The AIE Podcast

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Tet: There are Two Towers

MK: The Faction Battle Reignites

Mew: We have Secret… Oh, sorry, that was redacted

Tet: We have Captain Cybyl’s STO update

Mk: And Abovan is here to chat about Final Fantasy

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #273 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. Greeting Gamers, this is Mewkow. To my left is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here) and to my right is Mkallah (There are scones, lemon cake, and angel food cake in the guild kitchen). This week we are joined by special guests Abovan who is here to talk to give us an update on AIE in FFXIV. Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be digging into Final Fantasy XIV shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Community

Are you having trouble keeping track of what AIE is doing in all the games we play? Well glance over at the Guild Calendar and take a look at all the activities!

https://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Guild_Calendar

Imperium Ludi

Galadeon posted in the forums to let everyone know about a new MMO in development called Ashes of Creation. It’s a player driven content MMO with the content unlocked by player activities around hidden nodes in the game. A 6+ minute video of the basic concepts is also in the forum post. Let us know what you think in the forums post below.

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57396-ashes-of-creation/

WoW

Follow up from our last podcast, Noob Raid did invade Trials of Valor raid and were able to knock down the first two bosses in the Trial, way to go raiders!

Patch 7.2 has been out for a bit now and players have unlocked two of the three towers and experienced what was offered by each. Most feedback seen, seem to indicate the solo scenario for your class weapons was very difficult and higher level gear is going to be needed for most folks to complete the scenario, also the extra loot chest (the random buff) did provide extra loot but I think folks were looking for a bit more from it.

The Nether Disruptor was completed and brought with it a world boss that has a chance to drop loot (I received a ilevel 900 Blood Relic for my tanking weapon) as well as an item that gives you Artifact Power (with level 28 AK it gives 1.2 million AP). You also get the buff that if you spend a bonus roll token and don’t get bonus loot, there is a chance the token will be refunded to you. More Unstable Nether Portals are created while this tower is up and there is a chance to get Artifactor Commendations which are used in crafting legendaries by the three armor class professions (Tailoring, Leatherworking, and Blacksmithing).

Legion Invasions are also active, but the requirement to complete all four has been removed from Pathfinder Part 2 (to unlock flying in Legion), so the requirements now are just Pathfinder Part 1, Exploring all of Broken Shore, and getting getting to Revered reputation with Armies of Legionfall.

Getting reputation with Legionfall is achieved through Work Orders in your class hall, completing the World Quests that are up on the Broken Shore and turning in Building Supplies for Towers. Legion Invasions does not give Legionfall reputation, but they do help with the reputation for the zone they are in.

SWTOR

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-187-uprisings-part-ii/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-187 talk about the second set of Uprisings that were added to the game in update 5.1. Hats off to @AIESema who was a trooper and did the podcast with a wicked cold.

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-188-cantina-questions/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-188 talk about the new Tyth preview videos the community has been able to release and we also brainstorm some questions attendees might be able to ask at the Cantina event in Orlando next week.

http://www.swtor.com/info/news/news-article/20170407

The War for Iokath: The Faction Battle Reignites

A good write-up about the upcoming patch, storylines, and information about the conflict on Iokath is on the SWTOR main site. As Outlander you will have to decide if you want to side with the Republic and its new commander Jace Malcom or the Empire and its new leader Empress Acina.

Of definite note is the Returning companions – Quinn and Elara. They will side with you depending on if you side with Empire/Republic. Sith Warriors may have another way to get Quinn back. There are still choices you can make that determines if you get them or not. These companions are tied to the story, and not dailies/reputation.

Also a reminder, you just need to be level 70 to access Patch 5.2 content. Which means you must have been a subscriber in the past but don’t need to be a current subscriber.

GW2

Good news everyone! (Oh wait wrong game), the Guild Hall is at the actual unlock event stage. It’s a drawn out series of fights to clear out the Guild Hall and take it over for the guild. We need level 80’s with HoT expansion and access to gliding is very, very helpful. For updates, please check with the forums thread

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57408-the-roger-ralff-white-memorial-guild-hall/

As well as the #GW2 channel in AIE Discord. Remember this is going to be the Roger ‘Ralff’ White Memorial Guild Hall so please help if you are able.

And also, we know you like fun, and in fact, it’s mandatory you have fun, which is why the AIE Guild in GW2 has instituted Mandatory Fun Nights on Monday evenings. For more information, check the forum thread - http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57412-mandatory-fun-nights-on-mondays/

As well as the Guild Calendar - https://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Guild_Calendar

TSW

https://secretworldlegends.com/

https://secretworldlegends.com/news/letter_from_the_producer/

From the Producer Letter:

Today we’re writing to you to announce that The Secret World will be relaunching this spring as Secret World Legends, a shared-world action RPG featuring over 100 hours of story-driven quests and revamped gameplay and progression systems that will be completely free to play.

Given the sweeping extent of the changes being implemented, Secret World Legends will reset story progression for anyone who joins, offering a fresh start for all players.

This will not erase your progression in The Secret World though! Secret World Legends will exist on a different server than The Secret World, meaning you will still be able to play your old character on The Secret World server.

We’ve made some major improvements to the game and server, so Secret World Legends will have its own client. You can have both Secret World Legends and The Secret World installed on the same computer and play either game at any time.

If you’re intrigued by Secret World Legends but don’t want to leave behind the things you’ve worked hard to attain in The Secret World, worry not: a free transfer process will allow you to move vanity items like Mounts, Pets, Vehicles, and other customization's that have been purchased through the item store from The Secret World to your characters in Secret World Legends

The Secret World Legends closed beta is announced and there is a signup on the main page of Secret World Legends.

FFXIV

See Game News below

STO

Captain Cybyl’s Star Trek Online News Summary for week ending 4/9/2017:

1. A new featured episode, ’Survivor’, was released April, 3rd. Loyalist, traitor, daughter, hero, villain, warlord, empress. Yes, Sela of Romulus fame, returns for evil? For good? Only players of this episode shall know the secret of her return. New rewards for completion of this episode shall be added every week for the next 3 weeks.

2. A new backstory has been posted to the STO website blog entitled 'Ripples'. This introduces the new featured mission, ’Survivor’. The crew of the time ship, USS Pastak picks up time ripples that will lead us to the Survivor. The surprising events that follow are totally unexpected. As before, no spoilers.

3. On April 5th, 2063, the legendary scientist, Dr. Zephram Cochrane flew his experimental warp ship to become the first man to achieve faster-than-light travel. This accomplishment was detected by a passing Vulcan explorer vessel, initiating mankind’s First Contact with advanced extra-terrestrials. Free computer desktop wallpapers of this historic event are now available on the STO website.

4. This day was also celebrated April 5th with a special event where players helped Dr. Cochrane collect parts to build the first warp drive spacecraft. In addition a First Contact sci-fi short story story writing contest was introduced and which ends April 14th. Both event’s prizes are listed on the STO website.

5. This weekend is the annual Shuttle Weekend event. Players fly their favourite shuttle craft to assist a Romulan colony fend off giant land walking tanks and airborne attacks. Rewards are posted on the STO website.

6. Don’t forget: The AIE Fleet’s Star Bases are always seeking contributions of materiel and personnel. And once again, please check out news, backstories, patch notes, forums, commentary, and other goodies at the Star Trek Online website .

Thanks to Captain Cybyl, as always, for the STO updates.

And with that, let’s get back to Abo and find out what’s going on in Final Fantasy XIV..

GAME NEWS

67 Days until Stormblood Early Access!! June 16 for early access and June 20 for general availability.

FFXIV is on sale with the humble bundle.

9.99 for A Realm Reborn

9.99 for Heavensward

19.79 for both, a savings of $0.18!!!

Free trial time limits - gone! Level limits lifted to 35! Significant level bump, let's to play to the class turns into a job!

Refer a friend is still a thing, but new is refer a friend back is new. Refer a previous player back to the game for rewards for both, including 7 days of free time for the returning player.

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On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mewkow: Check your calendar

Tetsemi: So Many Patchnotes

Mkallah: Mandatory fun, not just for SWTOR

Mewkow: TSW, FFXIV, and STO, oh my!

Tetsemi: And, we have Dankinia and Anwyl from NOOB raid!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode # of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah. To my left is my right is Mewkow (catch phrase here) and to my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Dankinia and Anwyl who are here to talk to us about AIE’s NOOB Raid in WOW . Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be talking to the lovely ladies of Noob Raid shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Community

Blizzcon announced, hotel rooms opened, ticket sales days Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 7 p.m. Pacific Time and Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time.

We are already discussing the Guild Hall for 2017- more information on the specifics- and how you can help, coming soon!

Also, looking for events in the games we play? Make sure to check out the Guild Calendar on the Wiki - https://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Guild_Calendar

WoW

Patch 7.2 releases March 28th.

MMO-Champion has a good writeup on getting prepared for patch 7.2 - http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/6473-Patch-7-2-Preparation-Character-Services-Sale-Blue-Posts-PvP-Title-Cutoff-Key-Art

But since there’s only a day left (Monday) before the patch goes live, but here’s the highlights,

Get Your Artifact Weapon to (at least) 35 Traits - Once you’ve earned 35 traits in your Artifact Weapons, you’ll be eligible for a new questline to empower your weapon.

Cap Your Artifact Knowledge - Caps at 25 and will cap to 50 in 7.2

Complete Order Hall Class Campaign - To continue with your order hall campaign in 7.2, you must have completed all currently available order hall quests.

Collect 25,000 Order Resources for New Order Hall upgrades - The first upgrade (tier 7) costs 10,000 x Order Resources and takes one day to research.

The second (tier 8) costs 15,000 x Order Resources and research completion will take 5 days.

You’ll also need Order Resources for purchasing new artifact knowledge ranks (which now caps at 50).

Earn the Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part One Achievement

Max Reputations to Exalted for Paragon - For each 10,000 reputation earned past Exalted, you will earn a supply reward similar to those awarded by Emissary Quests.

Level Class Hall Champions - All Champions will now be able to reach Legendary quality, which unlocks a third equipment slot.

Gather Crafting Materials for new BoE Legendaries

Sell Excess Gathered Materials Before Flying is Unlocked - With Flying, gathering becomes easier, supply increases and prices drop on the AH.

Level Battle Pets

Collect Transmog Items

WoWHead has a link to Blizzard’s 7.2 Video Survival Guide that was an IGN exclusive - http://www.wowhead.com/news=261625/blizzards-patch-7-2-video-survival-guide

There was also another developer Q&A with Ryan Shwayder (Senior Game Designer) covering the 7.2 content - http://www.wowhead.com/patch-7-2-live-march-28th

SWTOR

Escape Pod Cast 186 - Level Synch and Bolster

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-186 talk about how level sync and bolster work in general and why they are useful in SWTOR. They also touch on other game and community news for the week from SWTOR in general and remind everyone that our casual, family-friendly multi-game guild is always looking for new members. The officer channel on Jedi Covenant is at /cjoin aielfo and more guild information is at http://aie-guild.info/swtor

Catch the live podcast and chat room on Tuesday nights around 10:30pm central at http://twitch.tv/newoverlords. Follow and subscribe on Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, etc. to hear podcast news and see the other guild streams.

Want to get involved in Mandatory Fun Night but don’t know the schedule? Well, we have you covered! MFN runs Tuesday nights at 9pm Eastern

March 28 and April 4th will be Imp side and April 9th will be Pub side!

Hit up the SWTOR channel in discord with any questions.

FFXIV

Abovan resumes position of director after a double lalafell induced hiatus.

Patch 3.56 is scheduled to release on Tuesday, March 28, and will usher in the end of the Heavensward main scenario. This gives us a few months to finish things up before Stormblood starts in June.

TSW

Funcom has announced that they will be relaunching The Secret World soon.

Changes include:

Redesigned new player experience

Major improvements to gameplay such as the combat system.

Introduction of retention mechanics like daily rewards/quests.

Adjustments to the business model, allowing free to players to still play new story content.

Expect things to begin around end of March/Early April.

STO

Captain Cybyl’s Star Trek Online News Summary for week ending 3/26/2017:

News at the STO website has been sparse this last two weeks, but a couple of tidbits have been posted:

1. The Tzenkethi story arc continues. A new backstory has been posted to the STO website blog entitled 'What Rough Beast' continuing the mission of the Tzenkethi to test their world destroyer weapons on small, defenseless, unknown races. Have the Tzenkethi bitten off more than they can chew in this encounter with a world of pure energy beings? Find out the amazing details of this encounter in this latest sci-fi tale. As before, no spoilers.

2. Starship collectors rejoice! The long-awaited Andromeda class dreadnaught is now available in the C-Store. Freshly refitted, repainted and upgraded to T6 level, Federation ship collectors will now experience the bliss of owning a favourite classic mainstay vessel. Visit the STO website for the juicy specs and details.

3. Don’t forget: The AIE Fleet’s Star Bases are always seeking contributions of materiel and personnel. And once again, please check out news, backstories, patch notes, forums, commentary, and other goodies at the Star Trek Online website .

Until next time, Captain Cybyl signing off

GW2

The GW2 guild is pleased to announce that we are stealing/instituting the AIE tradition of Mandatory Fun Nights. They are scheduled for Monday nights at 9:30pm ET and as always, only the fun is mandatory

And with that, let’s get back to Kini and Anwyl to talk about NOOB raid!..

GAME NEWS

Q-What is the purpose of NOOB raid?

S: Noob Raid was created to provide a safe casual environment for people new to raiding to learn how to raid and become more comfortable with the process. It also allows more experienced raiders to try a different spec/class then one they might normally play.

A: I really appreciate that younger players have a safe place to dip their toes into raiding too. When we have minors in the room, everyone is always great about keeping it PG13 for the most part!

Q- How did it get started?

S: About 3 years or so ago, the original Noob Raid leader, Sparrow, heard a lot of comments about people being scared to try raiding. They were worried they would not perform well and let others down or get ridiculed and/or yelled out. He decided a raid team with the focus on learning and having fun would benefit the AIE community.

A: And the idea of it really caught on. I remember times when we would run two full raid groups through SoO. People really appreciated the fact that they could come in, try new specs and be confident that nobody was going to yell at them cause of performance or meters.

Q-How did you get involved in NOOB raid?

S: I started playing Wow In Pandaria and had no idea what raiding was about. I was hanging out in mumble one night with a group of people and Sparrow told me I should join them one night. I spent most of the fights tanking the floor with my warlock, but still having fun. During WoD, life got busy for Sparrow and he could no longer lead the group so he passed the lead to me.

A: I actually got involved with Noob Raid because of my husband...he wanted me to get into raiding and I was terrified! I remember sitting there in tears every time somebody died in the raid. Afterwards Sparrow and Fyre talked with me and gave me a huge pep talk! I have been a part of it ever since! Now even our son runs noob raid every once in while. He was 8 when he started and 10 now!

Q-What is your greatest achievement when it comes to NOOB raid?

S: This is a hard question to answer. In -game the most recent one I’m thrilled about is Noob Raid did it’s first full clear of Emerald Nightmare on Normal. As a group, we had managed to get through most of the bosses each night for a few weeks before but hadn’t managed to reach or kill the final boss. The night we pulled it off, we one-shotted every boss in the raid and finished with 2 minutes left in our allotted raid time. Personally - Keeping Sparrow’s vision for Noob Raid going has been a goal of mine. I do my best to keep Noob Raid a casual, fun, and welcoming environment and at the end of every Saturday night I can honestly say I’ve had a great time with a great bunch of people no matter how many bosses we have/have not killed.

A: I think one of my favorite parts of noob raid is the connections that I have made with people. Some of the people who are in there we have been running with for 3 years now. That has spilled over to real life friendships and meet ups. Even when I get burnt out or bored with the game...the wonderful people of noob raid keep me coming back!

Q- Favourite moment?

S: There are so many...One of which I didn’t realize the significance of until much later. I get lost in game frequently and in SoO it happened to me a lot. I’d go the wrong way or pass the entrance of where we needed to be. The first night I raided with Noob Raid, I got lost on the way to the Iron Juggeraut fight and this toon named Elcarth came to find me and lead me back to the group. Three years or so later, I’m married to him,...

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mewkow: We have a guild calendar

Mkallah: and Umami reminders

Tetsemi: Get Buffed in SWTOR

Mewkow: Jita is burning and Hoots is here to talk about it

Mkallah: and Bhock is here to clue us in on Crowfall

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode # 271 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi To my left is Mewkow: - (Greetings, Gamers). And to my right is Mkallah (Hey, AIE, there are gruyere prosciutto croissant and lemon bars in guild kitchen). This week we are joined by special guests Hoots and Bhock who are here to talk to us about AIE in EVE and Crowfall! Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be digging into EVE, and maybe a sneak peek at Crowfall from Bhock,shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Community

Did you know we have a Guild Calendar? We do! And we’re in the process of populating it with all the guild activities like Mandatory Fun Nights, raid times/team, etc. If you, fantastic members of the AIE Community, would like to get an event on the Guild Calendar, please e-mail [email protected] or pop into the #lfo channel in Discord and let us know!

https://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Guild_Calendar

Imperium Ludi

A reminder for all games, each character in each game needs an application in Umami. Please don’t forget to submit applications for your alts as well before asking for invites into the various games that AIE is in.

Speaking of all the games, if you are playing Neverwinter on the Dragon Shard and you’d like to hang out with AIE folks, hop in game and look for “Dave’s Not Here” guild. Just post your name in the thread on the forums or in the #LFO channel in Discord, use the name@name format and mention Neverwinter if posting to the Discord #LFO channel.

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/50084-neverwinter-dragon-shard-daves-not-here/page-12

The Alpha for RUST, a multiplayer survival game, is currently available on STEAM for $20.00- and AIE, of course, has a presence. This game is no for the faint of heart- or the under 18 crowd, though- the only aim of Rust is to survive- it is a kill or be killed environment. Find out more information at playrust.com and the link to the guild base and Corley’s excellent map is in the shownotes

https://rust-servers.net/server/110215

WoW

Toxxia, on our forums, has a great suggestion for a new micro-holiday in World of Warcraft and would like folks that like the idea to help vote it up in the WoW Forums.

From the post “Peacebloom Day would have you gather special blooms at 3 graveyards near the enemy faction and create a bouquet to leave at a graveyard near your faction capital (or get blooms from your faction to leave a bouquet for the enemy). Let the bouquets be visible for a week/month! Or maybe add this event to Remembrance Day/Hallows Eve? I'd call the quest Where Have All the Flowers Gone? and it would reward title: The Peaceable. For added fun, kills in BG's would give seeds to plant in graveyards, and leaving those bouquets would give you the title: Wildly Inept Pacifist. (This was a guild on my server and I always loved the name.)”

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57409-holiday-idea-peacebloom-day

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20753587416#post-1

Are you level 110, do you have iLvl 825 gear, are you available Saturday nights and like to hang out with a bunch of other new to raiding players? Then Noob Raid is the place to be, as evidenced by guild chat most Saturday evenings. For more information, check out the forum post or just ask in guild chat.

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/53227-noob-raid-team-saturdays-11pm-server

EVE

JITA is burning? JITA was burning? JITA is in a constant state of flammability? What the heck, exactly, is going on in JITA and how can you add to the burning by blowing up spectacularly? We’ll find out shortly with the Eve folks in the game discussion, but just know, something, somewhere is on fire!

SWTOR

The 250% buff to XP and CXP is still going strong till April 10th, jump in game and take advantage! Remember to check the #SWTOR channel in AIE Discord to find out which planets are being invaded for Conquest and what you should be running or crafting to help out the guild.

Patch 5.1.3 (mostly bug fixes) is dropping on Tuesday, March 14th and patch notes will be available on http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 183: Update 5.1.2

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-183-update-5-1-2

@AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-183 talk about game update 5.1.2 that just dropped.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 184: Sema Tells Us Vitiate's Life Story

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-184-sema-tells-us-vitiates-life-story

@AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-184 have a lore conversation where Sema walks us through the life and times of the Vitiate/Valkorian story arc across the timeline of Old Republic lore.

If you like SWTOR lore, and who doesn’t, Episode 184 is for you, there’s a ton of story stretched over all the expansions to date and it’s fun to dig into all of it.

GW2

We’re building a thing! The Roger “Ralff” White Memorial Guild Hall is being unlocked in GW2 and they need your help! If you are level 80 and have the Gliding and Heart of Thorns expansions unlocked, you can help!

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57408-the-roger-ralff-white-memorial-guild-hall

FFXIV

2 patches have dropped in the last two weeks, both adding new features.

Relic Weapon changes. New steps for upgrades and needs to the umbrite step.

Dun Scythe now has a new boss added. Drops a 265 (someone double check this) accessory.

Diadam has reopened. Get loots crafting items, pets and mounts in a new zone.

STO

Captain Cybyl’s Star Trek Online News Summary for week ending 3/12/2017:

The AIE Classis Fleet in STO paid its respects on Ralff’s Remembrance Day on February 26, 2017. As Ralff was eulogised on Discord voice and text chats, Captain Cybyl paid respects as the Fleet’s emissary at the Eternal Flame Memorial in Earth’s Starfleet Academy, the Spock Memorial on Vulcan and the Spock Memorial on New Romulus.

The 26th century Dreadnaughts are here! They will be either Federation, Klingon and Romulan, depending upon the lucky player’s character affiliation. These are gorgeous and massive, and I mean huge, ships! As a special promotion, starting March 9th until April 3rd, whenever an R&D pack is purchased from the C-Store and opened, there will be a random chance that a 26th century dreadnaught will be awarded! To support this promotion, this weekend all R&D material packs will be 20% off in the C-Store. This will be a big boon to crafting as well!

Speaking of sales- a 20% off Lobi store sale is also happening this weekend as well. If you had your eye on a new uniform, starship, pet, weapon, or a host of other goodies, act now!

A new backstory has been posted to the STO website blog entitled 'A Divided Duty’ on the progress of the Tzenkethi uprising story arc. Is the conscious of a lone Tzenkethi enough to save a world? Find out in this latest sci-fi tale. As before, this Captain shall refrain from spoilers.

Don’t forget: The AIE Fleet’s Star Bases are always seeking contributions of materiel and personnel. And once again, please check out news, backstories, patch notes, forums, commentary, and other goodies at the Star Trek Online website .

And with that, let’s get back to Hoots and Bhock and find out what’s going on in EVE and have a chat about Crowfall!

GAME NEWS

EVE at 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? Air? Space.

Cold War

Local but not massive conflict

Whale hunting

Capitals, Supercapitals, Titans

Burn Jita

What is a Jita?

A trade hub, but more. The trade hub.

Logistics and EVE… everything needs to be moved. No (unbugged) teleportation of stuff.

What is a Goonswarm?

Burn Jita 2012.

Skipped last year. Burn Jita 4 (Kids)

How do roast a Jita?

A review of EVE mechanics, high sec, low sec, nullsec. Emphasis on high sec.

Low skill alpha clones flying specific ships.

Coercers, catalysts, taloses, other “high alpha” ships

Jita itself. The periphery systems.

Conclusion:

Somewhere between 750 and 884 billion ISK destroyed between February 24th and February 27th. ($10k)

80b stolen on a scam ($1k)

Monthly Economic Reports

February Slideshow Here

The full Dev Blog here.

These come out every month. Are they fair? See CSM kerfuffle about nullsec groups and regional data.

New Trailer = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrwffiIB5ok

Council of Stellar Management Elections -- CSM XII

Voting started March 6th and ends March 27th

Results to be announced at Fanfest in April of this year.

Number of seats being reduced from 12 to 10.

See CSM Wire for lots of information and the candidates.

March 14th Patch (YC 119.3)

Improved scanning system

Nullsec bubble decay

Rorqual rebalance nerf. Need to select asteroid for Invulnerability module => no more hunting Rorqual fleets

Ship designs, rebalances, citadel improvements (you can repair in them now) and more.

Looking to the future (accidentally posted leaks)

The end of POS reaction farms.

System wide asteroid mining.

New (out of game) chat system?

https://abload.de/img/8b701d35-9a59-4934-9fyklv1.png

Crowfall: what it is... and what it is not

Bhock can talk about Crowfall here. I’m super curious to hear about it. And, he really wants to talk about it!!!

In short = Crowfall inspiration are ShadowBane and EvE Online

Warning = this is a pre-alpha 4 (creating the basic blocs), and alpha are about testing basic blocks assembled

balancing and refining is not part of alpha

game will change a lot before it becomes playable beta and even more with release

Basic Concepts:

PvP (solo, group, faction and guild)

Sandbox[ES] (Campaigns) with distinct sets of rules and goals

Risk Vs Reward and Speed to Completion

Import and Export rules for campaign engagement

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On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mkallah: We honor Ralff

Mewkow: with our very special guests, Maui, Lanctharus, and Stigg

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #270 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi To my left is Mkallah: - (Hey, guys, there is a lot of alcohol in the guild kitchen). And to my right is Mewkow (Greetings, Guildies). This week we are joined by a trio of very special guests- Lanctharus, Randy (Maui), and Stigg. Tonight we have the honor and pleasure to talk about someone who is was an integral part of the AIE Community- Ralff.

Ok, we’ll be talking all things Ralff in a moment, but first, let’s cover this week’s brief news...

AIE News

Community

AIE has set-up a Go Fund Me to raise money to cover his casket with flowers and a note to his family on behalf of AIE. Should we raise more than we can spend on that, we hope to commission a permanent marker, such as a gravestone or plaque, that briefly tells the world forever how much he meant to us.

https://www.gofundme.com/ralff

WoW

The AIE WoW guild and its larger community joined together in game at the Shrine of the Fallen Warrior to pay tribute to Ralff and the many contributions he made to the guild both inside and out of game. We were even joined by some of our friends in CTR and a number of guildies rejoined to honor our friend.

And special thanks to Prime for streaming and recording the event- a link to the recording is in the show notes-

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/125049292

EVE

They are working on a Station Naming, for Ralff, in Memorial, and a ceremonial roam. Likely next weekend, keep your eyes and ears in comms.

SWTOR

SWTOR held a moment of silence in the Juran Mountains on Alderaan in game for the passing of Ralff.

GW2

The guild in GW had a moment of silence at Lion’s Arch Memorial.

Just a reminder, they are looking for level 80s, in decent gear, with Gliding and Heart of Thorns to unlock the “memorial guild hall." If you are interested, ping Jehdai in the discord channel! Don’t forget to use those level boosts to catch up.

FFXIV

The AIE guild in FFXIV held a memorial walk in conjunction with the AIE WoW guild to honor Ralff.

STO

The guild in STO held vigil at the Spock memorial on Vulcan

And with that, let’s get back to Stigg, Lanc, and Randy to talk about Ralff and his impact and influence on AIE.

GAME NEWS

In the beginning

There was no stuff

Then we had stuff

Reorg of the Org

Stewardships of the guild’s culture

Leadership

A boss just yells. A leader does.

Engaging the masses

Fostering a culture of engagement, cooperation and communication

Fighting the tendency to build silos

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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank Lanctharus, Maui, and Stigg, for joining us. Also,we have a current Go fund me total - $1,100.00 as of a few minutes ago - our initial goal reached in an hour

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website https://keyswithsoul.com !

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including...

Overly Dramatic news

In two weeks, we’ll be talking to Hoots and Bhock in Eve So until then, AIE...

- This is Tetsemi

- This is Mkallah

- This is Mewkow

And this has been... The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Tetsemi: Sad day in AIE

Mew: Flamesaber is the new hotness

Mkallah: XP XP XP

Mew: News galore!

Tetsemi: Mew, Mkallah, and Tet are their own party

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #269 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Mewkow: (Greeting, Gamers). And to my left is Tetsemi (catch phrase here) And we are running this thing like a scenario instead of a five man, so we are doing this on our own this week- but, stick around for the end of the show, we have news on a trio of very very special guests!

Ok, we’ll be chatting about what we have been doing in and out of game shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Community

Hey, gang, I am sure that a lot of you have seen some rather cryptic posts on Facebook and Twitter about the loss of a dear guild mate, but no names have been attached. We are doing that out of respect for their family. One of the greatest things about our guild is that we are community and we are family, and these times are never easy. So, be gentle and kind, there is a lot of sadness right now and everyone grieves differently. As we can share more, we will.

WoW

We know that AIE’s 10th anniversary passed this last week to little fanfare- but be rest assured, in the works! Because, why celebrate one day when we can celebrate all year. And, if you want to run an event for our big year, contact Nevermore in game, on discord, via twitter, etc.

Blizzard announced this week a new mount available in World of Warcraft, the Primal Flamesaber. How do you obtain this new hotness you might ask? Well, you need to grab a friend and jump into Heroes of the Storm. Play 15 games (win or lose, against a real team or the AI) as a Warcraft Hero, and the mount is yours! Looking for a friend or a group? The #LFG channel in AIE’s discord is a great place to find people looking for a partner for this event. Gerjen also startedd a thread on the AIE Forums for this event as well - http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57399-friends-for-hots/

You have until March 13th to complete your 15 game, so you don’t have to run them all at once, unless that’s your jam!

http://www.wowhead.com/news=259985/acquiring-the-primal-flamesaber-beginner-heroes-of-the-storm-tips-for-wow-player

A new developer Q&A is coming up this Thursday and information about how to submit questions can be found on the official website here - https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20564523/join-us-for-a-live-developer-q-a-thursday

SWTOR

Just a reminder that the 250% gain to XP and Command XP (for max level characters) is going on through April XXth. If you’re max level, make sure you CTRL-G and open up the Galactic Command panel and see where the CXP bonus is each day for even more CXP goodness.

In between shows, Max and Sema put out two new episodes of The Escape Pod Cast

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-181-substantial-reward-no-disintegrations/

Episode 181: Substantial Reward, No Disintegrations

@AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-181 talk about update 5.1.1 and the continued refinement of the CXP system, including the CXP and XP bonus events in progress

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-182-master-chapter-tips/

Episode 182: Master Chapter Tips

@AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-182 talk about Master Mode Chapters and some tips and tricks for getting through them.

Max and Sema will also go over the conquest targets for the week on the podcast and in case you miss them be sure to check the #SWTOR channel on the AIE Discord server. You can also see which side the Mandatory Fun Night is going to be on and who is running what for CXP gains.

GW2

Looking for some Guild Wars fun? Well, they are looking for level 80s, in decent gear, with gliding and heart of thorns to unlock the “memorial guild hall" in GW2. If you are interested, ping Jehdai in the discord channel! Don’t forget to use those level boosts to catch up.

FFXIV

The last of three Fanfests was hosted in Frankfurt, Germany this weekend. The last big reveals for the game's next expansion, Stormblood (release date 20 June 2017)-

Last of two new jobs revealed -- Samurai (Melee DPS, unfortunately). Previously announced was Red Mage (Ranged DPS). Inventory and housing capacities are being increased (just for Sashi) . New zones, cities, and a new residential area with an Eastern theme are being introduced. The newly revealed map is huge, practically tripling the size of the known world, showing us what’s to come. (http://i.redd.it/9ddv7y5ifpgy.png) The FFXIV crew is excited for the new expansion and will be sitting down to chat with us closer to the release of the expansion to share in all the wonderful details of Stormblood.

Also- And they(SQEX) have 3 new world records to brag about.

Longest credits in an mmo (1h 38 mins), most original pieces of music in a game with 384 tracks, and most prolific role playing game series with 87 Final Fantasy Titles.

Also a reminder that Friday Nights are Final Fantasy Friday Fun Nights (similar to the Mandator Fun Nights from SWTOR) and you can find out what’s going on each week by checking out the forum post here - http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57293-final-fantasy-friday-fun-night/ or the #FFXIV channel in the AIE Discord Server

STO

Captain Cybyl’s Star Trek Online News Summary for week ending 2/19/2017:

The new Season 12, 'Reckoning’, story arc is still moving along nicely. The first featured mission, 'Of Signs and Portents', is in it’s 4th week with additional rewards and 7th Anniversary prize vouchers for each replay. New space and ground and exploration scenarios are featured.

Major changes are coming to STO! According to the latest blog posting, drastic changes to the STO experience are being tested. For 7 years STO has been adding and updating content, systems and play mechanics. To maintain optimal gameplay and maximum fun, STO is scheduled to be totally reset and re-balanced. The numerous changes and details of these soon-to-be-released updates, are listed on the website.

A Bonus Marks weekend is in progress! During the event, Fleet and Reputation marks will reward a 50% bonus above normal amounts. This would be a great time to build your Fleet projects or reputation.

Concurrently, a costumes and boost sale is happening in the C-Store this weekend. Costume packs are 20% off. Show off your Seven-of-Nine skin-tights to your fleet mates! Also, all Commendation points, R&D Research XP and basic player XP booster packs are also 20% off.

Additionally, a 20% off ship sale is also transpiring this weekend in the C-Store as well. If your secret desire is that sexy, new ship, give in to your feelings and act now!

Don’t forget: The AIE Fleet’s Star Bases are always seeking contributions of materiel and personnel. And once again, please check out news, backstories, patch notes, forums, commentary, and other goodies at the Star Trek Online website .

And with that, let’s get back to Us!

GAME NEWS

Tetsemi - 4th toon, Bounty Hunter, to level 70 in SWTOR and just finished the Makeb storyline and heroics, heading to do Shadows of Revan.

My Smuggler, who also hit 70 during the Makeb storyline, is going through Shadows of Revan as well, and has actually made it planet side.

Working on trying to collect all the Odessen Bind to Legacy gear from the crates you get from doing heroics at max level and turning in at your alliance base.

Got my 3rd legendary drop (shoulders to go with chest and gloves) on my warrior and we’re 4/10 on Nighthold Normal and thanks to the DMF I got my Jewelcrafting to 800.

Working on my Class and Order Hall campaign for my Death Knight and her tradeskills (blacksmith/mining)

Working on leveling my Paladin and his tradeskills (alchemy/herbalism)

Mew - On top of the raiding I’ve been doing with FERT, I’ve been busy with my ‘other’ raid team, Banana Republic. We recently managed to overcome Guldan after the challenge that was Elisande, and even returned the next week and took him down a second time for good measure.

Outside of WoW, I’ve been grinding MGP, having managed to get the mini-cactapot jackpot 3 times this week. Closer to those cosmetic and mount goals.

In SWTOR, I’ve working on my imp spy.

Poking at Fallout 4.

And finally joined that Fire Emblem game.

MK - slowly getting back into WOW. Hopefully in the next few months, we will have new systems and that will help. Killed Harpies in high mountain and dealing with the Bloodtotems- loving the Star Wars “I have a bad feeling about this” and “It’s a trap”.

Gaming- through roll 20, limited due to scheduling, but still loving it

Written- Star Wars finally started, possible WOD game

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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank you guys,the chat room, for joining us.

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!

Shoutouts-Not many shoutouts this week- just one to Old Lady Franks for being hot and brave enough to step into Heroes of the Storm- wanna guess who that was from?

And, one from Arv to OMF for being sly enough to find someone like this to marry him!

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including…

Overly Dramatic news

...

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mew: Looking for Raiders in WoW

Tetsemi: SWTOR, Best I can do is 250% XP for two months

Mew: Log in and claim your free chapter before it costs ya, GW2

Tetsemi: STO, the story carries on and on and on ...

Mew: and we’re talking to ourselves!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode # of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the Die has been Podcast. This is Tetsemi and to my left is Mewkow - (Welcome, Gamers). Mkallah is not joining us tonight, she said something about having to tank some inventory backup at work, but we all know she really snuck off to watch the big sportsball game We are talking about the general goings on in AIE and what we have been up to in the past few weeks.

Ok, we’ll be talking amongst ourselves shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

WoW

Interested in raiding in WOW, but don’t know how to find a raid group? Check out the Alea Iacta Est LFG discord channel or the recruitment sections of the forums- there are a few groups currently needing new members:

Pepperjack Fan Club is looking for more raiders- they run Saturdays & Sundays,12-3 PM server time.- contact Sinru or Keligh in game or in their recruitment thread listed in the show notes.

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57314-pepperjack-fan-club-have-reformed-still-lfm-raiders-satsun-12-3-pm/page-4

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades is looking for backup tanks and DPS- they raid Monday and Thursday nights 11:55pm-2:00am server - contact Illmar or Bullwork in game or on their recruitment thread listed in the show notes.

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57377-horseshoes-hand-grenades-m-th-1155pm-200am-server-recruiting-dpsbackup-tank-and-dps/

If you are looking at running an event in WoW, please let Nevermore know in game, via Discord, or the @AIE_WoW twitter account and she’ll make sure folks are aware.

SWTOR

Looking to find out what’s happening in game? The SWTOR team publishes a monthly in game event listing each month, and this month’s is really really good.

http://www.swtor.com/info/in-game-events?intcmp=sor_bwa-mkt-t-us-lp-117

In preparation for the upcoming patch 5.2, the SWTOR team has decided to help you gear up, level up, and generally speed up your progress in game. They are providing a 250% XP bonus (while leveling up) and a 250% command XP bonus once you reach max level. This will be starting Feb 7th and lasting through April 10th. So that will give returning folks, and players leveling up alts (to max level) plenty of time to take advantage of it. And for those with max level toons, this will speed up gaining CXP, which I know Max and Sema will be very happy with as it’s a constant topic they touch on in their podcast. Speaking of which

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 180: New Operation!

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-180 talk about the recent dev stream highlighting the new operation under development as well as a few other good things coming to the game in the next couple months.

FFXIV

The folks over at Final Fantasy 14 want to remind you that Final Fantasy Friday Fun Night is going strong. Join us every Friday as we find new ways to run amok in the beautiful land of Eorzea.

Also, if you haven’t already, be sure to get your pre-order in for the newest expansion, Stormblood, coming June 20th of this year.

GW2

A reminder for Guild Wars 2: The Lunar New Year festival ends on the 7th and the new episode of the living story starts up. Be sure to login on your toons before then so as to get the current episode of the living story for free. Once Episode 4 comes out, you will not be able to claim your access for free.

A-Net is using a time gated claim system for the Living World Episodes. As long as you log in, even with a free account, you will claim your access to the current Episode during its release window. In order to play the Living world, you need a Heart of Thorns paid account, but you can still claim the access on a free account, to play through at a later time. Also, be sure to follow up with logging on after Feb 7th as well to claim Episode 4.

Finally, if you do not log in, but are interested in the game at a later time, A-Net has in the past allowed the purchase of Season 2, so I am guessing a similar system is/will be in place for late comers to go through the Living World stories (minus season 1, which as of now is not accessible to anyone and was only playable during its live time).

STO

Captain Cybyl’s Star Trek Online News Summary for week ending 2/6/2017:

1. The new Season 12 'Reckoning’ story arc is moving along nicely. The first featured mission, 'Of Signs and Portents', is in it’s second week with additional rewards for each replay. New space and ground combat and exploration scenarios are featured.

2. Concurrent with Season 12, STO’s 7th Anniversary daily giveaways happened last week featuring free uniforms, weapons and rare older star ships re-released for the occasion. Those listening to my advice to visit the STO website last week would have had access to these perks. Sorry if you missed them, but if you snooze you lose.

3. Our fixer-upper Starbase K-13 will have additional feature unlocks available as of last week. See the STO website for details.

4. A 20 percent off services sale is happening this weekend in the C-Store. If you need boosts, extra ship or officer slots, better act now!

5. Don’t forget: The AIE Fleet’s original Star Base, as well as Star Base K13, are always seeking contributions of materiel. Do your part by checking out current donation requests in the Fleet’s in-game menu.

6. And once again, please check out news, backstories, patch notes, forums, commentary, and other goodies at the Star Trek Online website .

Until next time, Captain Cybyl signing off

And with that, let’s get back to us and find out what’s going on in with our gaming.

GAME NEWS

Tetsemi -

WoW raiding, got the first three bosses in Nighthold down on Normal mode, got my Mage to AK 25 and through her class story line (still working on profession story line). Got my DK to Level 110 and he’s at AK 23 and still working on his class order hall story line. Working on my Tauren Paladin next which should be interesting as the DK and Paladin Class Order Hall story lines cross (no spoilers).

SWTOR got my Bounty Hunter through the class story line (ended at level 62) and working on the Ilum story line to get him to max level, then will tackle MakeB, Shadows of Revan and the current expansion.

Leveled up my companion levels to 20 on a few characters to help speed up crafting and mission times.

Working on my strongholds to get the Conquest bonus

Mew - Grinding MGP (Manderville Gold Points) to get mounts and cosmetic gear.

Working on progression with my heroic raid team.

Grinding loot boxes in OW.

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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we’d like to thank them for joining us each time for the podcast.

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com !

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including...welp, the mailbox is empty right now, but a reminder, if you have a short segment you’d like played on the show, be sure to send it in!

Mew: In two weeks, we will be talking to someone about something! Stay tuned. So until then, AIE...

- This is Mewkow

- This is Tetsemi

And this has been... The AIE Podcast.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Tetsemi: Become a Star Citizen

Mkallah: COOP Rides again

Mew: Wednesday Operations in SWTOR

Tetsemi: Captain Cybyl’s STO update

Mkallah: We have Abovan and Durus here to talk about FInal Fantasy XIV

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #267 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. Greetings, Gamers, This is Mew(And hopefully you aren’t neglecting your alts): To my left is Tetsemi (spreadsheets in Space, now coming to SWTOR) and to my right is Mkallah (Hey, guys, there is a lovely carrot cake in the guild kitchen). This week we are joined by special guests Abovan and Durus who is here to talk to us about AIE in Final Fantasy XIV (14 for us non-Romans!) Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be digging into FFXIV shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Imperium Ludi

Are you interested in Star Citizen or curious about what’s going on in the game as it develops? Durus, on the forums, has created an AIE group in the game for those interested. Check out the forum thread (http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/51609-star-citizen/page-5) for more information about joining the guild in game.

WoW

Did you run with COOP and show the Alliance on Earthen Ring some love? See if you made it into Malefic’s video (http://youtube.com/watch?v=tsR_2h2o7MU) during the event. Did you miss the event or are unsure what COOP is? Take a look and talk about it on the forum thread (http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57373-coop-january-2017-edition/) Big thanks to Grimcow for putting this run together.

And speaking of community run events, Toxxia ran a Transmog Swap meet this afternoon in guild chat, the event started at 3 pm Server time. Did you get a piece of armor or a weapon that you were looking for? Let us know in the forum thread (http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57381-transmog-swap-meet-sunday-jan-22-3pm/)

Patch 7.1.5 dropped in between podcasts as well as the Nighthold raid opening up a week later. Are you enjoying the built in group finder for World Quests? Did you supply all your alts with Artifact Knowledge tomes? Did you punch Guld’an in the face? Let us know via e-mail or twitter and we’ll go over the responses during the next podcast!

And speaking of patches, Blizzard continues to keep up with the content push, dropping patch 7.2 on the PTR. This patch brings another round of UI element fixes, a new raid, a pet dungeon scenario, and too many more things to mention. A good write-up on the 7.2 patch is found over on WoWHead (http://www.wowhead.com/news=259395/patch-7-2-ptr-starts-today-and-patch-recap)

Patch 7.1.5 also brought in micro-holidays, the first of which is active now through Tuesday the 24th. Call of the Scarab is a micro-holiday celebrating the opening the gates of Ahn’Qiraj (On Caraj) during the classic World of Warcraft time period. Run AQ20 and AQ40 to get commendations to help your side (the Horde) win the event which will be represented by a Horde banner flying over the raids until the holiday comes around next year. There are also repeatable meat turn-ins and if you’re not yet exalted with Cenarian Circle you can scour Silithis for cultists and summon elemental lords to raise your reputation. WoWHead has a good write-up (http://www.wowhead.com/news=259399/call-of-the-scarab-micro-holiday-guide-january-21st-23rd) on the holiday

SWTOR

Not much from the official SWTOR news side of things so Max and Sema dig into a couple topics they’ve had on the back burner regarding Conquest and how to do it as well as the quality of life features in SWTOR compared to other MMO’s as well as features they’d like to see borrowed from those other MMO’s.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 177: How to Conquest (http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-177-how-to-conquest/)

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-177 revive an older topic that's been of interest to our guild lately, Conquest, and talk through details, tips, tricks, etc.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 178: Quality of Life (http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-178-quality-of-life/)

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-178 talk about Quality of Life features in SWTOR and what else we'd like to see added.

It also looks like long time member Ori has returned after his life and work schedule got wonky and separately Arv has managed to wrangle folks to get the Wednesday night operations group up and running again. Please visit the forums or the SWTOR channel in the AIE Discord to hang out, say hello, and found out how you too can run the universe as emperor, benevolent or not.

FFXIV

They were invited to be on the AIE Podcast this week! That’s exciting! What awesome news to they have in store? What will happen in Eorzea in the post-Dragonsong era? What news of Hildabrand, the world’s greatest inspector? Keep listening to find out! /teaser

STO

Captain Cybyl’s Star Trek Online News Summary for week ending 1/22/2017:

1. The Tzenkethi are coming! The race that decimated the planet that Starbase K-13 orbited for 700 years with a super weapon has been detected massing a vast attack force in the unexplored regions of the Alpha Quadrant. A huge new Season 12 story arc will be launched January 26 introducing this reptilian, 12-foot tall, 1000-pound, six-armed, Goliath adversary race. Imagine warriors wearing several hundred pounds of heavy armour and cannons as sidearms! The STO website describes them and provides pictures of these monsters.

2. Season 12 will also bring two new battle queues, ’Gravity Kills’ and ’The Tzenkethi Front’. Both queues involve destroying Tzenkethi protomatter manufacturing stations and stealing the bombs, all while orbiting a black hole. See the STO website for details.

3. A new backstory, 'A Gathering of Wills', was been posted on the website blog. Having discovered the Tzenkethi build-up and testing of super weapons on remote, defenseless worlds, Klingon General Rodek has been tasked to whip the peaceful, Lukari explorer race into a viable army and navy to counter the threat. The Lukari mission 'Of Signs and Portants’ based on this backstory shall be introduced as well. As before, this Captain shall refrain from spoilers.

4. As a concurrent Season 12 release, new space and ground weapon systems and an Infinity Lockbox upgrade will be available to be earned under a new Lukari Restoration Initiative. New starships, kit modules and ship and player traits shall be also added to the release as well. The new Lukari uniforms are oh, so fashionable (be still, my beating heart). Also a new Kit and Module Research School will be introduced to craft personal kits and modules as well. Details on the STO website.

5. Starting Thursday, January 19, though Monday, January 23, there will be a an XP weekend event. During this event, playing all content that awards skill points and expertise will be rewarded a 100% bonus.

6. Don’t forget: The AIE Fleet’s original Star Base, as well as Star Base K13, are always seeking contributions of materiel. Do your part by checking out current donation requests in the Fleet’s in-game menu.

7. Once again, please check out news, backstories, patch notes, forums, commentary, and other goodies at the Star Trek Online website .

Until next time, Captain Cybyl signing off

And with that, let’s get back to Abovan and Durus and find out what’s going on in FFXIV..

GAME NEWS

Happy patch week!

Patch 3.5: The Far Edge of Fate

New Story Content (MSQ and Side Quests)

Wrap up of the Void Ark 24-man raid story.

First raid was Void Aark

Second raid was The Weeping City of Mhach

Third and final raid is Dun Scaith

New side quests,

New Hildabrand quests

New Warring Triad Trial (Boss fight)

New Scholasticate quests

New Relic quests (Job specific Legendary quests for the WoW people)

New Beasts Quests, tying together the Heavensward beast questlines.

2 new 4-man dungeons

One part of the MSQ, one is a side quest, but both are needed to get the Expert roulette.

New stuff from Aquapolis, the random zone that can pop from a treasure map. Bring friends!

New House items. Big thanks to Sashi for taking point on decorating the FC house.

New Triple Triad tournaments and cards

New Egi Glamors!

Egis are the pets that Summoners use. Now you can have Egi A, but make it look like B

Right now, it’s just carbunkle (picture a glowing squirrel.) But others are coming soon.

Chocobos can be summoned in queues, GC Leves, and Gathering Leves

Party Finder is now cross server!

Note: Party Finder is not a duty finder. You have to put the group together, but this is a way to advertise a group, and the messages and groups can be sent and searched for over the datacenter.

Gilgamesh is on Aether Datacenter

Other Servers:

Adamantoise

Balmung

Cactuar

Coeurl

Faerie

Goblin

Jenova

Mateus

Midgardsormr

Sargatanas

Siren

Zalera

Groups can be public or private (password protected)

Returner Status

Returned to the game after an absence?

45 days of paid time, one level 50 job, you get returner status.

Access to the New Player Channel

EXP bonus when grouped with a Mentor up to level 20 on other classes.

A cool icon on your name.

Callback Campaign

If you made friends on the server, and were added to their friends list, but have been inactive for 90+, you can get invited back.

Rewards for the one coming back.

Free 7 days of game time

99 Aetheryte Tickets (Free Teleports)

10 Silver Chocobo Feathers

Used to trade in for level specific gear to get caught back up.

The sender gets 5 gold chocobo feathers to use for cosmetic items.

GPose has now more options.

Gpose, or group pose, has been enhanced with more features including action lines, frames, and filters.

And extreeeeme close ups and zoom outs.

Hotbar layouts

Now any bar can be vertical or horizontal, and can be arranged in any dimension, like 1x12, 6x2, 5x7, 6x6, ect.

FC News!

Still on Gilgamesh.

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On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mewkow: Patches galore

Tetsemi: Tuesdays are for going to Mordor

Mkallah: We have Captain Cyby’s STO update

Mewkow: What happened in 2016!

Tetsemi: What we are doing in 2017!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #266 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Mewkow - (catch phrase here) and to my right is Tetsemi (Say something about spreadsheets, Tet). This week we are flying sans guest as we start off a new year with a little bit of recapping last year and talk about what we’ve been doing on holiday break. Welcome chat room!

We are our own guests tonight, chatting about AIE in 2016 and what we are looking forward to in 2017. We will be doing that shortly, but first- the news!

AIE News

NOMADS

Just a reminder that the Nomads’ Minecraft server has been shut down, but Stigg has made the world files available to anyone who wants them, be warned, it’s a large (5.8 G) download. Link can be accessed in the forum post in the Nomads section of the forums - http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57344-shutting-down-the-nomads-minecraft-server/

WoW

Are you ready for some football, I mean Nighthold? Patch 7.1.5 drops on Tuesday, make sure you have any important world quests completed before patch day as world quests will be changing then. The Brawler’s guild is returning, Mists of Pandaria dungeons added to the Timewalking event, micro holidays are being introduced (check your in game calendar for dates), and a large number of class changes (especially to secondary stats). A link to the details is in the show notes https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20457780/patch-7-1-5-arrives-on-january-10

Another big change, especially for those people with Altitis that have been feeling a bit left out this expansion cycle, is the ability to catch up on Artifact Knowledge. If you have a character at AK 25, you will be able to purchase tomes for order hall resources that allow your alts to catch up to AK 20. A good write-up on the process is available over on WoWHead - http://www.wowhead.com/artifact-knowledge-guide - many thanks to Perculia for her hard work on writing and keeping this guide up to date with the changes.

Also, this gives everyone that’s doing progression raiding, about a week to get adjusted to the new changes in their classes as the Nighthold raid opens on January 17th, just one week after the 7.1.5 patch drops.

Want to hangout with a bunch of guildies and give the Alliance leader’s some heartburn? Join Grimcow on January 15th for a return of C.O.O.P. Details can be found in the forums - http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57373-coop-january-2017-edition/

SWTOR

With the passing of Carrie Fisher, many groups and guilds held an in game vigil at House Organa in game. MassivelyOP captured some screenshots of the event - http://massivelyop.com/2016/12/27/star-wars-the-old-republic-players-pay-tribute-to-carrie-fisher/ and the AIE Guild participated as well.

And with the new year comes a new episode of the Escape Pod Cast, SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 176: 2017 Predictions. This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-176 kick off 2017 with wishes and predictions for the year from us and the rest of the SWTOR community.

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-176-2017-predictions/

This weeks Mandatory Fun Night will be held on the Republic Side and I’ve heard rumors that there will be a party on the guild ship to unlock a new room. Make sure you check the forums and the AIE Discord #swtor channel for more information!

FFXIV

Are you a casual FFXIV player but looking to upgrade your gear? Thanks to Natsume Meiken in AIE Discord’s #ffxiv channel, who linked to a Reddit post on how to gear as a casual player - https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/5kuyag/34_an_updated_casuals_guide_to_gearing_up_from/

Want to find out what’s all in patch 3.5 that’s dropping on January 17th? Take a look at the official Youtube posting here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kA9aAdIDG0 as well as joining us on January 22nd on the podcast when we will have Abovan and crew joining us to discuss this upcoming patch and what the guild has planned.

LOTRO

Are you interested in a class on The Lord of The Rings? Well have we got an event for you. On January 3rd, LOTRO launched a new program called “Exploring The Lord of the Rings” with founder and president Corey Olsen, The Tolkein Professor, who will teach a details, chapter-by-chapter couse on The Lord of the Rings … in LOTRO on Tuesday evenings at 9:30 pm EST. He will spend about an hour and a half discussing the book chapter and its themes, reading passages and doing some close reading so that participants can really get into the story as it unfolds. For the final portion of the class, in-game participants will take a “field trip” to visit the places connected with the part of the book just discussed to examine both the visual adaptation and the related quests and story lines.

http://lotroplayers.com/2016/12/31/exploring-the-lord-of-the-rings-begins-tuesday-january-3rd/

STO

We have Captain Cybyl’s Star Trek Online News Summary for week ending 1/8/2017:

1. No major missions have been released over the holidays, but a major story arc is expected to be released sometime in February, which coincide with the 6th anniversary of Star Trek Online and typically accompanied by a free anniversary starship and other giveaways. Stay tuned for more news as it becomes available.

2. Q’s Winter Event will be ending Thursday, January 12th, so there is still time to accumulate the remaining prize vouchers for a starship and other great prizes. This is also a last chance to participate in Klingon Smash ’n Grab Ice Fishing.

3. A 4th backstory, 'Tales from K13', was been posted on the website blog. Having survived an unexpected time jump to 700 years in the past, we learn the sad yet heroic fate of the surviving 3 Federation crew members that could not go into stasis on Star Base K13. This series of stories are true to the highest standards of Star Trek and also an immersive must-read. As before, this Captain shall refrain from spoilers.

4. Fixer-upper Star base K13, a playable and upgradeable star base available to AIE fleet holders, needs your help. Several level unlock upgrades have been released which means mats and duty officers are needed to be contributed to get the station to a more useable level as a fleet hangout. After 700 years, make Starbase K13 great again!

5. Sad news to report. In September, STO, Cryptic Studios, Perfect World and CBS announced a partnership with Eucled to allow players the ability to 3D print their own personal starships as a durable plastic model. Well, the company providing this service has gone bankrupt. The STO community is devastated. For now, this service shall not be available in the foreseeable future .

6. Don’t forget: The AIE Fleet’s original Star Base, as well as Star Base K13, are always seeking contributions of materiel. Do your part by checking out current donation requests in the Fleet’s in-game menu.

7. Once again, please check out news, backstories, patch notes, forums, commentary, and other goodies at the Star Trek Online website .

And with that, let’s discuss what happened last year in AIE, what we’re currently up to, and what we’re looking forward to this year as well.

GAME NEWS

Theme#1: “What happened in 2016?”

Mew-

Tet-

Mkallah- highlights-

Blizzcon and AIE guild hall

AIE Moving chat more to Discord

WoW Legion expansion launched

WoW Guild banks- new member welcome kits- available on tab one for newbie- bags and starting equipment

SWTOR - Knights of the Eternal Throne launched

GW2 - Heart of Thorns Chapter 3 launched

Theme #2: “What we are looking forward to in 2017”

Patches.

Mew: WoW: 7.1.5, 7.2, 7.3; SWTOR: Uprisings; FF14: 3.5 -Far edge of fate-;

Expansions.

Mew: D3 Necromancer; FF14: Stormblood

New Games.

Mew: KH2.8(KH3?), ME: Andromeda, South Park

Events.

Mew: Nerdtacular 2017(future of nerdtacular events), Blizzcon 2017

Mkallah-

Getting back into gaming, playing more WOW and more SWTOR, because right now, my mind is a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Nerdtacular- the nerd family reunion was greatly missed

More local AIE meetups

General Geekery-

50 shades darker…. Just kidding!

All things Star Wars-

All things Marvel-Thor- Guardians- Spiderman

Dankinia and Elcarth’s wedding this summer

RPG via docs and roll 20 and at our dining room table

Focusing on writing, no matter what

Phx CC - vending again with Nevermore and I will probably have Leontine’s fabboo chainmail lightsaber keychains

Shoutouts

Arv - Shoutout to some guy named @Tetsemi for all his work in SWtOR and becoming an "official" officer.

Ralff - Shoutout to Diablo on his/her 20th anniversary!

Get Your Crit Together is looking for new members.

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And that’s our show for tonight. While the chatroom begins suggesting show titles, we want to thank YOU for joining us. Oh, and if you have suggestions of what YOU, the members of AIE, want to see in 2017 for the podcast, let us know!

If you have a question or comment about our show, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter. The show is at @aiepodcast. Mew is at @themewkow. Mkallah is at @cyberwaif,and Tetsemi is at @ivorytiger. We record live with video every other Sunday at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us on our website at https://aie-guild.org/podcast-live-stream/ and our Discord server for chat at https://bit.ly/AIEPodcastDiscord . Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website http://keyswithsoul.com!

And now it’s time to play all of the great AIE member segment we received this week, including- hey, no segments, but we are happy to play segments as you guys cr

Greetings Gamers. This is Mewkow, bringing you the AIE raid wrap-up for December 2016; The Legion begins.

 

WoW raids

 

Mythic

 

There are no teams that have downed a Mythic boss in Emerald Dream or Trials of Valor yet, but we'll keep you posted once the siege begins.

Heroic

 

Better Late Than Never was the first to complete the Heroic version of Emerald Dream on November 7th with Mythic on Mains following on November 27th.

Kiddie Aggro is not far behind, having taken down 5 of 7, with Just Blame the Healers at 4 of 7, Horseshoes & Handgrenades at 3 of 7, Reckless Endangerment at 2 of 7,

and Who Pulled That?!?, Dojo of Awesome, and Chicken McThuggets all at 1 of 7.

 

Currently, none of the teams have tackled Odyn in Trials of Valor on Heroic difficulty, but that should come with time.

Normal

Better Late Than Never was the first team to take down Normal Emerald Dream, followed by the team Mythic on Mains for second place.

All of the remaining listed teams have also completed Normal progression for Emerald Dream. In order, those include:

Who Pulled That?!?, Kiddie Aggro, Reckless Endangerment, Filthy Casuals, Hydra, Just Blame the Healers, Dojo of Awesome, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, Chicken McThuggets, FERT, and Deja Noobs.

 

These teams are now working on Trials of Valor; with the notable exception of Better Late Than Never who have already completed this raid in first place, with Mythic on Mains following in second.

 Kiddie Aggro, Just Blame the Healers and Filthy Casuals are 2 of 3, with Reckless Endangerment at 1 of 3.

 

Special Mention

Recruiting

We have a number of teams recruiting for current raid content as well. You can find out more in the AIE raid team progression forum thread.

Wrap-up Wrap-up

And that wraps up the AIE Raid Wrap-up.

If you'd like your raid team featured on the AIE raid wrap-up, including any non-WoW games, send those details to me, Mewkow.

Also, HUGE thanks to Kardinal and now Cirol for coordinating the Raid Team Schedules and Progression forum post, and making it far easier to put this all together.

Keep raiding, AIE.

Curious about the background track?

The song is the title song from the Nameless: Hacker RPG by Boxcat games. It is Creative Commons licensed.

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mkallah: Nerd gathering news

Mew: Psstt, anyone want a kitten?

Tetsemi: Would you like some free EVE?

Mkallah: Final Fantasy for the Holidays

          Mew: There’s a new emperor in SWTOR, no it’s not Max

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #265 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi, and I have in front of me a spreadsheet of everything we need to do get ready for Christmas: To my left, having a panic attack, is Mkallah: - (Hey, AIE, there are tiny pumpkin tarts in the Guild kitchen, and lemon snowball cookies, and gingerbread crinkle, and ….) And to my right, as cool as a cucumber, is Mewkow (put in catch phrase here) This week we are joined by special guests Max and Sema. and we are talking about AIE in SWTOR and catching up!

Ok, we’ll be talking to Max and Sema and catching up shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Community

Welcome to Parannor, the latest AIE Officer to accept the mantle of officership. Condolences and/or congratulations can be sent via AIE Discord and generally in WoW where he spends the majority of his gaming time with AIE.

Microsoft has added a new Club Feature to Xbox One and Jehdai has created one for the guild. It’s listed as Alea Iacta Est

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57331-alea-iacta-est-xbox-club/

Well, we have some good news and some bad news. As you probably know, Nerdtacular 2017 tickets went on sale Tuesday. AND, they quickly sold out! According to the truly awesome Scott Johnson, more tickets will be opening up! The best way to keep posted is either checking back at Nerdtacular.com or follow Scott, the lord of the Frogpants, on twitter - @scottjohnson (but, you probably knew that).

Oh, and if you are coming to Nerdtacular, come find us! Tet and I are making it for sure and if more tickets open up, we may see Mew, Mrs Mew the geekily awesome, and Baby Mew.

And speaking of the gatherings of the nerds, thanks to the organizers, staff, AIE members, and guest that stopped by the guild hall at Blizzcon! Oaten in the forums put a short shoutout to the Guild Hall for welcoming non AIE members, especially for the live Instance recording.

NOMADS

According to Stigg, the Nomad Minecraft server will be shutting down on December 16th, 2016 and world data will be made available via Dropbox (or a suitable) platform.

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/57344-shutting-down-the-nomads-minecraft-server/

WoW

We’re 6 weeks into the 9 week storyline Insurrection in Suramar, leading up to breaking into Nighthold. This is the follow on story after the Good Sumaratan achievement and it’s story lines in Suramar. A new piece opens up every Tuesday with the server resets and is heading to a final confrontation with the Nightfallen leaders and the opening of the Nighthold raid.

Also, if you like testing things, patch 7.1.5 is up on the PTR and is dealing with a lot of class changes that are upcoming, the newly redesigned Brawlers Guild, and the introduction of micro-holidays to the make the world feel a bit more alive.

Don’t forget, the Feast of WInterveil starts on December 16. Speaking of Winterveil gifts, Blizzard's tradition of supporting the Make-A-Wish foundation continues this year, as the company has revealed this year's charity pet...