• Opening/Intro/Shoutouts
• Hosts: Alekseyev Karrde, Jimer Lins, Great Larin and Special Guest Host: The PitBoss!
• Contract Wrapups: Interdiction of G-EURJ/X5-0EM, Pest Control Union, Wormhole POS Save, Pocket Lockdown, Electus Matari POS Takedown Attempt, a Freighter Escort, and CVA!
• EVE News: Alliance Tournament (:sadface:), Northern withdrawal/SC Resets, Paxton Federation booted from Providence, Opticon joins CVA, Vanguard leaves the NC, and the controversy surrounding a massive supercap fight.
• This Week in Mercs: Nightjester returns to Noir., Updates to the Merc Contracts Channel, R.E.P.O./Snatch Victory dramabomb, Privateers(!), and NMG. resets all of Providence.
• Closing/Outro: Jimer’s rant, and a rendition of “Poker Face” by Lady GaGa done by Jimer Lins.

Enjoy!

Direct Link: http://media.libsyn.com/media/declarewar/DeclarationsOfWarEpisode14.mp3

The in-browser player still seems to be on the fritz. I’ll bug the podlogs host about it. RSS feed is working and so is iTunes, though.

* This Week in Mercs: Nightjester leaves Noir. and forms Smash and Grab, Underworld Excavators gets out of the merc business but MCREW reformed as Paradigm Alliance, New faces in the Merc Contracts Channel, Noir. can has space, We are terrible carebears,

* Aftermath of the Provi stomp: Aralis and the freighter, VVA is going to go all Noir. on our ass, Mynxee almost loses a JF in Providence, reflections on owning space.

Direct link: http://media.libsyn.com/media/declarewar/DeclarationsOfWarEpisode13.mp3

(the in-browser thingy seems to be borked at the moment, but the RSS feed seems to be working.)

(The first few minutes has a few artifacts due to an inadvertent editing problem I didn’t catch until the last minute. Rather than start over, I decided to go with it. Sorry about that!)

• Intros- Jimer Lins, Nidia Masters, Sweet Julie, Alekseyev Karrde and KAtnos.
• Shoutouts.
• Contract Wrapup
  • Providence
  • Brief discussion of the (at the time) current contract vs. Primary. Alliance.
• EVE News
  • Jimer’s first reactions to Dominion
  • Hey, Goons are gone
  • Systematic Chaos/Stainwagon
  • Providence is burning
• CSM Summit Notes from Alek
  • Minor things like making wrecks scannable, D-scanner improvements, broadcast improvements, etc
  • Extending CSM Terms to one year
  • Account Security improvements
  • Customer Support(!)
  • Docking games fixes (no docking if you’re scrambled? Oh yes)
  • Dominion isn’t really a major success in its intentions
  • Treaties!
  • Battle recorder (oh yeah)
  • Killmails for self-destructs?
  • Jump bridge ranges
  • Information Warfare links are terrible, they could be improved
  • Destroyers!
  • Planetary Interaction
  • Why changing the corp roles system is probably not going to happen
  • Suicide ganking is an accepted mechanic, insurance is a problem
  • Corp bookmarks
  • CSM is now a stakeholder in the development process at CCP
• This Week in Mercs
• GIS and Noir. join forces
• Duty. and Underworld Excavators part ways
• Jimer’s Rant: Smacktalk
• Outro: Sweet Julie treats us to a rendition of “Moskau” by Dschingis Khan

Podcast Home: http://www.garageband.com/user/JimerLins/podcast/main

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Enjoy!

Truth to tell, my computer decided it prefers to imitate bricks than spaceships, but a new motherboard is coming this weekend.

Even more exciting, I haven’t listened to it yet! So I don’t have the agenda for you. It was edited by the inimitable Erichk Knaar, who gets nowhere near the credit he deserves for- well, for anything, really. It’s appreciated!

Enjoy the podcast! I know I will.

Quick edit: Go check out http://www.planetriskshow.com/ because they freaking rule and are guests on this episode!

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We hadn’t realised quite how impatient you lot are until there was a “tiny” delay to our whole production process. It’s almost like you enjoy the podcast or something…

Thanks to McCreary075 for stepping into the the fray for me when I was away for this podcast, and a shout out to Jimer who trusted me enough to let me edit this podcast!

Anyway, without further ado, here is what you will find in this episode:

• Special guest – Taram Caldar (at the time an Ex-Noir. pilot!)
• Contract Wrap Ups – Drekla Consortium, Legio Astarte Arcanum, Fear & Loathing in New Eden, Fountain and Immensea
• Noir. in Alliance Tournament 7
• New rig sizes & Minmatar weapon changes
• Dominion changes – Faction Ship improvements, New Titan Doomsday weapon, Moon changes and changes to systems infrastructure
• Assault Frigates discussion
• New tax on NPC corp members
• KIA close down.
• Logistical Nightmare stops taking merc contracts
• Privateers contract (At the time of recording this had just started)
• Noir. Academy launched
• Jimer’s rant!

Hope you enjoy the podcast, and you’ll be pleased to know that Episode 9 on it’s way…

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Kan3r

 -Scheduling “issues”. Delays? It’s Jimer’s fault.
 -Shoutouts (with apologies to various Noir. member’s sisters).
 -Results of “What would Noir. mean if it was an acronym?”
 -Contract wrapup- Paladin Order OPFOR
 -Contract wrapup- Malum Exuro.
  -False starts.
  -Carrier kills, nom nom nom nom.
  -Epic wormhole gank.
 -EVE News
  -Dust 514- this time with actual information.
  -EBANK Implosion- It’s a Ponzi scheme. Shocking.
  -NC helping Goons get their former holdings back. Good times all around.
  -Coracao Ardente closes its doors (:sadface:)
 -This Week in Mercs
  -We need theme music.
  -Stealthfield Revisited (ed: Too many alliances with “X’ at the beginnng/end of their names)
  -Sir, the Kraken! (Giant Squid Corp declares war on Noir.)
  -Followup on joining/leaving alliances to avoid wardecs.
  -GM Fail (AGAIN): Noir. gets a warning for leaving and rejoining alliances to avoid wardecs. It’s OK to laugh, we did too. And for the fourth time, we go over how badly the GMs mangle the management of this game- for example, by levering warnings against one of most active PVP corps in EVE for- yes- attempting to avoid wardecs. >.> Good game!

 -In conclusion: A dramatic reading of local smack.
  -In lieu of a Jimer Rant, we present Takezo Kenzei going off on Zedrik Cayne after Noir. ganked some carriers. Truly a goldmine of lol.
  -Dramatis Personae:
  Takezo Kenzei: Jimer Lins
  Zedrik Cayne: Kan3r Blaze
  Miscellaneous guy in local: Alekseyev Karrde
 -Conclusion and Signoff

If you like our dramatic reading, send us your best smacktalk logs and we’ll take the best ones and turn them into dramatic readings too! We’re looking for the best you can give us, so we can have a fun and funny segment for the podcast.

Enjoy the podcast!

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In fact, there’s some amusement value in this one- We discuss Dust 514- two days before CCP announced what it was going to be about! So you can look back through the lens of history- well, two weeks of it- and see what people thought Dust was going to be. Decide for yourself if we’re visionaries or just idiots. But don’t tell us which, I don’t think our hearts could take the truth.

Tonight’s Agenda:

* Alek is on vacation, so we have a guest host and Noir.’s newest officer (at the time) McCreary075.
* Some shoutouts (don’t worry, it’s short!)
* EVE News- Dust 514, ISK sellers spamming the hell out of the forums, mass hysteria!
* This week in Mercs- “mercs” offering free wardecs if you pick an interesting target, F-OFF coming back into the biz.
* Jimer has a few words to say about ISK sellers.

In the future the podcast should be every two weeks. We tried for a weekly thing but the content just wasn’t there and frankly the time investment made it a lot harder to maintain that pace. Now we record every week and release the following week.

By the way, Episode Seven is already recorded and awaiting its own round of editing love- expect it  this coming weekend!

Your frequently tardy, but never retarded host- Jimer Lins.

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So, without further ado, this week’s agenda:

• Opening- Weekly schedule? We’ll try!
• Shoutouts (it’s short this time, we promise!)
• Contract Review: Blue Sky Consortium and the Mercenary Event of the Summer
• Why aren’t we on R&R?
• What happens when you send nearly all the merc corps in the game to take out one tower and hire the rest to defend it
• Petitions about dodgy wardec mechanic manipulation.
• Missions are boring. So is ratting.
• A word to our “competiton”.
• EVE News:
• Scamming for alliance tournament slots? Fair or foul?
• What about if it’s a CSM member doing it?
• Northern Coalition vs the “xx<noun>xx” alliances
• Channel Four News Team does what is probably the best homage to a fallen comrade ever. Six motherships down, THIS. IS. SPARTA! style on a lowsec gate.
• lolgoonpropaganda
• This Week in Mercs:
• Duty. closes their doors?
• Night Wolves and xxx<something>xxx get their acronym on.
• What should Noir. stand for?
• The Little Black Ops Merc Corps that could or could not?
• Jimer has a few words about GMs and the fabled 3-second petition.
• Closing notes and signoff.

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In this episode:

• Kan3r’s introduction and background
• Shoutouts, including some reader questions
• Contract review: Violent Society and Elite Trade Group. Contract Wrapup by Alek with commentary by Jimer and Kan3r.
• EVE News and Events: CCP and Customer Service, Declarations of War/Noir. Gathering Review, and a discussion of the EVE Alliance Tourney and the Selection System.
• This Week in Mercs: Duty. going on hiatus, and How I learned to stop worrying and troll Noir.
• Jimer has a few words about Forum Alts. And no, he’s not THAT serious about it.

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