Gaiscioch Community News August, 2015
- Greetings and Well met!
I must say this month has been much less stressful than last month. However it is going to be a busy one with the month capping out at PAX Prime. We're also creeping up on our 14th Birthday as a community and putting together plans for our 5th Annual Extra Life Event. The summer festivities are coming to a close and PAX Prime marks the start of my calmer months. So you should see me around a bit more reliably and have access to me more often.
- Fifth Annual Gaiscioch PAX Prime Celebration
Coming to Seattle Washington, Sunday August 30th 2015 at 8PM PT is the annual Gaiscioch Family celebration at Fado Irish Pub. This year is looking like our biggest to date with over 10 people confirmed and a few of which traveling more than 2,000 miles to attend! If you live in the Pacific Northwest and would like to meet up with some of our families key personalities like Soren, Morigana, the Don, The Legendary Nona, or Kaytlin be sure to come out. We're even having some developers stop by to say hi. Festivities begin at 8PM and we usually go until nobody is left standing.
- Key Dates for August 2015
Friday, July 31st - August 2nd: ChinaJoy 2015 Conference
Saturday, August 1st @ 5PM: The Gaiscioch Family Summit Livestream - GameVox/Twitch
Wednesday, August 5th @ 5PM: Magazine Team Meeting - GameVox
August 6-9th: Gamescon 2015
Monday, August 17th: Magazine Issue 6 Ships Publicly
Wednesday, August 26th @ 5PM: Event Leaders Meeting - GameVox
August 28- September 1st: PAX Prime
Sunday, August 30th @ 8PM: 5th Annual Gaiscioch Family PAX Prime Celebration
- ESO to Get Paid DLC Every 3-4 Months
At Quakecon, Bethesda's annual conference, ZeniMax Online Studios announce that they will be planning to release 4 Major DLC packs every year. The first of which being the infamous Imperial City pack arrives this week! It's good to see them set a plan in motion as the past few months have been rather dry on the progress front. This way we should at least see a constant flow of content coming to the game and regular updates on this content. This also means that during my events we will be targeting the Imperial City content if available so be sure to snag that first DLC pack.
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- Foghladha's Events Return to AvA
I'm pleased to announce with my daughter safely back at home and my free time returning to me, I am planning to host an ESO event every other week on Thursday at 6PM PT rotating between Blackwater Blade and the other campaigns. If available these events will head into the Imperial City so be sure to snag the DLC expansion if you plan to attend. I will be streaming these as part of the Siege War livestream. All are welcome to join.
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- August 2015 Guild Wars 2 Progress Report
While we did see a decline in activity this month, this is a typical decline we see every year. This year however we dropped only 5% whereas traditionally in July we drop 15-25%. This year has been the smallest decline we've seen in over 4 years. As we roll into the fall months we should see an increase in population and activity. Additionally I suspect we'll finally see a release date for Heart of Thorns this month. Both Gamescon and PAX Prime take place this month and historically, Guild Wars 2 really likes stealing the show at PAX Prime being it's in their backyard.
- Sanctum of Rall Reduced In Transfer Price
If you're currently living off Sanctum of Rall and wanting to transfer to Gaiscioch's home server, the time is now. With the new Population monitor ArenaNet deployed this week for more accurate population status' Sanctum of Rall is now 500 Gems (About 90 Gold) to transfer too. This price won't stay the same forever as we will be growing now that the price is right. So jump on the Bob Barker train and get on over here for some WvW fun!
- New Learning Focused Event Series
This month we have 2 Gaiscioch Learning events scheduled. The first is scheduled for August 13th at 6PM Pacific and centers around the basics of Guild Wars 2. Topics include:
- Primetime Missions & WvW on a New Night
This month we move our Wednesday to Tuesday. Join us on Tuesday nights at 4:45 for Tequatl, Missions & WvW. Due to the change in nights, Smitty's event will now take place on Wednesdays. Once Heart of Thorns is release we will be re-evaluating our Missions event to see if it is necessary post guild system changes.
- Issue 6 Ships Soon, Issue 7 Planning in the Works
Final production has begun on Gaiscioch Magazine issue 6 as we kick off planning phase for issue 7. Next issue's theme is The Human Connection. Were looking for a couple couples who found love in gaming to participate in an interview about love and dragons. Were also collecting stories on how friendships were born in gaming. This next issue will be focused on the bonds we build through gaming. Be sure to write [email protected] if you would be interested in being featured this issue.
- Monthly Meeting Date/Time Changed
Being the Streams of Epic Adventure are sliding up in time, the Monday meetings will be ever more difficult. For this month we will try Wednesday, August 5th at 4PM. In September we will try a Saturday meeting before the Summit and see which more people show up for. Lot of balls being juggled right now sorry for the changeup.
- Magazine Team Needs a Note Taker
I'd like to see if someone can start taking notes from our meetings and posting them on the Magazine Team forum for the people who missed it. I keep forgetting and I need someone more reliable than myself. :). If anyones up for the task it would be a huge help.
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- Streams of Epic Adventure
Mondays at 6PM PThttp://gsch.info/soea
- The Siege War
Tuesday's at 6PM PT / Thursday @ 6PM PThttp://gsch.info/siegewar
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- Fog's Side Quests
Spontaneouslyhttp://gsch.info/sidequests
- Guild System Deconstructed
I am currently in the planning phase of creating this livestream / video series. This series will take a Guild Masters look at various games to highlight their features and pitfalls. I will be walking through various games sharing insight with developers and guild masters about the common pitfalls and things to avoid. It's my hope that we can provide valuable insight and suggestions and help shape future games by highlighting gaming's best features and common shortcomings.
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- August 2015 Gaiscioch Family Summit
http://gsch.info/thesummit
- A Conferencing We Will Go...
August marks the end of our dry season and as we move into September we'll likely see many of our friends return to the games we love. We should also have a wealth of knowledge flooding our news wires from Gamescon in Europe and PAX Prime in the US. Both taking place this month. Expect some massive news this month and I look forward to sharing the excitement with all of you! Have a wonderful month and I'll see you at the Summit!
- Star's Havoc Pushes Hard!
I want to thank my Havoc Sqaud for a great late night in the Borderlands last night. We had very small numbers and accomplished so many things. We made sure to siege up our Home BL and maintain it, as well as upgrading it through out the night...
- Mission: Karka Extermination Completed
Thank you all for coming out to join in the Lion's Arch Master Map completion event tonight and killing all those pesky karka that invaded the city. I think we managed to get Princess for everyone who stayed for the whole event...
- Non-Vet AvA
Played non-Vet AvA for the first time last night. It was surprisingly fun. We had a small group, but we were effective, and had lots of fun, or at least I think we did. It was a change of a very monotonous normally Vet run...
- Stars Raiders Golem Rush!
I want to thank all of you for coming out tonight, it was a ton of fun! We built our golems on AR and DH and kept hopping back and forth during the event. You guys were awesome and I while I am sure I will never get 31 Keeps again in one run, all of you made that possible tonight...
- Golem K-train on EB
As much karma, XP, and WXP as we can get.
- Untitled
Everything went smoothly until the netch boss where we died once. The other time we died was during the part where we had to take on four dwemmer armies. The Engine guardian battle went pretty well, Our tank (whose name i forgot, sorry) disconnected halfway through.
- The night of no enemies
There seemed to be no resistance for the first 45 minutes of the trip tonight. We rolled through camps, towers, keeps, and garrisons. Very fun. But where were all the enemies...
- Patience patience patience
Our fearless leader had much patience !
We usually did not have the way points for each puzzle.
But we given the best directions to get around and got to each place quickly.
Much loot, much fun !
- a wonderful welcome back
Thank you all for coming out for one of my favorite things... Jumping Puzzles! We had some new comers with us this evening and I really appreciate everyone's patience with them as they had to run the maps to get to us...
- Wow, what a turn out tonight!
We ended up running it the whole JP twice, both times with extra ports. Thank you all for joining me in a fun activity with 10 achievement points (and five chests).
Remember that I am moving next week, so if I am able to put something up for the achievement hunters, it will be a last minute thing...
- Victory, at last!
Darkshade has been the bane of our Undaunted record from day one - the Hive Lord offering a DPS and Magicka check right off the bat, Grobull requiring serious crowd control to handle the multiple adds and aoe, and of course the Engine Guardian, which is a challenge of communication from beginning to end...
- Star's Havoc defends Bay!
A great Home Defence last night all! With only a few of us left on the maps, GoM decided to push hard. They took Bluevale Refuge camp and set up Ballistas, Arrow Carts, and a Treb inside to fire at our Bay's wall...
- For a Friend
I haven't been around much the last week, but I had heard some unsettling things about a particular situation that happened, and I just had some general thoughts about it.
This person knows who they are, and I just want you to know that you are always welcome to come on adventures with me...
- Event calendar
Is it possible to view the time in the own time zone, in addition to the current time or instead of the current time?
This would be possible maybe, by adding the own time zone in the data.
It would making planning of events much easier.
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