies

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Tetsemi: As the Summer of love wraps up

Mewkow: We have lots of video evidence

Mkallah: so .. much… wow.. News

Tetsemi: Fly me to the moon… fire

Mewkow: and we have Captain Cybyl’s STO update!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #281 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (Greetings, Gamers!). This week we have our Summer of Love wrap up! Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be digging into What we have been up to shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Community

For anyone that missed the Summer of Love activities and wants to see what ocurred, please check out the forum post that the wonderful Syreyne has been keeping up to date.

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57442-community-summer-of-love-2017-july-31st-to-august-6th/

There were a lot of activities across all the games AIE is in, with the last event running earlier today in WoW with the Transmog Gear and pet Swap meet!

Thank you to everyone that participated and made the Summer of Love a wonderful AIE event.

If you missed some of the events, here are a few videos we found taken by our wonderful guildies.

FFXIV - By Ryooshi - https://youtu.be/RiqEmSWGM5Q (Rememberance Day)

WoW - By Joey Image - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/164656428 (Running of the Beef)

Also for a ton of screenshots, check out the #AIEGuild hashtag on Twitter

https://twitter.com/hashtag/AIEGuild

WoW

There was a live Q&A with Ion Hazzikostas (no spoilers) over general WoW topics and some 7.3 specific information. It looks like Legion is becoming more alt friendly and some catch up mechanisms are in place for those just hitting 110.

The time gate for the 3rd relic slot will automatically be removed in 7.3. In addition, players will not have to do the Broken Shore questline to unlock Concordance of the Legionfall and the other new traits.

Artifact Knowledge is also getting changes and will be global across all player. The week of the patch, all players will be Artifact Knowledge 41.

There are new missions, equipment and chests on Argus that can shoot Champions all the way to item level 900.

Reusable Augment Runes coming from Exalted Army of the Light, the Lightforged Augment Rune.

http://www.wowhead.com/news=269167/liveblog-of-the-q-a-with-ion-hazzikostas

SWTOR

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 205: To Merge Or Not To Merge

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-205-to-merge-or-not-to-merge/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-205 talk about the current server merge discussion, pros and cons, ways to merge, alternatives, and our views.

Also the Mandatory Fun Night, on Tuesday, will be on the Republic side this week.

FFXIV

Moonfire Fair event begins this Tuesday!

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/special/2017/Moonfire_Faire/

The quest begins in the Limsa upper decks and you can get a full seasonal outfit and some housing items while the event is live.

STO

Just a quick update from Grebiss on the forums

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57452-status-of-the-fleet/

We have completed the required work to allow us to start the Shipyard Tier IV upgrades. This will unlock many more fleet ships for everyone to purchase. And once we complete the shipyards, I believe we will be able to upgrade the starbase to tier IV as well.

I may hold on the Starbase tier IV to keep resources flowing into fleet ship consumables, so everyone can buy their desired fleet ships.

The Research Lab is also making big progress and one of the two branches is nearing completion as well with the other branch over halfway through tier 3.

Captain Cybyl’s Star Trek Online News Summary for week ending 8/6/2017:

Before today’s news:

On Remembrance Day, August 2nd, 2017, Captain Cybyl,