Weekly FA Meetings

[Keeloth]

I also wanted to apologize for missing the meetings.  My job has been making me work Monday nights recently.  Good news is that I'll be off this Monday!

[NoCry]

chappies - I know you will probably link me a massive selection of minutes for the past X weeks but I can not seem to find em.

Could our american cousins (Ana!!!!) still post some minutes please? We will be having a fortnightly meeting for EU players rather shortly and would be good to have a record of what was discussed on the other side of the pond. ta.

[Anamodiel]

I've been remiss in posting minutes. I've been lazy. I'll get some for you this week!

[NoCry]

No worries at all old chap - you have had rather a full plate!

[Keeloth]

Dammit, got called in today for a late shift.  Not going to make the meeting like I thought I would.  Be sure to give Skry a good working-over from me.

[Anamodiel]

Please forgive any sentence fragments. I was typing like a maniac and Tbone talks really fast.

-It's Broin's favorite night of the week; time to make fun of Anamodiel!
-Be sure to vote for AstralFire's story: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=429519
-We're on the home stretch of the game! GET IN GEAR!
-SWTOR Updates: Not much official updates. Consular received a Trailer (finally), and this Friday was Fan Friday with some artwork.
-Because the news has been slow, we can expect a good bit this week. EA is having a conference tomorrow at 9am FA time, and Gamescon is this week. PAX is next week. It's the deep breath before the plunge.
-GUILD TESTING IS HAPPENING!!!!! People are getting invited into the Beta as a guild. First Wave just went out, and, obviously, we were not a part of that. We're hoping to get into a second wave.
-If you can think of anything that can get us some extra attention, you might as well try it.
-THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO: Ramp up your activity on the forums TEN FOLD. Everyone should have the FA signature in the TOR forums. Get involved in everything you can. Anything you're interested in, jump in and take apart of it.
-Answer questions if you can, do whatever you can to POSITIVELY contribute to the discussion. Our recruitment thread HAS to stay on the first page (but don't spam bomb it).
-Be sure any post you make is at least a little thoughtful. While we're advocating both quality and quanitity, quality is more important.
-The reward for this is BETA! If all of us are able to get in, we'll be able to get a head start on the game and we'll be able to hit the ground running FAST.
-We're not known for our community events
-Tbone was very talkative at the latest guild council, and David Bass was there. We're visible, but just not in the way that some of those large guild that run the fan sites and the different guild competitions.
-Once release date hits, we're going to get really organized to see who's going to be able to fully powerlevel, who's going to be more casual. Essentially we'll ask for everyone's schedule.
-Try to start checking the FA website more often, and definitely check out the SWTOR forums a good bit, too.
-Website tweaks: Roser slightly updated. You can choose a drop-down menu of the different columns that chooses both your Class and Subclass. A pre-order column is now in there instead.
-Orders have been upped to 16 now.
-We've been working on streamlining the Challenge at the galaxy map part. Please think of it as a new recruit, and if you don't know the correct answer, please give us your input. Go to the beta link and see if it makes sense to you.

[Anamodiel]

There's no way on God's green earth that I'm going to be able to make this meeting, even if David Bass himself were showing up. My roommates and I are throwing a massive rager at our house. If you guys stay on long enough, you'll see me in rare form on Teamspeak as the night goes on, if I'm lucky enough to make it onto Teamspeak.

Sorry!!

Someone please be sure to highlight Astral's story many times throughout the meeting. Link it as often as you can. Grazie!

[Oomm]

I don't know where to post this, unfortunately I will be at work during the time of the meeting. Once I get home I'll get on TS immediately.

[NoCry]

Ana - if you make it on to TS you have failed, in every possible way, get lashed then get laid

[Da6onet]

So yeah, Pepco can suck my balls. Estimated time to having power again, September 1, 7:00PM. Fuck Irene, and doubly fuck the incompetent bastards at Pepco.

oh, and I can't make tonight's meeting.

[Anamodiel]

-SWTOR Updates: Pointless Gamescon Video. Showed different people running around and talking about SWTOR.
-Lots of videos and screenshots have been posted on alterSWTOR. With the large beta waves, we should expect a lot more leaks.
-None of us got into the Beta testing this weekend. For the next weekend, we should hear tomorrow! Keep your emails open.
-Updates have been made to the website, with different guides having been posted and the like. there's a specific section on the forums for guides.
-Tbone has been working on the Jedi Sentinel guide, and its in pretty good shape. If those in Beta can start doing that for their specific class, that'd be swell.
-We had a big voting push for AstralFire, and he ended up winning the competition for the Roleplaying Stories! It got heated for a while, and he was only within 6 votes.
-When things get heated like that, don't buy into it. Stay positive and keep the high ground. Don't respond to the useless trolling of other people.
-Once we start getting in game and getting those big rivalries, remember its more effective to either completely ignore people when they throw out those accusations. It generally spirals and gets worse and worse.
-September issue of the TORmag came out. It's an old-school type thing where you download the PDF and you read an e-magazine. We have some advertisements on the Table of Contents, which is awesome because it's the first page.
-Keep bumping the recruitment thread, stay active on the SWTOR forums.
-Tbone PM'd David Bass about the updates to our Challenge, but he never replied. We'll let you know if we hear back from him.
-Couple people are still playing TOR. Some people will stream it; don't take any screenshots or record it because we could all get in serious trouble.
-Everyone else is playing LoL, Deus Ex, BFBC2.
-Pretty chill time right now. We're in a holding pattern waiting for some major invite for everyone. It could happen at any moment, so keep yourself on your toes.

Remember, it's CONSULAR. Not counselor. Noobs.

[Manic Velocity]

Wait... downloading PDFs is now considered "old-school"?

Son, I used to read magazines back when they were on vinyl. That's old-school.

[Anamodiel]

Well, old school in the way that not many websites anymore make you download a PDF anymore to read the magazine. You just click article links on the website and peruse that way. You don't flip from one page to another, unless you're on an e-reader.

Plus, I'm just the secretary. Those were Tbone's words, not mine.

[Oomm]

Sorry for my lateness of my post. I have recently haven't had AC at my house and been away from interwebs until I can get a new unit. I deeply apologize if we had a meeting this Monday.

[Tbone]

Ha I meant magazines are old school, not PDFs.