Ghomus – Alea Iacta Est

On this episode of The AIE Podcast… http://www.youtube.com/v/GFCrskYwxG0 Alludra: It’s our 200th episode! Ghomus: It’s our 200th episode! Zod: It’s our 200th episode! Ghomus: You can’t fire me, I quit! All that and more coming up right now… SHOW You just have to listen to this one! CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank all of our guests for joining us, and all of AIE for being such a great community. It’s been a pleasure and honor to have celebrated you every week for the last 3+ years. We’d especially like to thank Ghomus for all the amazing work he has done since episode 61. We are going to miss you buddy. Next week we’ll be back to our regular format, with our new co-host, Mkallah! But don’t leave yet, we’ve got more of our wonderful AIE member segments coming right up, including… – Ask Miss Mulgra – Overly Dramatic News – Ask a Magus – Buxley’s Journal But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com! For my last time, AIE, this is Ghomus… – This is Alludra… – This is AcuZod… And this has been… The AIE Podcast. Kudos to Ralff for this week’s show title!

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/TWf968″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Tg5cijUMvyM?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=Tg5cijUMvyM&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep8534″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… It’s AIE The Next Generation Elder Scrolls get some rewrites We’ve got Guild wars news! Holding out for a house? And we chat with Kav and Jehdai about AIE in Wildstar All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS   AIE: Community They were missed at Nerdtacular this year, but Renee and JJ, otherwise known as Iceflow and Caoboi had other plans around the 4th. Just a few days ago, their family size doubled with TWIN GIRLS. Zoe Lane at 5lb 13oz and Maya Jade at 5lb 4oz. Welcome both of you to the AIE Family, and all the best to JJ and Renee from us here at the AIE Podcast.   Speaking of Nerdtacular, we wanted to give DogHouse Systems a big shout out for sponsoring the event. One attendee at Nerdtacular won a complete DogHouse gaming desktop, an attendee in the live chatroom won a Doghouse gaming laptop, several people won World of Warcraft themed computer panels, and the always awesome Kimberly Price was there handing out mousepads a’plenty. Big thanks to DogHouse for being a valued supporter of the Frogpants and AIE communities.   Just a reminder, which we’ll probably repeat every other week or so for the next month and a half, AIE is moving over to our new Mumble server. Our Ventrillo server will be shut down on September 1st, so you have about seven weeks left to get all set up. That sounds like plenty of time, and it is, but better to work out any bugs now. All the Mumble information is in the community section of the AIE forums, and we’ll have a link in the show notes.   AIE: Elder Scrolls Online For you Elder Scrolls players who have been feeling like the 50+ content seems a little too hard, you are not crazy. Bethesda recently announced that they intentionally tuned the game to encourage grouping at the Veteran levels, but they’ve heard the complaints and have already begun re-tooling the game to make the 50+ experience more like the 1-50 game.   AIE: The Secret World For those of you in on the big Secret, Rattozatto wants to alert you about the hotfix that FunCom released yesterday for The Secret World. He says it has some pretty meaningful changes. I’ve seen the patch notes, but since I’m one of the uninitiated, they just look like squiggly lines written in the sand to me. But if you can crack the code, take a look at what’s changed to see how it affects your game.   AIE: Final Fantasy The AIE in Final Fantasy gang is looking for input from all your FF players. As you know, they’ve been working towards buying the largest house possible in the game, because AIE is just that awesome, but there’s been some discussions that it’s taking too long, and they are wondering if you would rather buy a more modest house now instead of letting the fund raising drag on. If you have any thoughts on this, Abovan has posted a poll in the Final Fantasy forums, and there’s quite a bit of discussion going on in that thread, so head on over and jump into the fray.   AIE: Guild Wars 2 Believe it or not, we actually have some Guild Wars news this week. NCSoft has announced that Season Two Episode Two, called “Entanglement” will launch on July 15th, and according to Velinos, if you log in before then, you will get the update for free! And who doesn’t like free DLCs right?   AIE: 200 And last but not least, don’t forget next week is our 200th show. We’re going to have some amazing guests on (Alludra, can you mention any names?) and we’ll be seeing Ghomus off after over three years at the helm of this show. You’re not going to want to miss it!   And with that…   GAME NEWS UMAMI and deadline for before you are kicked. August 10th. UMAMI Process and how to get an invite Current Alt policy – quick and to the point Numbers! Expansion plans Level 10 dungeon coming to help train for group content. New strain patch 2 new zones, continued story Patch 2 – on PTR.  New Mount for 2 factor Auth. Will show up in account inventory by July 10th (this morning). Leaderboards/Armory coming, but no ETA yet. Penny arcade comic http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/06/04/feng-shui   CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Kav and Jehdai for joining us! Before we move on to the rest of the close, let’s ask the chatroom to go ahead and start submitting show titles.  Kav and Jehdai, you will need to select a winner   Wildstar-core.com @samuraikav @jediknifefight Podcast: @wildstarport [email protected]   Next week will be our super 200th episode. Make sure to be there. Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Ask a Magus – Much Lesser Known Shas – Ask Miss Mulgra – Buxley’s Journal   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Until next time, AIE. – This is Ghomus – This is Alludra – This is AcuZod And this has been… The AIE Podcast.   Thanks to Buxley for the Show title!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1s5X81o” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/zjmLRsqnKiU?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=zjmLRsqnKiU&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep8608″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – It’s the special pre-Nerdtacular episode! –  It turns out we ARE ready to Mumble! – Words are hard, but wanted! – Wait, there are pets in RIFT? – And we have RattoZatto here to talk to us about AIE in The Secret World All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS As you must know if you’re listening to this show, Nerdtacular 2014 is happening this weekend, and while unfortunately none of us could make it this year, a whole lot of the AIE community is going to be there. If you’re one of them, StupidGenious is arranging an AIE community group picture tomorrow, Friday July 4th, at 2:30pm, outside the front lobby across from the valet, so make sure you’re there. The AIE EVE gang is also holding a meetup tonight at 7:30 at the El Chanate Restaurant, so if you’re at Nerdtacular and watching us record this live, you have just enough time to make it there after the end of the show.  If you’re listening to this show in it’s podcast form, then you’re too late, but you are  probably a spai anyway, so that’s ok. And if you’re like us, and unable to attend Nerdtacular in person, you’re going to want to join in on the live stream. Alpha Geek radio will be streaming everything from both days at nerdtacular.com/live. There’s also a chatroom, so come hang out with the rest of us.   Last week we announced that testing had begun on our new Mumble server. This week we’re happy to announce the testing is complete, and the new Mumble server is now officially official! If you’ve been using our Ventrillo server for all of your AIE grouping, raiding, or just plain old chatting needs, it’s time to make the switch, but don’t panic, you still have a couple of months to move over to the Mumble server. Our Ventrillo server won’t be shut down until September 1st. Full Mumble details are pinned to the top of the AIE Community Discussion forums.   Are you pretty good with words and sentences and stuff like that? Well AIE needs your help. Our community has grown so large, and the number of games we play has increased so much, that AIE’s horde of trained monkeys can’t possibly keep up with all the news. So we’ve opened the doors to the entire community to write articles for the AIE website. If you’d got the gift of putting words in the right order, and have something to say about your favorite AIE game, come join our legion of writers. See the AIE Wiki for all the details. Don’t forget, AIE is into more than just major league games, we also play an entire array of minor league games, and the best way to find other AIE members playing minor games is by posting on our Minor League Games sub-forum under the Imperium Ludi forum. This week, Calliel posted looking for more people playing The Simpsons: Tapped Out, Sartavious is looking for more AIE members interested in Knights and Dragons, and Beefmaster has posted some tips and tricks for Clash of Clans.   Also in the Imperium Ludi section, we’ve got a couple of useful posts for those of you playing Wildstar. AIE Member E.B. posted a guide on how to recover your addon settings following yesterday’s apparently massively disruptive The Strain Ultra Drop patch,  and Herbivotive posted a very informative guide explaining how AMPs work and where to find new ones.   Big surprise, we actually have some RIFT news to share. After what feels like months of pretty much nothing happening in what everyone agrees is a great but kind of undervalued game, IGN has announced the upcoming release of their next major expansion. It’s called The Nightmare Tide, and among many other things, raises the level cap to 65, opens up new world zones, has new rifts called Nightmare Rifts that have scaling-difficulty waves of foes, and even introduces “collectible minions” (Yes Alludra, RIFT now has pets.)   And finally, just a reminder that our episode 200 show is right around the corner, only two weeks away. We’ve got quite a few big name guests on the docket, so you’re not going to want to miss it. It will also be Ghomus’s final show, so we’ll be giving him a fond farewell as well. If you’d like to send in any content for show 200, we’re accepting emails and audio files at [email protected].   And with that…   GAME NEWS   We’re raising the Filth Alert Level to intense orange-red, based on very credible, detailed information on a non-specific threat.  Could it be a mutation?  Absolutely possible.  Orochi Corporation chemical or biological agent?  You bet it could happen.  Filth monster?  Hey, you never know.  But what we do know is that it’s absolutely positively gonna happen today.  Maybe.   The 1.9 patch hit since last time, and there’s sweeping changes with some of the old status quo in deck design, stat weights, and all around min-maxing.  For details, you can always check the patch notes, but for simpler “Tell me what I need”, be sure to ask fellow AIE members, we have been following the game community research, and have practiced much of the new findings.   For information on how to participate in the anniversary event:  http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?t=80360   Both the anniversary event, and the next mission pack have been released today.  The anniversary has tweaks and quality of life changes, as well as a brand new golem boss in the Kaidan zone.  There are old rewards from the previous anniversary event, as well as additional and new items to get from the new golem.  People wanting to participate should join the #Event channel in-game to join in on all the excitement.   The new missions expand on the story from the four quest givers in Kaiden.  You learn a bit about the complicated plot and scheme that Daimon Kiyota is orchestrating with those who are involved with the Korinto-kai.  Inbeda gets to have an epic moment with his sword and an interesting decoration.  Gozen will send our characters on a mission that stresses the importance of love, even in the current events of The Secret World, as well as send you on a task to show that the Jingu Clan is not to be trifled with.  In addition, you get to play a more advanced tower defense mission with super secret Orochi Corporation equipment from our crazy tank driver “Buster”.  Also, we learn a secret ward against the Filth.   Coming soon, is an in-game community event that will be held in the Albion Theatre, where various communities and cabals will be telling people all about who they are.  The Recruitment Fair will be on the 12th of July, and of course AIE will be there to represent. CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank RattoZatto for joining us! [Prompt chatroom for show title here]   —will do!   @rattozatto http://acrosstheboard.net   Next week we’ll be talking to The Cupcakes of Wildstar! Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including.. – Overly Dramatic News – Ask Miss Mulgra – Much Lesser-Known Shas – Ask a Magus — A New Segment!   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Kudos to cybyl for this week’s show title.

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/TFSfzW” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/KtvDG5V4VZA?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=KtvDG5V4VZA&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep8678″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – We’re three weeks from 200! -: Let’s Get Ready to Muuuuuuuuuummmmble! – Yes, I totally snuck Heroes into the show. o.O – We got GAME NEWS OVERLOAD! -: And we have Abovan and Bonroku (Bon-row-koo-koo) here to talk to us about AIE in Final Fantasy – All that and more coming up right now…   AIE NEWS AIE: Podcast 200 Before we dive into game news, we want to remind everyone that The AIE Podcast Episode 200 Spectacular Spectacular will be coming up in three weeks. It’ll be a pretty big shindig, with several star-studded guests!  AIE Final Fantasy member Rounca Pardylle [rounce-uh parr-dill] has donated two Everquest Landmark Closed beta keys and a copy of Final Fantasy XIV to give away, and we’ll also be saying a fond farewell to Ghomus after more than three years at the helm of this show. We’d love to read or play messages from you as well. You can send emails and MP3 files to [email protected].   AIE: General It’s been in the works for a while, but Stigg finally announced testing has begun on AIE’s Mumble server. We’re taking a look at Mumble to see if people prefer it over Ventrilo, so please give it a try and let Stigg know what you think. The really cool thing is, the Mumble server tied to UMAMI, so you can sign in using your personal UMAMI username and password. No more having to deal with Vent password changes. The server is at mumble.aie-guild.org on port 64738 – which is the default, so you don’t need to worry about remembering that. If you need any help signing in, instructions are in the forums.   AIE: Nomads Even the amazing AIE Nomads are not immune to the Summer doldrums. Lotwook has announced they’ll be taking a break from wandering into any major games over the summer, but they’re going to keep Minor League Game Night going strong, so make sure to vote and join in on the fun. On a side note, Lotwook asks for any Nomads travelling to Nerdtacular next month to please post pics from the event in the Nomads forums.   AIE: Imperium Ludi We’ve got are a few updates from the up-and-coming games riding the Imperium Ludi bus: The Elder Scrolls gang has announced that the guild bank is nearly full. Gorgesh has cleared some space, but there are crafting mats coming out of the seams, so if you’re into crafting, get in there and put them to use. In Wildstar, Khlaw is warning everyone that the guild has almost reached the guild cap, so they’d like all you cupcakes to please remove any alts you don’t actively play, and ask that you keep to just your main and maybe one alt in the guild until the game gets over that new game smell and membership settles down. And for you Heroes out there,AcuZod has posted a Google Spreadsheet for everyone that has been lucky enough to get into the Alpha so far to share their battle tags. The link is in the Imperium Ludi section of the forums. He has also set up a chat room on the Vent server to help people get together and play. Look for “The Storm Shelter.” AIE: WOW For you AIE members running around that special place we call Azeroth, EverStudious is looking to put together agroup to knock out old content,complete achievements, and pick up mounts and pets. If you’d like to run some old school content, give him a shout, or feel free to arrange your own runs on the Team Recruitment section of the WoW forums.   also in case you missed it the guardian cub is off the market   Also, the quiraji guardling is out! if you missed him last summer go grab him,   AIE: EVE Lots of news from the spreadsheets in space gang. First, Lanctharus posted a military update covering changes in [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], which is very important, especially for those of you that [REDACTED] late at night. He also announced the corporation will be running nightly ratting fleets every night starting the night of June 29th, at night. This will be to generate revenue to keep providing free ships to players. Those free ships will probably all get ‘sploded on July 8th, as that’s when they will be undertaking a Major, Military, Maneuver, which we are not allowed to discuss in detail on this podcast, because… SPIAS. If you’re interested in taking part in this attack, or defense, or thing that I can’t say what it is, check that you know where place.   AIE: SWTOR In a galaxy far, far, away, Max has declared Tuesdays to be Mandatory Fun Night. The goal of Mandatory Fun Night is to have fun, so don’t worry about your gear, or how well you play, or anything like that. Just show up. Remember, SWTOR is free, and Mandatory Fun Night is mandatory, so there’s no excuse. Max will know if you’re not there. Max knows eevveeryythhiinngg. AIE: TSW You may not have known this was a thing, but apparently you can load text adventure games to play inside The Secret World. AIE Secret Member DottWarner posted a link to a text adventure game created by Dott and Jermaine called The Horned God. It’s the first of a series of text adventures games they are working on, so if you like to get all inception-y and play a game while you’re playing a game, you’re just gonna have to check it out.   AIE: LOTRO For you AIE Hobbitses out there, Dux shared a link to Turbine’s 2014/2015 roadmap for Lord of the Rings Online. Covered in the roadmap are things like the two upcoming updates this year to roll out the the Army of the Dead, a new class called The Beorning, which is a caster class that can transform into a bear, a new system of crafting tied to the kinship house, special events related to Hobnanigans, which are also known as chicken hockey, and much much more.   AIE: STO If you’ve been waiting for a great deal before you go where no one’s gone before, now is the time. Perfect World has put their lifetime subscription on sale at 30% off. It’s now just a one-time fee of $199 to be a lifetime Gold subscriber to Star Trek Online. That’s like paying for 14 months of World of Warcraft, and getting it free forever. I wish I could do that. Of course, STO is free to play, so it’s not be quite the same thing, but if STO is your game, and you love all the benefits of being a Gold member, you’ll probably want to jump in on this deal.   AIE: FF And finally, let’s get back to Abo and Bonroku to talk about AIE in Final Fantasy…   GAME NEWS   FFXIV Fan Fest: AIE Will have a presence there with a FC Hall at the Rio, similar to the Guild Hall at previous Blizzcons.  Oct 18-19 in Vegas. Details on the forums.  More Details on the FFXIV Fan Fest will be coming soon, like ticket availability, pricing, and schedule.   New FFXIV Officers, Mewcow and Alludra!   FFXIV E3 News!  New Patch, 2.3, July 8th. Frontlines: 3 Teams of 24 objective based PvP New Crystal Tower Content for casual raiding New Hard Mode Dungeons, Tara-Tara and Stone Vigil Brand New Dungeon, Hullbreaker Isle Binding Coil – Brutal Mode  (Pass on that one) New Grand Company Ranks Free Company Player Housing. Players get their own room in the FC house but your FC needs a house so…   Free Company Housing Update Gil Donations have really ramped up recently.  Still need more for our goal, but extreme thank you to all those that have donated so far. 25,148,927 donated thus far! We still have the goal of buying up a Large House. Gil donations are always accepted.  Just walk up to the FC Vaults and drop the money in. Crystals Purchases, the fuel needed for crafting, is available for about 20% less than the current market value. Other ways to donate and help the cause… Donate Crystals for the purchase program! Have extra items to sell, but don’t want to go through the motions, place them into Tab (to be decided) and we will sell it for you and then put the money from the sale in the FC bank. Join us for Map Nights, where we run a bunch of treasure maps.  Level 45+, but pretty easy and laid back content. Buy-a-buff Program! Each FC buff costs company credits, and to stretch things out, we have been running 1 buff, teleport cost reduction,  during the week and then 2 buffs on the weekends, Teleport Cost reduction, and 10% xp combat xp bonus. For 100k donation, you can pick a specific buff to be our 2nd buff for a day.  This can be buffs like, Increased PvP marks gained, Crafting XP buff, Gather XP buff, reduced repair costs, Companion Chocobo XP Buff, and so forth. CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Abo and Bonroku for joining us!   [GUESTS: We’ll ask you if you have anything you want to plug here – Twitter, Website, etc.] @abovan @bonroku   thechocobostable.net   Next week we’ll be talking to the gang from AIE in The Secret World.   At this point, we’d like to ask the chatroom to please submit your suggestions for this week’s show title. Our guests will pick a winner while we cover the rest of the show close.   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Overly Dramatic News – Buxley’s Journal – Ask Miss Mulgra – Much Lesser Known Shas – Azeroth Archives But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Until next time, AIE. – This is Ghomus – This is Alludra – This is AcuZod And this has been… The AIE Podcast.   Kudos to Bwicked for this week’s title!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1pkFh55″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/r1EdGAet8Rs?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=r1EdGAet8Rs&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep6592″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – UMAMI has gone MIA – Time to get your cloak on – Research where no man has researched before – Help the homeless hobbitses – And we talk with Lanctharus about AIE in World of Warcraft.. All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS AIE: General Just a head’s up for those of you looking to join AIE – our membership system, UMAMI, is currently down at the moment due to some unannounced changes at our hosting provider. This is also affecting our Jabber server, so our out-of-game Greenwall has taken the hit as well. Hang in there and we’re sure Stigguyver will have everything back up and working soon, using nothing more than duct tape, chicken wire, and some partially chewed bubble gum.   AIE: WOW For you AIE World of Warcraft members who have put off the long grind to get your legendary cloak, like me, we’ve got good news! Starting a few days ago running until Monday June 30th, Blizzard will be applying the Gaze of the Black Prince buff, which will increase the reputation gain with the Black Prince by 100%, and greatly increase the chance of getting the sigils, runestones, and all those other annoying things when defeating his enemies. Big thanks to Ironclawed for posting that announcement, I guess I’ll finally try to finish that up. : AIE: STO In AIE Star Trek Online, Perfect World has leaked some of the details of their upcoming patch 9.5, which will include a new crafting system called Research and Development. As a bonus, the new R&D system will require fewer materials, so as not to take up so much bag space, and they will be adding more materials to different maps, so even if you go somewhere you’ve gone before, you just might find something new.   AIE: LOTRO The hobbitses from AIE Lord of the Rings Online are looking for your help. They are still taking donations for their guild house, and will take anything, anything, that you care to offer. Extra junk taking up your bag space, leftover materials from your power crafting sessions, used coffee grounds, you name it. If you don’t need it, toss it in the guild chest and Bonroku will find some way of turning it into housing funds.   AIE: Spotlight We’d like to give a shout out to AIE members Adarystus and Vynirendan, also known as Jesse and Aaron, hosts of the Life is Leet podcast, also known as “Nerds yelling at microphones about things”. They cover video games, anime, books, movies, and whatever else they feel like. You can find their show on the web at lifeisleet.com…And if you are or know an AIE member who hosts a podcast or does anything else rather impressive, let us know here at the show so we can brag about it. Email us at [email protected].   Ghomus Announcement – Stepping down after show 200   AIE: 200 We’d like to announce that episode 200, which should hit on July 17th, will be a very special show. We’ll have a number of special guests on to celebrate our 200th episode, and we’ll be saying farewell to Ghomus. We’d like to invite all of our listeners to send in anything they’d like us to share for either occasion, be it emails, audio files, or you name it. Send to [email protected] with the subject line “AIE 200”. G: And with that…   GAME NEWS   [GUESTS: Put your show notes here.]   Hello everyone!   So the summer season is in effect.   So I wanted to talk about a couple of topics today.  They being how to avoid the summer doldrums and how exactly does the guild operate?   Something I call “peaking behind the curtain”.   How do I ensure that WoW still is fun for me?   Summer is always hard as people are will go on vacation or at the beach or god forbidden decide to spend time with their families.   Unfortunately this is the time that PvP groups, instance groups and Raids tend to fall apart.   With the march toward Warlords, Blizzard is going to try and entice us with in game rewards and bonuses.  Take my advice, CAPITALIZE on this as soon as you can.   AIE:WoW   So how does stuff works institutionally wise?   So the operations of the AIEGC is a complicated thing that requires hours of work form the various officer volunteers in the gaming community.   UMAMI History of how invitations were done before Then one day Stigg created UMAMI   Because of the sheer size of WoW we have created a rather unique managerial structure to keep things running smoothly. The co guild top administration is split up between myself and Ashayo This structure is designed that in case of a catastrophe Either Ash or myself can take over control of all the guilds in a set period of time. The Praetorian group is designed to deal with mid level managerial issues and can act as our functional lieutenants if for some reason we are not available. Centurions handle the day to day operations of each fo the individual co-guilds.  They are the heart and soul of the officer corp. process invitations, police chat and Vent Craziness!   In addition we are constantly engaged in various discussions and debates amongst ourselves and the other division officers.   Now some people may have heard us talk about something call the Constabulary, what exactly is this? CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Lanctharus for joining us!   [GUESTS: We’ll ask you if you have anything you want to plug here – Twitter, Website, etc.]   @lanctharus   http://lanctharus.com   http://capstable.net   Next week we’ll be talking to the folks playing Final Fantasy XIV!   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… Much Lesser Known Shas Overly Dramatic News Hailing Frequencies Buxley’s Journal Ask Miss Mulgra Epic Diapers   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1i7vqeJ” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Lxq8gDkk8uk?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=Lxq8gDkk8uk&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep7549″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – UPDATE ALL THE THINGS! – Mine Mine Mine – Hello Tokyo –  Take a cruise in space – And we have Kav and Durus here to catch us up on Wildstar All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS AIE WOW For those of you in AIE World of Warcraft, you might want to check your Battle.Net account and make sure you’ve selected all the beta options. Blizzard has launched the Alpha for the Warlords of Draenor expansion, and invites have been going out hot and heavy this week. Though blue posts admit that it is mostly blizzard community influencers that have been selected in the first wave. Don’t lose heart though! More invites are sure to hit soon, and to be honest you aren’t missing much, the game is super ALPHA right now.   Did you get your double valor? The double valor buff is still going strong until June 10th. In case you missed it, blizzard is rewarding double the valor for all the things! Such as dungeons, quests, boss kills, and turning in your timeless isle coins. Unfortunately they did not double the valor cap, which means that it’s simply faster than ever before to get your characters to cap.   Azeroth choppers is airing their final episode starting today June 5th, announcing the winner of the community vote for best motorcycle! The winning faction will get a free mount in game! Not sure what’s going to happen with the other bike, do they explode it? Anyone been watching?   Today is also the final day to change your blizzcon ticket info! So if you haven’t already, go! Make sure the info is correct! You don’t want to miss out on the fun!!   AIE EVE For the AIE Spreadsheets in Space gang, CCP has just launched the next expansion for EVE Online, called Kronos. It comes with updated ship models and graphics, new warp in and warp out animations, new ship animations, new sounds, and a whole lot more. Also, Vailgeek has announced a major mining operation to take place this Wednesday June 11th, at 1:30am server time. Which is like, who knows local time. Apparently there’s a glitch in the game, and undocking a spaceship keeps leading to it’s eventual explosion, so AIEU wants to keep the cupboards stocked, and you can help!   AIE TSW AIE The Secret World is happy to announce that Tokyo is finally here! Funcom released Issue #9, “The Black Signal” this week, which brings a new chapter to the game’s storyline, new AEGIS gear improvements, and the zone of Tokyo. No mention has been made of a possible giant lizard attack, but you know, it is The Secret World, so it’ll probably happen.   AIE FF Guess what else updated! Final Fantasy demands to not be outdone by all this updating/beta/new episode fun, and has launched patch 2.28! If you want to see patch notes that put the other games to shame, and frankly, are crazy though, check them out! This patch makes many awesome quality of life changes such as buffing duty roulette rewards, fixing broken bits, and just plain making the menus easier to navigate.   AIE STO For the AIE Star Trek Online gang, Perfect World has announced the grand prize of this year’s Riza Summer Event, which is going on right now. Players who complete the Event Reputation will earn the Riza Luxury Liner. This ship is even more customizable than last year’s Riza Corvette, and comes with a powerful weapon called the Soliton Wave Generator. The Summer Event looks like a lot of fun, and of course STO is free to play, so get out there and explore!   AIE Imperium Ludi Just a quick reminder from Ralff, AIE has a Diablo 3 gaming community. More information on how to join can be found on the AIE Wiki. And if Diablo isn’t your kind of game, odds are AIE members are playing something you’ll enjoy. Hit up the Imperium Ludi forums to find the plethora of games we’re into. This is a great time to be a gamer, and and even better time to be in AIE.   AIE General And for those that might be new to the community, don’t forget you can hang out with AIE members outside of games as well. We have our own Ventrillo server for voice chat, and our own Jabber server for text chat, so you can kick it with AIE even when you’re stuck at work. Information on both can be found on the AIE Wiki.   And finally, one of AIE’s favorite community members, Kim Price, wrote in to let us know that Doghouse systems just announced a partnership with Blizzard to produce World of Warcraft themed PCs. You can now get a screaming new gaming rig with official Blizzard Horde artwork on the case, or if you really want to, I guess you could get an Alliance design, maybe, if, you know, you didn’t really want the coolest PC possible. battlepets!! double the memory!!   And now, to hear all about the newest addition to the AIE Gaming Pantheon…   GAME NEWS What is Wildstar Payment model Where are we in the GERP (Durus) Long leveling art, 150+ Hours for beta for Kav No Mac client at this time. Working in cooperation with Star Travelers guild for Wildstar Guild Neighborhoods coming Active recruiting in Wildstar Guild size, over 250 CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Kav and Durus for joining us!   @samuraikav http://wildstar-Core.com @thedurus   Next week we’ll be talking to They Who Have Not Been Named. Tuned in to see who it is!   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Ask Miss Mulgra – Azeroth Archives – Overly Dramatic News – Much Lesser Known Shas But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Gratz to Apolas for this week’s show title!

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1mGg8A8″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/lO4GYMDgTvs?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=lO4GYMDgTvs&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep1145″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… Ghomus tries to figure out how to do things on his own! And doesn’t do all that well! Also, we have Grimbane and RattoZatto here to talk about the Secret World! AIE NEWS AIE EVE The AIE in EVE Online gang will be holding a “Hunt Ourselves a Lanctharus” event. Tomorrow night, our…er…fearless leader will be flying around QETZ-W and while we all love Lanc, there has been a 100 MILLION ISK bounty put on his head. How can you not pass that up? A warning has been issued, that Lanc will most likely be shooting back. 😉 http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/53680-lets-go-hunt-ourselves-a-lanctharus-friday-may-30th-1000-pm-est/ http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/53669-stepping-up-a-new-challenger-has-entered/   AIE Nomads Thanks to Lotwook for sending us this update! They are finishing out their stay in STO with a Fleet Marks run. Which is running around earning Marks to help complete guild projects.  Saturday 9pm EDT. This Wednesday June 4th at 9pm EDT they are power leveling alts in Diablo 3. They are talking an average of 1 level per minute up to lvl 35-40 range. This is done via highest level of torment which gives 16 x XP and a level 70 in the group. (I know it sounds exploity, but is well within Blizzards design and after level 40 there is a steep slow down in XP gains as mobs become much slower to kill for the lvl 70).  Starting June 6th they start their roam into Guild Wars 2. (as a note? this is NOT free to play, but a buy-once and don’t have to sub game)   AIE Wildstar A server has been chosen for Wildstar’s headstart this weekend! For those who will be playing said game as it launches, look for AIE on the Stormtalon – PVE server, Exile side! We will of course be having the director and one of his officers next week right here on the show, but the launch happens sooner than that! Keep an eye on the forums for more information as things develop. http://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Wildstar:Main_Page Community AIE is all about social gaming, whether we’re playing MMOs, boardgames around a table, console gaming, really anything!  And sometimes you might just want to sit and WATCH someone play a game that you know. Well Durus set up a thread here where if people are streaming, they can list who they are and a link to such!  Twitch seems to be rather quickly becoming the norm for these sorts of things, but there are all kinds of options! Normally we don’t like to talk up too many Kickstarters because we don’t want this to just become a place people get sick of hearing about them, but making an exception for this one. SURELY most people in AIE have either watched Reading Rainbow, or have kids that did! LeVar Burton and company are bringing it back, and they need your help! The drive is going great thus far, but let’s see how high this one can go, bringing services to many schools in need! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/readingrainbow/bring-reading-rainbow-back-for-every-child-everywh  This funded in less than 13 hours, but more money won’t hurt a thing!   (Grimbane and Ghomus are already backers!) GAME NEWS [Redacted]  No Tokyo in May (The Dragon are to blame, even if it’s a Templar plot, financed by the Illuminati).   According to the Quarter 1 Financial report, it is coming out early June (Pyramidian willing), as well as other interesting bits of information about how well The Secret World is (or isn’t) doing financially, and as far as content is concerned.  Also, additional Funcom work is revealed about the new Lego Game, and future tablet and smartphone apps.  Also, Japanese male and female school uniforms coming in The Secret World, kind of, sort of, more closer to otaku style.   The Whispering Tide event has gone through a month-long change of pace, by allowing players to access previous content.  However, there was a bit of a community hub-ub when the Flappy raid was inaccessible for a brief period during this “replay” event.   We learned a bit about some of the major personalities and characters involved with the story.  Most notably, the identity of who’s perspective the Tokyo “tutorial” flashback belongs to that all players experience with their new characters. -Sarah: Protégé to Arturo Castiglione, and a strong psychic conduit, after the events of what happened in the subway under the Orochi Corp. headquarters. -Gozen:  Latest in an ancient family line that protects Japan from demonic and supernatural threats.  Think of the girls from Sakura Taisen(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakura_Wars), without the steam-punk mechs (unless she gets a mech) -Inbeda: An oni who’s been cast out of demon society, but now runs a demon bodyguard and mercenary company.  He has a 300 year vendetta against the fellow oni who banished him. -Daimon Kiyota: Head of the occult branch of the Yakuza.  He’s got a magic pachinko machine that predicts events.  The Dragon has a special eye out for him, as does he on them. -Kurt ‘Buster’ Kuszczak: An Orochi Corp. tank pilot who’s suffering from the worst kind of post traumatic stress.  A skilled driver who was transferred to Japan, and was one of the first responders to The Incident in the subway, but now he’s the last untainted survivor of his unit, driven mad by the horrors and madness of The Filth. http://www.thesecretworld.com/news/characters_of_tokyo   As far as progression goes, AIE has plateaued, but there’s been some outreach with another similar minded community, In Vino Veritas (In Wine (there is the) Truth).  If people have listened to previous news announcements on this podcast, DottWarner is one of the primary contacts AIE has with their community.  Many community members have shared in their friendly generosity, and have come back with new and vibrant enthusiasm to add to our own community.  For more information about our interactions with In Vino Veritas, check The Secret World section of our forums. CLOSE RattoZatto can be followed on Twitter on @RattoZatto. www.acrosstheboardgames.net   Grimbane is found at @sundryphotos www.sundrycreations.net Next week we’ll be talking to Kav and Durus about the newest game going through the AIE GERP process, Wildstar!   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… Ask Miss Mulgra Buxley’s Journal Epic Diapers Much Lesser-Known Shas But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Kudos to Lotwook for the show title!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1jPJuyE” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/WUxyhHw5lc0?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=WUxyhHw5lc0&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep6245″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – WoW crashes, in a good way! – Spreadsheets in space are shipping out – The Jedis are getting explosive – And we have Abovan and Bonroku here to talk to us abotu AIE in Final Fantasy ARRRR All that and more coming up right now…   AIE NEWS AIE WoW For those of you who just brought a number of new level 90 characters into the guild, but have no idea how to play them, don’t worry. Blizzard has published a number of “crash course” videos that give you a quick overview of one DPS specialization for each class in the game. You’ll find these on the Battle.Net site or in the link in our show notes.   AIE EVE If you haven’t heard, AIE Universal is moving to a new section of space, and time is running out for you to get all your junk over to the new home. They will be closing down the corporation headquarters in Shamahi, so if you have stuff there, get it contracted to Stu ASAP. Deadline is this weekend, so get a move on, rookie.   AIE SWTOR Arveshet is looking to put together a 16-man HM Explosive Conflict group this Wednesday, May 28th, at 8:30 Eastern. In addition to being a lot of fun, this will get everyone through the hardest part of the quest to get the Aratech speeder. If you’re level 50+ and want in on this, see Arveshet’s sign-up post in the SWTOR forums.   AIE Diablo Blizzard has announce the overwhelmingly popular legendary drop rate that they came out with to celebrate their 15th anniversary has been so overwhelmingly popular that they’ve decide to keep it! That’s right, the base drop rate for legendary items has officially gone to plaid!   AIE Meetups – Comicapalooza Friday May 23rd (tomorrow) 5:00pm, Houston, TX – Kalamazoo Drafthouse, X-Men Days of Future Past viewing, Sunday May 25th 2:00pm Kalamazoo MI   And with that… GAME NEWS   Welcome and hello once again! We have gone over the entry level game before, and some patch content. Live letter is tomorrow (Friday), so if you not listening live, there may be new patch content coming news available.   But for today, let’s talk the max level game of FFXIV.  Of the podcast’s own, Alludra is a brand new level 50.  So, let’s talk what can someone do, who is a brand new max level character in FFXIV.   This is accurate as of patch 2.25, incase you are listening to this as a download.  2.3 is coming soon!   Finish story quests, class quests.   50% XP bonus for defeating monsters on all other classes.   Start Relic Relic Quest Line is in Appendix 1 at the bottom for reference.   Unlock Dungeons The Wanderer’s Palace Amdapor Keep Pharos Sirus Lost City of Amdapor Copperbell Mines Hard Mode Haukke Manor Hard Mode Halitali Hard Mode Brayflox’s Longstop Hard Mode Unlock Trials Hydra Chimera Garuda Hard Mode Ifrit Hard Mode Titan Hard Mode Moogle King Gigamesh Levithan   Unlock High Level Roulettes Main Scenario Guildleve Roulettes Low Level Dungeon Rolettes Trial Roulettes High Level Dungeon Rolettes   Beast Tribe Daily Quests   4 Stages of each, can do 6 quests a day. Sylph Amal’jaa Sahagin Kolbold   Main Scenario Quests   Patch 2.1 and 2.2 Added and expanded story content.   Hildebrand quest lines are awesome!   Crystal Tower Small quest line to attune to CT.   Binding Coil of Bahamut   Unlock Extreme Mode Trials   Upgrade Gear Crafted Myth/Soldiery Tokens Trials Crystal Tower Extreme Modes Coil Cross Skills   Challenge Logs CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Abovan and  Bonroku for joining us!   Abovan: @abovan   Bonroku: @bonroku   Also, Chocobo Stable Podcast!   Next week we’ll be talking to the gang from The Secret World   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Buxley’s Journal – Ask Miss Mulgra – Overly Dramatic News – Mega Minute – Much Lesser Known Shas But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Until next time, AIE. – This is AcuZod – This is Alludra And this has been… The AIE Podcast.   Kudos to Kazrik for this week’s show title. ADDITIONAL INFOS:   FFXIV Relic Weapon Quest.   Level 50 Finish your class and story quests Talk to Nedrick Ironheart in Vesper Bay to pick up quest “A Relic Reborn” Talk to Rowena in Revenant’s Toll Talk to Gerolt, in North Shroud Go to directed Beastmen Stronghold and find quest item “broken relic weapon” Zaha’rak = PLD, MNK Natalan = BRD, DRG U’Ghamaro Mines = WAR, WHM, BLM Sapsa Spawning Grounds = SCH Sylphlands = SMN Aquire Class weapon and meld with 2 Grade 3 Materia PLD = Aeolian Scimitar + 2 Battledance III WAR = Barbarian’s Bardiche + 2 Battledance III MNK = Wilding Cesti + 2 Savage Aim III DRG = Champion’s Lance + 2 Savage Aim III BRD = Longarm’s Composite Bow + 2 Heaven’s Eye III WHM = Madman’s Whispering Rod + 2 Quicktongue III BLM = Sanguine Scepter + 2 Savage Might III SCH = Erudite’s Picatrix Of Healing + 2 Quicktongue III SMN = Erudite’s Picatrix Of Casting + 2 Savage Might III Aquire Alumina Salts from D’horme Chimera in Coerthas. Must be the job you are working on the relic weapon for.  This can be done via the duty finder. Aquire Amdapoor Glyph by running Amdapoor Keep. Must be the job you are working on the relic weapon for.  This can be done via the duty finder.  Turn in to Rowena in Revenant’s Toll. Slay 24 beastmen in respective stronghold. PLD = 8x Zahar’ak Lancers, 8x Pugilists, 8x Thaumaturges WAR = 8x U’Ghamaro Quarrymen, 8x Bedesmen, 8x Priests MNK = 8x Zahar’ak Lancers, 8x Pugilists, 8x Archers DRG = 8x Natalan Boldwings, 8x Fogcallers, 8x Swiftbeaks BRD = 8x Natalan Boldwings, 8x Fogcallers, 8x Windtalons WHM = 8x U’Ghamaro Quarrymen, 8x Bedesmen, 8x Priests BLM = 8x U’Ghamaro Quarrymen, 8x Bedesmen, 8x Priests SCH = 8x Sapsa Shelfspine, 8x Shelfclaw, 8x Shelftooth SMN = 8x Sylpheed Sighs, 8x Screeches, 8x Snarls Defeat Hydra.  This can be done via the Duty Finder Must be the job you are working on the relic weapon for. Defeat Ifrit Hard Mode for the White-hot Ember.  This can be done via the Duty Finder Must be the job you are working on the relic weapon for. Defeat Garuda Hard Mode for the Howling Gale. This can be done via the Duty Finder Must be the job you are working on the relic weapon for. Defeat Titan Hard Mode for the Hyperfused Ore. This can be done via the Duty Finder Must be the job you are working on the relic weapon for. Purchase Bottle of Radz-at-Han Quenching Oil for 225 Mythology Tombstones Turn into Gerlot in North Shroud Level 80 Relic Acquired! To get level 90 Relic, need to farm up 900 Mythology Tombstones for 3 Thavnairian Mist in Revenant’s Toll. It is 3, regadless if you are a 2h weapon or 1h and a shield.  If you use a 2h, 3 are needed.  1h and an offhand, your offhand will be 1, and your weapon will then be 2. Use the forge by Gerlot and you will get your Relic +1. Level 90 Relic Acquired! (Zenith)  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/T9hc7A” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/lfDYGxQ_H3w?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=lfDYGxQ_H3w&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep2315″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… Diablo 3’s birthday! Guild Wars 2 has some news! Lanc is here to chat with us about World of Warcraft! All that and more coming up right now…   (a note, the podcast has been reuploaded with a fixed version!)   AIE NEWS Were you affected by the great ventrillo outage of 2014? It seems our service was interrupted for 24 hours! The officers were aware within an hour that it happened, but sadly there’s not much we can do to make typefrag work faster. Things are now up and running like normal! Remember, if you see something go pear shaped, let the officers know!   Final fantasy XIV Free company bank update! As you know AIE in Final fantasy is saving up for a large guild house. This week Abovan was kind enough to give us an update! The guild is up to nearly 13 million! While that sounds like a lot, the house size we have our eye on is 48 million! If you want to help out just drop by any amount of gil into the Free company bank! Abo suggests hitting up the challenge log if you want to see easy money just roll in! http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/53500-fc-bank-update/   Diablo Diablo 3 birthday event! From may 15-22 diablo is celebrating their birthday the best way they know how, with epic loots! If you log in during this time you will receive double rift fragments as well as an additional 100% drop rate for legendary items within those same rifts! Remember you need the expansion Reaper of souls to do rifts. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/14005211/   Star Trek Online: Saturday the 17th, at 4:00PST/7pm EST we will gather in Vent (the Ten Forward channel) to all watch the TOS episode “Nomad”. We will all sync is up on Netflix (or what ever people will watch it on) and start at the same time and then (hopefully) hilarity ensues.   Guild Wars What? Guild wars news? No way! But it’s true! The festival of the four winds is returning in honor of the Guild wars launch in china! The crown pavillion is reopened and there’s lots to do in the event! So go, have fun and play! https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/prepare-for-the-festival-of-the-four-winds/   AIE Imperium Ludi It appears the Heroes of the Storm Alpha invites have been going out hot and heavy over the last couple of weeks. Zod (the omnipotent) wants to remind everyone in AIE getting their invite that the Friends system in the Heroes Alpha is separate from the regular Blizzard friends list, so you’ll need to add your friends to Heroes separately. You’ll also want to join the AIE chat channel in game. To do so, type /join AIE in the chat window. AIE Meetups AIE members, are you in or near Kalamazoo? Well Pelell is setting up another meetup to make up for the snowed out Hobbits. The tentitive date is Sunday May 25th, and the new movie is X-Men Days of Future Past. You can check in and give your opinions or RSVP on the forums and on the Meetup.com website. http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/53495-aie-meetup-x-men-dofp-at-kalamazoo-drafthouse/ GAME NEWS   Wow busy time leading up to Summer but just because it’s getting close to vacation doesn’t mean we are taking a break.   Last month’s Craft Faire went incredibly well.  Many thanks to Syrene and all her captains and lieutenants who helped put the whole thing on.   Speaking about AIE shenanigans, all hail Grimmcow who lead an epic four hour COOP run which completely and utterly decimated the Alliance.  I helped out to rally the troops and it always warms my heart to see such utter death and destruction.   By the way, if you are interested in running a COOP team DO EET!  Doo eet NAO!   So let’s see what we have to talk about.  Blizzard has been WoWing us (See what I did there)  with the new environment graphics and videos and character sneak peeks.  They showed us how lovely the new female Night Elf and Space Goat models will look like.  I am very much looking forward to facing these in the Battle grounds.   In addition we got to see two new mounts.  The Clockwork horse mount and a new Ravager mount.  I am personally looking forward to the new Talbuk mounts as it have a black battle Talbuk that I earned back in the Burning Crusade.  I am eagerly looking forward how Lanctahrus will look sitting atop this mount and let’s not forget that Blizzard is very likely to give us new models for our Blood Elves.   I am going to look FABULOUS!   Blizzard has a sale on a couple of vanity helmets: Jewel of the Firelord Hood of Hungering Darkness Crown of Eternal Winter Are all 33% off until May 20th.  That’s just $10.00 bucks a piece   Azeroth Choppers moved to end if we have time!   Now for some serious topics.   Blizzcon 2014 Tickets sales came and went and congrats to all those who got tickets.  We wanted to let you know that we have begun to dust off the machinery, lubricating all the gears to the AIE Blizzcon machine.  Currently we are planning to having the AIE meet and greet mixer and we will soon start looking at what it will take to fund and operate the guild hall.  Keep an eye out on the forums and this here podcast about all guild Blizzcon related news.   Also help make a Baby Metal performance a reality!   On November 2004 Blizzard released World of Warcraft and the world has never been the same since.  We have seen a lot of really cool stuff but we in AIE need something not only for us but for everybody who runs a guild in WoW.   We want offline guild invites.   Think about it, no longer having to wait until an officer is online to invite you into the guild.  Just request an invite and it could be handled within a short period of time.  We have already breached the topic on Twitter with a few select devs and during the summer we will be organizing a movement to have Blizzard include this feature which is present in every new and modern MMORPG into WoW.  We will be posting on Reddit, the official World of Warcraft forums and on Twitter.  We will be firmly but politely requesting this feature to be added in a future game update.   We need all of you to keep this request constantly on the minds of the WoW devs and community team.  We are aware of the current technological limitations of the current system but it is about time that Blizzard shows guild management a little love and attention.  You will be seeing more about this on the AIE forums and various guild member Twitter accounts.   Add your voice and make a difference not only to AIE but to every guild out there.   I will be doing my guild leader thing and will be contacting other larger guilds on other servers informing them about our drive in hopes that they add their voice to the cause. So have you folks been watching the Azeroth Choppers web series?  I have and I have some good and some bad things to say about it.   Look at Lanctharus stepping on his soap box.   LikesDislikes Great Production Too reality showey Really cool Horde BikeAlliance bike…. SamwiseAlliance?  Really Metzen?  Really?   What I really hate Fake manufactured drama.  You had 5 weeks, now you have 2 weeks Dun dun duuun So much stock footage of burly biker types looking hard, standing together crossing their arms and looking grim. CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Lanctharus]for joining us!   @lanctharus   Next week we’ll be talking to the fine folks from Final Fantasy.   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… Ask Miss Mulgra Azeroth Archives Buxley’s Journal Epic Diapers Hailing Frequencies Hunter Talk Overly Dramatic News Much Lesser Known Shas But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Thanks for Mewkow for the showtitle!

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1fTbxfq” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/NjN2-5mBG_s?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=NjN2-5mBG_s&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep7560″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – The tickets are half gone! – The Force is heating up! – Someone’s looking for a fight! – The Nomads are all over the place! – And we have Stu here to talk about space battles with AIE in EVE Online All that and more coming up right now…   AIE NEWS   AIE WOW: Hey, AIE World of Warcraft members, are you going to BlizzCon? Were you lucky enough to get tickets yesterday? If not, you still have one more chance. The second and final round of tickets go on sale this weekend, Saturday May 10th, at 10pm Pacific. If fortune doesn’t smile on you, don’t fret, we are working on plans for this year’s AIE Town Hall. It’s still up in the air, so don’t buy any airline tickets yet, but if we do hold it again this year, it will be sooo worth going to. More news to follow in future broadcasts, so stay tuned.  Also, if you’re really into the art and design that goes into the game, you’re going to want to check out senior Art director Chris Robinson’s blog post from Tuesday, where he shows off one of the new zones they are working on for Warlords of Draenor, called Spires of Arak, and explains some of the technologies and hurdles that go into creating the world of Azeroth. It’s absolutely beautiful and fascinating. You can find the post in the World of Warcraft website, and we’ll have a link in our show notes.   AIE: SWTOR From AIE in a galaxy far, far away, Kazrik posted a link to a Bioware article that came out yesterday with details on the upcoming Summer of SWTOR, due to launch on June 10th, and includes a casino, bonus rewards for PVP matches, an overhaul to the GroupFinder, and a far too many other treats to cover.  It sounds like the Force will definately be with you this summer.   AIE:TSW AIE The Secret World member DottWarner will be running a PVP Achievement Farming events this weekend.. If you’re looking to gain some notches on your PVP belt, the runs will take place immediately following their normally scheduled raids, which are at Saturday at noon Pacific and Sunday at 10am Pacific, so the PVP event start times will be some point after then, and will include Stonehenge achievements if enough people show up, or Fight Club 10k player kills if not.   AIE:STO The AIE Nomads gang will start their roam into AIE in Star Trek Online tomorrow, Friday May 9th. Capt Hunter and the rest of the AIE in STO gang are looking forward to greeting the wandering adventurers, and somehow have talked Perfect World into increasing the number of ship slots available to characters in order to celebrate. Ok, AIE probably had nothing to do with it, but it is true. Starting today, every character will have two extra ship slots available to them.   AIE: Nomads And speaking of the AIE Nomads, the most recent minor league game vote has come to a close, and the winner, for the third time, is Marvel Heroes. So if you’re looking for a quick fun game to play with a bunch of AIE members, this is the one. However, the Nomads aren’t known for sitting still, and Lotwook has posted that the gang is also playing World of Tanks. Is that enough game for you yet?   AIE: Imperium Ludi Actually, no, that’s not enough. AIE is now branching into Wildstar, and we’re pleased to announce that Space Admiral Kav has been named Director of the AIE Wildstar expansion. No news yet on what Kav’s plans are for the guild, but when the royal decrees come down, we’ll be sure to bring them to you.   No News We didn’t find any big news this week for AIE in RIFT, GW2, or LOTRO. If you guys have something going on that we missed, please send it to us at [email protected], or of course, post in the forums!   Meetups Comicapaloozza in Houston Friday May23rd at 5pm   Game Code Giveaway? Gratz to cybyl for winning a copy of Mirror’s Edge!   BREAKING NEWS! Vent outage! http://t.co/5TB7qnwt0g AIE EVE: And now, for all the news from the land of Spreadsheets in Space….   GAME NEWS   [GUESTS: Put your show notes here.] Hoots said he can’t come on the show any more, apparently he is banned for messing with the show notes when Ghomus was reading them.   Friday 5/9/2014.  It will start at 11:00pm ET http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/53455-announcement-state-of-the-corporation-59/   EVE Valkyrie Keynote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k07Uu7qUEa0   More EVE Valkyrie news, Game rebuilt in UNREAL Engine and Katie “Starbuck” Stackoff to be the game’s voice actress, Ran. The game will offer Occulus Rift and Sony’s Morpheus VR headset   DUST 514 Keynote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_GRjNL7l40 Project Legion DUST 514 PS3 development to end? Project Legion announce for the PC to replace DUST 514. http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/2/5674892/project-legion-PC-CCP   EVE Online Keynote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k07Uu7qUEa0 CCP is moving away from two expansions a year model in favor of a 10 updates a year, new features to be released as they are ready. http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/2/5675722/eve-online-kronos-expansion-ccp The first expansion will be named Kronos EVEN more new ships! Tech 2 ORE Prospect New Moa model New Dominix The Mordu Legion ships – Gamur (frigate), Orthrus (Cruiser), Barghest (Battleship) Condor & Typhoon redesign   And all the other stuff we learned about New warp in and out effects – Sonic Boom! More ship rebalancing that you can shake a stick at ]The Phoenix is being rebalanced!  -Because it WAS terrible Better New Player Experience –   So much Industry talk T2 BPO CHANGES LOWSEC-ONLY CONSTRUCTION ARRAYS The EVE Prophecy Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFTUazuGdTw Monument http://eve.com/monument/name-finder/   CSM9! One character, three games – EVE, Valkyrie & Legion/DUST As announced by Halldor Fannor, CCP’s CTO http://themittani.com/news/fanfest-2014-ccp-presents   So what has AIEU Been up to? Last we spoke we had Join BRAVE collective and were having a blast Formed a Coalition with our previous alliance TEST, NEXUS, and HONOR called HERO. In March we deployed to the Derelik region to cause havoc and chaos in the Catch region. (Owned by Russian alliances -A- (AAA) and Darkness of Despair (DnD) ) Mid March to Early April Darkness of Despair was disbanded a director who was unhappy, for various reason. Release Brave seized the opportunity and took Sovereignty for the first time ever. Shortly thereafter, HERO started “BURN Catch” campaign Now, HERO co are taking systems in Catch daily. Hero coalition, including Brave and AIEU are now deploying to V-3… system to further press into the region. AIEU is moving deployment from Shamahi(in Derelik) to QETZ-W in Catch. Put corp Courier and item exchange contracts up for you doctrine ships if you want them moved. Space Logistics is a lot of work! And Hoots doesn’t even feed me! CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Stu for joining us!   http://capstable.net or on Twitter: @_stupidgenius (Stu)  @capstable (the Show)   Next week we’ll be talking to the gang from World of Warcraft   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Overly Dramatic News – Buxley’s Journal – Ask Miss Mulgra – Much Lesser Known Shas – Azeroth Archives – Megaminute – Hailing Frequencies But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Kudos to RattoZatto for this week’s show title!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1kwrd5S” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/HcrE17R7dUs?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=HcrE17R7dUs&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep5557″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… Childrens Week is here. Time to get your PVP on. Spreadsheets get slimmer May the 4th be with you! Where can you hear your chocobo? And we have Ben and Jasmine here to chat about the creativity of AIE All that and more coming up right now…     AIE NEWS We start off this week with the grandaddy of AIE communities, AIE in World of Warcraft It’s time once again for Children’s Week, that annual event that’s part of the Long Strange Journey achievement, well known for the number of highly annoying PVP actions you have to partake in. To help, DaboGyrl has re-posted her guide for knocking out the PVP events with as little stress as possible. If you still need to complete the Long Strange Journey, you’ll want to check out her tips. They’re in the AIE Azeroth forums under the title “The Dreaded Children’s Week”. And speaking of the forums, if you’re new to AIE and looking to get into raiding, or if you have a raid team looking to fill a few spots, don’t forget we have a section of the forums just for you. In the AIE Azerth forums you’ll find the Team Recriutment sub-forum, which will let you post yourself as a free agent, or post your raid team info, so prospective raiders can find you.   And now to spreadsheets in space with the AIE EVE crew. Due to all of the changes the AIE EVE gang has gone through, leaving TEST, Joining BRAVE, and now conquering the section of space known as Catch, the AIE Corporation is making some changes to streamline the pilot training and ship fitting process. They’ve reduced the number of fit recommendations, and changed the skill training plans to match. The changes are all in the wiki if you want to check them out.  And speaking of the wiki, Hoots has been working hard to rebuild the EVE wiki to make it easier to read and find information in. However, it’s a big job, and he’s asking for help double-checking everything. Anyone can edit the wiki, so if you see something missing or that could be explained better please jump right in and change it.   For you hobbitses in AIE in Lord of the Rings Online, the LOTRO 7th anniversary party started last Saturday, and it’s been so well received, that they decided to extend it. The anniversary event and all the goodies it contains will now run through May 6th. And in celebration of the 7th anniversary, the AIE LOTRO gang held a concert and played instruments in game, and apparently they’re pretty good. Lotwook says a wandering talent scout caught the act and the guild has been asked to play at a server-wide RP festival. No idea if that’s true or if Lotwook is just pulling our leg, but there you have it.   In a galaxy far far away with the AIE in Star Wars The Old Republic Just a reminder, there is a double XP weekend coming up, starting tomorrow, Friday May 2nd and running through Monday, May 5th. BioWare will also be giving everyone who has a SWTOR account on May 4th a free MT-4T Astromech droid mini-pet. (Looks kinda like an R2-D2) May the 4th be with you!   To celebrate the AIE Nomads crew jumping in with AIE in Star Trek Online, Captain Hunter is toying with the idea of holding a Mystery Star Trek 3000 event, where everyone will cue up the Nomad episode of The Original Series to the same point, start playing it at the same time, and then riff on it over vent. If you’ve ever seen MST3K or Riff Tracks, that’s what we’re talking about here. If you want to be a part of the fun, jump in his post in the forums.   For the AIE in Final Fintasy XIV gang,Abovan and Bonroku are starting a little side project they’re calling the Chocobo Stable Podcast. I think that’s an homage to another well known AIE podcast. They’ve posted episode 0, which is their demo of the idea, and would love some feedback from the rest of the FF gang. SO give it a listen and let them know what you think. It’s at chocobostable.libsyn.com   AIE: Others We have no news this week from the AIE RIFT, The Secret World, or Guild Wars 2 guilds, so if you’re in one of those groups and want us to talk about you, email us at [email protected], or better yet, post it in the forums and we will find it.   Meetups Here are the AIE meetups coming up in the next month… – Spring Raid on Harry’s Hofbrau in San Jose on Saturday May 3d – Comicapalooza in Houston Friday May 23rd If you plan to attend either of these, RSVP on the AIE Meetup,com site, or better yet, sign up and start your own meetup!   And with that….   GAME NEWS   [GUESTS: Put your show notes here.] Topic: Content creation and AIE Community AIE has a ton of content creators in the community. Rather than break off and create their own communities these wonderful people stay and add to AIE, or even join us! CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Ben and Jasmine for joining us!   JASMINE:   irljasmine.com twitter.com/irljasmine twitch.tv/irljasmine facebook.com/irljasmine   Ben: twitter.com/althemage Battlepets: Battlepet.net Azeroth Roundtable: Azerothroundtable.com Flex Mode: Stormridecast.libsyn.com Geektopia: Website coming soon!   Next week we’ll be talking to the game from AIE EVE   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Hunter Talk – Ask Miss Mulgra – Much Lesser Known Shas – Alludra’s Pets   But first, if you would like to interact with the show… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com! Kudos to NerdEsq for this week’s show title.

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1ifgaA1″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/3MVysqsKr_c?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=3MVysqsKr_c&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep8111″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… -The Craft Faire is Here! – Spreadsheets are shipping out – We’re getting the band back together – Something is happening in Anaheim – And we have Lotwook here to talk to us about AIE Nomads All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS AIE: New Member! A huge congrats to Siv for the new addition to his family! Charlie Ann was born on 4/22 and is happy healthy and all the things you hope in a new addition to the family! If you would like to send congratulations, twitter seems to be the place! Just tweet @siv_aie   AIE: World of Warcraft Lots to talk about for the AIE World of Warcraft gang this week. First up, after months of preparation and planning, the Spring Craft Faire is finally here. The craft faire will be held this Saturday, April 26th, from 4pm to 7pm server time, and continued on Sunday, April 27th, from 2pm to 5pm, server time, so get your new and boosted characters to Silvermoon and crank up those skills.   As you heard here on this show last week, Syrene put out a challenge for people to send in full bags of materials in order to be entered in a mini-raffle for two Sky Golems, and the response was overwhelming. She had 110 full emails full of mats, plus tons of extra mats that didn’t meet the rules for the challenge, but were extremely awesome nonetheless. You guys rock. And we’re happy to announce the winners of the mini-raffle are Zerrakim and Nunemacher! Congrats you two! Please track down Syrene this weekend at the craft faire to collect your prizes. Thanks to Edelody and Cowpoeria for volunteering their virtual dice rolling skills to select the winners.   If you’d like to win a prize of your own, don’t forget the craft faire is also holding a huge Craft Faire Raffle. Tickets are 100 gold each, which you can send to Seriewa. [S-E-R-I-E-W-A]. Ticket sales end at 11pm server time tomorrow, Friday April 25th. Any gold that comes in after that point will be returned to sender. There are some rules and regulations for the raffle, which you can find in the AIE wiki, along with a list of all the current prizes, which includes six sky golem mounts, an X-51 Nether-Rocket X-TREME mount, around 50 rare companion pets, eleven 28-slot bags, and a lot more, and people are still donating items for the raffle, so you probably want to get in on this. And just to mention it, all gold received in ticket sales is used to purchase more prizes for the raffle and cover some of the in-game costs of running the craft faire. Nobody is making any money on this.   There will be also be a  COOP run on Saturday. Meet up at the death blimp in Orgrimmar at 8pm if you’d like to bring some love to the Alliance.   And of course we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that Blizzard has finally announced that there will be a Blizzcon this year. It will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in California on November 7th and 8th. Tickets will be on sale on May 7th and 10th for $200 a pop. Even at that price, they’re expected to sell out in seconds, so make sure you call in sick, tell your friends you’ll be busy, and be ready with some fast fingers.  The really good news is that this means there will also be an AIE Guild Hall. this year! We’re still working out the details, but even if you don’t win the lottery and get Blizzcon tickets, you’ll want to come anyway and spend two days hanging out with us in the Guild Hall across the street. It’s a total blast, and some say even more fun than Blizzcon itself. Stay tuned for more information.   AIE: EVE Online We move now to spreadsheets in space with the AIE EVE gang. This week Hoots announced they are working on the logistics in preparation for the continued invasion and occupation of Catch, which is a region of space in the game. If you’re looking to fleet up and join the fun, make sure to move all of your ships and anything else you want to take with you to the corporation station in Shamahi as soon as possible so they can arrange the transportation details..   Also, if you joined in with AIE’s alliance with the Brave collective, but haven’t logged into the game in a week or two, please be aware that all of the API keys you used to sign up with Brave have been leaked online by a rogue Brave IT administrator. Someone having your API key doesn’t give them the ability to log into your account or steal anything, so it’s somewhat harmless, but it does let them see all of your ships, your inventory, kills and deaths, etc., which may be pretty bad in some circumstances, so if you haven’t yet, sign into your Eve account and delete the API key you used for Brave, and then of course make a new one and re-enter it in your Brave account. AIE: Star Wars the Old Republic For all you AIE Jedis and Smugglers in Star Wars the Old Republic that have been looking forward to Galactic Strongholds coming out in June, Bioware has announced they are pushing the release back a couple of months, with Early Access starting in August instead. The good news is that they are using the extra time to add extra features they hadn’t originally planned, including conquest events that let you use the power of your stronghold to dominate the event, Guild Flagships that will let you buff your guild members from orbit and instantly transport entire groups to your personal coordinates, a new stronghold on Tatooine,and much more. We’ll be sure to ask the SWTOR gang about all the details the next time they’re on the show.   And speaking about asking a SWTOR guildie something, the leader of the AIE SWTOR gang, Emperor Pellpeltine himself, is in the hot seat this week. Ask him anything you want to know in the Ask a SWTOR Guildie thread in the forums. But keep it clean of course. We don’t want another incident like last time.   AIE: Lord of the Rings Online And coming up in the AIE Lord of the Rings Online clan, this weekend they will be holding a kinship party complete with live music. Yes, you can actually play instruments in the game. And to make sure it goes well, there will be a band rehearsal tomorrow, Friday April 25th, at 8pm Eastern. If you want to join the band, just meet up at the guild house and you’re in. I think they’re pretty lax on the requirements for musical ability. And if you can’t even play an instrument, show up and they’ll teach you. There is room for two students, and it’s first come first served, so you might want to be there early.   AIE: Star Trek Online And for you federalies from AIE in Star Trek Online, Season 9 has launched. Earth Space Dock has been remodeled, Borg and Undine missions have been revamped, plus a lot more that we’ll talk to the AIE STO gang about coming up soon, and Captain Hunter reports that the new Earth Space Dock is awesome, so get in there and check it out.   AIE: Elder Scrolls Online For you Elder Scrolls folks, enjoying the latest game in the AIE collection, Grimbane would like to remind everyone that the guild bank is there to help everyone out, and understands if new players don’t have anything to contribute, but at the same time, don’t take everything you can get your hands on. Be sure to leave things for others, only take things appropriate for your character immediately, and add what you can when you can. Right now everyone has full access to the bank, but that could easily change.   AIE: Other Games For those of you in AIE in The Secret World, Guild Wars 2, Final Fantasy, and Steam, we didn’t come across any big news for you guys this week, so if we missed something, or something awesome happens in the next week, be sure to email it to us at [email protected]. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this week’s show.   AIE: Meetup There will be a meetup at Harry’s Hofbrau in the San Francisco/San jose area next weekend, Saturday May 3rd, at 1:30pm. If you’re in the area and plan to attend, hit the AIE Meetup.com site and RSVP. ANd if you’re not in the area, go to the Meetup.com site anyway and register your own local AIE meetup, so we can talk about it.   BREAKING NEWS: This saturday is buxley’s birthday!! Happy birthday buxley!! We see you in the chatroom!   AIE: Nomads And finally, we turn to Lotwook to fill us in on all of the news from the AIE Nomads gang. Lotwook, take it away…   GAME NEWS   A brief overview of the Nomads group AIE major league roams – decision to go 3 weeks instead of 4. (As it turns out we are more ADD then we thought!) What to do in this 4th week? Room for “meta” interests – Game reviews, wiki updates, podcast bumper, artists, “off shift” leaders etc. Weekly “Minor League” games – How they are decided Group makeup (no, not as in lipstick) – The “roster” and a story about a “new gamer” We have a Tshirt which can be found at slashloot.com   The list of past minor league games: Warframe, Path of Exile, Hearthstone, Neverwinter, Diablo 3, Marvel Heroes.   A look back at Past Roams: Rift and SWTOR. What each had to offer   Current Roam : LOTRO. A look back at the fun so far and what LOTRO has to offer This Saturday April 26th is Kinship party! Band Practice is tomorrow Friday April 25th   Next Roam: STO starting May 9th. We’re in the beginning stages of building a calendar for the Roam Episode 9 has come with some new content. (This means big patch. Download early!) Like Rift, STO is level multi-level friendly Thinks to consider for STO: Get downloading! and submit your UMAMI app. You will need to finishing the tutorial before joining the guild (game mechanics) If you are playing Romulans you will need to be level 10 before joining the guild (again game mechanics). It’s suggested to be level 10ish on or around May 9th.   After STO will be GW2 our first non-F2P AIE guild. – Look out for discounts (TSW as well)   CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Lotwook for joining us! Where can people find you on the interwebs?   AIE Nomads Forums @AIENomads on Twitter The AIE Nomads wiki AIE Nomads Google Calendar.   Next week we’ll be talking to some MYSTERY guests, and it’ll for sure be a lot of fun! (one of the voices you know rather well!)   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Much Lesser Known Shas – Epic Diapers – Ask Miss Mulgra – Overly Dramatic News – Hailing Frequencies – Buxley’s Journal   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com! His Kickstarter Funded for super hero jazz covers! thanks to all who contributed!   Kudos to Revenar for this week’s show title!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1jh0DNe” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/6keG72QBLII?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=6keG72QBLII&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep7135″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – Role Playing, in an RPG? – Craft Faire Pet Battles! – Food! – The Hobbitses are partying! – And Syreyne is here to talk to us about WoW’s Craft Faire! All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS AIE WOW: Welcoming The Sun Role Playing Event It might be hard to remember that the AIE World of Warcraft guild is founded on a roleplaying server, but AIE member Ironclawed definitely remembers. She will be hosting a role playing event to celebrate the Spring Equinox. (Yes, the Spring Equinox was last month, but who’s counting?) The event will be held tomorrow, Friday April 18th, at 8pm server time, starting in Bloodhoof Village and will include a pilgrimage to Red Rocks for the celebration with a return to Bloodhoof for feasting and story telling. AIE WOW: Spring Craft Faire Pet Battle Tournament and Transmog Contest As if the AIE WoW Spring Craft Fair wasn’t a big enough event in itself, with all the skill leveling, raffle giveaways, and everything  else Syrene is going to fill us in on in a few minutes, Nevermore has just announced a Spring Craft Faire Pet Battle Tournament and a “My Battle Pet and Me” transmog contest. The event will be held on Sunday, April 27th, from 7pm to 9pm server time in the Crusader’s Coliseum at the Argent Tournament Grounds in Icecrown. The winner of the tournament will get to choose either a rascal-bot or darkmoon eye as their prize. You have to have at least three level 25 battle pets to play in the tournament, and you need to register in advance so they can get the brackets all set up. But if you don’t have three level 25 pets, or just want to show off your fashionista skills, there will be a transmog contest immediately following the tournament. To join, just choose your favorite companion pet and create the perfect transmog outfit to match. For more information and to register for the tournament, check out her thread in the AIE Azeroth section of the forums.   AIE General: Food, yum This is also in the AIE Azeroth section of the forums, but it really applies to everyone, because who doesn’t like food, right? AIE member Moozedude has started a thread asking for everyone’s favorite eats, so if you have a recipe that you’d love to share, or are just looking for ideas for dinner, check it out. This is not the first time the AIE forums have been flooded with food, and it’s probably a good time to remind people that we actually have our own AIE Cookbook, full of great recipes submitted by the members of AIE, with custom artwork by the Gerpmeister himself. It’s in the Frogpants store for only $19.95, and all profits go to fund the various servers and services used the guild.   AIE LOTRO: April Events For all you Hobbitses lovers out there, Dux has posted a few events coming up for AIE in LOTRO this month. Update 13 was launched earlier this week, and there will be 7th anniversary games coming out later this month, but to add to that, the AIE clan will be holding a PvMP tour of the Ettenmoors on the 19th, and a Kinship party with live music on the 26th. Dux didn’t post too many details, so if these events sound like fun, go track him down in game and find out more.   AIE STO: Double XP Weekend & Mining info For the AIE Star Trek Online crew, Capt Hunter wants you to know that from now until Monday the 21st, STO will be holding a double XP weekend event. All missions and events will earn you double the experience, so if you’re still leveling up your captain, be sure to check it out. And if you’re looking for something to do, Capt Hunter also recommends digging into their private dilithium mine. You can grab a shuttle from their starbase to the mine, knock out your mining dailies, get your mining duty officers on task, and do it all for double the XP. AIE FF: PS3 to PS4 Upgrade And last, AIE Final Fantasy member Jehdai posted that Square Enix is giving away free upgrades for Final Fantasy ARR from the PS3 version to the PS4 version from now until the end of the year. So if you’ve moved on up to the new Playstation platform, you can take your Final Fantasy with you. This is a permanent transfer, you won’t be able to play it on the PS3 anymore after you upgrade, but who wants to play on a last-gen console anyway, right? Meetups Here are the meetups on the calendar at the AIE Meetup.com site…. Tomorrow, April 18th, 3pm,  AwesomeCon in Washington DC at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center Saturday, May 3rd, 3pm, Spring Raid on Harry’s Hofbrau (SF Bay Area/San Jose) Friday, May 23, 5pm, Comicpalooza in Houston Texas To RSVP for any of these meetups, or to plan your own get-together with your local AIE members, head to Meetup.com and search for Alea Iacta Est.   And with that…. GAME NEWS Craft Faire Events The Craft Faire is a guild wide event held twice a year in Silvermoon City in loving memory of Milliway.  This event brings the whole guild together for the singular purpose of helping out their fellow guild members.  We spend months gathering materials throughout Azeroth and stockpiling them until the weekend of the Craft Faire.  And what do we do with them?  We give them away to guildies to level up their professional skills.  So, if you’re a new 90 and haven’t bothered with professions yet, and you have an AIE guild tag, then join us at the Faire and level up Engineering or Tailoring or any other profession.  Maybe you’re only level 40 and just got fast ground riding and want to get your Mining maxed.  We can help with that too.   This year the Faire will be held on April 26th from 4pm to 7pm server time (EST) and on April 27th from 2pm to 5pm server time (EST).  One thing we brought back this time was to have everyone pre-register for the Faire.  With all the new boosted 90 toons, the captains didn’t want to get blind-sided.  The registration form is available on the AIE forums.  Another new thing we did this time was to create an open Google doc with a list of all the materials we still need for the Faire.  So instead of going to 10 different spreadsheets and trying to read them, we have it all in one place as a simple document.   One way to help us gather the materials we need is to join the Victory Garden group.  They are planting the crop of the day and other Panda material seeds and sending in their harvests.   One of the biggest things we still need are volunteers to help work the Faire.  We are still looking for people to help out the Enchanting and First Aid Captains.  And we can always use mages for teleporting people to Silvermoon or people with multi-passenger mounts to be taxi drivers.   The Craft Faire is one of the largest events we have in World of Warcraft, and it wouldn’t be possible without the generosity of our guild members.  Thank you to everyone, past and present, that has ever donated their time or farmed materials to make this all happen.   Raffle: Don’t forget, we also have the Craft Faire raffle going on.  At last count, we were up to 5 Sky Golems, a bunch of crafted 553 gear, a ton of rare pets, and some Royal Satchel bags.  Tickets are 100 gold each.  Rules for entry and other fun info is on the AIE wiki (wiki.aie-guild.org).  Some of you may wonder what we do with the gold.  Well, a very small percentage is used to buy storage banks and last minute materials on the auction house.  The rest goes into prizes for the raffle.  Like vendor mats to make Sandstone Drakes, or buying 3-person mammoth’s in Dalaran, or if there’s enough, the awesome Yaks.  The gold doesn’t go into the co-guilds’ banks nor do we keep it.  That means, the more tickets that are bought, the more prizes we can buy to give away.   We also have some other events going on that same weekend.   Pet Battling Event:  Noted above in News COOP:  Maybe….Possibly….???   We don’t know but we think so!! Watch the forums for info! After Party:  Sunday after Faire at Gallywix’s.  This is when we will be announcing winners of the Raffle.   FULL Mail with Full Stacks to Seriewa (so all 12 slots) till Wednesday Night!   Gave away Dead Space Key to the chatroom!   CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Syreyne for joining us!   Twitter: @SyreyneAIE Craft Faire Info:  http://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Craft_Faire   Next week we’ll be talking to the Nomads!   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Hailing Frequecies – Buxley’s Journal – Ask Miss Mulgra – Much Lesser Known-Shas – MegaMinute – Overly Dramatic News – Hunter Talk – Azeroth Archives   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com! http://bit.ly/jazzhero Until next time, AIE… – This is Ghomus –  This is Alludra – This is AcuZod And this has been… The AIE Podcast.   Kudos to cybyl for this week’s show title.  

On this episode of The AIE Podcast… –  We have Guild Wars 2 News! – The Nomads are moving on – EVE gets down to business – Appreciate your junior officer! – And we have Grimbane here to talk to us about AIE’s venture into Elder Scrolls Online All that and more coming up right now…   AIE NEWS As we mentioned last week, the World of Warcraft 6.0 patch notes have been released. These are in beta, and will undoubtedly change before the next expansion goes live, but Old Man Franks has started a spirited discussion in the forums, asking what people think of them. So if you have any thoughts, comments, or gripes, or just wanted to see what your fellow Azerothians are saying, check out his forum thread.   I know it sounds like we remind you about this every week, but don’t worry, there are only two weeks left for us to tell you that the AIE World of Warcraft 2014 Spring Craft Fair is about to happen. It’s almost time to get that new level 90 you boosted all skilled up. If you just joined AIE and don’t know what I’m talking about, go to the forums and read up up about the event on Syrene’s post. It’s probably our single largest in-game social gathering, and is something you just have to see.   It’s time once again for Ask a SWTOR Guildie. This time Maelchon is in the hot seat, so if there’s anything you ever wanted to know about him, now is the time to ask. So far Maelchon has answered who his favorite raid team member is, what color his light saber would be in real life, his favorite guilty pleasure, and more. To find out the answers, and ask your own questions, hit the forums.   Microsoft isn’t the only company to get a major reorganization. AIE EVE just announced a change to their corporation org chart. Several AIE members are taking on division head roles in different aspects of the game. (Game? Doesn’t sound like a game does it?) Hoots is in charge of Diplomacy, Lanctharus is heading up Military, Stu is handling Logistics, Kuda has taken on Manufacturing and Industry, and Orsalis is leading Recon and Intel. If you’re a spreadsheet spacer interested in helping in any of those divisions, contact those guys at once. Unless you’re a spai of course.   Also in the same universe, elections have started for seats on the Council of Stellar Management, which is the player-selected group of representatives that work with CCP to help make EVE a better game (Nope, still doesn’t sound like a game). Voting ends on April 22nd, and Hoots, Lanc, Stu, and Kuda have spent the last several months interviewing candidates for their Cap Stable podcast to help you make an informed decision. They have interviewed 28 of the 46 candidates, so they’ve really done their homework.   The AIE Nomads are finishing up their roam into SWTOR today. The tents are packed, the camels are loaded, and Lotwook has posted a nice thank you message to the AIE SWTOR community in the forums. Starting tomorrow, the Nomads will wander their way into LOTRO, so if you’ve been thinking about playing a hobbitses with a bunch of cool kids, now is your chance. The Nomads have also posted that their next game will be Star Trek Online, and after that, they may head into Guild Wars 2. GW2 is the first pay-to-play game they’ve taken into consideration, and Lotwook is asking for thoughts about this on the forums.   Speaking of Guild Wars 2, NCSoft is offering the game on sale for 50% off. It’s $25 for the regular edition, and only $35 for the deluxe edition. The sale ends on April 13th, so if you want to pick it up and join the Nomads, now is the time to buy. They’ve also announced the April 2014 Feature Pack will be coming out on April 15th. This is the first release to to focus exclusively on in-game features, which includes their new megaserver system, a new wardrobing system, the removal of armor repair costs, and much more.   And finally, Captain Hunter wants to remind you that the Star Trek Online Junior Office Appreciation Weekend has started. This includes a 50% increase in XP earned by completion of duty officer assignments, a free purple quality duty officer, and other duty-related perks. (I’m not sure what you do with a purple doody, and I don’t want to know.)   Thanks to Larranna for the giveaway code this evening! (Crysis 2!)   GAME NEWS ESO Launch smooth Guilds growing steadily, numbers are at 132 individual accounts and rising every day. On day 1 we had nearly 100 invites. All my temp officers have been a super big help I currently have a few candidates for my full time officers (stay tuned in the forums for those announcements) Talk a bit about the gameplay. No Auction House but interesting alternatives that make people interact!(Oh No’s socializing in an MMO) Classes and Races Dungeons PVP is awesome…and I hate pvp usually Rifts are cool oh I mean Dark Anchors In keeping with tradition in Elder Scrolls games you can be a werewolf or vampire This space intentionally left blank Crafting is insane and will take years to max everything out. Patching has gone pretty smooth. Very little down time and a fairly regular weekly maintenance schedule. Talk about Veteran System and End Game So you think you’re done when you hit 50? Think again! CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Grimbane for joining us!   @sundryphotos  or… http://facebook.com/sundrycreations   Next week we’ll be talking to the gang from AIE in World of Warcraft   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Much Lesser Known Shas – Ask Miss Mulgra – Overly Dramatic News – Azeroth Archives – Buxley’s Journal   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com! He’s also in the middle of a kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coverville/andrew-allen-trio-the-music-of-marvel-and-dc?ref=live Until next time, AIE. – This is Ghomus – This is AcuZod And this has been… The AIE Podcast.   Kudos to cybyl for this week’s show title  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1hmiAqR” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/k5Y2lPg05wI?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=k5Y2lPg05wI&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep3064″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – Elder Scrolls are scrolling! – April Fools are foolin’ – The Secret World has fun runs for you! – Battle.net desktop chat goes live! – and we have Durus and RattoZatto here to talk to us about GERP! All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS Elder Scrolls Online’s early access is out this week! The rest of the players will have access next week. If you want to hear more about the game, be sure to tune in next week when we’ll have Grimbane on to talk about AIE’s expansion into ESO. http://elderscrollsonline.com/en/   April fools day! Did you see all Blizzard did? Fake patch notes, fake expansions, whole bunches of crazy stuff! What about guild wars 2’s bobble head prank? Players who logged in to guild wars 2 found their avatars had bobble heads! I personally liked the fake patch notes put out by Blizzard, like the one that says Using the Mage spell Blink will now attract the attention of creepy angel statues. Don’t Blink, and the one for Paladins – New Ability: Renounce. When cast, Renounce permanently changes the Paladin into a Warrior. (I think that was intended for Alachaas) http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/13611769/april-fools-4-2-2014 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/april-fool-s-day-prank-makes-guild-wars-2-characters-have-huge-heads/1100-6418693/   Just a reminder, AIE in The Secret World has low level fun runs every Monday night at 7pm Eastern/4pm Pacific! You don’t need fancy gear or really any sort of experience, the TSW crew is more than happy to see you through the dungeon experience!   Speaking of TSW, they have had their state of the game for April.  The story of the AEGIS system is explained, PvP changes for El Dorado, and a 10.5 gear path will be available.  Even bigger news, next week an adventure pack will be released with four new Investigation missions.  These are the signature missions of The Secret World, where you need to solve a puzzle with clues.   Blizzard’s desktop app has added chat functionality! Now you can talk to your friends in game without being logged in!! Unfortunately there is no way to opt out of the chat client without during off the bnet client. You also can’t ‘appear invisible’ or offline. To update your app to get the chat simply log out and reload it. It will start updating immediately! …or apparently it will ask you to update in a few minutes.   World of Warcraft’s latest expansion, Warlords of Draenor, has just released their alpha patch notes! These are crazy long and hold the first glimpse of Blizzard’s newest expansion. So head over and see them before they start slashing through them with red marks and overwrites! This is the first draft of the alpha folks, expect to see these expansive patch notes change with time! http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/13423478/warlords-of-draenor%E2%84%A2-alpha-patch-notes-4-3-2014 Meetups PAX East – Boston – Friday April 11, 10:00 am AwesomeCon DC – Washington DC – Friday April 18, 3:00 pm Spring Raid on Harry’s Hofbrau – San Jose – Saturday May 3, 1:30 pm Comicpalooza – Houston – Friday May 23, 5:00 pm   http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/53137-who-wants-a-nomad-shirt/  nomad shirts!   GAME NEWS 1. What is the G.E.R.P? (Durus) 2. Who is the GERP Team? (Durus) 3. How do you contact the GERP team? (Durus) [email protected]   3. What is a GERP game, and what’s a GERP mini-game? (Ratto) 4. Can anyone recommend a game? How do you start a game in the GERP? (Ratto) 5. How do the “Mini GERP” games get started? How do I find out what games we’re in? (Ratto) http://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=GERP_Status 6. What are the stages of the GERP (v2.0!) (Durus) a. Discovery (Durus) b. Expedition (Ratto) c. Settlement (Ratto) d. Domain (Durus)   7. Games currently GERPed and GERPing! a. Final Fantasy (Ratto) *moved very quickly into “Domain.” b. ESO (Ratto) *Just launched! c  EQNL (Ratto) *Closed Beta d. Diablo 3 (Durus) * “Community” Mini-game e. WildStar (Durus) * Launch date, GA, and NDA lift. f. and more! (Durus – GERP status page)   8. Only you can make sure we play “ALL THE GAMES!” 9. Portal! (www.aie-guild.org) Forums! Jabber! Hashtag #aieguild CLOSE @thedurus, find him in the Imperium Ludi section of the forums, on Jabber, and ALL THE PLACES!   @RattoZatto, and read the various articles on the blog I write for at:  http://www.acrosstheboardgames.net Next week we’ll be talking to Grimbane chatting about Elder scrolls online   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Much Lesser Known Shas – MegaMinute – Ask Miss Mulgra – Overly Dramatic News – Hailing Frequencies – Azeroth Archives – Buxley’s Journal But first, if you need to reach us – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com! his kickstarter with super hero music is happening now! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coverville/andrew-allen-trio-the-music-of-marvel-and-dc?ref=live Kudos to Mewkow for this week’s show title.    

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1dSGvy0″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/3LJeOSOKTEI?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=3LJeOSOKTEI&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep1223″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – From Outer Space to Middle Earth – Ask a SWTOR Guildie – Reaper of Souls – Flap Flap Flap – And we have Abo and Jedhai here to talk to us about AIE in Final Fantasy All that and more coming up right now…     AIE NEWS AIE SWTOR: Ask a SWTOR Guildie Emperor Pell is at it again, throwing another guildie in the hotseat! Find out all you never wanted to know this week about SWTOR member Alloyed Clavicle. Including…why did they pick that name?   AIE TSW: TSW AMA Not to be outdone, TSW has also decided to put the spotlight on a guildie, or in their case, officer! Head on over there to find out all the amazing things that Kamiel has to offer. Like which pony is part of the dragon faction and how to make tons of gold!   AIE Nomads: From Outer Space to Middle Earth Lotwook wrote in to let everyone know, the AIE Nomads crew is finishing up their stay in SWTOR and have been playing some Diablo 3 on the side. The Nomads will start their roam into LOTRO on Friday April 11th, so if you want to join them in this great free-to-play game, go ahead and start downloading it now.   AIE Nomads: FlapMMO Speaking of AIE Nomads, on April 1st, the Nomads will also be roaming into FlapMMO. FlapMMO is a free-to-play massively multiplayer game built from the same gameplay mechanics of now defunct single player Flappybird game. if you’d like to flap along with the Nomads, more information can be found on the forums and in the AIE Nomads wiki.   AIE FF: Patch 2.2 is Live! Abo and Jedhai are going to talk about this more in depth, but the latest Final Fantasy patch is out! If you wanna see how patch notes are *done* head on over to their website. Seriously, they make Blizzard look like total slackers   AIE Diablo: Diablo 3 Reapers of Souls In case you aren’t in the blizzardverse or haven’t been paying attention to your Real ID  friends list, Diablo 3’s first expansion has launched, and everyone is playing it! The expansion includes a new act, a new class, a new crafting profession, and a whole new way of leveling! If you haven’t played the game since Diablo 3’s launch, you may want to give it a look, as the way you play the game has changed dramatically, in a super fun way!   AIE Diablo: AIE Community Speaking of Diablo, did you know they also added a guild system? Well, it’s more like clans and communities, but guess what! AIE Is totally there! Just look us up in the communities section and click to apply! The system works by using your battle.net name, so unfotunately we will not be accepting any account ID that’s against our policies.   AIE STO: STO Sale! Ever want some of those shiny quality of life services from star trek online, but the price point made them just a biiit out of reach? Well you are in luck! Starting today, March 27th, through the 31st, Star Trek Online is having a 15% off services sale! Now’s your time to stock up on great things such as addtional shared bank slots and XP boosts!   For links to more information on all the news stories we covered this week, check the show notes at theaiepodcast.com, or of course, go to the forums!   And with that, lets get back to Abo and Jedhai and talk about AIE in Final Fantasy…   GAME NEWS   New Patch 2.2 New Primals, quests, glamours, beast tribes, dungeons, nerfs, new raids. Next and final PS4 beta starts April 4th, this time on the live servers. Glamours!  Transmog with a twist! Have ps3, convert it to ps4 for free.  PS4 Version is pretty much the PC version.  Including keyboard and mouse controls!  For those that like those funny mice, the Razor Naga’s side keypad is reported to not work, but the Logitech G900 does.  There is a valid reason why, but for now, just trust me. PS4 Remote Play to Vita is sweet.  Looking forward to optimizations and things that a patch brings Chocobo improvements Rework of endgame gearing and currency   Guild News Still the only AIE game that supports cross play between console and PC players in the same game world. Housing donations are still being accepted to help us with the stretch goal of having a FC home. Map nights, crystal purchases, are being done to help with the cause, but straight up donations are accepted as well. Future events include, raid teams.  1 established team, 2 others are forming up now Map nights Leveling nights   CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Abo and Jedhai for joining us! Abovan is @Abovan Jehdai is @jediknifefight Next week we’ll be talking to Durus and RattoZatto about all sorts of GERPy things.   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Buxley’s Journal – Ask Miss Mulgra – Much Lesser Known Shas – Overly Dramatic News – Azeroth Archives   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com! His new kickstarter, super hero music! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coverville/andrew-allen-trio-the-music-of-marvel-and-dc Until next time, AIE. – This is Ghomus – This is Alludra – This is AcuZod And this has been… The AIE Podcast.   Thanks to Cybyl for the show title!

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1ggJFkU” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_rTcDPwWOkc?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=_rTcDPwWOkc&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=0&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep9689″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – Boost It! – Craft It! – Mount It! – Noob It! – And we have Apolas and Sema here to talk to us about AIE in a galaxy far far away.. All that and more coming up right now…   AIE NEWS AIE WOW: Level 90 boost available now. For you World of Warcraft players who have been looking forward to the ability to boost a character up to level 90, Blizzard has just released that option as part of the pre-order of the Warlords of Draenor expansion. You know you’re going to buy it anyway, right? Well now you can buy the expansion and get your new level 90 in time to actually get some raiding in.   AIE WOW: Hearthstone Mount Also for you WoW players, Blizzard has released a beautiful new mount, but don’t get your wallets out, this mount is entirely free. All you have to do is download Hearthstone and win three games in Play or Arena mode, and you will earn the Mount Up achievement, plus get the Hearthsteed mount to fly around on in Azeroth.  This is a beautiful horse mount, with a stone body and blue ethereal wings, hooves, mane, and tail. (A little too Alliancey for my taste, but yeah, I had to get one.)   AIE WOW: Spring Craft Faire Reminder We’re just one month away from the Spring Craft Faire in World of Warcraft, and thanks to the recent boost-to-90 deal from Blizzard, we’ve had hundreds of new level 90s join the guild over the last couple of weeks. Yes, hundreds, and they all need to get their skills up, so the craft faire captains have put out an emergency call for help. They need lots of mats to feed the hungry newbies. So if you’re in the middle of the pre-expansion doldrums and have some time to kill, or just want to help out, contact the craft faire captain of your choice and see what mats they could use help with gathering.   AIE EVE: Capture of Noobtropolis Those hardy adventurers in Eve Online have had quite a month. Right after the mass migration to a new area of space last week, this week AIE, as part of the BRAVE alliance and HERO collective, have captured their first space station in null security space, and have appropriately renamed it Noobtropolis. Now their job is really just beginning, as they have to hold on to control of the station and fend off evil space people who would take it for themselves. As the name implies, AIE’s new alliance is very friendly to new players, so if you’ve ever wanted to jump into this exciting and sometimes overwhelming space battle game, now is the perfect time.   AIE GERP: Diablo 3 Community If you’ve ever played Diablo 3, and who hasn’t really, you may be interested to know that patch 2.0 brought Clans and Communities into the game. Of course AIE is all about community, so of course AIE has a community running in Diablo 3. Just search for “Alea Iacta Est” to join, but remember, like most AIE communities, please keep everything family friendly, and hang in there if things get rough, they’re still trying to figure out how everything works.   AIE RIFT: New Stuff Coming We actually have some news from the land of AIE in Rift! Yay! Trion has just released a new Conquest map, called Steppes of Infinity, four new souls for the 2.7 expansion – Cleric, Warrior, Rogue, and Mage, a new digital gaming platform called Glyph, two new community managers, the return of Mech Week, and the extension of the Carnival of the Ascended. Wow! No news for weeks, and then suddenly they let loose the floodgates. If you haven’t stepped into Rift in a while, you might want to hop back in and find out what’s going on.   AIE FF: Glamours And finally, the gang over at Square Enix have announce a new feature for you Final Fantasy players – Glamour Prisms. Glamour Prisms will project the look of one piece of gear onto another, so now you can make your character look the way you want without messing up your stats. (Yes, in World of Warcraft we call this Transmoging.) This will be coming in patch 2.2, which will also include a few server stability improvements. Patch 2.2 is scheduled to be released next Thursday, March 27th, which is perfect, as we’ll have the AIE Final Fantasy gang on the show to tell us all about it.   AIE NOMADS Here’s an update on the AIE Nomads crew – They’ve been hanging out in SWTOR, which Apolas and Sema will talk about in a moment, and they’re also playing a bit of Neverwinter Nights and some Diablo 3, so if you’re interested in any of those games, track down the Nomads and have some fun!   For more information on all of the news topics we just covered, see the links in our show notes at theaiepodcast.com, or, of couse, go to the forums! AIE Meetups! Here are the meetups currently on the calendar at our AIE Meetup.com page  – PAX East, Boston, Friday April 11th at 10am  – AwesomeCon, Washington D.C.,  Friday April 18th, at 3pm If you’ll be in the area and looking to attend either of these meetups, RSVP on the AIE Meetup.com page, or better yet, sign up and start your own local meetup! AIE Podcast Spotlight It’s been a while since we last did a podcast spotlight, but I felt it was time for another. As you may know, AIE was started by podcasters, populated by podcast fans, and has influenced a number of members to start their own podcasts, so we like to take a little time every now and then to highlight an AIE member that has become notable in the podcast space. This week we are giving a big shout out to Rho, host of the Realm Maintenance podcast. Each week, Rho interviews hosts of other World of Warcraft podcasts, and has become the go-to show that every WoW podcaster tries to get on to prove they’ve made the big time. You can catch the show at realm-maintenance.com. He also co-hosts and guests on other podcasts, which you can find out about by following him on Twitter @RhoWoW. If you know of an AIE member who deserves some time in the spotlight, whether its for podcasting or other notable achievement,  email us at [email protected] and put spotlight in the subject line.   And with that, lets jump back into a galaxy far far away and find out what’s going on with the AIE SWTOR gang. GAME NEWS Weekly Guild Activities – Regular Operations Teams run on Sunday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 16 man fun times on Tuesday nights, Slowbie Flashpoint night on Friday nights.  Nightmare Pilgrim run planned for Apr 1.   Ask a Guildie – Weekly now – Current guildie is Lotwook!   Galactic Starfighter – recently came out with new ship type which is the bomber, new maps have come out and in fact a new one is coming with the next patch in early April. New Galactic Starfighter Map.  It’s a domination map.  ecumenopolis   New Nightmare Mode for Dread Fortress, with a new twist on Nightmare Modes   Two new flashpoints coming with nice little plot that is going to play out over the rest of the year, Korriban and Tython.   New map for PvP – Huttball on Quesh.  Special new mount (a Rancor) for the elite of the elite pvpers.   Other versions of the rancor mount in future for Nightmare Mode ops and Cartel Coins.   Some class tweaks coming in 2.7 (early April)   Lucky-77 Swoop speeder to all of Subscribers (March 18, 2014).  It has a chance to “hit the jackpot” when summoned, kicking off an animation that tosses holographic coins everywhere.   Player Housing and Guild Flagships coming.   CLOSE Apolas : @beninmtl – and listen to Sema and Max on the Escape Podcast each week – @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey Sema: @AIESema Next week we’ll be talking to the fine folks from Final Fantasy XIV.   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Much Lesser Known Shas – Overly Dramatic News – Buxley’s Journal – Ask Miss Mulgra – Hailing Frequencies – Azeroth Archives   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com! – Show notes compiled by AcuZod, Guests wrangled by Alludra, and all the technically timey wimey wibbly wobbly stuff handled by Ghomus.   Until next time, AIE. – This is Ghomus – This is Alludra – This is AcuZod And this has been… The AIE Podcast.   Kudos to Max for this week’s show title!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1qdFCbH” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/CZLhW51S030?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=CZLhW51S030&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep2916″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – The WoW Craft Faire is heating up – A Brave New Alliance in EVE – And we have Dux and Apolas here to talk to us about AIE in LOTRO All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS AIE WOW: 2014 Spring Craft Faire For you AIE World of Warcraft members, the AIE 2014 Spring Craft Faire is coming up again. Time to get those trade skills you’ve been neglecting leveled up to as high as the MOP expansion allows, all for free! There will also be a raffle with amazing prizes, including at least one sky golem mount and several hard to get battle pets, which can be yours for the price of 100 gold a ticket and just a little luck. All gold goes towards purchasing even more raffle prizes and the materials that get handed out to guildies to level their skills. The craft faire will be on April 26th and 27th, and the Craft Faire team is actively looking for volunteers. If your trade skills are already maxed, why not jump in and help out your fellow guildies? AIE WOW: Pet Battle Picnic Speaking of battle pets, if you missed out on the last awesome Pet Battle Picnic, don’t despair. Nevermore has announce the next AIE Guild Pet Battle Picnic will be held on March 16th from 6pm to 8pm server time in the Ruins of Isilidien, just south of Dire Maul in Feralas. The event is open to anyone of any level of pet battle experience, so come on out and learn about pet battles, win prizes, and of course battle other guildies for the honorary title of best guild pet battler evah! Until next time at least.   AIE EVE: BRAVE/HERO Deployment For those of you who are fans of spreadsheets in space, there have been some major happenings going on. Not only has AIE joined in with the BRAVE alliance, but BRAVE has joined up with a couple of other large alliances to form the HERO coalition, one of the most formidable fleets in EVE Online. And to top it off, the entire gang has moved into a new corner of the universe in order to better spread their “Power of the Newbie” propaganda. As you could guess, they are very friendly and helpful to new players, and are actively recruiting, so if massive hundred-person space battles is your kind of thing, you’ll want to come check them out. (Zod comments)   AIE NOMADS: Minor League Game Poll We know you’ve heard all about the AIE Nomads, and how they wander from game to game getting a taste of everything a game has to offer. Well they’re not just in major league games, they also jump into fun frivolous minor league games. Lotwook has posted a poll asking for votes on which minor league game to play next. The choices include Hearthstone, World of Tanks, League of Legends and more. If you’re into minor league games, and want to play with several other AIE’rs, join the Nomads and cast your vote!   AIE STO: Galaxy Class Overhaul For you Star Trek Online players, you may be interested to know that Perfect World is completely overhauling a couple of the first starships they put into the game. The Galaxy class cruiser and dreadnaught are getting new features, such as a separating saucer section, new stats, hanger bays and more. So if you have a Galaxy class starship sitting in the closet gathering dust, you might want to jump back in and check it out.   AIE FF: UI Tips Requested AIE Final Fantasy member Vitalogy needs your help. He’s trying to work out the perfect UI for his Paladin tank. (There are Paladins in FF?) He’s also looking for any other “must have” tips and tricks to make the game easier to play. We know there’s a hardcore Final Fantasy gang out there, so if you have anything to share, see his post in the forums.   AIE FF: Transfers from Legacy Worlds Allowed And speaking of Final Fantasy, Square Enix has opened up transfers from legacy worlds, so if you had a character back in Final Fantasy 1.0 that you were in love with, you can now bring them back to life and into the latest version of the game.   AIE Steam: Steam Sharing This just in from Beefmaster: Steam Sharing is out of beta and released to all us peons. Steamy Steve indeed! Sharing is very similar in concept to sharing your iTunes library with other users. You are able to “authorize” 10 devices and give access to 5 different steam accounts. BUT you cannot play the same game at the same time. So no Borderlands 2 Co Op for you. (Seriously its on sale every week; just buy it.) You can Ugoogley “steam family sharing” or go to http://store.steampowered.com/sharing/   AIE General: Vent reminder As we’re always saying, if you only connect with AIE inside your favorite game, you’re missing out on half of the AIE community experience. Don’t forget we have our own 400-person ventrillo server, where you can chat with any AIE member, even if they’re in a different game. It’s a good place to get to know people, share jokes, play music, or just pass the time while you’re knocking out your game’s version of “dailies”. There’s a lounge room set aside for every AIE game, though you can of course jump into any lounge you want, but remember, we are a family-friendly guild, so keep it clean. Our ventrillo information can be found by logging into UMAMI. Every now and then we have to change the password, so if you can’t sign in, you can check UMAMI to see if it’s changed.   AIE General: Meetups! Here are the meetups currently on the calendar at our AIE Meetup.com page – PAX East, Boston, Friday April 11th at 10am – AwesomeCon, Washington D.C.,  Friday April 18th, at 3pm – Dave and Busters, Franklin MIlls Mall in Philadelphia (still looking for a date) If you’re in the area and looking to attend one of these meetups, RSVP on the AIE Meetup.com page, or better yet, sign up and start your own local meetup!   For more information on all of the news stories we just covered, you can find the links in our show notes at theaiepodcast.com or of course, go to the forums!   Thanks to Beefmaster and Lotwook for giving us updates!   GAME NEWS Update 13 (and LOTRO’s 7th Anniversary) are coming up soon (He said it! Not me!- Sapience). There is a long list of new features with U13, but I want to highlight some of the key items and the great folks that are working on them. Epic Book: We’re going to Flooded Isengard! MadeofLions has put together an epic experience, where you finally get to experience life as an Ent. North Downs: This is a vast and classic region. Budgeford is digging in to modernize and improve the space, much like she’s done in the past with Moria. Fangorn Forest: Quickbeam needs your help! JWBarry has led the charge to build out new quests in Southern Fangorn, including a special friend you might earn. In addition, mail will now support multiple attachments. VIPs will be able to open mail in the wilderness through your mail alert. Inventory is getting entirely new management options. And we have a new prototype of Hobnangians that we expect to release later this year.   Src:  https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?543150-A-Letter-from-Executive-Producer-Aaron-Campbell   Src:  http://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?535422-A-letter-from-Executive-Producer-Kate-Paiz-Looking-Ahead-to-2014   Things LOTRO needs to do: draft a schedule of events for the Nomads visit   CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Dux and Apolas for joining us!   @beninmtl for Apolas @HistoricGeek for Dux   Next week we’ll be talking to the gang from AIE in Star Wars, The Old Republic   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Ask Miss Mulgra – Buxley’s Journal – Megaminute – Overly Dramatic News – Much Lesser Known Shas   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com! Forums forums forums!! Until next time, AIE. – This is Ghomus – This is AcuZod And this has been… The AIE Podcast.   Kudos to MaxTheGrey for this week’s show title!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1pBc1bV” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/wlj47SNKpe8?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=wlj47SNKpe8&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep2918″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – Nerdtacular is Nigh! – Where in the world are YOU? – Hobbitses are Happy! – Redshirts Rejoice! – And Scott and Ralff stop by to shoot the breeze! All that and more coming up right now…   AIE NEWS AIE Generale: Nerdtacular We know Scott is going to dish out some tasty details on this in a minute, but we had to mention that the big news of the week is the official announcement of Nerdtacular 2014 opening up ticket sales. Nerdtacular will be held on July 4th weekend at the beautiful Snowbird resort in Salt Lake City, Utah. Tickets are only $50, and that gets you two full days of amazing Frogpants fun, including three, yes three, tracks packed with star-studded panels, games, and shows. If you want to know more, stay tuned!   AIE Nomads: Moving On Just a reminder, the AIE Nomads are moving on from Rift and over to a galaxy far far away in a mere matter of days! Lotwook and Pellel have been busy populating the calendar with great AIE SWTOR events for the Nomads to take part in! Remember to download your game early so you can jump right on in on the fun on day one!!   AIE General: Put your mark on the map It’s easy sometimes to overlook those sticky posts at the top of the forums, or to dive right into your own favorite game’s forums and forget to check out the Community section, but if you’re not aware, we wanted to remind you that our other guest tonight, that rascally Ralff, created a Zeemap for all of our AIE members to show where in the world they happen to be, and see who might happen to live near them, which would be a big help when thinking about planning meetups. So if you haven’t done so already, or haven’t checked it out in a while, head to the Put Your Mark On The Map post in the Community section of the forums and see what’s changed.   AIE GENERAL: Imperium Ludi Reminder We know there are a ton of games out there that many of our members are very interested in playing that are either not in the AIE official list, or that are coming up in beta. If you want to jump in and get all conversational-like about your favorite new game, and maybe help AIE decide if it’s right for our community to set up an expedition into, check out the Imperium Ludi section of the forums.   AIE General: Removal Reminder – No hard feelings! Just a reminder, we love you, and you will always be a part of AIE, but we do clear out the rosters occasionally. To make room for new members to our happy family, we purge inactive characters from our ranks. The rate at which this is done varies by game, so we just want you to be aware! And don’t worry if you found yourself on the wrong side of an inactivity kick, it is quick and easy to get back in, just hop into  your game’s local AIELFO channel and ask for a re-invite. – And to prove we mean it, inactivity is inactivity: (Abo sent in a screenshot of me booting Ghomus from AIE)   AIE STO: More inventory slots coming soon! What’s an enterprising young starship captain to do when your pockets are full of loot and you keep losing all of your red-shirted cargo carrying companions? Well don’t worry, the fine folks at Perfect World have announced the are increasing everyone’s storage slots. Both character inventory and bank storage will be increased in the next patch this week. To find out more, or chat about what to do with all the red-shirts this will free up, see RattoZatto’s post in the forums.   AIE LOTRO: Update 13 & 7th anniversary coming soon Also coming up soon for all you hobbitses out there, Aaron Campbell, Executive Producer of Lord of the Rings Online, made a post about LOTRO’s upcoming Update 13, which contains a list of features too long for us to get into in this podcast. If this grabs your interest, run your hairy-toed feet down to Dux’s post in the forums to read up and talk about what’s changing.   got some news? Let us know! send us your in game news to [email protected]   G: And with that, let’s get back to Ralff and Scott…   GUEST NEWS   Ralff notes. kickstarter rewardees   got some dungeon runs   2 games of CAH   Town Hall  SNAFU — not recorded.  recap    AIE 7th Birthday    Fundraising       -70% of our goal.       – New dedicated DB, no more 500 errors on UMAMI – Still have Donate button on aie-guild.org pointing to it, will move back to our old school paypal    Nomads    Finishing up Rift    Going into SWTOR    Sub-forum in imperium Ludi    Channel in Vent   Scott Nothing big.  Just lots of stuff for N14, etc.   CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Ralff and Scott for joining us!   – Ralff, where can people find you on the Interwebz? @ralffie  I started a podcast! Catchingup.tv   – Scott, what specific Frogpants or other website do you want to point out to people?   Alright, thank you both for joining us. Listeners, join us next week when we’ll be talking to   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Ask Miss Mulgra – Much Lesser-Known Shas – Overly Dramatic News – Buxley’s Journal But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com! – Show notes composed by AcuZod, Guests wrangled by Alludra, and all the technical recording, editing, and posting vudu happens somewhere near Ghomus   Until next time, AIE. – This is Ghomus – This is Alludra – This is AcuZod And this has been… The AIE Podcast.   Kudos to Revenar for this week’s show title.  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1fidwsz” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Qnv5lX36yr4?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=Qnv5lX36yr4&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep9543″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… Town hall is coming, the town hall is coming!! Wanna play a game? We have an event for that! Get to know your guildies, real life and on the forums And we try to get a word in edgewise with Lanctharus talking about world of warcraft! All that and more coming up right now…   AIE NEWS AIE Is holding a town meeting this Saturday (Feb. 22) at 9pm est! All members of the guild are encouraged to attend as the big shot muckety mucks fill us all in on what’s going on in AIE, plans and other such things! The meeting will be held in ventrilo, and if you want to guarantee a spot, you might wanna show up a bit early.  http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/52647-aie-news-aie-gaming-community-town-hall-meeting/   G chat seemed a bit quiet lately? Can’t understand what’s going on? Well there’s been a new update for greenwall as the last update caused it to break! If you aren’t one for updating your addons regularly, please do so now to continue to participate in fun of greenwall. http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/52770-aie-news-greenwall-update-for-547/   The nomads are wading into the dark scary world of PVP! well actually they are venturing forth to dispel the rumors of scary dark pvp. They are planning to charge the battlefields twice this saturday (feb 22) 7pm-8:30pm est and then again at 10pm est until the life has been drained from all the brave warriors (or you know, they go to sleep) if the dates and time sound familiar it is because this event is happening both before and after the guild’s town hall meeting. http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/52775-nomads-rift-saturday-pvp-night/   Just a reminder the nomads are going to be roming into a galaxy far far away (and no we don’t mean Eve lanc!) this march! If you would like to join the nomads it reccomended that you  download the game and all of the patches before opening night! Otherwise you will just be in vent hearing everyone have fun and be unable to jump right in. http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/52766-nomads-roaming-into-swtor-march/   Kind of stuck on what to do on mondays? Want a really cool group to hang out with? Well the TSW crew has you covered with Dungeon run mondays! Starting at 7pm est, every monday they run dungeons! This is not a group for the elite (as alludra can attest) but a fun run where everyone helps new, returning, and heck even old vets of the game gear up, get to know everyone and just plain have some fun!   Various games are also holding ‘ask a guildie’ or AMA’s on the forums! Rattozatto the unseen head of TSW is holding one in the secret world forums, SWTOR is holding their 7th week of ‘ask a guildie’ with Whiteboy on the hotseat. The LOTRO team has an ongoing thread, if you want to know any thing about their game! These threads are a great chance to get to know your fellow guildies, learn about other games, or just find out what color socks ar ethe best!   Meetups are happening! Yes AIE loves to hang out not just in game, but also in person. We have a meetup planned for PAX East happening on Friday April 11th! The so cal members are getting a bit crazy with a Rocky horror picture show meeup on midnight Feburary 22(!) and for those in the area we will also be converging at  AwesomeCon in Washington DC on Friday April 18th! Not going to be there? Are these too far away? Then plan you own meetup! They are fun, easy to plan and we give you the tools! Just head on over to meetup.com and do a search for Alea iacta est.   It was announced on NSFW show this week that well…I think we already knew some of this? But Nerdtacular is indeed over 4th of July weekend this year at Snowbird Resort outside of Salt Lake City Utah! Justin Robert Young and Brian Brushwood WILL be in attendance (so expect some Night Attack-ness!)  A change from LAST year, though, no Kickstarter! Special packages will still be available to those that want them, and more details will be dropping soon!   GAME NEWS Man it’s been a busy month in WoW:AIE   The Grand Parade was a huge success!  Thanks to everyone who helped and participated in the event.   Got to officiate a in-game wedding type dealio for three couples in WOW, with a reception in Stormwind.   Spring Craft Faire has been announced?  Do you know where to find the info?   Have you seen the new female orc models?   The $60 dollar lvl 90 character boost.  Love it or hate it, it will soon be a reality. -What’s your 90 gonna be?   Getting my notes done for the AIE Townhall this Saturday.   Does WOW dictate the larger AIE game narrative?   The age old discussion of an AIE Alliance guild CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Lanctharus for joining us! Follow him on twitter @lanctharus!   Next week we’ll be talking to Ralff and Scott Johnson!   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… Hailing Frequencies Ask Miss Mulgra Much Lesser-Known Shas Buxley’s Journal But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1iUn1gK” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/xzdjL5M3Who?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=xzdjL5M3Who&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep6891″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… Pet battles! Craft Faire! yay pet battles!! Resurrection Ending! Jabber Jabber! Pet battles!! And we talk with Lotwook and Ayhood about AIE Nomads All that and more coming up right now…   AIE NEWS AIE WOW: AIE 7th Anniversary Pet Battler Picnic Hopefully you were able to join us for the AIE 7th Anniversary Parade this week, but if not, don’t worry, the celebrations aren’t over. This Sunday, February 16th, Nevermore will be hosting a guild Pet Battler Picnic! The event is open to anyone at any level of pet battle skill. Come on out at learn about pet battles, help teach about pet battles, and of course partake in pet battles against other AIE guildies! Prizes will also be given away throughout the event! Meet up at The Arboretum in Jade Forest at 5pm server time. Summons will be available for anyone unable to travel to the Arboretum on their own.   AIE WOW: 2014 Spring Craft Faire Another event coming up in AIE World oF Warcraft, the Spring Craft Faire is just around the corner. This is where you can get help and free materials to level your crafting professions all the way from 0 to max, or at least as close to max as possible. This is a semi-annual tradition in AIE, and even if your crafting skills are already maxed, it’s a lot of fun to see AIE fill up the normally desolate city of Silvermoon. And don’t forget the amazing raffle with tons of give-aways, including at least one Sky Golem this year, and the COOP raid on the Alliance afterwards. The craft faire is too big to be held on a single day, so it will be split across Saturday, April 26th and Sunday April 27th. For more information on the craft faire, and how you can help, see the 2014 Spring Craft Faire page in the AIE Wiki.   AIE WOW: Scroll of Resurrection coming to an end This isn’t strictly AIE News, but it could be of importance to the AIE WOW community. Blizzard has announced their Scroll of Resurrection program will come to an end on February 18th, just five days from now. The Scroll of Resurrection is a great way to get a friend back into World of Warcraft, and awards the receiver with a free boost to level 80 and 7 days free play time, while giving the sender an exclusive spectral wind rider mount. If you know someone who used to play WoW and is considering coming back, time is running out to take advantage of this great program.   AIE EVE Recruiting Ok, you’ve heard about the massive battles, the massive fun, and the massive spreadsheets. Now it’s time for you to grab your slide rule and your scientific calculator and join the fleet! The AIE EVE Online gang is actively looking for new spacers to join their ranks. If you’ve ever wanted to know what plex is, or the joys of time dilation, or just be part of a Brave New World, check out the EVE New Recruits page on the AIE Wiki for information on how you can get in on the fun. Lotwook   AIE LOTRO: Turbine Q&A For all you hobbitses out there in AIE Lord of the Rings Online, Turbine has posted a Q&A session covering everything from region revamps to raid changes to crafting news, you-name-it. If you want to discuss everything they covered, Evinix has started a thread on the forums leading to the Q&A.   AIE General: Jabber! Don’t forget, we have Greenwall in Real Life! You can chat with other AIE members, even when you’re not in a game, by using our Jabber server. Jabber is a text chat system that works with a large number of chat clients, so you can find any client you like, point it to our Jabber server, and chat the day away. The information you need to point to our Jabber server is in the forums, or you can even use the Jabber web client found on the front page of the guild website at aie-guild.org.   And with that, lets get back to see where the Nomads have gone to now… GAME NEWS The Nomads have been roaming Rift throughout this month of February.   AIE Nomads was born from an idea posted on the forums in December. It attempts to address the evolving gaming habits of players who are hopping from game to game, due in part to the incredible amount of good gaming content readily available. It addresses the problem that some of our AIE guilds have been lacking in attendance because people have been spread thin. By moving the focus from the game, and instead to the group, we strengthen the AIE social experience.   Meeting with AIE officers, their blessing. Their similar original idea   Rift Report: Attendance statement Accomplishments – lots of people dinging 60, guild quests leveling, guild dungeon runs. Future events – PVP event, dimensions with Aleriase Lessons learned – Get people in, game download and admin signup done early so as to pace it for the officers. No harm in starting now for SWTOR.   Other roams – Warframe last night – Beefmaster to assist in steam Problem solving philosophy, paced at first to address each problem – my roll and the eventual change of it.   Problem types to address: Timezones, Which games, Free or pay? , Which platforms (console, mobile, PC etc), How long do we play each game?, Do we take breaks, Is the a replacement of GERP (NO) , communication ..   Great ideas so far: Bonroku – Tabletop roll20.net – great example of creative stepping up idea Long list of games Theme song   Right now the group is focusing on established AIE MMOs as well as diving into minor league games from time to time.   In March The Nomads will roam into SW:TOR   More information can be found: at the Wiki: http://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=AIENomads:Main_Page In their section of the forums: http://forum.myextralife.com/forum/74-aie-nomads/ Twitter: @AIENomads CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Lotwook and Ayhood for joining us!   Next week we’ll be talking to the fine folks from AIE World of Warcraft!   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Overly Dramatic News – Ask Miss Mulgra – Megaminute – Hailing Frequencies – Much Lesser-Known Shas – Epic Diapers – Buxley’s Journal   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com! Check out his webpage Feb 14th for a brand new EP!   Until next time, AIE. – This is Ghomus – This is Alludra – This is AcuZod And this has been… The AIE Podcast. Kudos to Ralff for this week’s show title!

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1f06rY9″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/d_LIFBbgocY?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=d_LIFBbgocY&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep5310″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… Time for the Town Hall! Everyone Loves a Parade! Love is in the air, everywhere! Keep it clean people, keep it clean. And we talk to three of AIE’s most famous segment producers All that and more coming up right now…   AIE NEWS   AIE General: Winter 2014 Town Hall As we mentioned last week, it’s time for another AIE Town Hall meeting. This is when the leadership of the AIE Gaming Community gathers together to answer for their crimes, I mean, tell us what’s happening in the world of AIE. The Town Hall will be held on our Ventrillo server on Saturday, February 22nd, at 9pm Eastern, and is open to all AIE members across all of our games. Be warned, we tend to fill up all 400 slots on the server, so anyone who regularly uses the server for groups and raids at that time might need to make alternate plans. Very sorry about that.   AIE WoW: Anniversary Parade Can you believe it’s been seven years already? This month we will celebrate the 7th anniversary of the founding of the AIE WoW guild with a “grand parade” to take place at the Sunspire on Sunstrider Isle on Wednesday, February 12th, starting at 9:30pm Eastern. Bring your fanciest armor, your coolest pets, your most spectacular mounts, and lets remind Earthen Ring that we are a force to be reckoned with.   AIE WoW: Wedding Bells Ring Wedding bells are in the air of Azeroth. Two members of the AIE community have decided to tie the knot (in game at least) and you are invited! Join Yummybear and Juniper as they join their authenticators together on Wednesday, February 11th, at 11pm server time at the Fairie Circle in Tirisfal Glades. Reception to follow.   AIE WoW: Love is in the Air Event This really is the month of love, and there’s no better way to express that than to share it with friends and frenemies. AIE WoW members can join us on February 15th at 2pm server time for the AIE Love Is In The Air event, where couples in game and real life can express their love for each other in front of the entire guild and a special guest Master of Ceremonies. And where else would you expect to find such a romantic event than the most romantic setting in Azeroth: the cathedral in Stormwind. Of course this means we need a LOT of support., so grab your loveliest battleaxe, and prepare your most emotional spells, and help us share our love with the Alliance.   AIE STO: Dilithium Bonus Weekend For you AIE Star Trek Online players, Perfect World is also showing you some love with a special bonus dilithiuim mining weekend event. So power up your spaceship and fly it backwards towards the nearest mine or asteroid field, and fill up your wallet.   AIE FF: Company Vault Cleanup Samantha Jane reminds all of our AIE Final Fantasy members to please be considerate and not flood the company vault with cheap useless knick-knacks. She’s just finished giving it a good spring cleaning, a few months early, and will turn an extremely grumpy face on anyone who messes it up again. She didn’t throw out any of the bloody weapon parts, dust bunnies, or fledgling doo, so if you’re looking for any of those wonders, please help yourself.   AIE RL: Meetups Meetups! Here are the meetups currently listed on the AIE Meetup.com site… – Raid on Chino Banditos in Phoenix AZ, on Sunday February 9th at 6pm – Rocky Horror Picture Show gathering in Los Angeles, CA on Feb 22nd at midnight – Meetup at PAX East in Boston, MA, on Friday, April 11th at 10am – Meetup at AwesomeCon in Washington DC on Friday April 18th at 3pm – Dave and Busters meetup in Philadelphia, PA – Looking for date recommendations If you’re anywhere near these meetups, hit the AIE Meetup.com site and RSVP. Even better, start your own Meetup!   And with that, let’s get back to our guests and find out what makes them do it every week…   GUEST INTERVIEWS   Buxley   I’ve been doing podcast segments since 2008, where I had a 110 episode run on The Instance with “Ask Buxley”.  After taking some time off, I decided to start doing podcast segments again.  The new segment is called “Buxley’s Journal”.  You can hear it on The AIE podcast and on The Instance podcast.   I wrote the Roku Frogpants app, and I have a small company that does iPhone apps.   Segment:  Buxley’s Journal Twitter:  @AskBuxley Former segment: Ask Buxley available at http://www.askbuxley.com/ Short lived podcast:  The Buxley Show available at:  http://www.thebuxleyshow.com/ Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/TheBuxleyShow/ Favorite segment producers:  Miss Mulgra and HuntsTheWind   Miss Mulgra   I am always looking for new Gnome recipes… Uh, wait, no… I LOVE Gnomes! Uh, yes. That is correct. Ask Miss Mulgra is approaching her 100th segment and for that special milestone she will probably answer a question or make a not-so-veiled reference to barbequeing Gnomes.   Segment: Ask Miss Mulgra Twitter: @missmulgra Biggest inspirations: Ask Buxley and Darrell the Tip Giver Favorite newscaster: HuntsTheWind   HuntsTheWind   I’m always looking for news stories to give the patented ODN twist!  I’m also a great lover of board games – hope to be at Nerdtacular this year in the gaming room!   Segment: Overly Dramatic News (www.overlydramaticnews.com) Twitter: @HuntsTheWind Biggest inspirations: Darryl the Tip Giver, Overly Dramatic News (The Acuzod Years), Ask Buxley, The Onion Radio News Favorite source of etiquette tips: Miss Mulgra   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Miss Mulgra, Buxley, and HuntsTheWind for joining us, and for all the wonderful goodness they add to the show. We also want to give thanks to all our other segment producers. We hope to get a few more on in future episodes!   Next week we’ll be talking to the AIE Nomads!   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Overly Dramatic News – MegaMinute – Ask Miss Mulgra – Much Lesser-Known Shas – Buxley’s Journal   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com! – News Gathering by AcuZod, Guest Arranging and Wrangling by Alludra, and Show Production by Ghomus!   Until next time, AIE… – This is Ghomus – This is Alludra – This is AcuZod And this has been… The AIE Podcast.   Kudos to Kraythur for this week’s show title!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1frYRsV” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/nY1ufPQ1SkI?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=nY1ufPQ1SkI&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep8257″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – The most expensive battle ever waged – 4 Year Anniversary Event is live – House collection reaches 6 million gil – Skyrim pre-order deals – And we talk about AIE in The Secret World All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS AIE WOW: Cross-realm raid LFG Here’s something I just found out, and even though I bet every other World of Warcraft’er already knew it, I thought I’d share, just in case. If you open the Raid window, there is an “Other Raids” tab at the top that will let you LFG for for cross-realm raids. This seems like a very helpful feature for finding a raid during low-population times, including for those pesky Timeless Isle Celestials that I never seem to catch anyone killing.   AIE EVE: The most expensive battle ever waged What started out as a missed payment has led to the largest battle to ever take place in EVE Online. Hoots describes it as “a struggle between multiple coalitions that has involved nearly every nullsec entity in one form or another”. The end result has been the destruction of over $300,000 equivalent dollars worth of ships. Hoots posted a video in the AIE EVE forums showing some of the destruction. AIE STO:  4 Year Anniversary Event is live We can’t put this any better than Perfect World did themselves, so we’ll just tell you what they said: “To celebrate our Four-Year Anniversary, from now until Thursday, February 27, Q is hosting parties and giving away prizes on Earth Spacedock, Qo’noS and New Romulus Command. In addition to the festivities, we are also proud to release our latest Feature Episode, “A Step Between Stars,” with the talented voice work of Voyager’s own Tuvok, as played by Tim Russ! This special episode continues the thrilling Solanae Dyson Sphere storyline and will leave everlasting repercussions on the STO universe as you know it. Don’t miss out on the fun, and make sure to read the rest of this news post for a glimpse of what is in store for you, as well as our Anniversary Rewards Blog to find out what epic rewards await you.”   AIE FF: House collection reaches 6 million gil Big kudos to the AIE Final Fantasy gang; They just passed 6 million gil collected towards purchasing their guild house. You can help earn earn gil just by  jumping into a treasure hunting group with a level 45+ character. You don’t have to be any good, you just have to be there. For more information and other ways you can help, see Jasmine’s post the AIE Final Fantasy section of the forums.   AIE General: Imperium Ludi forums reminder Don’t forget, while AIE has official presence in a large number of games, we have explorations going on into almost every game out there, from MMOs to F2Ps to MOBAs. If you want to see what other people are playing, or throw out an idea for a game we should look into, check out the Imperium Ludi section of the forums.   AIE General: Skyrim pre-order deals And speaking of other games, there is a thread in the Imperium Ludi forums concerning Elder Scrolls Online that contains information on a number of discounts towards pre-orders of the new Skyrim MMO. For example, there is a code for 20% off from Green Man, and a link for 25% off from Gamefly. If you’ve been thinking about pulling the trigger on a purchase of the game, check the thread and get a good deal.   AIE Nomads: Rift reminder We mentioned it last week, but just to remind everyone, if you’ve been thinking about jumping into Rift, the AIE Nomads, that group of game wanderers, are roaming their way into Rift starting on Saturday and lasting all month. See Lotwook’s post in the forums, or even his AIE Wiki entry for more information.   AIE General: Town Hall Just a head’s up: AIE is planning another AIE Town Hall meeting coming up in February. This is where we try to get the entire guild together in vent to report on the current “state of the guild” and find out what AIE is planning for the future. Dates are still being nailed down, so keep your eyes on the forums and your ears tuned to this podcast for further details.   AIE Meetups Here are the upcoming AIE Meetups according to the AIE Meetup.com page: – Sunday Feb 9th at 6pm: Chino Banditos in Pheonix – Saturday Feb 22nd at midnight: Rocky Horror Picture Show in Los Angeles – Friday April 11th at 10am: PAX East in Boston – Friday April 18th at 3pm: AwesomeCon in Washington D.C. To RSVP for any of these meetups, or start your own, hit the meetup.com website and search for “Alea Iacta Est” GAME NEWS Grimbane: When last we visited The Secret World [Redacted] RattoZatto: The new Christmas event was another in theme dark spin on the holidays.  There was a revival of parts of the End of Days event that tied with the whole Mayan calendar from last year, but this year the new content involved the Krampus and his mother Hel.  For more real world info on them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_%28being%29   The Whispering Tide event is still going on, but the current phase we were on months ago, is still current.  Content for the next phase has been beta tested, and Tokyo is still next in line, as far as new content goes.   We have four regular events each week, and we’d like to talk about them.   Nightmare Modes (Kamiel) General Progression Night (Kamiel) Lair Night (RattoZatto) Scenario Night (Grimbane)   CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Kamiel, Grimbane and RattoZatto  for joining us!   Rato, where can people find you on the net?   @RattoZatto on Twitter, and the blog I write for, http://www.acrosstheboardgames.net   Grim, how about you?      @sundryphotos   Kam? Your turn…   @kamiel_aie also AIE:TSW on Facebook   Next week we’ll be talking to the AIE Nomads! They are wandering on over to the to the show!   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Much Lesser-Known Sha – Epic Diapers – Buxley’s Journal – Ask Miss Mulgra But first, if you would like to interact with the showt… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com! – News Gathering by AcuZod, Guest Arranging and Wrangling by Alludra, and Show Production by Ghomus!   Until next time, AIE… – This is Ghomus – This is Alludra – This is AcuZod And this has been… The AIE Podcast.   Don’t Forget: Get the show title before closing the broadcast!   Kudos to Kazrik for this weeks show title!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/KGHcCh” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/ZFniUZGpFas?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=ZFniUZGpFas&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep2623″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – The Nomads Are Official! – Another officer in the hotseat! – Meetups all over the place! – We’ve got the Blizzard buzz! – And we chat with CaptHunter and RattoZatto about AIE in Star Trek Online! All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS Are you a member of AIE who plays a ton of different MMOs? You are probably not alone! A group has started up that we’ve mentioned in the past, but they’ve started getting the ball rolling a lot more! A section of the forums has been set aside called AIE Nomads. Check it out, and see if it’s something you’d want to join in on.   Emperor Pel-patine has decreed that another of his army be put up for interrogation! This time? The poor soul is Droge. Surely there is something that you want to know from a fellow AIE member. Keep it clean folks, these are family friendly forums! (go to the forums!)   Speaking of such, the Emperor is asking for…volunteers for information collection. Unless you are a Bothan, it should be completely harmless. You can sign up in the forums to be on the list for the “Ask a SWTOR Guildie” threads!   We have quite a few meetups coming up in the great state of California. The AIE gang out in Pasadena will be celebrating the new year with a meetup at Lucky Baldwin’s on Saturday January 18th, the San Francisco crew will be holding a winter raid on Harry’s Hofbrau in San Jose on January 25th, and the great and wonderful Belthaz is looking to put together a gathering at a Rocky Horror Picture Show screening in Los Angeles on February 22nd. And not to be outdone, the Washington D.C. group will be holding a meetup at AwesomeCon on February 18th. So if you’ll be anywhere near any of those meetups, you’ll want to RSVP on the AIE Meetup.com site and join in the fun!   Blizzard has been abuzz with changes that are coming in warlords of draenor! Among them changes to Crowd control! Lore in the forums has been talking about the proposed changes coming to CC, what they like, what they don’t and there is some buzz about the removal of some of it. If you want  to find out more head to the blizzard forums.   And speaking of blizzard, for all of you who are betting about the date of warlords of draenor, you might have to adjust your timeframes. There is a new PVP season planned between now and the next expanion’s release! Holinka on twitter announced the news on the 7th, but there seem to be no further details yet.   I’ve mentioned this in the past once before, but a former coworker who is kickstarting a CCG/Deckbuilder game is sooo close to funding. If you might be interested in such things, please check out War of Omens. If you contribute more than 10 bucks, they will give you a beta key immediately! 3 more days left on this, and a few thousand to go! GAME NEWS   Previously, on Star Trek Online…  We left off with the Romulan Republic establishing a new homeworld on Dewa 3, now called New Romulus.  After thwarting the schemes of the Tal Shiar, our adventurous captain learns of a great secret, and possibly the reason for Dewa 3’s desertion: An Iconian gateway.  And now, the continuation of Star Trek Online.   Before re-activating the gateway, Ambassador Worf is asked by the Klingon Defense Force to oversee the project, due to his previous experience with such technology (TNG S2E11 Contagion).  An earthquake shakes the chamber, and forces everyone to make a do-or-die decision.  Everyone flees into the gateway to avoid being crushed.  On the other side, the captain learns of plans the Iconians have for the Alpha Quadrant, as well as their hand in a number of other events.  After reactivating a gate near the Jouret System, where some Elachi forces arrive.  While piloting an ancient Obelisk class carrier, the captain is aided by the flagships of the three major factions.  The Enterprise, Lleset, and Bortasqu’.   The latest content requires that players complete the Sphere of Influence mission before being able to even set foot in the hotly contested Dyson sphere.  We learn quickly that the Voth have also found a way to the same particular section of the sphere the Klingons, Federation, and Romulans have entered, and now there’s a massive battle to secure a foothold in a place that manufactures Omega particles.  What’s the big deal with Omega particles?  Aside from theoretically being able to power whole planets with just a single molecule, they can stop warp travel in a region around it, decimating the advancement of many civilizations forever.   Not all is doom and gloom, for everyone’s “favorite” omnipotent being has decided that he wants to share in the quaint Human celebration of Christmas.  Your attendance is mandatory, and your consent is not required.  This year, a new section has been added to the winter event.  A gingerbread themed ground mission map that rather mimics the Fleet Defense mission where you have to fight against a random hostile alien race in a timely manner.  This time?  You must stop snowmen from harming gingerbread men!  There’s a special Breen ship reward for those who’ve participated enough in the race event.  Unfortunately, if you haven’t already been participating before this episode of the podcast, there’s no free way to earn this ship.  There is a and if method you can catch up, but this will require the cash shop currency.  With Lobi that comes from opening lockboxes, you can buy an item that gives 2-6 Autographed 8×10 Glossy Photos of Q.  You need 1,000 total to unlock the ship.  You have until the 16th to participate in any of the content in the Wonderland, and there’s rewards that are obtainable.   The Fleet is progressing nicely, though the progress on assets have been frozen, until the Dilithium Mine has been brought up to full capacity.  The reason for this, is a fully upgraded mine gives a discount on all other projects in other assets, making our progress much faster, and cheaper.  The mine is getting ready to unlock tier 2, out of 3.  When last we were working on the Embassy, it was in the final stretch of finishing the Recruitment line.  So far, the Spire hasn’t been worked on, aside from limited time projects that add fun visuals.  The Starbase found in Eta Eridari is now tier 3 of 5, but more notably, the Military projects have reached Tier 3, meaning we have access to early Fleet refits of ships.  These have much better stats than their normal counterparts.   Included with The Sphere expansion is the new Federation starting mission.  Just like how the Klingons got a brand new level 1-25 experience, and the Romulans were added with a fully fleshed out story arc, the Federation has a more updated and epic intro.  Your captain gets to start their career on graduation day at Starfleet Academy.  The writing is pretty fun, and you get to know your bridge officers, just like how the Romulans and Klingons do.   Homework!   TNG Season 2: Contagion – Iconian tech, and gateways TNG Season 3: The Best of Both Worlds – Planet where the Iconian gateway is revealed TNG Season 6: Relics, Schisms – Dyson Sphere, and a race seen in Sphere of Influence Voyager Season 3: Distant Origin – Voth Voyager Season 4: The Omega Directive – What Omega particles do CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank CaptHunter and RattoZatto for joining us!   Ratto, where can people find you online? Check out http://www.acrosstheboardgames.net/ and read the articles of games I review there.  I recently did a review on Malifaux.  You can follow me on Twitter @RattoZatto   Capt? And you can find Captain Hunter online at @InkTank_Studios   Next week we’ll be talking to a special guest we can’t name at this time. (Not Pyramidian)   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Hailing Frequencies – Buxley’s Journal – Ask Miss Mulgra – Epic Diapers – Overly Dramatic News – Much Lesser-Known Shas   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Until next time, AIE. – This is Ghomus – This is Alludra – This is AcuZod And this has been… The AIE Podcast.   Thanks to Kazrik for the Show Title!

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1kgVMRd” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/3ScIL5hqAUI?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=3ScIL5hqAUI&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep1503″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – Time to start planning your meetups! – Time to share the love – And Time to talk to Jasmine about AIE in Final Fantasy All that and more coming up right now…   AIE NEWS For those of you into Music and Gaming, and if you’re listening to this podcast we know you are,    There will be an AIE meetup at MAGFest in National Harbor, Maryland, this Saturday, January 4th at 3pm. So if you’re anywhere near the area, you’ll want to RSVP on the AIE Meetup.com site and check it out.   The fan-con which has turned into something MUCH larger, now held 3 times a year, is happening soon on the east coast! PAX East Meetup April 13th 6pm (book hotel room now!) The tickets are sure to sell out, and this con is crazy, meet up with some AIE folks there!   Speaking of Meetups, don’t foget AIE has our own Meetup.com page! So if you’ve ever wanted to get together with a bunch of your AIE pals and catch a movie, play some games, or whatever, head on over to our page and arrange your own meetup.   The AIE World of Warcraft Love is in the Air event is just a month and a half away. This is where we celebrate Valentine’s day by holding a big group love-in complete with happy couples renewing their vows in front of a special guest master of ceremonies. Oh, and did I mention we hold it in the chapel in Stormwind? That’s right, in addition to honored guests, we need an honor guard. Heavy on the guard. Come help us share our love with the Alliance in the best way we know how, with large heavy weapons! For more information, see Syrene’s post in the forums.   For those of you that like to boldly go where no one’s gone before, here’s a chance to win something no one’s won before – a starship with your own name on it! Perfect World has announced a contest to win a starship scale model of your choice, an actual physical object you can make your friends jealous over, with your own name and registry printed on it! For more information on how to win, see the Perfect World website, or find Capt Hunter’s post in the forums.   And speaking of Star Trek Online, we want to give a big shout out to the AIE STO crew for earning their 2013 starbase ornament. As Capt Hunter says in the forums, we can’t wait to see the 2014 ornament hanging there next year.   Just a reminder, if you miss being able to chat with your AIE buddies when you’re not in game, then miss it no more! AIE has our own Jabber client, so now you can sign in and chat with AIE, even when you’re stuck in that game called Real LIfe. For more informations see the Jabber post in the forums or search the AIE Wiki   GAME NEWS (FF XIV: ARR)   Housing: -General Housing Stuff (how it works, different housing zones, etc) -Wow this stuff is expensive wow -How many other guilds have houses -Where our donations stand right now   Ooooo New Patch: -Crystal Tower begins, first 24 player raid, three teams of eight -AIE cleared Crystal Tower as a full eight-player team -Fun, reasonably tactical fights still managing to be reasonable for PuG teams -Tons of small “quality of life” changes -Treasure hunts -Dungeon roulette system (random dungeon finder that yields daily rewards)   Recruitment: -Abovan has begun posting about our Free Company in a few different spots -Response has been positive, welcomed several new people into AIE -Current numbers, around 150 members -FFXIV is only $15 on Amazon now CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Jasmine for joining us!   Next week we’ll be talking to a mystery guest, so you should join us! (it’s not really a mystery, we just haven’t figured it out!)   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… Much Lesser-Known Shas Ask Miss Mulgra Mega Minute Buxley’s Journal  (Buxley is back!) Overly Dramatic News But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Thanks to Bonroku for the show title!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1cWKUlA” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/CIAaD9QakW4?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=CIAaD9QakW4&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep5337″ /]LEAD IN   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… Holiday Happenings Abound! I’m here! Beware the Krumpas! Did I mention that I made it this week? The Chocobo is Dashing! It’s me! Right here! And we talk with Steve (No really, it’s Beefmaster) about AIE in Steam! All that and me coming up right now… AIE NEWS   Are you a nomad? Ever have the desire to wander the digital worlds? Well Lotwook has, and this thoughtful AIE member has started a post to see how many other wanderers are out there that might want to group up and jump from game to game and see how they feel.Trying out new games is a lot more fun with friends, and a lot of people are interested in the idea. If you are too, wander into the AIE Community forums and jump into the thread.   If you want a serious gaming machine without spending serious money, and you’re not afraid to roll up your own sleeves, AIE member Tordormore has posted some pretty impressive details in the Community forums about the machine he just built from scratch – including parts, prices, specs, and the reasons for his choices. If Santa doesn’t come through for you this year, check out Tordormre’s tips, and build your own best present.   As you can imagine, the resources that AIE provides to our members can get a bit costly – web hosting for the AIE website, the UMAMI membership database, membership for Meetup.com, yada, yada. All that has been provided for years out of the goodness of a couple of peoples’ hearts and pockets, but we’d like to help them out. We started the AIE Pass the Hat donation campaign earlier this year with the goal of covering AIE’s expenses in 2014, about $4,000, and we’re proud to say that thanks to the kindness of the AIE membership, we’re at 62% of our goal. Unfortunately 2014 is just weeks away, so time is running out. If you’d like to help out, just click the “Donate” button on the front page of the guild website.   And speaking of fundraising, it looks like our favorite space pirates are working on their own financial schemes. That’s right, the AIE EVE corporation raising taxes – but don’t worry, these aren’t real taxes, they’re entirely fake! The EVE gang has always offered several programs to help new AIE spacers, but now after their amazing retreat from an inferior but overwhelming hostile force, they are finding themselves a little short of funds to carry on the good works. So they are raising the corporate tax rate to 50% on weekends and running special ratting missions to help inject some serious cash flow – and you can help out just by logging on and blowing stuff up! What better way to thumb your nose at the IRS than by paying an outrageous amount of fake taxes to a fake corporation and not sharing any of it with them!   Direct from Dark Lord Pelell-patine himself, you are cordially invited to the Two year anniversary of both Star Wars: The Old Republic and the founding of the AIE SWTOR guild itself! The party will be tomorrow, Friday December 20th, at 9pm Eastern, both in game and in vent. So bring your best droid and your prettiest lightsaber crystal and get ready for a Forcefully good time!   And speaking of good times in a galaxy far, far away, don’t forget to join in on the Life Day event going on right now! Check the AIE SWTOR forums for links to all the details on the activities and rewards, and see Max’s special tips for participating in the Life Day snowball fights!   The secret’s out! A coded message just arrived from an AIE The Secret World courier letting us know all about the all new The Secret World Christmas Event. The event, call A Mother of a Season, will pit you against the evil Krumpus in the land of Niflheim, plus the chance to battle to become the Lord of Misrule, and I swear I’m not making this stuff up. It sounds more fun than Festivus! For more details, as always, check the forums!   Those fine hobbitses aren’t content just celebrating the season! No no! As Apolas on the forums points out there’s a letter from the executive producer Kate Paiz about what to look forward in 2014 from the LOTRO team. It’s an interesting look at things to look forward to, such as more content and less expansions. To discuss this and other great hobbitsy things (Like second breakfast) join in on the discussion!   Okay everyone it’s time to Deck the holodeck halls! Star Trek online is having a holiday event where you can earn a special 2013 ornament for your starbase! As of this writing they are already at 50% funded! Wow!! But they could use your help. If you want to participate and just hang out with some really great people, star trek online is free to play! Yes that’s right totally free!   And speaking of Star Trek Online, season 8 is out with all new zones, new enemies, new ships, new…tons of great stuff!! Including all new tutorials for federations! Capt. Hunter has been kind enough to put the trailer on the forums, so check it out!   Patch 2.1 in Final Fantasy (Shiv arrr!) is here! Along with tons of great new pets, game improvements, downtime, and new tools for the players it brings guild housing…at super crazy costs… We at AIE of course want to build a spectacular place to hang out, so Abovan has graciously allowed us all to donate to the cause via the guild bank! Check out the forums where Jasmine is constantly updating to let us all know just how close we are coming to our goal, answering any questions you have, and just generally keeping the guild up to date on our real estate purchase.   Tired of the normal holiday events? Depressed about the thought that they will all end soon? Well worry no more! The fine folks in Final Fantasy (shiv arrr!) have come up with a super fun event to look forward to! The First Annual Chocobo Dash Race Event!! Yay!! Sign ups are, of course, on the forums (go to the forums!) and the event is scheduled for January 11th! So there is plenty of time to head on over, check out the route and you know scope out the area!   Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls now has a release date!! The expansion is set to release on March 25, 2014! Blizzard, of course, has wasted no time updating the Diablo 3 site with the opportunity to pre purchase the game, both in regular and digital collector’s editions! Prices are set at $40 us for the standard and $60 for the digital deluxe. The expensive edition comes with all sorts of goodies such as a spectral hound minion, vanity gear, a treasure goblin pet for warcraft, and various starcraft goodness! GAME NEWS   The Winter Sale is Here. Daily Deals: Reset at 1pm Eastern daily. available for 48 hours Flash Sales: new every 8 hours Community pick: vote every 8 hours. Full event sale items on bottom of page   Crafting the Snow Glove 2013 Badge how to Get: Earn 10 sno globes by:   1. BUY BUY BUY. for every $10 spent you get a card 2. craft a normal game badge 3. Vote early and often for community sales. every 3rd vote gets you one. 4. trade on the community market   Crafting the badge earns you street cred, a in game item from a FTP game chat emoticon and a profile background. and who knows what (side note: if you haven’t looked at your profile in a while they’ve added nice features to fancify your page.) you can see what cards your friends have to beg. once the sale ends on Jan 3rd at 11am PST all the components disappear. no more crafting or trading.   Meaningful Sale Odds fresh from Reno: Borderlands 2 Bioshock infinite COD: Ghosts AC4 Batman Arkham Origins Rome II Final Fantasy 14 Civ 5 Skyrim   and In non Steam but gaming sale news: Greenmangaming.com great site to watch daily as well for new deals and sometimes better than Steam.(insert verbal sounds of shock and awe and dismay) but if you buy something since they are from Europe you might get a call from your bank.   Amazon sale!!!!! OMG YOU GUYS TEH SALES go to departments tab>digital games and software there’s a big banner when you mouse over. Bigger deals for Prime members CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Beefmaster for joining us! Beef, where can people find you?   @Beefmaster @AIE_STEAM   Next week we’ll be talking to the folks in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Overly Dramatic News – Much Lesser-Known Sha – Ask Miss Mulgra But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Until next time, AIE. This is Ghomus This is Alludra This is AcuZod. And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1fb1P3A” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/tfUcTVeQrsM?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=tfUcTVeQrsM&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep8474″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… Holiday events in So Many Games! A Concert for the Kin in Lord of the Rings! Raids in RL as Well as In Game! The Brass in Charge of AIEU joins us to talk about EVE! All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS You may have noticed a lack of guilie of the moment announcements! Remember folks, we depend on you to send us your stories of interactions with great guildies! If you see someone who personifies the AIE spirit, send us an email to [email protected]! We love to hear of great guildie interactions!   On Saturday night December 21st those fun folks in LOTRO will be running the Helm’s Deep battle. You just need to be at least level 10 and done the tutorial in front of the Three Boars fountain in Bree. More info in the forums! The forums are great!   And more news from the shire: To celebrate the holiday season “The Band” (Pelell, Max and Apolas) is reuniting for a Concert on Tuesday December 17th at 9 pm eastern (6pm pacific) on the stage in front of the Kinhouse at 4 Brookbank Street, Troutbottom, Shire Homesteads. Come one and all for a good time!!!   Remember the awesome sale blizzard is having on world of warcraft all the way through current content? Well they have extended the sale to include select battle pets!! Gasp! Now you can get your very own lil’ KT, soul of the aspects, lil’ ragnaros, lil’ XT, moonkin hatchling, cinder kitten, cenerion hatchling, or pandaren monk for only $5!! All the mounts in the store, aside from the new faerie dragon are on sale for half off as well! They make great gifts *HINT HINT*! or you can fill the gaps in your collection!   Not particularily a NEWS item, per se, but one of the things that I rather liked about EVE was the music! I was lamenting that there didn’t seem to be anyplace I could BUY said music, apart from downloading what I could off their site long ago. Well it turns out, they have a Soundcloud! Ech (Ek? E-CH?) on the forums pointed me to the link where you can get a ton for free!   All you rift players out there take note! The Fae Yule is taking place from today (december 12) until January 1st! Join in the marry making and fun with new instant adventures, dungeon drops, and grandfather frost teaming up with the Fae to give gifts! have no idea what I am talking about? Well sign up and play Rift! It’s completely free to play!   Another Raid in the Bay Area of Northern CA! Harry’s Hofbrau won’t know what hit it, although we’re still trying to get organized. Dates have been pushed about, and if you are in the area, now is the time to have your preferences known!   Guild wars 2 is having a sale of sorts! From now until December 31 if you buy something from the black lion trading company as a gift, you will recieve an offer to buy the same item (for yourself) at 40% off the current price!   Not content to simply celebrate the holiday online store style, guild wars 2 is also having an in game holiday event, that’s right, Winter’s day is back! Tixx the toymaker makes a return this year with his amazing airship! There are a ton of in game events going on including the snowball mayhem event! Pelt your friends in the face with snow! And we know holidays aren’t the same without…lingering poison? Okay…   We’re trying to feature things that AIE Members are doing outside of the gaming arena, Revenar’s podcast is now up on all the podcast-distribution methods! If you are a fan of Dr Who, “Who’s Next Podcast” covers past, present and somehow, FUTURE Dr Who! You can go to http://whosnextpodcast.com/ or search for it on iTunes, Stitcher or Feedburner! A former coworker of mine now works for a game-company, and he sent out a mail as they’re trying to Kickstart a game being completed! It’s called “War Of Omens” and they’re sitting just over 33% funded! It’s a combination Deck-Builder and CCG game. (seems to be a new popular theme!) Aaand, if you are on Facebook, send in your FaceBookID to [email protected] before Sunday at midnight, and Monday morning I’ll pick 3 random names to forward along to get Alpha codes! A few things to note: 1) We’re not affiliated with the company in any way. 2) This is a cross-platform game and they’re starting with Facebook (for the Alpha) but they’re targetting Steam, Facebook, Kongregate and the web, thus far. 3) This is an Alpha, so the game is very much subject to change! GAME NEWS AIEU News: So… there’s been some news: Alea Iacta Est leaves TEST Alliance Please Ignore: http://aie-guild.org/2013/12/04/crossing-the-rubicon/ State of the Corporation: https://soundcloud.com/aie_hoots/stateofthecorp12062013 Flight of the Ventures to “Barley-gut.” General attitude of BNI: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bravenewbies/comments/1c2vw4/on_the_subject_of_manners_and_other_thoughts/ Stigg: Propaganda Master Extraordinarie http://i.imgur.com/BCDGuAJ.png http://i.imgur.com/g5ZiR.jpg http://i.imgur.com/GFCeuFF.png http://i.imgur.com/oLSIzGa.png The new home, our first roam: https://zkillboard.com/detail/35098887/ Trivia Time (Warning: Some Salty Language): www.poitot.com EVE NEWS: Happy Holidays from CCP: http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/happy-holidays-from-us-to-you/ The Yule Lads are coming to EVE Online (Icelandic Folklore Education):: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXXb6p8e6ik&feature=youtu.be PLEX for good raises $190,890 for the Typhoon Relief: http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/press-releases/ccp-eve-online-community-raise-190890-for-typhoon-haiyan-relief/ CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Stigg, Hoots and Tuku for joining us!   Next week we’ll be talking to Beefmaster about Steam!   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… Ask Miss Mulgra Overly Dramatic News Much Lesser-Known Shas MegaMinute Alludra’s Pets! But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Thanks to Catavarie for the Show Title!

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1eUdSSt” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/u8K100aPNYk?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=u8K100aPNYk&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep7907″ /] On This episode of the AIE Podcast… Star Trek Online gets into the Holiday Spirit! The State of the EVE corp coming soon! Emperor Pelpatine joins us to chat about Star Wars: The Old Republic All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS There seems to be no shortage of things going on with the SpreadShips in Space, and this week is no exception. For those who might be interested, there will be a State of the EVE Corp meeting Friday, Dec 7th, at 10:30 EST, presumably in vent, so if you are curious, stop by! (that’s tomorrow!)   We are perhaps the last podcast to mention this due to the thanksgiving holidays, but we We wanted to wish Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street well on his new venture, and thank him for his years of work that helped make WoW the central shining jewel in the AIE Crown. Thanks much, the game will not be the same without you!   Hearthstone is really starting to ramp up the people that are participating in it, and to be honest, I’m not sure we know of anyone who doesn’t have a key that wants one! AdamC on the forums, has collected a great list of Podcasts and informational pages for those looking for all the latest info as it develops! We think a TON of folks in AIE are and will be playing this game!   We know they like to keep everything well….a SECRET, but the Nov state of the game for Secret World has come out! Our Illuminati contact and sometimes podcast-guest, RattoZatto, has all the details in the forums. Have we mentioned you should go to the forums?! YOU SHOULD.   Star Trek Online is also getting into the holiday spirit! Q’s Winter Wonderland looks to be starting up very soon, and there are some neat ships, winter tribbles, holiday foods, all sorts of things that you’ll be able to grab as a part of such. In space, no one can hear you trimming your tree GAME NEWS Galactic Starfighter~ Dropped on Tuesday 12/3 for subscribers, 1st week of Jan for preferred, and 1st week of Feb for F2P players   12 v 12 PvP~ only 4 teammates can queue at a time. Tried to super queue a couple times but was unsuccessful.   We had a few matches Tuesday night when it dropped. No first day issues to speak of.   We subbed our Wednesday night Ops for a Galactic Starfighter Boot Camp and had a fairly decent turnout.   So far, there are 2 maps available for play. Both are capture the base type of warzones. 3 targets to capture and hold. The first team to 1000 points win. I imagine more maps will be added in future content patches.   You get 3 ships to start with and can swap between upon death. There is a scout (fast, but light on weapons), a gunner (slower, but heavy firepower from a distance. Think sniper) and fighter (middle of the range). You can purchase more ships with Fleet Reqs.   The level of customization is fairly cool. You can use your companions as members of your crew for added ship benefits.   You can also adjust the colors on your ship to personalize, though this is where BW gets you. Most upgrades, colors, designs, and components can be purchased with CC. Some can be gained through ship and fleet requisitions, this part of the game’s currency.   Impressions: Took a few games to get the controls down. A lot of people are saying to redo your key bindings for better play experience.   The mouse is sensitive. Very. I have not yet found a way to adjust the sensitivity.   I am anticipating a night during the week for squadron based play in the future. Very easy to get a game in and very little queue time from my experience.   XP gains are not great. It’s not a viable way to level a character only by doing GS. You will want to supplement the xp with Class Quests or Space Battles, the PVE Space game that people sometime forget about.   I am the king of assists, only have one kill under my belt.   Apolas was The Red Baron his first time playing.   Max is The Man when it comes to the GS knowledge.   The Cartel Shop has many items you may want to upgrade and customize your ship, which may or may not be a good thing, depending on your playstyle and wallet.   2 Year Anniversary in SWTOR for game and AIE Dec 20th~ Big events of the past year include: The release of the expansion Rise of the Hutt Cartel in April, which raised the cap from 50 to 55.   The introduction of a new species in the Cathar.   The introduction of Makeb and Oricon, two new planets with expanded storylines and more dailies.   Recurring monthly event: Bounty Contract Week.   The SSSP turning into Galactic Starfighter and the subsequent release this week.   AIE related events: Yearly Remembrance Day tribute on Alderaan. Thanks to Brewdawg for helping out with that this year!   The Amazing Race: SWTOR Edition. A project that was very close to my heart.   The launch of The SWTOR Escape Podcast with Max and Sema. Something that I think the SWTOR community sorely needed.   The launch of our online presence via Facebook and G+ for recruitment.   And as a reminder, we also recently relaxed the requirements to join the SWTOR guild. No app is needed to try us out. Your access to guild resources is limited until you decide that AIE is right for you and you submit an app in UMAMI.   Upcoming Events: The Rakghoul plague is coming back. It was one of the first and most popular in game events. Zombie infections, in space. What’s not to love?   Life day is also coming back. And while it won’t be quite the same, I would direct you to the Star Wars Holiday Special if you are unfamiliar with Life Day. You can probably find it on youtube. Brace yourselves.   Battle Team Royale (with cheese) is going to try to knock out the bosses required to get a couple of the rarer speeder mounts in the game.   The Amazing Race: SWTOR Edition 2: Electric Boogaloo   Something related to Galactic Starfighter, once we are more familiar with the mechanics and gameplay potentials. Other notes This month’s Ask A SWTOR Guildie is Devad/ Ste’n. Check the forums for the thread. P.S. He claims he’s Canadian, but has no idea who the McKenzie Brothers or the Trailer Park boys are.   We usually have something going most nights of the week. Sunday is Ops with LoL, Monday is SUP (who I believe are on the look out for a healer), Tuesdays are Sema’s FP nights, Wed is the 16 man Battle Team Royale (with cheese), Thursdays and Saturdays are open, and Friday is Casual FP Leveling with low toons.   There is an AIE meet-up for The Hobbit at the Alamo Drafthouse in Kalamazoo. Check the forums in the community section and/or the Meetup.com page under upcoming AIE Meetups.   Also, check out the Facebook and Google+ pages for AIE: SWTOR.   Finally, I am looking for someone that has Fraps, an active SWTOR account, and would like to assist (read~ take the lead) in the making of a few videos.   Special Thanks to: Max and Sema for creating and running with The SWTOR Escape Podcast. I have been thoroughly enjoying it. I can’t say it enough. Give it a listen!   And an extra special thanks to Zethran aka Cosmic Debris for always being on top of the SWTOR news and sharing it with the rest of us via the forums. CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Dark Lord Pelpatine for joining us!   Links: Twitter: @Pelell AIE: SWTOR Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/aieswtor AIE: SWTOR G+ page https://plus.google.com/communities/112722511706892219194 SWTOR Escape Podcast http://www.newoverlords.com/category/listen/   Next week we’ll be talking to EVE   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… Ask Miss Mulgra MegaMinute Epic Diapers Garrisons (new segment!) Other, Much Lesser-Known Shas of Pandaria Overly Dramatic News But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/I3odR7″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/CH3KQD_ljKQ?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=CH3KQD_ljKQ&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep6292″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… AIE Fundraiser Needs your help! A Final Fantasy Town Hall Meeting! Blizzard Pets for Charity! (or is that Chariteeeeee!) Hoots and Stu join us to chat about EVE Online! All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS We started out pretty strong on this one, but it appears we’ve only gotten a few percent more since then! The 2013 AIE Fundraiser has about 40 days left, and we’re only at 53% of our goal! While the officer core and a few select volunteers are keeping things running, but we really need the funds to keep things from coming TOO much out of pocket!   The 2nd movie of the Hobbit…trilogy is coming out, and I’m sure this means lots of AIE meetups, just like this one! If you are in the Kalamazoo Michigan area, our Dark Lord Pel has organized just such a thing! Check out the Meetup.com site for more details!   We don’t have a show next week, because of Thanksgiving, and Samantha Jane in the forums has started a great thread that everyone should contribute to, it’s how everyone is thankful! Let’s fill this thread up with lots of traffic!   And yet another reason to give thanks! I’m sure that everyone is listening to the great Podcast that Sema and Max do, the “Escape Podcast”, but just in case you haven’t (you should!) from the 27th of November through the 2nd of December, there is DOUBLE XP! Remember, SWTOR is free to play, and has a great group of dedicated folks in AIE playing.   The officers of Final fantasy will be holding a town hall meeting this Friday, November 22 at 10pm EST. They are making big announcements and encouraging anyone from any branch of AIE to join in on the fun!   Speaking of, Final fantasy xiv is currently holding the lightning strikes event! This event is a cross over with their latest single player game, Final fantasy crazy letter number. (Actually it’s lightning returns: Final Fantasy XIII). There are level requirements for each stage and tons of cool weapon and gear rewards and will be running until December 9th. The best part is that if you miss out on the event, don’t worry! It’s coming back in february to celebrate the north american release of the game! So go, level, have fun, and don’t stress it if you can’t quite hit cap for this first part.   Blizzard is having another pet sale for charity! From now until December 31, 50% of the purchase price toward the Alterac Brew Pup will go to the Make a wish foundation! Not only will you get a cute st. Bernard pet for yourself but also helping to fund a great cause! But wait! There’s more! If you buy the Alterac Brew Pup along with the new Enchanted Fey Dragon you will not only get a break on the price but still be donating toward this great cause!   Not satisfied with simply helping make a wish, Blizzard is currently matching employee donations for typhoon relief made the the American red cross and is encouraging players to also donate to the cause. (no mention if they will match OUR donations though!) GAME NEWS We should probably talk about PLEX for Good and the Philippines http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/plex-for-good-philippines-typhoon-relief/   Amazon PLEX Sales – PLEX on sale until Nov. 24th, 15% off (source: TMC and Amazon) http://www.amazon.com/PLEX-EVE-Online-Instant-Access/dp/B00GDHDGG4/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1385084740&sr=8-4&keywords=plex   Stu, what have you been doing in EVE? Space Trucker FW, what is it? Hoots, what have you been doing in EVE? The story of the Dolla Dolla Bills.  Yo. (Faction Warfare, and the corp’s activities there) FW Tactics (Ventures — explain to the masses how this makes people sad) MY FIRST SOLO PVP KILL OMG (a year and a half in the making)   EVE Political News Curse, Nullsec, and Throwing in the Towel OSTFRONT and “The Halloween War Angry Russians, N3, PL, CFC, and everyone in nullsec. Hoots got on a Dreadnaught kill the other day.   Rubicon Released!  Horray! Fancy new title screen. Giant tractor beams a reality And other mobile structures http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/we-cant-stop-here/   Rubicon in Development Part 1 & 2 — Most Hilarious Dev Blog/Videos Ever: http://youtu.be/x70cCW0oEco http://youtu.be/Usv2EjUU3fA   Ibis (a newbie ship) has 42 PLEX, gets blown up.  $840 (or 25 billion ISK) http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/11/08/unfortunate-capsuleer-learns-not-to-move-eve-online-pl CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Stu and Hoots for joining us!   Next show we’ll be talking to swtor! Reember we will not have another  show until after thanksgiving!   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… Ask Miss Mulgra Much Lesser-known Shas Azeroth Archives Mega Minute Overly Dramatic News Alludra’s Pets But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1byR5eQ” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/LK4gkLq6TK4?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=LK4gkLq6TK4&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep8634″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – Congrats to special guildies! – Jedis to be de-named – Spammers beware! – Meetups! Meetups! – And we chat with Appolas and Dux about AIE in LOTRO All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS First of all, we want to give a shoutout to Pujol and Bowtocks, two AIE guildies who have decided that Real Life is better together, and will be tying the knot in Real Life. We at the podcast wish them well in their future questing!   For those of you that know Old Man and Old Lady Franks, there is a good chance you can party on their lawn now, as they’ll be rather tired (and OMF will be less codgery?) taking care of their lovely daughter Amelie Grace! She was born on Nov 5th, just last week. AIE is ever expanding!   Hopefully you were able to attend, so you already know this, but this season’s craft fair was a huge success! Massive kudos and a bagillion internet points to all those who helped make the craft fair happen, and to all those who came out and got leveled. We also had a special thanks from Henry himself! If you missed it, don’t worry, the next craft faire is right around the corner!   Just a head’s up for you Jedis that may have wandered away from The Old Republic: Bioware is purging character names from characters that haven’t logged on in a while. Which names are getting purged depends on the character level, time last logged on, and whether you’re a paying subscriber or not. For more information check the forum post in the AIE Old Republic forums.   If you’ve been following the Imperium Ludi forums, you know that AIE is always looking to expand into other games. One of those games, Wildstar, looks very promising, and if you’re interested in joining the AIE community in Wildstar, you may want to join in the Wildstar Wednesdays chat held by Durus in the AIE vent server every Wednesday at 10pm Eastern, where he will cover the latest news and events announced by the Wildstar devs earlier that day.   They’re in every MMO, you can’t escape them. Spammers! Lots of games have a built in mechanic to deal with them, but not all of them. If you are playing FFXIV, Mewkow has a macro built for this! Check his forum post called Gil Spammer Blacklist for a very simple effective macro!   So as if EVE was not confusing enough, there are some…lucky few who choose to ALSO be officers in the madness! Congrats to Catavarie, otherwise known as Orsalis Cain who has decided to peek behind the curtain as to how the SpreadSheets are maintained. Kudos and Condolences. 🙂   Looks like the Arizona AIE crew is at it again. They are holding another meetup, this time at Dave & Busters in Tempe on Fri December 6th. If you are anywhere within driving distance, we definitely recommend you join them. See the AIE Meetup.com page to RSVP, and if you want to arrange your own local guild hall, free free to post your own meetup event!   AIE in Final Fantasy XIV (That’s 14 for you non-Romans) will be having a guild town hall meeting on November 22, 10:00pm EST.  This meeting will be held in AIE Vent.  We have big, big news to announce on that night!  Anyone in AIE is more than welcome to attend the Town Hall!  November, 22,10pm EST.   Just a reminder, AIE has our own Jabber chat server. Yes, it’s Greenwall in Real Life. Now you can chat with your friends and fellow AIE members from other games, even when you can’t be in game. There are a number of different Jabber clients to choose from, both desktop and mobile, and you can also use the jabber web app on the AIE guild website. For more information, see the AIE wiki at wiki.aie-guild.com and click on Guild Tech, or click the link in the show notes.   GAME NEWS   Helm’s Deep expansion: The release is scheduled for 18-NOV-2013. Revamp of all character skill trees similar in style to WoW, SWTOR class trees. it was an effort to simplify the sprawl of skills that were relativity unused and had come to be from years of game evolution. This will open up Western Rohan to game play (5 areas). (Dux) Kingstead:  the heart of Rohan here we find Edoras & the tombs-fields full of Simbelmyne the Eastfold: the city of Aldburg, with dense forests, fields and swamps. Broadacres, grasslands prime space for Rohan’s horses. the Stonedeans, a marcher land where Dunlending and Rohirrim tenuously coexist. the Westfold, the burning of the westfold, will Saruman answer? The battle for Helm’s Deep (Apolas) The skirmish / session play: it’s a skirmish, available at level 10! play as an engineer, vanguard, officer, or hybrid to fill a variety of roles in the battle. Character upscaling. Starting at level 10 you will be able to access and play the Battle for Helm’s Deep. When you enter a battle, for the duration of the instance, your character will be statistically treated as if you are level 95. Your morale, power, and primary stats will be upgraded to those of a level 95, your current skills will have their damage and properties upgraded to those of their level 95 version, your gear will be upscaled as well though it will maintain its current level differential (If you are 15 and your sword is 10, you will be 95 and your sword will be 90). You will not get any new skills or traits or equipment. It’s as simple as ‘Click, Enter, Play.’ The new Merit system (Dux) http://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/developer-diary-epic-battles-merit-and-medals rewards based on how well you handled an encounter All quests within the Battle for Helm’s Deep include Merit. you either start with a full or empty bar and work one way or the other. objectives are listed in red and posted so you can keep track of them. With the release of Helm’s Deep the Bounder’s token event will end. get your universal toolkits while you can – 30 tokens each and they’re bound to that character. State of the kin in a sense (Dux) We’ve still growing, average 1-2 characters per week. Upcoming events: Party / concert. I talked with Pelell for a concert, he would participate and I’ll talk with Max. Update  Max and Pelell are in. Woot Woot! (Apolas). Apolas is @beninmtl; Dux is @HistoricGeek   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Much Lesser-Known Shas – Ask Miss Mulgra – Epic Diapers – Hailing Frequencies – Mega Minute – Overly Dramatic News – Alludra’s Pets But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!  Kudos to Revenar for this week’s show title!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1eOHnW9″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/JFeRHAVTUMc?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=JFeRHAVTUMc&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep5107″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… –  Time to spill your guts! –  Blizzcon Meetup! – Book of Heroes Turns a Page! – Jabber Jabber! – And we talk with Syreyne and Mkallah about the Craft Faire! All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS   With Halloween coming up, it’s a good time to let a few skeletons out of the closet. Thanks to Skayne for starting up a fun little thread called AIE Confessional in the AIE: Azeroth forums, now you can share that private shocking little thing you do in game with the rest of the community. For example, do you know what Beefmaster steals when his wife isn’t looking? Or what PVP does to Lanctharus? Or just how many AIE healers secretly like to let annoying players die in the fire? It’s all in the AIE Confessional thread. What’s in your closet?   Since trying to decide by committee takes too long and often doesn’t work out well, I’ve made the ‘director’s decision’ to consolidate our Book of Heroes guilds! I’ve purged a bunch of inactive folks from Verendus and Liberates, and encouraged everyone to join up in Dignitas! They’re ready for new applicants, and are doing 2 raids a week, which will probably end up being more soon if they have a good turnout!   Nerdtacular news! What? What is this nonsense? Well nerdtacular has it’s very own twitter account! So if you want updates about N14 or random shenanigans follow @Nerdtacularshow   If you’re going to BlizzCon, and you’re going to be there Thursday the 7th at 6:30pm, you have to catch the AIE Social Hour happening at the Degrees Wine and Patio Bar at the Anaheim Marriott Hotel, which is just out in front of the Anaheim Convention Center. Now this is a bar, so there will be drinking involved, and odds are pretty good Lanctharus will amaze the crowd with another one of his drunken poetry readings. (And if he does, someone please make sure to capture it for our “Uncle Lanc, tell Us A Story” YouTube channel.) If you’re planning to be there, hit up the AIE Meetup.com page to sign up so they know to leave a light on for ya.   Don’t forget, we have Greenwall in Real Life! You can chat with other AIE members, even when you’re not in a game, by using our Jabber server. Jabber is a text chat system that works with a large number of chat clients, so you can find any client you like, point it to our Jabber server, and chat the day away. The information you need to point to our Jabber server is in the forums, or you can even use the Jabber web client found on the front page of the guild website at aie-guild.org AIE MEMBER SPOTLIGHT   Time now for the AIE Member Spotlight, where we highlight something interesting created by one or more of the amazing members of the AIE Community   This week we’re shining the spotlight on one of our own, and that’s Alludra! Along with AlTheMage, they produce the BattlePets podcast, all about collecting and battling pets in World of Warcraft. You can catch it every two weeks on iTunes or at battlepet.net.   If you or someone you know in the AIE community does something spectacular, whether it’s host a podcast, write a book, make happy little paintings, or anything else, we want to know about it. Email us at [email protected] with all the details. GAME NEWS Craft Faire:  November 2nd and 3rd (Saturday and Sunday) Brief history of the faire, what it is, what it means, etc.   AIE Wiki for Craft Faire info!!!   Details on this faire, date, times, changes (aka registration booth) Saturday, November 2nd from 4pm to 7pm server time Sunday, November 3rd from 2pm to 5pm server time Located in Silvermoon City NEW!  Registration booth at the faire.  No early sign up. Things we need this time: Illusion Dust – boat loads Fel Iron Ore Mithril Ore Embersilk HELPERS and VOLUNTEERS!  Especially for Tailoring!!! Our current Tailoring Captain is getting married that weekend! Raffle Info Tickets are still 100 gold each We’ve only sold 300 tickets so far.  Last time we had over 4,000! Remember, the more tickets sold, the more prizes (MOUNTS) we can give away! Prizes: We have the standard mounts and pets, but this time we have something new.  We have Game Codes for Steam and Origin!   Other Events Craft Faire weekend!! COOP Alachaas is hosting a COOP run on Saturday November 2nd, 9pm at the Death Blimp.  See the EL forums for more info!! Craft Faire Guild wide after party. We got some cool ideas but we are sooooo busy making sure you have a blast at the faire that we need someone to take control of this.  And soon!!!   Links to Important Stuffs: Craft Faire General Information http://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Craft_Faire Craft Faire Specific Info http://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Fall_2013_Craft_Faire Raffle Info http://wiki.aie-guild.org/index.php?title=Craft_Faire_Raffle COOP http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/51838-coop-time/   CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Syrene and Mkallah for joining us!   Next week we’ll be talking a break for Halloween, and the week after that, we’ll be coming at you live from The AIE Guild Hall at BlizzCon   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Overly Dramatic News – Ask Miss Mulgra – Alludra’s Pets – Other, Much Lesser-Known Shas of Pandaria – MegaMinute But first, if you need to reach us… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Kudos to Revenar for this week’s show title!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1cAaufg” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/euyzXzy8NQQ?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=euyzXzy8NQQ&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep9886″ /]   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.  More game activities were also added, including the duty finder, which is our  version of the group finder, with long dungeons and small 1-3 encounter instances included.   On the re-release, yes, there were some server issues, but they have been resolved.  I have not had any issues with the game personally, and looking around, all server issues are resolved, and people are able to play this game to their heart’s content. So, quick rundown of what FFXIV is.   MMO, single player deep narrative. 1 character can do it all.  Class changes based on what weapon you have equipped.  Want to be a tank?  Equip your sword.  Want to DPS, equip a DPS weapon (knuckles, bow, arcanist book, ect).  Heal, equip a healing wand or staff(or a scholars book).   Jobs are like the group friendly, role specialist.  They are like a specialized version of the classes. Crafting and gathering works the same way.  Equip the crafting or gathering tool, and you become the crafting or gathering class.   Classes get shared slots as well, so you can take some of the skills you have learned on other classes, and use them on your current class.   Most groups are 4 people in size.  There are some mini raids, or large parties, with 8 people, with raids at 24.   The Free Company (which is FFXIV speak for Guild) is up and very active,  with 20-30 people online each night!  Grouping is easy with the level sync system.  If you are level 40 and a friend wants to run a level 20 dungeon, you can do so together, and you will be leveled to the proper level, so no one has any sort of xp penalty or loss of the real experience.   Guildhests and levequest are available for quick adventures. Guildhest are like tutorials for group combat and levequests are similar to daily quests found in other games. (Group content starts of every simple and teaches you MMO mechanics, like pull 1 group at a time, tanks picking up certain mobs, special mechanics.)]   FATEs for open world group encounters for anyone in the area. Think dynamic events from games like Guild Wars 2, Rift or Warhammer Online.   Dungeons for groups.  Most are 4 member groups,  end game ones are 8 or 24. We are starting 8 man content this weekend. Every dungeon can be completed using the duty finder, except for the final 8 man “raid”.  The first 24 man raid is expected to be released in patch 2.1 in November.   The developers plan on adding housing to the game in 2.1. First it will be just guildhall style Free company housing, but eventually they will add housing for players.   Game available on PC or PS3/PS4. PS3 users have the option to “upgrade” to the PS4 version. PS4 beta is soon(™). Regardless of platform, all players exist in the same servers, so a PC player can play with PS3/PS4 players.  Game play VERY WELL on a controller.  Can use a controller or mouse/keyboard on either platform (Or use a combination of mouse/keyboard and controller)   Server Transfers.  Still free for a couple more days as of recording of the podcast. [October 15, 2013, to Sunday, October 21, 2013, 01:00 a.m.]   Giveaways   Pets Just a quick list of all of the people who have donated these pets: Ellie, Khlaw, Phist, Kotorro, Tabren, Larranna and Xerryx. If I missed someone I apologize. Smallshell (Crab) x2 Infant Imp x5 Baby Bun (Mushroom) x3 Pudgy Puk (Fish like thing???) x5 Bite-sized Pudding x3 Gigantpole (Floating bulb) x3 Demon Brick (mini demon wall) x5 Tiny Tortoise x 6 Model Vanguard x4 Baby Raptor x2 Morbol Seedling x1 Coblyn Larva x 4 Gravel Golem x4 Wind-up Dullahan x1   A sealed copy of the game, PC x 2 CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Abovan and Jedi for joining us! Next week we’ll be talking to Syrene and Mkallah about the Craft Faire and WoW. and how awesome AcuZod is.   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Ask Miss Mulgra (up to episode 80!) – Azeroth Archives – Other, Much Lesser-Known Shas of Pandaria   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – Guest Twitter: @jediknifefight @abovan   We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Thanks Kazrik for the show title!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/17sKT2v” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/uShaVkUypMM?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=uShaVkUypMM&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep3608″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – Final Fantasy opens for transfers! – Book of Heroes turns a new page! – Meetups happening all over the place! – The AIE Guild Hall is almost here! – And we talk with RattoZatto, Kamiel, and Grimbane about AIE in The Secret World All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS  If you are currently playing FFXIV but weren’t able to get your character on Gilgamesh, which is AIE’s Server, Abovan let us know that Transfers are starting the 15th of Oct, so that’s next Tuesday, and they’ll be free for 5 days! He’ll also be here next show to talk about our presence there!   Book of Heroes has certainly had waves of interest, then RL kicks in and perhaps the lack of complexity with it being Andriod/iOS causes flagging attendance, but there are still folks playing! It looks like there needs to be another guild compression, and from what has been read, it appears you only dip down to loyalty 4 (of possible 5) when changing guilds! Please comment in the forum post BOH — Merges II: Son of Merges in the Imperium Ludi: Minor League Games to get your voice heard.   Unfortunately Ghomus won’t be able to make this one, but there is a raid this weekend, on Harry’s Hofbrau on Sunday at 1pm in San Jose, CA! If you happen to be on the OTHER coast, there is in fact a group trying to get together at New York Comic Con as well. Check the Meetup.com site for more information on these and many others! There are 347 members of AIE signed up there, and I KNOW there are more of us out there!   It looks like it was announced this week on TMS, that Nerdtacular 2014 will be July 4th once again!  Watch Nerdtacular.com and the forums (go to the forums!)  for more details as they surface.   It appears that we’ve put ALL the SW:TOR officers through the ringer of question and answer sessions. So Dark Lord Pel-patine has moved onto fellow guildies in a galaxy far far away! this month? Cliffy! Hit up the thread on the forums to ask some random crazy things of him!   BlizzCon and the AIE Guild Hall is just one month away! Even though the Kickstarter has more than funded, it’s not too late for you to get in on the super cool rewards. You can still pick up a custom one-of-a-kind guild hall t-shirt and other goody bag prizes, and there are still spots open for a raid run with the officers or a game of Card Against Humanity with Scott Johnson. But you need to hurry! The Kickstarter ends tomorrow, Oct 11th.   Even if you don’t back the Kickstarter, or even have a ticket to BlizzCon, if you’re anywhere nearby, you really need to come experience the AIE Guild Hall. It’s free to all AIE members, even if you don’t play WoW, and will be full of food, fun, and a number of special guests. How special? So special we’re not even allowed to tell you who they are, but trust me, you’ll want to be there. And if you can’t be there in person, tune in to the live stream and chat room and join in on the fun from wherever you are. AIE MEMBER SPOTLIGHT   This week we’re giving a shoutout to AIE members Althemage and Aeos, hosts of the Azeroth Roundtable podcast, where they cover World of Warcraft along with with a touch of news, and an open discussion about various topics. They usually have a guest from the WoW community, whether it be podcaster, segment producer, or blogger.   If you’re a member of AIE and host a podcast, have written a book, published a web comic, or have done anything else extraordinary, we want to brag about you on the show. Send details about your awesomeness to us at [email protected], and be sure to let us know if we need to warn people if it’s not quite family-friendly.   And with that, let’s get into AIE in The Secret World… GAME NEWS   Everything’s a secret!  So, no news!  See ya!  Have a good night!  😀   RattoZatto’s contest is ending after this live broadcast.  For those who’re listening/watching live, I’ll post a link to the contest, once the show is off the air, the winner will be selected, and contacted.  (http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/51636-win-a-free-steam-copy-of-the-secret-world/)   Whispering Tide Event:  Talk about phase 1 (Pure metal turn-in.  Keep it short, it’s over).  Talk about Phase 2 (Keep it short, it’s over).  Talk about Phase 3 and what happened on patch 1.7.4   Issue 8 title revealed!  The Venetian Agenda, MMORPG had an article about what Joel has officially announced.  It seems there will be no new Auxiliary weapon in this update.  Should we talk about TestLive changes?  Anything in there is subject to change.   New member to the Funcom Team!  The game has a new, but experienced programmer on staff.   Talk about the 3 regular weekly activities.  Nightmare Modes, Progression Night, Lair Night.  We’ve had a few live streams happen.  Perhaps they will happen in the future.  A big thanks to Durras for getting Chief Sarcan in touch with AIE.   Halloween event is coming Soon™.  It will be a repeat from Issue (2? 3?), The Cat God.  In addition, we will have a new quest storyline involving urban legends on Solomon Island.   The game is Buy-To-Play, normally running for $30, but if you check any number of online merchants, they can run a sale for about 50%.  There’s no real need to buy any of the DLC Issues (5-7) until you’ve completed the Story chain mission, that is included with the initial buy-in, as well as the content from Issues 1-4.   Review the benefits of a subscription: 1200 Bonus Points (Spends like Funcom Points, but if they’re unspent after 6 months, they go away. 10% discount on all items in the in-game store.  Effectively, you get a 1320 Bonus Points with the discount. On the first of each month, there’s an exclusive cosmetic item given to all subscribers. You can claim, and use the Time Accelerator, an item that gives bonus XP on monster kills that lasts for 1 hour, and has a 16 hour cooldown.  Effectively “rest XP”. Every month a subscriber gains some Loyalty Points that can unlock exclusive cosmetic items, Essence Extractors, and the Reconstructor. CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, we want to thank everyone for joining us…   Before we go, Ratto, do you want to tell people where they can find you? Facebook: AIE:TSW @RattoZatto  http://www.acrosstheboardgames.net  Check out Chief Sarcan’s live streams over at MMORPG.com   Kamiel. how can people follow you? [Twitter :Kamiel_AIE ]   Grim, where do you hang out on the web? [Grim twitter handle, website, etc.] Twitter: Sundryphotos http://www.thelairpodcast.com Next week we’ll be talking to Abovan about AIE launching into Final Fantasy!   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Epic Diapers – Ask Miss Mulgra – AIE Raid Wrapup – Azeroth Archives – MegaMinute – Other, Much Lesser-Known Shas of Pandaria – Overly Dramatic News, WoW Edition   But first, if you need to reach ust… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Kudos to Cybyl for this weeks weeks title!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/15xq1Hy” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/HFToQKpWXns?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=HFToQKpWXns&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep6416″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – The Kickstarter has kickstarted! – Final Fantasy is finally official! – Wiki-Wiki-WIki! – Meetups Galore! –  And we talk with Hoots about Spreadsheets In Space! All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS We have a new guildie of the moment! Everyone give three cheers to Mutang! He’s a nomination from a fellow guildie who wrote in to tell us this: Good morning officers,   Wanted to throw a quick shoutout to a fellow guildie named Mutang (Tauren Hunter, Audacia) who provided a good half hour worth of free IT help for me this morning. I’m a big believer in positive feedback for people that do the right thing, and this guy went above and beyond. Just wanted to let y’all know! Thanks for keeping the best guild on the planet in good order.   Bricksquad (Formerly known as Teradar) 90 Orc shammy, AIE Salus Thanks for letting us know Bricksquad! And thank you Mutang, for helping us keep the AIE experience positive! If you know someone who exemplifies the AIE spirit, please let us know at [email protected]!   The Kickstarter for the AIE Blizzcon Guild Hall is active as of today! This will prove to be a great event, and we’re hoping to do both OUR podcast and a live The Instance show from there! Help contribute and make this happen!  We’re already at almost 25% towards this after just a few hours.There are several tiers you can choose to back, with great rewards including swag bags, t-shirts, a chance to run a raid with the WoW officers, and even a game of Cards Against Humanity with Scott Johnson! As a note, the kickstarter for this one is a little shorter than usual, only 15 days!   <cue final fantasy victory sound effect> As expected, the host of games AIE has ventured into has gotten bigger! This week, Final Fantasy has entered settlement phase and is “AIE Official!” UMAMI support has been added and all the details can be found on the forums!   Those of you in AIE World of Warcraft, and interested in how we’re doing raid-wise, will definitely want to check out our Raid Team Summary and Raid Progression wiki pages, which list the raid teams in AIE WoW and how far they have progressed. We have some great raiding posts in the forums, but digging through the forums to see how many raid teams we have or how they’re doing is not very efficient. That kind of information is perfect for our Wiki. Rowna has made several changes to the Raid Team Summary page, trying to get as many of the raiding teams that were already there updated, and adding the ones that weren’t, and the Raid Progression page is showing If Looks Could Kill is far in the lead, downing Iron Juggernaut in Gates of Retribution. The wiki is open for all AIE members to edit, so if your team isn’t up there, then you can go ahead and add them.   And now it’s even easier! Stigg has updated the wiki to use a graphical editor that makes editing the wiki just like editing a forum post. No more having to learn wiki code to make a good looking update to the page. So there’s no excuse for not jumping in. Just go to wiki.aie-guild.org and sign in with your UMAMI name and password. There’s room for every game and every topic, so if you don’t see something there you think should be, just add it!   And speaking of raiding, for those of you on any raid team in any AIE game, don’t forget Sihx is looking to hear what you’ve done so he can add it to the Raid Wrapup segment he produces for this podcast. Send all the details of your latest accomplishment to him at [email protected] and you’ll get to hear your raid team on the segment!   Meetups! There are a ton of new ones. Those party people in Phoenix still have their thread up in the forums,  and it looks like the folks in Colorado are also getting in on the action. All this while new meetups are being added all to the meetup.com site! Don’t let the fun only happen in game!   The fundraiser for AIE Events and Costs in general is doing pretty well! We’re at JUST under 50% of our goal with 66 people having donated so far! Thanks to those of you that donated, every little bit helps! This runs to the end of the year so chip in if you can! PODCAST SPOTLIGHT   This evening we’d like to give a shoutout to  Alachaas, AltheMage, and Leeta, hosts of the Geektopia podcast. If you couldn’t guess, Geektopia is about all things geeky.including topics like Game of Thrones, Old School gaming, the Phoenix ComicCon, and Doctor Who. They record bi-weekly Saturday nights, usually at 7pm Pacific. You can catch them at http://twitch.tv/geektopiashow or follow the show at @geektopiashow. If you are a member of the AIE community and host a podcast, we want to tell people about it. Email us your podcast details at [email protected].   GAME NEWS   [Guests, put your show notes here.]   War.  War never changes.  Or.  Well.  It does end eventually, for the losers. End of the Fountain 2013 War. Homelessness and Somalia and Curse and all entailed. War retrospective series link.  Great for the EVE layman http://www.gamesradar.com/eve-onlines-fountain-war-beginnings/   Project Red Aruba and Aftermath Tricking a ‘Titan’ into helping install a shipping and tax empire.   AIEU Leadership Shakeup! The Departure of the Old Guard. How EVE is different than other games, and how AIE is not immune from theft. Return of Stigg Cooperii as CEO.   State of the Corporation at 10:00pm ET (immediately after this podcast)   EVE Online: Rubicon — The Winter Expansion Announced! Literally, it was just announced at like five hours ago. www.eveonline.com/rubicon New super expensive faction (Sisters of EVE) ships. “Certificates” being replaced by “Interbus Ship ID System.” Giant. Tractor. Beams. How were these not in the game already!!!? Boring ship changes, but lots of them.   CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank hoots for joining us! Next week we’ll be talking to Maxx from swtor.   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Ask Miss Mulgra – Azeroth Archives – Hailing Frequencies -Overly Dramatic News – Other, Much Lesser-Known Shas of Pandaria   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found everywhere! – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – Guest Twitter: @aiehoots – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Until next time AIE. – This is Ghomus – This is Alludra – This is AcuZod And this has been… The AIE Podcast.

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/16d796I” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/eaz3KCqGIfM?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=eaz3KCqGIfM&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep9511″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – We need your arrrrrt – Meetups Galorrre. – We’ve got a map for ye buried treasurre –  Bewarrre the Hutts –  And we talk with nobody about nuthin (No guest this week) All that and morrrre coming up right now… AIE NEWS In case you missed it, AIE has launched two fundraisers to benefit the guild. The first is the Pass the Hat fund drive to cover the costs of our web hosting, meetup.com site, and other expenses a guild our size generates. The second is the AIE BlizzCon Guild Hall Kick Starter Scott Johnson announced on this show last week, which will fund the amazing AIE gathering we hold every year alongside BlizzCon. The Guild Hall has been epic in past years, and this year, the kickstarter will make sure it’s even more amazing than before. If you’re interested in contributing to either fund drive, please see the forums for more details. (Note: the Kickstarter is not out yet, but keep your eyes out for it!)   Hey you graphic artists out there, AIE is looking for someone to create a set of icons for our UMAMI membership database website. We’re currently using images shamelessly stolen off the net, but we want to do better than that, and come up with images that are unique to our community. If you’ve got the pixel pushing power, all the details can be found in the forums.   Meetups! This week we’ve got several Meetups being suggested. Siv is looking to hold a meetup at the Yard House in Lakewood, Colorado on Sept 28th; Aset has suggested a meetup during the Browncoat Ball in Phoenix on Oct 4th; and Psyanide is looking to gather together during the Nashville Comic Con which runs from October 18th to 20th.  If you’re anywhere near those locations, see the relative posts in the Community Discussion section of our forums, and of course, don’t forget we have a Meetup.com site which is perfect for planning get-together.   Of course we’ve been talking all about World of Warcraft and especially the new zone, the Timeless Isle. One of the great things about the island is all the rares that spawn non-stop and drop epic loot. There are so many, it’s a little overwhelming, and nearly impossible to figure out where one is before it gets killed. Well Romulo has come to our aid, and posted a Wowhead map showing all the rare names and spawn locations. Study it well, there are a lot of free 496 purples waiting for you!   Jedis, this one is for you. Even though Star Wars: The Old Republic is free to play, they still offer a subscription, with paying subscribers getting many benefits that Free players miss out on. Rowna just posted that the subscribers will also be getting the next expansion, Rise of the Hutt Cartel, for free! New subscribers will get it if they sign up before October 20th. Previous subscribers must have been inactive before June 14th and sign up before Oct 20th to qualify. Current subscribers must stay subscribed until Oct 20th to qualify? Confused? Of course not, the Force is strong with you!   So one of the reasons to play Star Trek Online is all the cool ships, right? Well let’s be frank, you can’t be logged into the game ALL the time, but Perfect World entertainment is giving away 3 different 1 year ‘subscriptions’ so you can collect your ships OUT of the game as well! Check out the official site for more details! You know you want your Dreadnaught class starship keeping yer papers in order, check it out! Each of the 3 prizes is 24 ships! Podcast Spotlight   This week we’re sending a shout-out to Johnny Feisty, host of the TV CoPilot podcast. It’s the comedy podcast that brings you a beside the scenes look at your favorite shows. If you like your information that’s entertaining, but not necessarily informational, this is the podcast for you. Fun audio clips, “guests”, moderately factual trivia, and surprising interviews galore.  TV CoPilot was nominated for a Parsec Award this year, though unfortunately it didn’t make it to the winners circle. You can catch it at: http://www.johnnyfeisty.com/tv-copilot/   And if you’re a member of AIE who hosts a podcast, we want to give you a shout-out as well. Send the details on your podcast to us at [email protected]. Be sure to let us know if your podcast might be considered not family-friendly. We still want to give you some love, but we want to let the listeners knwo what they’re in for as well. CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, Next week we’ll be talking to Hoots from EVE Online   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Azeroth Archives – Epic Diapers – Other Much Lesser-Known Shas of Pandaria – Overly Dramatic News – MegaMinute – Ask Miss Mulgra – AIE Raid Wrapup – Hailing Frequencies – Alludra’s Pets – Hunter Talk   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Kudos to Ralff for this week’s show title.  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/15oN36H” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/PY2CVVYgRuo?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=PY2CVVYgRuo&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep5191″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – Reach into your pockets – Orgrimmar is under siege – The craft fair is falling – Dude, do you even podcast? – And we talk with Gerp and Lanctahrus about AIE in World of Warcraft All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS Many people may not realize this, but as AIE has grown, all of the expenses needed to support the community, like web hosting, the Meetup.com site, giveaways, etc., have been paid for out of pocket by a small handful of very generous people. As the community continues to grow, and our needs increase, we’re looking to raise some funds in other ways, so we can provide everything we need and want to provide for the community without continuing to tap into the wallets and purses of those very generous people any further. One of those fundraisers is our new “Pass The Hat” campaign, where you can donate a buck or two towards keeping the community running. All the information you need is in the Passing the Hat post in the forums, including examples of how much we’re trying to raise, where the money will be going, etc. It’s almost like playing EVE with a spreadsheet! Thus far we’re at just over 30%, with a final goal of $4,000 at the end of the year.   It was mentioned on last week’s show, but we just want to make sure that folks know – The ExtraLife charity IS being supported fully by the Frogpants community at large this year!  The charity event is a game-playing marathon where people get sponsored to play video games for up to 25 hours straight. It’s the gamer’s version of running a 5k, but without all the sweat, knee pain, and subjecting yourself to that great ball of fire in the sky. The charity will benefit the Primary Children’s Medical Center. in Salt Lake City, Utah and is a great cause. If you want to join the team as a participant, or donate to the cause, look for the Frogpants Team for Extra Life Marathon post in the Community section of the forums.   A friendly PSA: Please use an authenticator if a game has one available! There have been waves of accounts getting banned for new and old games alike! Please don’t get caught in the crossfire and get some peace of mind. Many games have a phone app (for some platforms)  which is free, and some others have a cheap 5-8 dollar key fob. Money VERY well spent!   Today’s show is about World of Warcraft, and it will probably be mentioned, but the Fall Craft Fair is already starting to spool up. There will be a meeting this Friday (the 13th, wooooo!) at 9pm server time (so EST) on getting the ball rolling. Show up if you’d like to know more, and keep an eye on the forums!   Speaking of the craft fair, if you’re new to AIE and would like to know what the craft fair IS, or have any other questions about the craziness that is the AIE community, don’t forget we have our own Wiki! There you will find answers to all your questions, and you can post your own answers to questions that haven’t been asked yet. At wiki.aie-guild.org, you will find information on events like the craft fair, the summer of love, and the running of the beef, along with details on our ventrillo server, our jabber server, guild policies, real life events, and more. And since it’s a wiki, you can add to the mindshare!   And with the new content patch of 5.4, the Siege of Orgrimmar is underway! And with that, new raids and flex raids! With the new “Seige of Orgrimmar” raid content, we encourage any and all raid teams to send in their team’s progression on either normal or flex by next Tuesday, September 17, and every Tuesday after that,  for inclusion into the Raid Wrapup segment at the end of the AIE Podcast. The Raid Wrapup isn’t limited to just World of Warcraft.You can send your summary of raid progression or even grouped activities from other games as well, including SWTOR, The Secret World, Rift, Guild Wars 2, Eve, or any other AIE MMO. Please send in all updates either through the Raid Wrapup thread on the AIE forums, or email [email protected].   Star Trek Online has a mission which is available on Friday the 13th ONLY. It’s called “Hearts and Minds” and you can get the details on, yes…the forums. Check it out, STO is free to play, and AIE has a nice fleet there!   We know how many talented artists are in the AIE community, and if you’ve played Secret World you know how many cool outfits are in the game. So….from the looks of the DATE on this item, we perhaps should have announced it sooner, but Sept 15th is the deadline for you to design your own outfit and possibly get it into the game for all to share! Details are at the official Secret World site. You have until Sunday get to drawin!   Speaking of talented artists, we know there are a lot of podcasters out there in the AIE community. After all, AIE was built from the love of podcasting. If you’re a member of AIE and host a podcast of your own, we want to know about it so we can inform other AIE members and help the out-of-game AIE community grow. Email us the details about your podcast to [email protected], and we may select it for the podcast spotlight in future shows. For this week’s Podcast Spotlight, we’d like to give a shout-out to Caoboi and Iceflow, two AIE members and a married couple who host the ValentineCast podcast, talking about food, games, and more. They are great people, and their podcast is great fun. You can listen to them at valentinecast.com.   Yarrr!  The pilots of AIEU in EVE Online are up no good again.  They have recently started up a pirate fleet codenamed: Why is the Rum Always Gone?  Of course details of the operation must remain top secret as there are various other ne’er do wells who are attempting to stop them. Check out the forum post in the EVE forums which has a link to the super secret details that can be viewed once you join AIEU.   GAME NEWS WoW, and I am not being ironic but there has been an awful lot of news on the Warcraft front.   Scott’s big reveal   BlizzCon Guild Hall and Scott reveals the super secret project G: Prolly can mention BlizzCon Virtual Ticket here too.   A little history of the guild hall. Item level requirements removed from heroic scenarios   Patch 5.4 Has been released – Lanc hasn’t had an awful lot of experience with a lot of the content yet but I have been running scenarios.  Not to fill the show with too many spoilers but Ragefire chasm on heroic and guess what?  Minimum gear requirements have been removed from Heroics.  Wahoo!   Connected Realms   One of the more interesting features in this release is the Connected Realms feature.  You heard that right folks evidently Earthen Ring has been connected with another realm.  He he he he, COOP run anyone?   http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/10551009/   That and major redesigns of Arenas, two more features Proving Grounds and the Timeless Isles Proving Grounds http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/10405142/ Timeless Isles   Blizzcon Virtual Ticket is now available   http://us.battle.net/blizzcon/en/blog/10870160/BlizzCon_2013_Virtual_Ticket_On_Sale_Now-9_12_2013   New Pets   And of course no major WOW patch is complete unless we talk about the most important aspect of the game.  So Alludra how about them pets? CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Lanc and Gerp for joining us!   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Other, Much Lesser-Known Shas of Pandaria – Azeroth Archives – Overly Dramatic News – Epic Diapers – Alludra’s Pets   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com!   Kudos to RattoZatto for this weeks show title.

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/17Chpii” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/8FHmwmV4dsk?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=8FHmwmV4dsk&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep9587″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – The Secret World spills the beans! – Final Fantasy not just a fantasy! – Zod’s back! – We’re about to take on Hellscream! – And we talk with Stigg and Ralff from the AIE Council All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS The secret world has released it’s august game director’s letter! Apparently they are keeping things really secret nowadays! The letter talks about things like issue 8 which will take place in Venice, and even a bit about issue 9 which is set for Tokyo! There is too much great stuff to mention here! So head on over to the website and check it out! Hopefully their september letter will be out before christmas! I’m Ron Burgundy?   Secret world is also holding events starting on september 6th! (At least these aren’t being kept secret! September 6th-8th is golden weekend which means bonues and in game goodies for players. Not enough? Well how about the guilded rage event? This event gives double ability points, free months of membership for recruiting, and Funcom points are being sold at a discount! So if you are in the secret world check out all the fun!   Well it appears that Final Fantasy is STARTING to stabilize and it looks like Gilgamesh might be the server of choice for AIE. I think they’re still feeling things out, but there is a long thread about availability of character gen in the forums so check it out! It appears that night owls have an advantage here!   So we know you love THIS podcast, right? RIGHT? Well just in case you needed MORE, fear not, frequent guests on the show who talk about SWTOR have formed their own Podcast to be under the ‘AIE Umbrella’. It’s called The Escape Podcast and you should give it a listen! It’s not up in iTunes yet, but is going through approvals, so you can download it through direct link.   It’s the week before world of warcraft’s patch 5.4, are you ready? Remember things such as the battlefield barrens are going away, and new content is going to be taking its place, such as the celestial tournament, the timeless isle and the siege of orgrimmar! The patch is scheduled for September 10th, so be prepared!   And with that, lets jump back to Ralff and Stigg to talk about AIE…   GAME NEWS   Plebs Guide to GERP Phases Discovery Expedition – multiple expeditions, few long-term decisions Settlement Domain Tiger Team Henry’s Games coming Final Fantasy Wildstar off on the horizon… EQ Next and Landmark CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Ralff and Stigg for joining us! Next week we’ll be talking to Lanctharus about AIE in World of Warcraft Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Other Much Less Known Shas of Pandaria — New segment – Azeroth Archives – MegaMinute – Overly Dramatic News – Slash Grats (Shoutout to Miss Mulgra. You’re in our thoughts.)   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – Guest Twitter:  @stigg @ralffie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! or visit his website keyswithsoul.com! Kudos to Enn for this week’s show title!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/171EhHJ” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/e64auBVdt5M?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=e64auBVdt5M&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep6677″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… DragonCon in the East and PAX in the West! Hearthstone has captured our interest! SW:TOR’s Amazing Race in full swing! Ayhood and Healarious joins us to chat about Rift! All that and more coming up right now…   AIE NEWS In case you happen to be in the Pacific Northwest this weekend, OR this tiny thing down in the south east, you can look and find AIE peoples there! PAX, in Seattle, and DragonCon in Atlanta both should have a variety of folks there! Check Meetup.com and the forums for information surrounding such! There’s also a Group me up for the dragon con folks, for easier communication (I don’t know how it works!)   Not to leave OTHER areas of the country out, but if you happen to be in the Phoenix, AZ area, there is a raid on Chino Banditos happening tomorrow night! That’s Friday, August 30, check the meetup.com page for more details!   Members of AIE In Colorado are also putting out feelers on the forums discussing a possible meetup! So far the denver metro area is under discussion. If you would like to attend, the discussion is looking really positive, so head on over to the forums and participate! Or at least help set a good date and time!   Coming back from a break? Or having a friend come back after an extended leave? Well don’t worry, we at AIE remember you! There is no need to fill out an application unless you are creating a new character. Just hop into AIELFO on your old character, and we can get you into the guild quickly. (And yes! You need an application for each toon! We also like to know when you have name changed!)   Big news from the AIE Warcraft front! We have promotions! Tetsemi, keeper of the spreadsheets and lord of the numbers has been promoted to Praetorian. Yes! We decided that even as an officer he was seeing way too much play time in game! (He was even on a raid team guys!) In other news the officers have further decided to disrupt play time by promoting member MewKow to centurion. Posts will be going up on the forums shortly for your congrat-u-dolances.   Looking for a fun event in AIE SWTOR on tuesday night? Well look no further! Emperor pel-patene (sp?) is holding the amazing race, of swtor! Our gracious leader has even seen fit to make the rules more flexible so that more can participate! Want to play? Well check out the forums for the full list of rules, and be in ventrilo at 9pm eastern this tuesday! And if you missed the first week, don’t worry! You can still participate!   There might’ve been a closed beta launch of a certain Blizzard Property, and I was looking around, I certainly didn’t SEE an NDA surrounding this, so yes! Hearthstone is in the hands of some lucky folks! Blizz seems to be giving keys away every week, we tried to get some keys to give away for the show, no such luck yet! Do you have a cinder kitten?? Why the heck not??? Well if you are one of those who have been holding out for a sale, guess what! now is your time to shine!! The cinder kitten is 25% off for this week only, bringing the price down to 7.50! So head on over to the blizzard store and pick yourself up a pet!   And since we are still on blizzard news, world of warcraft has announced that they will be publishing their next patch on September 10th! Yes, all that 5.4 goodness will be out that day!! So get your alts geared! Get your toons at the ready! And for goodness sakes level those battle pets! The celestial tournament is coming and you don’t wanna be left out!! …oh and something about garrosh.   OMG blizzard seriously?? More news?? Fine! Barcodes for Blizzcon have been emailed out. Please make sure that if you purchased tickets that you check your spam folders for those all important bar codes that will get you into the show.   This last tuesday saw an update for the secret world! Various bugs were fixed in this patch including several crash fixes, errors, and some oddness going on with one of the PVP ques! For full patch notes check the official site which we have linked right in the shownotes.   The bounders bounty event is going on in middle earth! This is an in game event in LOTRO event to help the shire. don’t worry though the hobbits are very generous and grateful for your help and willing to compensate you for your work in turning in Bounder’s tokens. The Devs are pulling out all the stops with this event, they have a formal announcement and a developer diary that doesn’t give much away! The event also comes with a handful of bug fixes and updates you would expect to find in a big patch. Dux on the forums was nice enough to round up all this in one place.   And not to be left out Star Trek online has announced that you can win a rare Jem’hadar “bug” ship by opening Romulan Survivor Duty Officer Packs. There are other great prizes to be found as well, but this is exciting for anyone who missed the event to win a ‘bug’ ship!   There is a strong rumour that Final Fantasy 14 might’ve launched in the past two weeks while we were gone, but it’s hard to tell! But seriously, apart from a somewhat shaky launch because of capacity problems (who knew people liked Final Fantasy?!), the servers have appeared to started to stabilize. There are a TON of discussion threads from your officers and other guildmates, so as always, check the forums! GAME NEWS   Sad News: http://www.riftscene.com/reports/sad-news-today-as-elrar-departs-from-trion/   1) General Rift stuff We are on the Deepwood shard and, while either faction can join, we are primarily defiant.  (talk about how to join the guild)   For those of you that don’t know much about Rift, why do we like it and perhaps why should someone pick it up? -Free to play: yes there are a few limitations but you can see all of the content for free. -Patron perks: 10% store discount, 15% currency bonus, 10% mount speed, 40% xp/notoriety/tokens/prestige/favor vials are very helpful: last 2 hrs, accrue 1 per day, max of 7 -Characters: each calling (class) has nine souls (specs) and any three souls can be combined to make your character build (like the old wow 3-pane talents).  premade builds in game are good enough to get started -XP: while there are quests, dungeons, and pvp, there are also instant adventures, rifts (talk them up!), onslaughts, chronicles (solo or duo instances at level 50 and 60, currently 6 of them), zone events and world events. -Planar attunement – pa xp begins at 50, gives stat and cooldown bonuses and is shared across your account! think of it as the old EQ AA pts -For the fashionistas, there are wardrobe slots, transfiguration (transmog in wow), and upgradeable gear (similar to voidbinders in wow) -For explorers and collectors, there are cairns (secret locations to find), zone puzzles to solve, artifacts to collect -Crafting – if you want to pay, you can have all 9 crafting and gathering professions on one character (which I do and it’s awesome!) -Dimensions -Mentoring down to help lower level players – makes doing dungeons more fun and more challenging 2) What to do at 60 With a bunch of players hitting level 60, we want to talk about what things there are to do at 60.  You can do anything to gain planar attunement experience to improve your character.  Some level 60 specific things are chronicles, expert dungeons and raids. What game would be complete without notoriety (rep) grinds!?  What are the endgame notorieties and what do they get you? -torvan hunter and lycini get you the best lesser and greater essences for your planar focus/soul machine (hunt rifts and great hunt rifts) -dendrome, newish lvl 60 zone, has three reps: empyreal alliance (dps trinket, trinket runes), achyati (tank trinket, ring runes), hailol (healing trinket, seal runes) so it’s worth it to eventually get all three If you want to run expert dungeons, how do you gear up for them? -Crafted gear will get you to the required 300 hit/toughness easily.  RiftScene has a great best-in-slot calculator which I’ve linked in several posts recently. If you want to raid, how do you gear up for them? -After getting geared for experts, getting to 400 hit/toughness for raids is a little more work.  There are a few expert dungeon drops/expert dungeon mark gear will get you to 400. 3) Upcoming stuff/news What is on the PTR (public test realm)? http://community.riftgame.com/en/2013/08/28/realm-of-twisted-dreams-new-5-player-dungeon/ -Revamped old dungeon for level 60 (twisted realm of the fae) is supposedly really good but I haven’t checked it out personally.   http://www.riftscene.com/reports/new-hair-stylescolors-coming-to-rift-in-2-4/   What is coming in the next expansion? -Each calling can fulfill every role in some capacity (tank, dps, heal, support). Rumors? -lower plat cost of dimension keys -cross-shard instant adventures CLOSE Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… Azeroth Archives Mod Shop Overly Dramatic News Alludra’s Pets MegaMinute Ask Miss Mulgra But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – Guest Twitter: @calebcolby – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul and visit his website at keyswithsoul.com  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/143PQld” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/h4LCnm_uGKc?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=h4LCnm_uGKc&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep4202″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… Final Fantasy Anyone? Hellscream is about to get what’s coming to him. Free Spaceships! EVE is about to jettison some players And we talk to Pelell and Max about AIE in  SWTOR All that and more coming up right now…   AIE NEWS AIE’s own Pelell and Abovan will be having an informational meeting about Final Fantasy, including Q&A and open discussion, in Ventrilo at 10:00pm EST on Thursday night. Yes, Thursday, like right after the great, wonderful, entertaining, and insightful AIE podcast!   Missed the meeting?  The Q&A will continue on the Final Fantasy section of the Imperium Ludi , on the AIE forums!   Speaking of Final Fantasy, the Final Fantasy open Beta starts this weekend!  The 16th for previous beta testers, 17th for everyone else, running through the 19th.  The Early Access starts on the 24th for pre-orders, with the official launch on the 27th.   So our illustrious Acuzod has taken it upon himself to organize an event in a game which many AIE people play, but there is no ‘official presence’ there. Do you play League of Legends? Of course you do! Zod is looking to get something spooled up so a bunch of folks of all skill levels can participate.   The officers of AIE World of Warcraft would like to remind everyone that if you or a friend are returning to the game after being removed for inactivity, all they have to do is jump into their local AIE LFO channel to ask for readmittance! We would also like to point out that we would love to help everyone but it sometimes takes us a bit to be able to stop what we are doing to help!   Zarhym from Blizzard itself wanted to let us know, in case you have been hiding under an internet ROCK, that there is a new trailer out for the World of Warcraft patch 5.4 patch, Seige of Orgrimmar! If you are looking for a reason to take down Garrosh (beyond what he’s been up to all expansion), then look no further! If you are out exploring the galaxy in the AIE fleet in Star Trek Online, you should be logging in this week! Takemikazuch has posted in the forums that ships are being given away, for FREE by Perfect World! Log in early, log in often, as there have been some neat things given away! These are items which would normally cost Zen, but not for this time period.   An update from the Spreadships in Spaaaace folks. They’re starting to actually implement a rule that has been on the books from the start! They’re going to start to purge folks who are inactive or just haven’t logged in. The cutoff is 3 months, and logging just to update your skill queues is enough to keep you as ‘active’. Read the post that Hoots made in the forums for more details. Also, due to all the crazy war activities, there is a post regarding making some money in AIEU’s new digs! GAME NEWS   Recent AIE SWTOR happenings! ~Pel and Max Greetings!   Before we get to SWTOR news, I would like to preface our segment with something that has been on my mind and some of the other Officers as well. In SWTOR, as a guild, we have taken a hands-off approach in terms of maintaining our numbers. Meaning we haven’t been actively recruiting outside of our already established community. This, in part, has led to a drop off in active players within SWTOR, and I expect this to be the case in some of the other AIE games. We want to change this.   We had been operating on the thought that since AIE:WoW has this previously established player base, that it seems only natural that any other AIE branded game would also have something similar. But there are a couple truths. 1st~ Once the shiny wears off, people migrate back to their game of choice. And 2nd~ A pool of existing members is still a pool of roughly the same numbers, no matter where they come from. Combine these with a mostly hands-off approach to running in game guild events or raids, and we have stagnation within the individual game community.   We need to approach this from a different direction. While we want to create a home for any AIE player to come and check out any particular game, we need to be more proactive in maintaining and growing the community. It’s no secret that AIE is one of the largest gaming guilds in the world, primarily due to the Instance and their WoW numbers, but we want to take it to the next level. And in order to do so, we are going to try to actively recruit beyond what we are doing now.   As we continue to grow, we are going to start using social media sites a bit more than what we have been. Expect to see a Google Plus AIE:SWTOR page and a Facebook AIE:SWTOR page, for example. Personally, I’d also like to start moving away from the #AIEGuild hashtag, and start using game specific ones, ie #AIESWTOR. Whether the other games follow suit remains to be seen, but this is what we in SWTOR want to do in order to grow the community.   Coming off the heels of Remembrance Day, I want to give Brewdawg a special shout out for helping organize events for the week for AIE:SWTOR. He picked up the slack when he didn’t need to, which is totally what AIE is all about. It once again reinforces that Officers don’t necessarily have to be the ones to run events all the time. We still want to encourage our guildies to think outside of the box and do fun things for the community. But that said, expect to see a more hands on approach from the Officers in general.   /soapbox off   There’s a new 16 man team on the block. Well, it’s like a combination of awesomeness, like when you put together 5 lions and they form a kick ass light sword wielding giant robot. Lords of Light and Sith with Unlimited Power have combined to do a one night a week 16 man operation. With the experience of both teams, we are just about killing SM Scum and Villainy in 2 hours. This new team needs a name that matches it’s epic style, though. /looks at Machia.   We still do have the 16 man Size Does Matter team for the uber casual. If you are a new 50-55, we try to run one every few weeks, and would love to take new people along that may not be able to commit to a structured weekly Ops team. Typically, gear is not an issue. So if you are interested, keep your eyes on the forums for the next run.   Also, the Officers have been coming up with new events to get the players engaged a bit more in the guild. A big one we will be talking about shortly. Sema runs a Tuesday night Hard Mode flashpoint run for anyone who wants to see some HM action. Admittedly, I need to pop my head in there, especially to see some of the new Flashpoints. If you are super hardcore, Machia runs a Taco Harder 8 man on Thursdays. Their roster is currently full, but they may take alts if you ask nicely and do a little dance. Friday nights Arveshet also runs the Triple F, Funky Flashpoint Fridays. These are also designed for people that haven’t run any flashpoints to get some in, and even knock out some achievements at the same time. Both of these events happen around 9 p.m. Eastern. Feel free to drop in on one of these nights if you have a itchy trigger finger. New patch 2.3! ~Max CZ-198, a new Level 55 Daily mission area, is now available. 2 New Level 55 Flashpoints: Czerka Corporate Labs and Czerka Core Meltdown New Galactic Reputation Organizations CZ Area Rep Rewards: Speeder, probe droid, weapons, Sword of the Vigilant, crafting additions Bounty Broker Association: Bowcaster, Smuggler style hat and armor, Treek customization, Drink Server Probe New Mounts: 2 Tauntaun Creature Mounts Tauntaun mounts! New Companion Character: Treek Ewok Companion New Event – Bounty Hunter Contract Week: Each month, players can undertake contracts and pursue dangerous criminals throughout the galaxy! Adventures begin on Republic and Imperial Fleets with a mission given by mysterious Bounty Hunters who are toting a “friend” encased in Carbonite. The first Bounty Contract Week begins on August 14th and will continue for seven days. New in game guild event! TAR:SWTOR Edition~ Pel I am extremely excited for this next announcement. The next big guild event we have planned is a SWTOR edition of The Amazing Race. For those of you that are unfamiliar with TAR, basically it’s a race around the world with 11-12 teams of two competing for a prize of 1 million dollars. There are 12 legs of the race where certain objectives must be performed to advance to the next leg, usually 3-5 per locale. The last person to check in on each leg typically gets eliminated, until there are just 3 teams left racing. First team to the finish line wins 1 Million Dollars.   We are changing our set up a bit from teams to individual, due to game mechanics as well as this being the first time we are trying something like this. There will be no eliminations, but there may be time penalties associated with each place for the next leg. Be aware that the Race is not limited to the game itself. Ventrillo will be required for this as well, since there will be audio related clues given. For this particular race, it is recommended you be at least level 50, and you can use either faction.   This will be a 5 night event due to the structure of the game, with each night being a leg of the race. Each leg will consist of about 4 different stages, meaning each leg may last a couple of hours, depending. Because of this, it’s important that you are committed to the race and run each night. If you miss one night, you will not be able to advance to the next leg. Currently, we are trying to nail down which week will work the best, but are shooting for either the last week of August or the first or second week of September. There is a poll in the announcement thread open for 5 days. Majority rules.   We are awarding 1 million credits as a prize to the winner and will have other surprises in store. If this is successful, it is our intent to do this quarterly, hopefully expanding the legs as well. By doing this quarterly, it also gives people some time to level up their toon if they missed one due to level constraints. Second, I may seek volunteers next time for those who can not make every night, but would still like to be involved somehow. It allows the Officers a chance to play if we have volunteers next time around. Finally, I’d like to use this as a tool for recruitment, so the potential is there to us open it up to the server at large, though there will be some things that would need ironed out for sure before that can happen.   If you are still unfamiliar with what The Amazing Race is, check out YouTube, Hulu Plus (which is where I discovered it and have been terribly addicted to), or Amazon Prime. Watching an episode or two will give you the sense of what we are trying to go for. Here is a link to the 1st part of one of my favorite seasons, to give you an idea. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UamvsCv3lkg Outro~ Pel and Max It was good seeing everyone at NTXIII and I am about 99% positive that I’ll be returning next year. Hung out with some SWTOR people as well as other members of the community. The live AIE podcast was awesome, even though I was a bit distracted by a Cards Against Humanity game which got me there later than I would’ve liked. The community picture we got on the fly was awesome, and next year there may have to be a bit more scheduling, so we don’t make wedding planners cry by thinking they were being flash mobbed. #AIEProblems 🙂 CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank [Pelell and Max] for joining us! Next week we’ll be talking to the gang from AIE RIFT   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Mod Shop – Mega Minute – Alludra’s Pets – Azeroth Archives – Hunter Talk   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – Guest Twitter: [@Pelell and @MaxTheGrey] – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul!   Until next time, AIE. This is Ghomus This is AcuZod And this has been… The AIE Podcast.   Kudos to cybyl for this week’s show title.  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/11QgvjT” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/47E3r7M0Abs?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=47E3r7M0Abs&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep3889″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – Group Us at DragonCon! –  Jibber Jabber –  Final Fantasy Football? – AIE is COOPtacular! – And we chat with RattoZatto and Kamiel about AIE in The Secret World All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS For any AIE/Tadpool/frogpants people going to DragonCon this year, Revenar has set up a GroupMe group for everyone. GroupMe is a service that lets you send or receive text messages from everyone in the group, without everyone having to give out their phone numbers to everyone else. You can also message everyone from the GroupMe website. The GroupMe information is already posted to both the Facebook group as well as the Extra Life Forums in the “General Yappin’ Section, but he also wanted to share the link here!   There was a time when EVERYONE had a WoW signature on the forums. (The forums? Did someone say forums? Go to the forums!)  But as everyone knows now, we’ve branched into so many games, a single game signature just won’t cut it! There is a very cool thread on the forums where a few awesome folks are trying to get one generated for ALL the games that AIE uses!   We tend to mention the Imperium Ludi section of the forums now and again, but it looks like Final Fantasy is really gathering some steam! It’s very clearly in the expedition phase of GERP right now, but there is a TON of activity on the forums. People talking about dates for when things will drop, what sort of things they’re planning on doing on launch, etc. Get your votes in and voice heard as the GERP progresses! Don’t forget, we have Greenwall in Real Life! You can chat with other AIE members, even when you’re not in a game, by using our Jabber server. Jabber is a text chat system that works with a large number of chat clients, so you can find any client you like, point it to our Jabber server, and chat the day away. The information you need to point to our Jabber server is in the forums, or you can even use the Jabber web client found on the front page of the guild website at aie-guild.org   Speaking of Greenwall, you coders in the community may be interested to know that the WoW Greenwall add-on code has been posted to Github, along with other AIE-developed software. If you have some free time and wish to lend your coding skills to the guild, check out our Github, where you will find the link to Stigg’s email address to get invited to the party.   Most AIE members are really into fantasy games, and Fantasy Football is no exception. It looks like the Frogpants Fantasy Football League has filled up, but Younhoi from AIE World of Warcraft is looking to see if there’s any interest in starting an AIE Fantasy Football League. If you’re up for it, respond to his post in the forums. There’s no money involved, so you can play without losing anything but your pride – unless you can pick a good team, of course.   We want to give a big shout-out to AIE World of Warcraft for their amazing COOP run last week during the AIE Summer of Love. They took over the Alliance Pandarian city, Shrine of the Seven Stars, which I think is a first for our server. Big thanks to Alachaas and the rest of the COOP leadership for holding that event. Alachaas has promised another COOP run coming up soon. If you want to let him know you’re interested, you can reach him on Twitter at @Alachaas   For you hairy-toed AIErs who didn’t get a chance to partake in the Lord of the Rings Online Summer Festival, Turbine has extended the event to run through this weekend, so it’s not too late for you to jump in and get all those goodies you want before the festival shuts down for the year.   Breaking news, Revenar has posted up a link for the Remembrance Day video they made:  http://www.twitch.tv/revenar/b/439964981   So check it out!   And With that… GAME NEWS   Issue 7 is here, the Anniversary event has come and gone, Issue 8 is on the horizon, Issue 9 can’t come soon enough, and now speculation on where we go after 9 can begin!   Anniversary Event.  How it went, personal experiences, what went right, what went wrong.  What the community did right.   Issue 7.  Summerize each of the quests.  Go over the new dailies.  Explain what the new outfit reward is.  Who Horrifies The Horrors?  A Trail of Breadcrumbs.  When The Hatchet Falls.  You Only Die Twice.  The Sound of Children.  I Walk Into Empty.   Issue 8.  We know a little more, some of the implied changes to Scenarios and the increased maximum cap on Ability Points (AP). Issue 9.  We learned a bit more about Tokyo, and that Issue 10 is going to be in a new location, hinted at the end of the Story mission for Issue 9.  Tokyo will have two zones, and at least one major dungeon hub.  People are speculating that this will be Orochi Tower, the headquarters to the massive corporation, where the Tokyo Filth Event happened.  Based on some information I recall from Issue #5, The Vanishing of Tyler Freeborn, it’s possible we’ll be headed to possibly Africa, or Scotland, however, there are other possible locations we’ll be heading to next.   What’s AIE doing currently in TSW.  (Nightmares, Lairs, and other activities).   CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank RattoZatto and Kamiel for joining us! Next week we’ll be talking to the gang from AIE SWTOR about the new expansion, Titans of Industry. Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Overly Dramatic News – Ask Miss Mulgra – Azeroth Archives But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – Guest Twitter: @RattoZatto, @Kamiel_AIE – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul!   Until next time, AIE. This is Ghomus This is Alludra This is AcuZod And this has been… The AIE Podcast.   Kudos to cybyl for this week’s show title!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/13hcB0R” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/0N5XUWOrh54?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=0N5XUWOrh54&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep2413″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – Celebrate your inner hobbit – The Emperor has evil plans – AIE is feeling the love – The AIE Podcast needs YOU! – And we talk with Ayhood about AIE in Rift All that and more coming up right now…   AIE NEWS   The AIE Podcast needs you! That’s right  Let us know what you think sets AIE apart from other gaming communities or guilds you have been a part of in the past. It can be as simple as finishing the sentence “AIE is awesome because ____” or sending us a personalized story. You can email us, tweet us, or send in an MP3 of your answer, what makes AIE stand apart!   Apolas wanted to let everyone know: The Summer Festival in Lotro as started on the 24th of July and will last until August 6th. Activities will include: Keg races (drinking contest), Taste of Hobbiton (speed eating contest), horse races, fishing challenges, scavenger hunts, Ale association vs Inn league and finally dancing. More details available on the LOTRO website   Everyone knows the voice of Sihx, that does the Raid Wrapup, but it turns out, he can’t do the Wrapup without your help! He’s posted a new thread in the forms here. All submissions are due by next Wed, July 31 and can be submitted via the thread or by emailing [email protected]. You can also tweet @epicdiapers for questions, comments, bumper suggestions or to get his kickin’ chili recipe.   Emperor Pel-patine is stirring up some trouble as usual, and without giving TOO much away, I’ve seen some of the planning on the officer forums for this event and it looks AWESOME. Check out his cryptic post on the forums and watch it for more details as they develop! This is one you don’t want to miss. Remember, SW:TOR is one of our many Free-to-Play games.   The AIE Summer of Love starts in in four days, and it’s not too late for you to get involved! Believe it or not, most of AIE’s awesome events are held by members, not officers! So if there’s an idea you have had that you think will be great fun, or if you want to volunteer your time, head on over to the summer of love thread in the forums and check it out! Currently we have a running of the trolls planned and a COOP run! Did you know we have a meetup.com website? Why would we do such a crazy thing? Well it helps plan events across a guild as large and awesome as we are! Like the upcoming SF raid on Harry’s Hofbrau this sunday! Come on over and plan your own events to meet with the awesomeness that is AIE in real life!   Giveaways! Gratz to Revenar and  Miss Mulgra for winning the Steam game giveaways from last week’s contests. Big thanks to Beefmaster and Pakkuan for donating the prizes.   And with that…   GAME NEWS http://www.riftscene.com/dev-tracker/new-cleric-changes-ready-to-be-tested-on-pts/ http://www.riftscene.com/dev-tracker/rogue-changes-upcoming-on-pts/ CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Ayhood for joining us! Next week we’ll be talking about the summer of love and AIE!   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… Hailing Frequencies Epic Diapers Overly Dramatic News Ask Miss Mulgra Mod Shop Episode 1 (first official episode!)   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – Guest Twitter: @calebcolby – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul or go to www.keyswithsoul.com   Until next time, AIE. This is Ghomus This is Alludra This is AcuZod And this has been… The AIE Podcast. Kudos to Revenar for this week’s show title.

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1226ORJ” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/QT_bDDOz9Gc?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=QT_bDDOz9Gc&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep2763″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – AIE is up for an award! – Hey AIE, we Love you! – Need a break? Take a break! – Blizzard wants your money to go to your head! – And we talk with Beefmaster and Hoots about AIE in Steam and EVE Online All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS   It’s time for the The Dragon Slayer awards. These are fan selected awards for communities in Online Gaming. The awards focus on community managers, community builders and the community members of gaming. AIE has been nominated for the Best Online Community award, so spread the word –  Vote for AIE!   Hey guys, feeling tired? Don’t want to log into the game? Got a ton on your plate with summer activities?  Well the officers would like to remind you that AIE will always be here! Go ahead and take your breaks, combat burnout, or even jump games. If you get removed for inactivity, don’t worry, all members in good standing have to do to get back into the game is jump into AIELFO and ask for a re-invite!   The Summer of Love has been announced! July 29th – August 4th! This event is an old AIE tradition where we let our hair down and give back to the guild! Past events have included COOP Runs, The Running of the Beef, Dance parties, scavenger hunts, fishing clubs, costume contests and ninja buffers! Sophililia, our coordinator, has open slots for any guildie who has ideas about events! You don’t have to be an officer to sign up or make an event! Hit the thread for more information and to find out how you too can contribute to an awesome summer of love! Addl message from Takemikazuch: Looking for someone who would be willing and capable of doing the fireworks for the service this year. I have the fireworks, all that’s needed is manpower and launchers. If anyone is willing to take this on, please let Tak and Sophilia know!   Local to the SF Bay area in California? The meetup at Harry’s Hofbrau has been moved to NEXT Sunday, July 28th, so it would not conflict with San Diego Comic Con this weekend. The forums have all the information regarding this. I won’t be able to attend this one because of my tabletop Shadowrun campaign, but if you can go, you should!   World of Warcraft is now offering transmog helms in their in game store! 15 dollars US will buy you horns made of fire, a helm of ice, or this odd death-y drippy looking thing. These helms are bind to account and are stored in the transmog vendor himself.   Guild Wars 2 is getting some great new content this July 23! The patch is called Cutthroat Politics! From the site “The explosive events of the Dragon Bash festival left the Captain’s Council of Lion’s Arch with a vacant seat. Lionguard Inspector Ellen Kiel and Black Lion Trader Evon Gnashblade both want to fill that seat – but neither of them can win it alone!”   Hey buddy, wanna buy a tribble? Wait, you don’t have to. As Takemikazuch posted in the AIE Star Trek Online forums, you can now get a FREE Nukara Tribble that generates a Nukara Mark every hour that it’s attached to your character. It’s only available for a limited time, so if you’re an STO player and might be taking a break from the game, be sure to log in to claim yours.   Don’t forget! AIE has a Greenwall in real life! We have our own Jabber server, so you can use your favorite chat client to chat with other AIE members who are also stuck out of game battling the dreaded Work boss. Instructions are on the forums and in the AIE Wiki.   Nerdtacular was a blast, but that’s not the only place AIE members get together in real life. We have our yearly gathering at DragonCon, our own three-day guild hall at Blizzcon, and several other local meet-ups on the calendar. Check out out our page at Meetup.com and RSVP for any events near you, or create your own!   And with that, it’s time to get back to our guests and find out what’s going on in Steam and EVE…   GAME NEWS   Steam   [Hoots] I don’t play EVE any more.  Civ V is amazing. EVE   Fountain War Update. Still ongoing Explain a popular tactic in EVE Online.  Timezone warfare. 9-VO0Q — Losing our first big system.   Best Fleet Ever? Experience Part One: Stealing 6 billion ISK Part Two: Bridging instead of Jumping Part Three: The Tower Shield Incident   Alliance Tournament XI: http://community.eveonline.com/community/alliance-tournament/ What’s the Alliance Tournament? 64 Teams.  Two weekends.  The Best of the Best. (small gang pvp) When is it? This weekend, the 20th and the 21st, starting at 7:30am eastern running until about 6:00 eastern. Stupidgenius’s Get Rich Quick Class. Hop on over to http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/50635-op-making-isk-in-eve-101/ to help him determine when he should hold the next class. CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Hoots and Beefmaster for joining us! Next week we’ll be talking to Ayhood about AIE in Rift A: Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Hunter Talk – Ask Miss Mulgra – Overly Dramatic News – MegaMinute But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – Guest Twitter: @beefmaster @aiehoots – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul or http://keyswithsoul.com.  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1doQWbL” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/PHtdC8s_NAQ?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=PHtdC8s_NAQ&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep3187″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – We have a new guildie of the moment – Steam tries to steam clean your wallet – The Secret World lets the cat out of the bag – Strike it rich in EVE – And we talk with nobody about nothing! (No guest this week) All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS We have a new guildie of the moment! Everyone give three cheers to Zethran of Swtor aka Cosmic Debris on the forums! This player is an awesome addition to AIE and many great things were said about her including: She is right on top of SWTOR info as soon as it drops, and then posts it to the EL forums for the rest of us. Typically, if I hear there is new SWTOR news, I’ll check the forums and see she has already posted it. She is that rare bird that is knowledgeable and able to communicate calmly and well with anyone of any level of ability.  She is a gem. Her knowledge of the game is unsurpassed among many of her peers and yet she’s humble enough to really be lovable. So thank you Zethran for being an amazing addition to our community! And remember if you know someone who is awesome, makes AIE a better place or just helped you out when you really needed it, let the officers know by sending an email to  [email protected]!   Steam Summer Sale is on! That’s right, if you can get the store to load there are amazing deals going on right now! Such as…well to be honest, I have no idea, because I can’t get the store to load! Remember guys, pace yourself during the sale, hold out for that game you really want to be a flash deal where the discounts are even deeper! Remember, a day or two can save you some serious money!   If you’re a big Final Fantasy Fan, you might be interested to know there’s a groundswell of support growing in the Imperium Ludi forums for an AIE expedition into the upcoming Final Fantasy 14 MMO. If you’re up to join the fun, post in the forums and head to the FFXIV site to sign up for the beta.  There’s also another GERP expedition team heading into Neverwinter Nights. If you want to jump on that train, post in their thread in the forums   Last month, StupidGenius held a training class on how to make loads of money in EVE. It went so well that he’s offering to do it again. If you’re a poor space pilot looking to hit it rich, see Stu’s post in the forums to help him set the time for the next class. And just for The AIE Podcast listeners, Stu’s offering a discount – half off his normal price for the class for anyone who tells him the secret passphase, “Alludra is Awesome”. The class is free, but you still get half off if you use the code.   You heard us talk about it the last time the The Secret World gang was on. Yesterday, TSW Issue 7 “A Dream To Kill” was released to members. Free-to-play players will get it tomorrow. Issue #7 includes an all-new storyline in Transylvania involving a huge monster, and will have players explore hidden Orochi bases; meet an Orochi deserter; use the new flamethrower auxiliary weapon; and ride snowmobiles. At the end of A Dream to Kill players willl finally learn a key part of The Secret World’s mysterious story, leading up to Tokyo – the new zone expected in a future update. Anyone who follows the AIE Podcast knows I’m always whining about all the groups in California, Arizona, etc., always having great meetups. Well apparently AIE member Jsinpriestly got tired of listening to me whine, and forwarded me a link to King Con, a fledgling board game convention trying to get off the ground in Central Georgia. It might be an interesting place for us Southern AIE members to get together. For more information, see my post in the forums Kav from the chatroom said: Posted this in the forums already, but AIE is a contender for the Guildlaunch community guild.  http://community.guildlaunch.com/promotions/g/DragonSlayer/   Scott’s feed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottjohnson/sets/72157634549453973/ Nicole’s feed http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickee76/sets/72157634543931421/   CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight. Next week we’ll be talking to Hoots about AIE in EVE   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Overly Dramatic News – AIE Raid Wrapup – Hailing Frequencies – Alludra’s Pets – MegaMinute – Epic Diapers – ModShop — A brand new segment! But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul!   Until next time, AIE.

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[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1aew5Zd” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/7HISF3mo_0M?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=7HISF3mo_0M&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep2159″ /]   Live from Ghomus’s hotel room because we couldn’t find anyplace else to record on Friday night! Thanks to Special Guests: Miss Mulgra (@missmulgra) and Sihx (@epicdiapers) for joining us!

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/RJtJBnVntaU?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=RJtJBnVntaU&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep2919″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – Starfleet Expands – Meetups Abound – Wrapups Return – Nerdtacular Nears – And we let you in on The Secret All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS The Raid Wrapup has been on a little bit of a hiatus, but it’s back! Sihx is once again reporting on the accomplishments of our AIE raid teams, and he’s looking for your submissions! Remember, this covers all raid teams in ALL games that AIE is a part of, and he might not play them all, so try to give him some info to go off of. Brag about your raid team by replying to his post in the community section of our forums, or email him directly at [email protected]. This seems to come up now and again, so it bears repeating, for those of you that are looking to join AIE (and why wouldn’t you, we’re awesome!) it really is simple. All you need to do is go to http://umami.aie-universal.net and submit an application! All of our games are open every day for an application submission. Just please remember that every single application is looked at by a human being, and sometimes those humans like to play too! STO’s Starbase is progressing along nicely, having reached tier 3. Tons of folks are chipping in resources to get this developed, and Cap’n Hunter is starting to spread the mission types a bit to make sure we can continue along this development path, to gain XP as well as provisioned resources. And a reminder! you can buy some of the best equipment, boosts and consumables from the base you’re helping build! Speaking of Star Trek Online, they just release a new Fleet Asset today; the Dilithium Mine Outpost. This is a big floating asteroid that AIE Starfleet members can explore and progress through on missions that gives them the opportunity to earn additional dilithium ore every day in a variety of ways, access new vendors, receive discounts on fleet holdings, and much more. As RattoZatto says in the forums, time to get mining! OK, you know you want to play EVE. We talk about how great the game is every week here on the podcast, you’ve heard how fun and crazy it can get, with massive space battles and all sorts of adventures and sub-plots, and if you’ve watched the video version of the podcast, you’ve even seen how beautiful it is. Well, Capt Hunter is putting out the call for all you potential space pilots to join the cause, and he’s helping by offering free 21 day trials for EVE. Just hit up his Why You Should Join AIE in EVE thread in the Community Discussion section of the forums and buckle up for some serious space madness. For all of you AIErs in the Central or Northern California area, there is going to be an AIE community meetup next month, on Sunday, July 21st at 1pm at Harry’s Hofbrau in San Jose. So if you live in San Jose, or  the San Francisco Bay Area, or anywhere around there, hit the AIE Meetup.com page to RSVP for the gathering Don’t forget, if you want to see which AIE members live near you, you can take a look at or add your own pin to the AIE Member Map. Look for the “Put Your Mark on the Map” post in the community section of the forums, and sign up for the AIE Meetup.com page so you can get notified about the meetups in your area, or even plan your own. Nerdtacular is coming very soon! Click the link in the show notes as there are just too many threads to list. People are organizing events both before and after, from hikes in the valley, to pool tournaments. Also ride and room shares! We’re coming right up to the event now, so hopefully you have already got your travel arrangements there, but make sure to check out the whole SECTION of the forums! And with that, it’s time to get back to RattoZatto and Grimbane to talk about The Secret World…   GAME NEWS Issue #7 is coming soon.  Keeping in theme, Issue #6 had an “Indiana Jones” feel, #7 will have a “James Bond” feel.  It will be set in Transylvania, and starts in the Besieged Farmlands (First of the three zones). Snowmobile chases, bridge base jumping, underground glacier bases, and even a teddy bear will be elements in this investigation of secret goings on. There’s a new Auxiliary weapon, the Flamethrower.  It will have 4 active abilities just like previous weapons.  Joel shared that there will be a cone AoE, a flame wall ability, an AoE that does an initial effect, then can be ignited for more damage, and an ability that drops lots of damage on one target.  The secondary effect of all flame thrower skills is they apply a DoT on the target(s) that increases the damage by 10% with every tick. Joel also shared that we’ll be able to stream audio from any number of our favorite sites directly into the game.  A prime example of this, is being able to listen to Radio Free Gaia, a The Secret World community radio station, right from the game, instead of while running your normal internet browser in the background. There will be related, and expanded daily missions for the Envoy of Ca’ d’Oro.  This is the Council of Venice group who works with all three secret society factions in battling against the various evil forces, primarily, the Filth. Issue #8 has gotten some sneak preview information, but this is further on the horizon.  This will be the ramp-up update that leads directly into finally entering Tokyo. There will be a massive event where the Filth will be surging into Agartha, and by the wording of it, this world event helps to determine when exactly access to Tokyo, and when Issue #9 is released.  The event in #8 is also supposed to tie in with the one-year anniversary of the launch of TSW. In addition, there is an Augment System coming out.  So far, all anyone knows it it’s an additional place to spend Ability Points and Skill Points to tweak the Ability Wheel abilities. The other major content that will be involved with Issue #8, is Scenarios.  These will be regular events that happen in different locations, however, what transpires in the event will be random.  An example Joel gave is in the church at Kingsmouth, when the night cycle begins in-game, you have to protect a group of people in the church from the zombie horde.  However, some possible random events could include:  One of the people was infected, so now there’s a zombie on the inside, supplies from a helicopter is dropped off away from the safety of the church, wards start to fail and now the players have to recharge the wards. AIE has an active group of people who participate in different bits of content in the game.  There’s Lair Night on Wednesday with the Legion of Dynamic Discord, as well as the I Have a Dream of Nightmares group who meets on Sundays and Mondays.  Dungeon runs, and daily missions are run by various people.  Currently, the Lair people are working on the Solomon Island zones.  Once those are done, the more dangerous Region bosses will start to get attempted.  The Nightmare people are progressing through the “18’s” and are getting closer to finally doing full clears of Polaris, Darkness War, and Hell: Raised.  Soon, they will start working on Hell: Eternal, expanding into the “24’s”. CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Rattozatto and Grimbane for joining us! And a big shout out to the gang in the live chat room for joining in on the fun. Next week we’ll be talking with the gang from SWTOR.   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Alludra’s Pets – Overly Dramatic News – Ask Miss Mulgra – MegaMinute – Hailing Frequencies – Hunter Talk   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – Guest Twitter: @RattoZatto, @SundryPhotos – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul!

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/3He3EOq6SWU?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=3He3EOq6SWU&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep5338″ /] On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – The Force is twice as strong this weekend – Secrets are twice as secret this weekend – Phasers are twice as stunning this weekend. – Wait… what the heck is going on here? – And Ayhood joins us to talk about AIE in Rift. All that and more coming up right now…   AIE NEWS Now, we RARELY mention this…but if you haven’t gone to the forums, you’re missing out! The Imperium Ludi section there has all SORTS of games that people are getting into! New MMOs like Elder Scrolls and Marvel Heroes, and I’m sure Friend codes for the new Animal Crossing will show up there too! Join the fun, and see what folks are playing!  The first step to GERP-ing in a new game is to go there, checked the pinned post for more info.   We have our guest here to talk about all the crazy goings-on in Telara, but given it IS a big news item, Rift is now Free to Play! Lots of restrictions have been lifted, and Alludra, they have Pets! Ayhood will fill us in on all the details after we get through the news!   If you happen to be playing a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, there are a few double-XP weekends coming up very soon! Starting June 22nd, every weekend till the holiday weekend, when it goes from Thursday-Sunday!   Emerge from the Agartha and follow the bees, as the Secret World has a special weekend coming up this very weekend, called Black Weekend. Additional loot, recruitment bonuses, double XP and more. Seems that the game companies are becoming aware time is precious and are trying to make it hard to decide where to spend those weekends!   Star Trek Online, the newest addition to the AIE Family, ALSO has a bonus weekend starting today! Bonus Rep and Fleet Marks will be given all weekend, with some missions you can repeat from the past, or do them for the first time if you are a recent addition! There are also special rewards you can get from the events being run, so look for those as well!   As Zod have mentioned, Pet battles are a great way to earn XP in WoW. Or at least…were! It appears that one patch removed them altogether, perhaps accidentally, and now there have been conflicting reports from EU and US community Managers, and now perhaps your pet needs to be 5 levels from what it is fighting for YOU to get XP? Only time will tell how this shakes out!   Your fellow guildies in Guild Wars 2 are also planning an event for this weekend! For everyone who has not done so, and even if you just want to come along for the party, a map completion hunt is scheduled for Saturday at 8pm EST, even if you aren’t level 50-60, they will do their best to keep ya alive and looting for the duration! Also remember that the Dragon Bash festival is currently going on there!   And with that, let’s dive into Rift…   GAME NEWS Patch 2.3: Highlights: – Rift is F2P   (info at www.riftgame.com/free – New Zone (Dendrome)  1.5 times the size of ember isle – New Dimensions, Mounts, pets, and more   F2p: *PSA – Please get an authenticator* Ghomus agrees, EVERY game that offers one? GET ONE.   a good guide for people new to rift or starting anew. http://www.riftscene.com/guides/rift-a-starters-guide/ Items of Interest: Things you might have missed: –  Twisted Artifacts are now in SL zones –  Level ranges for each zone are now listed on the map –  Porticulums can be used by both factions other than the major city ones.  (yay for port in north scarlet gorge) –  Carnage quests now require fewer kills –  All rep rewards are Bind on Acct! –  Trinkets and greater essences have upgrade paths CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Ayhood for joining us! Next week we’ll be talking to the gang from The Secret World. Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Overly Dramatic News – Alludra’s Pets – Hunter Talk – Hailing Frequencies – Ask Miss Mulgra   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – Guest Twitter: – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us or watch one of our past shows on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! Kudos to cybyl for this week’s show title!  

No Video this week, you will have to imagine the visual hilarity! On this episode of The AIE Podcast.. – Nerdtacular is Near! – Blizzard Services on Sale! – Green wall at Work! – Dragon Bashing is Fun! – And we talk with Hoots and Stu about Eve Online! All that and more coming up right now…   AIE NEWS Nerdtacular countdown! We are at a mere four weeks until the big event! This is just a friendly reminder to make sure all your travel plans are in order and your rooms are booked! And this just in from twitter, there will be a cash bar reception (and soda bar!) on thursday evening. Details will be coming to the website soon!   There’s been a lot of chatter about the jabber client on the forums! What’s Jabber? Well it’s AIE’s out of game greenwall chat! More members are connecting out of game just to hang out wit the guild. If you find yourself missing greenwall, head on over and check it out. Details on how to connect are inside.   Just a reminder, simply because there are so many multi-player and MMO games coming out, please do not take it upon yourself to ‘establish’ AIE in any of these games. We have an whole process where we DO move into new games, but we like to make it official! Check this post in the forums for information how to go about doing such if you’d like to see AIE other places!   World of warcraft character services are 50% off until June 10th! Faction changes, server changes, race and name changes! All half off! If you have been waiting for a great time to join us over on Earthen Ring, or want to bring over that much missed character, now is the time!!   Rifts ‘free weekend’ extended until the game goes Free to play on June 12th! How do you get in on to free to play early? Well if you have ever purchased a copy of rift, you are already in! Remember, AIE is on the Deepwood shard, and they have lifted all previous faction restrictions to boot!   Dragon bash is coming to Guild wars 2 this June 11th! Dragon bash is an all new festival where you will hopefully be…bashing dragons! But that’s not all this event  has to offer! There are new events, new armors, achievements, and yes! Even new mini pets! Check out the website to see all this event has to offer!   And speaking of guild wars, Devon Carter, a world vs. world designer for guild wars 2 has an interview up on the site! Go check it out as he talks about the future of world vs. world combat, including upcoming changes to gameplay and mechanics to make the battles more epic and exciting!   For links to all the items we just covered, see the show notes at TheAIEPodcast.com, or of course, read the forums!   And with that, let’s jump into some Eve news!   GAME NEWS   Odyssey Expansion Here Stu and Hoots can gloss over some of the major changes taking place in this new expansion. Jump gate effect and new station models.  Prettifying everything. Economic disarray — resources for producing stuff is getting switched up. Boring ship rebalances — but pretty ship redesigns. They completely overhauled the exploration system. It’s much easier now. Boring skill rebalances and changing skill requirements for some stuff.  It’s really boring if you don’t play EVE though.  Really.  Really.  Boring. Some UI changes. There are 52 pages of patch notes that I’m not going to bore you with.   What Have We Been Doing   Hoots Strategic ops, More Strategic Operations, Another Strat Op. I saw two of the biggest ships in the game die in a single day [one was a baby :-(] Explain medical clones and how I “wasted” 24 days (Battlecruisers V). Nothing. There is NO fourth thing. The Battle of 1-SMEB (Sierra Mike Echo Bravo) There’s a lot of fighting happening in this system. There are complicated reasons why said fighting is happening.  I am in the process of writing a Who’s Who In Nullsec Politics for AIE Newbies that will be posted on the forums within the week or so. The reasons behind these battles are literally like reading The Guns of August by Barbara Tuckman.   Breaking News: Goonswarm is Invading Fountain! They are staging out of some system called… uh… who cares. B-DBYQ (Bravo Dash Delta Bravo Yankee Quebec) for those who do. NATO Phonetic in fleets tangent Why are they invading? Money.  The expansion left them “destitute.” That’s really it.  No hard feelings.  Right? CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Hoots and Stu for joining us! Next week we’ll be talking to Ahood about AIE in Rift!   Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… – Alludra’s Pets – Overly Dramatic News – MegaMinute – Ask Miss Mulgra   But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – Guest Twitter: @aiehoots, @_stupidgenius – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul!  

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/xpK6t9oLqGE?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=xpK6t9oLqGE&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep2301″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… – Our new GOTM is no secret – Former Rifters can Rift for free –  Beam Us Up, Stigg! – Spring has sprung for the clan of the rings – And we’ll hopefully talk with our own Warchief of WoW All that and more coming up right now… Lanc will be catching us up on the exploits of AIE in Azeroth and the changes in patch 5.3 in just a moment, but first, the news… AIE NEWS   Ladies and gentlemen! We have a New Guildie Of The Moment! Everyone give three cheers for Wyllow of The Secret World! Many great things were said about this guildie including This player has been super helpful and very patient every time I have spoken to her in game. She’s always answered questions when she is free and is willing to lend a helping hand. Wyllow is awesome, one of the nicest and most helpful people I have met in any game. I totally agree, she has been a vital part of AIE Secret World and she is just all around amazing So everyone please congratulate Wyllow if you see her in game, and remember you too can nominate someone for Guildie of the Moment, just send an email to [email protected]   If you’re a former Rift player who wandered off to other things and wants to see how Telara has been keeping, you might be interested to know that Rift will be free to play this weekend. This isn’t the free-to-play version that’s in the works; this is just a special deal for former subscribers who want to check the game out again to decide if they want to add it back to their game rotation when the game goes free to everyone. The free time started today, May 30th, and will last until Monday, June 3rd.   The Guild members of Lord of the Rings Online are taking advantage of the new Springfest in-game event! It all starts on June 1st at 9 PM Eastern time. where they will have live music, and later in the evening a foray into the Ettenmoors for PvMP (player versus monster-player). More information can be found in the lord of the rings section of the AIE forums in the AIE Springfest ‘13 thread.   For all you current and future starfleet captains, we are happy to announce Star Trek Online has now been added to the AIE UMAMI membership database. All current STO guild members need to sign up in UMAMI to register their characters. AIE’s starfleet admirals will be conducting a purge of all guild members in game that are not in UMAMI on June 29th, so make sure your captains are accounted for. Big thanks to the hardworking Stigg for making the update   If you’d like to take a peek at some of the World of Warcraft Tier 14 raid content, our own If Looks Could Kill raiding team has put together a very impressive video from showing off their adventures in Mogu’shan Vaults, Heart of Fear, and Terrace of Endless Spring. You can find the link in the AIE Azeroth forums, or in our show notes . The AIE Cookbook is a hit! At least according to Beefmaster and Beefywife. The Beefs posted on the forums about the scrumptious dinner they had using Grudek’s Tater Tot Casserole recipe.  If you’d like to feed your own AIE horde, you can get a copy of the AIE Cookbook in the Frogpants store for just $19.95. The cookbook is full of beautiful illustrations by our own master cartoonist and head nerd Scott Johnson, and of course wonderful home-grown family-favorite recipes from dozens of AIE members. All profits go to fund AIE in Real Life events, such as the Guild Hall at Blizzcon, so it’s good for AIE as well as your belly.   World of warcraft has a new mount for sale The armored Bloodwing! If you have 25 dollars american, and feel like you don’t have anything wicked cool to ride around azeroth on, we suggest you give this shadow bat a look.   If you follow the AIE EVE forums, there appears to be some interesting hubbub going on concerning the defense of our corporation and the TEST alliance. Lanc, you do part-time work in the space race; is there anything you can share about the fracas?   The great battles of 1-SMEB According to DOTLAN 2,600 ships have been lost since the beginning of the engagement. TEST Alliance alone fielded over 1200 pilots for battles 1 & 2 and 800 for the third. Have no fear TEST was victorious but it si not even summer yet. There is this great little EVE podcast put on by members of AIEU called Cap Stable.  You may want to check it out and find out what happened in detail. http://capstable.net/ Stay tuned for more details.   The AIE Podcast needs your input! We are your podcast, so tell us what you want to hear! Please send any comments, thoughts, suggestions, ideas, complaints, or questions to us at [email protected].   For more information on the news topics covered tonight, see our show notes at TheAIEPodcast.com, or better yet, read the AIE forums at aie-guild.org.   And with that, it’s time to catch up on what’s going on in AIE in Azeroth. Lanc, the floor is yours…   GAME NEWS   5.3 Escalation hit us on the 21st?  Have you joined the cause? http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/blog/10021220/     Vol’jin has declared open rebellion against Garrosh. Senjin Village expereince The march on Razor Hill Marching along Vol’jin & Chen Stormstout was awesome.  I looked behin me and was blown away by seeing the army and a sizeable airforce behind me The capture of Razor Hill Squee! The solidification of Vol’jin’s power Thrall Chen Stormstout Baine Bloodhoof Lor’themar Theron Sylvanas Heck even the Alliance wants to help him out! The Kork’kron Garrosh’s military police Oppressing and executing Darkspear I wonder what Sylvanas is going to do?  Muwahahaha!   I have not had a chance to run the new battleground as I have been focusing on finishing the story line.  I like Stories…   For you Herbalist out there.  Yes Lanc is a flower picker.  You got a problem with that?  The following gathering professions can now be leveled up in Pandaria at low levels. Herbalism Miners     PvP Resilience for all!  No more resilience gear But you still can gem and enchant for it Battle fatigue: healing reduced by 45%   New Scenarios Blood in the snow and The Darkheart of Pandaria are actually really really good. I still have “The Secrets of Ragefire” to do I just wish people weren’t such jerks   Misc. Players can now use items that are in the bank or Void Storage for transmogrification. In game browser! Gear level cap in battleground, rated battlegrounds and arenas.  (Capped at lvl 496) PVP role check Picking up the flag?  You are going to feel it in rated BGs.  50% increase in damage for flag carriers   And so much more:  Read the patch notes for details and hotfixes. http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/blog/10021220/     The thread that will not die!  It’s lolcat Friday, prepping for Caturday! http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/1737-its-lolcat-friday-in-prep-for-caturday/     CLOSE   And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Lanctharus for joining us, and our chat room for adding some great commentary! Next week we’ll be talking to the members of AIE EVE!   Stay tuned, as we’ve got some great AIE member segments coming right up, including… – Overly Dramatic News – Alludra’s Pets – PvP 101 – Ask Miss Mulgra – Epic Diapers – Hailing Frequencies     But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – Guest Twitter: @lanctharus – New website: TheAIEPodcast.com – Watch our old shows: youtube.com/user/theaiepodcast – Our Awesome Theme was composed by Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul on twitter!   Kudos to VanFlicke for this week’s show title!

[embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/guzddbInM9k?fs=1&hd=1″ vars=”ytid=guzddbInM9k&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep6189″ /]   On this episode of The AIE Podcast… A war in EVE you can really ‘delve’ into Ridiculous Raptr Rift Rewards! World of Warcraft gets a new patch! Cap’n Hunter and ?? talk about Star Trek: Online All that and more coming up right now… AIE NEWS Maxx on the forums has a warning for AIE SWTOR players, it seems accounts are getting caught up in suspensions or bans if they move bound color crystals in legacy weapons. SWTOR has since decided some of the accounts were unfairly banned and released a patch to fix the exploits, if your account was not unlocked, contact [email protected]   There appears to be something of a…large WAR going on in ‘delve’ within EVE, and AIE is participating. Check out the forum post called In Defense of Delve for more information. This is a call to arms folks! Book of Heroes is humming along nicely! This weekend is Double Guild Loyalty rewards, so make sure and raid as much as ya can to get to level 5!  I’m still trying to get everything aligned and we might end up collapsing a bit more, just to make sure all the guilds have enough, but we’ll get there!   The folks that do Lairs (Raids) in Secret World are still meeting weekly! Check out the thread for the League of Dynamic Dischord (all hail Pyramidian!) that gets updated with what they’re currently working on in the forums! They’re a really great group of folks, very generous with time and in-game currency! They need more folks to show up so they can try some of the more complex bosses out there.   So if you are listening to the news here and NOT in game, you’re already missing it, but keep in mind, 16 mans ARE happening in SW:TOR. Emperor Pelpatine put up a post regarding the Gree Xenoanalyst, there are a few requirements to be able to join up, but check it out for the info so you can be ready for next time!   World of warcraft’s patch 5.3 has dropped! This is a huge patch that has many awesome updates including the new Darkspear rebellion questline, 18 new pets! (yay!) and Waay too much stuff to mention! (Like daily server restarts! and constant mod updating oooo)   Raptr has more rift rewards! Raptr, a social networking site for gamers, has teamed up with Rift to allow players to earn free pets, gear, and ultimately, a free copy of Rift’s expansion Storm legion. Remember rift is free to play up to level 20 until this june when the entire game goes free to play! So go and enjoy! GAME NEWS   Star Trek Online Hot on the heels of a new Star Trek movie a new expansion just launched. “Legacy of Romulus” It’s FREE! You can now play Romulans, Klingons and Feds from level 1 up to max level (50) Romulan story line is just amazing. Choose Fed or Klingon to ally with at level 10. New UI matching each faction (plus things like separating chat tabs into new windows) Movie poster like character selection screen (not just you, but your ship … your crew…) Great new Klingon content starting you out at level 1 (and just how DOES a Klingon get command of a ship? *wink wink*)   General game related: Legacy packs are still available.   Lifetime subscriptions are on sale until June 21st! $199 down from $299. – a few of the lifetime perks: full foundry access, play as a liberated Borg, costume insignia, Captain’s Yacht shuttle (ship), android bridge officer, free ship (heavy destroyer) plus TONS of little things like respecs, costume pieces, etc.   Replay missions are going on now, so you can earn limited time mission rewards again for completing past featured missions. Get things like an Ophedian cane, Breen bridge officer, Reman bridge officer, and more.   Fleet related: Closing in on 100 crew members, at least 80+ of which are actual people. But we are expecting an influx of alts. 😉   We are now a level 8 fleet and just about to wrap up Embassy tier 2 and start construction on Starbase tier 3, starting with the upgraded shipyard that should be starting soon.   We are planning an in-game get together sometime in the next two week or two as the starbase has a TON of new goodies, including a dance floor, a bigger bar, and lots of fun little additions. CLOSE And that’s our show for tonight, We want to thank Captain Hunter and RattoZatto  for joining us! Next week we’ll be talking to world of warcraft Stay tuned, as we’ve got a full ride of great AIE members segments coming right up, including… PVP 101 Ask Miss Mulgra MegaMinute Overly Dramatic News But first, if you need to reach us, we can be found at… – Email: [email protected] – Twitter @aiepodcast, @shownotfound @acuzod @alludra_aie – Guest Twitter: Captain Hunter is @theinktank – We record live with video every Thursday at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific. You can join the chatroom and play along with us, or watch one of our past shows, on our website at TheAIEPodcast.com – Our theme was composed by the amazing Andrew Allen, follow him at @keyswithsoul! Shout out to Ralff (we think!) for the show title!