Live From the Nar Shaddaa Lounge! 7 PM Pacific/10 PM Eastern, 4/3/2012 We've been gone for a couple of weeks because our host was off on a business trip, but we're back and with a vengeance! We hope you'll join us for the best weekly live talk show about SWTOR you'll find! Tune in at Split Infinity Radio! What's up this week? Read on! TOR Top Four The top four stories as we see them this week- or just the top four things we think are the most interesting! Florida Family Assocation goes after SWTOR for having LGBT characters Community Q&A, 1.2 Edition Bioware’s April Fool’s Joke... Patch 1.2 is on the Test Server. Psyko’s played a bit... what does he think about the new warzone, the changes to gear and the lamentations of the forum whiners. Yes, there’s some big changes coming, but is it as bad as the haters claim? Research and Development We talk about our favorite feature ideas! What would be the coolest feature to add to the game? Psyko wants some way to communicate cross faction. At least give us a custom channel option... We’re at war but can’t even figure out where the fighting is... We have a trade channel, a General channel, how about a PvP channel? Jimer wants more sandbox tools. We need to be able to create our own content! Drunken Vengeance Our weekly silliness- cocktails and plugging our friends, stuff we like and cool things all around. May or may not be SWTOR-related. Dood’s Drink of the Week Flog A Friend! Ask a Psyko What Is It? The Nar Shaddaa Lounge is a weekly live broadcast on Split Infinity Radio- the station that's By Gamers, For Gamers (http://siradio.fm). The show is supported by TOR guild The Church of Alvis, the home of the drunken and vengeful. You can tune in with any Shoutcast-compatible client, whether Winamp, VLC or Windows Media Player or a ton of others. You can tune in on your iPad, Droid, iPhone, or other mobile device too! Remember to tune in at 7 PM Pacific time on Tuesday nights at http://siradio.fm! Connect With The Nar Shaddaa Lounge Website: http://alvisradio.thechurchofalvis.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Live-from-the-Nar-Shaddaa-Lounge/192006720890465 Twitter: Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/1/103062700276220449095 Email: alvisradio (at) gmail. Thanks for listening and we look forward to your feedback! Also, we want to hear your ideas for topics to cover. Let us know what you'd like to hear about. NOTE: The Nar Shaddaa Lounge is not strictly an adult broadcast, although there is content that is for adults, such as cocktail recipes and there will be some occassional off-color language or music played. Listener discretion is advised. The Nar Shaddaa Lounge and Split Infinity Radio do not encourage underage or irresponsible drinking, and if you do, we'll send Holy Alvis to crap your buffet and kick your ***.

Live From The Nar Shaddaa Lounge- Episode XI March 13, 2012 When: 7 to 9 PM Pacific time, 10-midnight Eastern Where: Split Infinity Radio (http://listen.siradio.fm) Who: Jimer, SirPsyko and frequent special guests! Welcome to The Nar Shaddaaa Lounge, your weekly live talk radio show about SW:TOR! Your hosts Jimer and SirPsyko bring you all the goodies each week! This week on the Nar Shaddaa Lounge We're changing our format a bit, and hope you like what you hear! TOR Top Four The top four stories or items on the SWTOR radar this week. Patch 1.1.5a - Tiny update, not really worth discussing, but right after restart there were problems with instances being created with tiny amounts of players. When BioWare took the servers down for a restart to fix the issue, the forums erupted in rage. Patch 1.2 Info Some prices for legacy items have come out: http://www.darthhater.com/articles/swtor-news/19982-guild-summit-patch-1-2-hands-on-highlights - we'll discuss some of what was revealed. Free Weekend... http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20120313-0 The Combat Log debate. Some people want a comprehensive log for EVERYTHING, BioWare has said that will never happen and the out-of-game individual logs will more than suffice for what people want them for (tweaking their game rotation/spec) and prevent “elitism” from people using the logs to exclude people from groups. Research and Development We talk about our favorite feature ideas! What would be the coolest feature to add to the game? Psyko wants a PvE “Mentor system”... high levels drop in skill to group and make lower level missions with guildies fun, not just walk-throughs. Gris suggested a "Spectator Mode" for Warzones... with possible credit sinks! Jimer wants a war system- guilds can declare war on each other; even same-side guilds, and be flagged for PVP against the enemy in all areas. Drunken Vengeance Our catch-all category of weirdness and fun, including Dood's Drink of the week and our new feature "Flog a friend!" Tune in to Split Infinity Radio at http://siradio.fm for The Nar Shaddaa Lounge, a weekly live radio show for you, the Star Wars: The Old Republic player and fan. Hosted by yours truly as DJ Cyclometh with special guests every week, The Nar Shaddaa Lounge is the place to be for your TOR news and information fix. We'll explore the Light and the Dark Side of TOR, the good, the bad and the ugly and bring it all to you, along with a funky mix of lounge, swing, jazz blues and rock. What Is It? The Nar Shaddaa Lounge is a weekly live broadcast on Split Infinity Radio- the station that's By Gamers, For Gamers (http://siradio.fm). The show is supported by TOR guild The Church of Alvis, the home of the drunken and vengeful. You can tune in with any Shoutcast-compatible client, whether Winamp, VLC or Windows Media Player or a ton of others. You can tune in on your iPad, Droid, iPhone, or other mobile device too! Remember to tune in at 6 PM Pacific time on Tuesday nights at http://siradio.fm! Connect With The Nar Shaddaa Lounge Website: http://alvisradio.thechurchofalvis.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Live-from-the-Nar-Shaddaa-Lounge/192006720890465 Twitter: Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/1/103062700276220449095 Email: alvisradio (at) gmail. Thanks for listening and we look forward to your feedback! Also, we want to hear your ideas for topics to cover. Let us know what you'd like to hear about. NOTE: The Nar Shaddaa Lounge is not strictly an adult broadcast, although there is content that is for adults, such as cocktail recipes and there will be some occassional off-color language or music played. Listener discretion is advised. The Nar Shaddaa Lounge and Split Infinity Radio do not encourage underage or irresponsible drinking, and if you do, we'll send Holy Alvis to crap your buffet and kick your ***.

Live From The Nar Shaddaa Lounge- Episode X March 6, 2012 Welcome to The Nar Shaddaaa Lounge, your weekly live talk radio show about SW:TOR! Your hosts Jimer and SirPsyko bring you all the goodies each week! This week on the Nar Shaddaa Lounge We're changing our format a bit, and hope you like what you hear! TOR Top Four The top four stories or items on the SWTOR radar this week. Patch 1.1.5 is out. How does it look so far? Guild Summit - Did you watch the LiveStream? Psyko did. And man, was there a lot of information. Friends of SWTOR... subscribers can now send out 3 invites to friends for a week of play (seems limited to starter planets though). Community Q&A for March Research and Development We talk about our favorite feature ideas! What would be the coolest feature to add to the game? Psyko wants an Adversary System. How does he think it should work? Shared character bank! Jimer wants an “Emergency Ship Pass” Drunken Vengeance Our catch-all category of weirdness and fun, including Dood's Drink of the week and our new feature "Flog a friend!" Tune in to Split Infinity Radio at http://siradio.fm for The Nar Shaddaa Lounge, a weekly live radio show for you, the Star Wars: The Old Republic player and fan. Hosted by yours truly as DJ Cyclometh with special guests every week, The Nar Shaddaa Lounge is the place to be for your TOR news and information fix. We'll explore the Light and the Dark Side of TOR, the good, the bad and the ugly and bring it all to you, along with a funky mix of lounge, swing, jazz blues and rock. What Is It? The Nar Shaddaa Lounge is a weekly live broadcast on Split Infinity Radio- the station that's By Gamers, For Gamers (http://siradio.fm). The show is supported by TOR guild The Church of Alvis, the home of the drunken and vengeful. You can tune in with any Shoutcast-compatible client, whether Winamp, VLC or Windows Media Player or a ton of others. You can tune in on your iPad, Droid, iPhone, or other mobile device too! Remember to tune in at 6 PM Pacific time on Tuesday nights at http://siradio.fm! Connect With The Nar Shaddaa Lounge Website: http://alvisradio.thechurchofalvis.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Live-from-the-Nar-Shaddaa-Lounge/192006720890465 Twitter: Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/1/103062700276220449095 Email: alvisradio (at) gmail. Thanks for listening and we look forward to your feedback! Also, we want to hear your ideas for topics to cover. Let us know what you'd like to hear about. NOTE: The Nar Shaddaa Lounge is not strictly an adult broadcast, although there is content that is for adults, such as cocktail recipes and there will be some occassional off-color language or music played. Listener discretion is advised. The Nar Shaddaa Lounge and Split Infinity Radio do not encourage underage or irresponsible drinking, and if you do, we'll send Holy Alvis to crap your buffet and kick your ***.

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The Nar Shaddaa Lounge Welcome to your weekly dose of fun and talk about SWTOR. Every week from 6-8 PM Pacific time, tune in for the only SWTOR live radio broadcast (that we know of)! You can catch us on Split Infinity Radio: http://listen.siradio.fm. We had a bit of a rough week and until today I thought we were done for- off the air for good. However, due to a massive outpouring of support from our listeners and some hard work, we're back and ready to rock. We won't be doing the in-game presence as we used to and we don't know how well this will work long-term but as Dood says, "The show must go on". So, with that said, here's what we're bringing to you for this week's episode! The Nar Shaddaa Lounge, Episode IX This week, the Nar Shaddaa Lounge is hosted by your friend Cyclometh (aka "Jimer" in game on Juyo), Psyko and the lovely Lady Miragel. TOR News Patch 1.1.4 is out. How does it look so far? Patch 1.1.5 is on the Test Server. Patch notes were updated to today, the 28th, but they’re not going live tonight. We’ll cover the latest edition of the 1.1.5 patches. Community Q&A for Feb 24 is posted. We’ll cover what was asked and answered. In-Game news SirPsyko is running a live XFire stream of a PVP event. This is an experiment and we'll see how well it works. The Lounge was nearly off the air for good! We'll talk about why, and how BioWare really needs to work on their sense of community. The Church of Alvis did their first run at Eternity Vault. We'll talk a little bit about how it went. Drunken Vengeance Dood’s Drink of the Week- It's a surprise this week! Closing thoughts The Nar Shaddaa Lounge is a weekly live broadcast on Split Infinity Radio- the station that's By Gamers, For Gamers (http://siradio.fm). The show is supported by TOR guild The Church of Alvis, the home of the drunken and vengeful. You can tune in with any Shoutcast-compatible client, whether Winamp, VLC or Windows Media Player or a ton of others. You can tune in on your iPad, Droid, iPhone, or other mobile device too! Remember to tune in at 6 PM Pacific time on Tuesday nights at http://siradio.fm! Connect With The Nar Shaddaa Lounge Website: http://alvisradio.thechurchofalvis.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Live-from-the-Nar-Shaddaa-Lounge/192006720890465 Twitter: Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/1/103062700276220449095 Email: alvisradio (at) gmail. Thanks for listening and we look forward to your feedback! Also, we want to hear your ideas for topics to cover. Let us know what you'd like to hear about. NOTE: The Nar Shaddaa Lounge is not strictly an adult broadcast, although there is content that is for adults, such as cocktail recipes and there will be some occassional off-color language or music played. Listener discretion is advised. The Nar Shaddaa Lounge and Split Infinity Radio do not encourage underage or irresponsible drinking, and if you do, we'll send Holy Alvis to crap your buffet and kick your ***.

Would you? Well, that's nice. Good thing you're not a moderator then. However, it was a little whiny- good point. I removed it.

Well, which rule would that be? I asked BioWare to point out what specifically I did that violated the TOS, which they kindly linked when giving me an account warning. They didn't say, but since it's so vague one can interpret saying pretty much anything as violating the TOS. I assume I was reported by someone who didn't appreciate me saying I was doing a live show in general chat. I'd mention it every five to ten minutes, notihng intrusive. Of course, I didn't want to get in the way of all the chatter (of which there was none) or the LFG spam, or the "join my guild" spam. The problem is that BioWare has rules that they don't enforce consistently, or at all, or with any logic that I can perceive. Should I be so petty as to start hitting report on all the miscellaneous "Join my guild" spam, or maybe that guy who's been spamming LFG for an hour? Because it's legitimately the same sin I was alleged to have committted. If they don't want links, I can give them a very small regex that will filter them out. Also, there should be a proscription against posting them if that was the case- there isn't any rule that I have found in the TOS that disallows posting of URLs in chat. And while I haven't seen a single "gold spam" ad, I've seen tons of ads for guilds, links to websites about TOR and a million other things. But for some reason the one I posted is special, eh? Point to the rule that disallows me from posting URLs in chat and/or announcing that I'm doing a live radio show. Spare me. I didn't "promote myself all over general chat". I'd start a show and mention every 10 minutes or so that the show was on and folks were invited to tune in if they wished. I wasn't spamming it every 30 seconds or hassling anyone. What I was doing was far less obtrusive than the guild and LFG spam, to be perfectly blunt. You can be as self-righteous as you want. This isn't about you. And again, I have yet to be told what rule I specifically violated. There isn't a rule against posting URLs in chat, so I guess you'd have to fall back on "advertising", which you could interpret that to mean, but then under that interpretation LFG spam on the fleet is "advertising". Yeah, they're real supportive of the community. They love it so much they wouldn't create server forums. Then when they finally knuckled under they created these abysmal group forums that require digging through four or five levels of links to get to. Have you checked those lately? They're a tomb, and for good reason. The whole stunt with "we won't create forums, but we'll link to a list of external ones" was entertaining too. I mean, why not fracture the community into a ton of smaller ones? Take off the blinders. BioWare has made a great game but they really and deeply suck at fostering community. This ain't my first rodeo and I've yet to see community outreach and player engagement with the community handled so badly by any large MMO. Look, in the end, I'm not here to justify anything I've done to you. I don't need to. I don't have to. I won't risk my account getting banned. If you want to interpret my reaction to BioWare's hamfisted actions as "throwing my toys out of the pram", that's your prerogative. Best of luck with your site.

I got a response from BioWare customer support earlier this evening. They basically told me to piss off. You win, BioWare. I'm quitting the field. You get the community you apparently want. Actually, I'm not even sure I'll be resubbing. I tried to play a little earlier tonight and I just wasn't having fun. Bye, kids.

It's their game and their rules, Daevien. I appreciate the outrage on my behalf but in the end, they get to make the decisions. I may not agree with them but that's where we are. I want to be able to keep playing the game, so I have cancelled my shows where I would have an in-game presence, as if I can't talk to people about the show in chat, there's really not much point. Someone suggested on another thread that I create a custom channel and send people there, but the problem is that I could just as easily be reported for spamming if I talk about my show and the channel as if I talk about the show and the SHOUTCast URL. In the end, I don't want a GM who gets a complaint to look at my acocunt, say "He's already been warned, eh?" and hit the banninate button. It's been real, kids. Thanks!

Thanks, mate. I hope you'll continue to listen to my shows; I'm not leaving the station- I've been a DJ there for years. I just won't be doing Flashpoint Friday, Super Saturday or The Nar Shaddaa Lounge any longer. It's very saddening to me and it irritates me mightily, but I simply cannot run the risk of receiving an account ban because someone decided they wanted to flag me for mentioning the show URL in general chat.

Until yesterday I did three ingame events a week where I would be covering it live on on ian nternet radio station and we would have a ton of fun in general chat. I found it interesting to observe some people would only whisper me while others were chatting up a storm in general. After getting a warning yesterday right after my show was done, I had to cancel all three shows- I don't want to get banned for it and without the in-game interaction there really isn't any point- I can just spin music and have fun without the risk of getting my acvount locked. So, you certainly won't see me chatting in general any longer. One badly taken joke or someone with a grudge and a complaint later and a GM sees a previous warning on my acount and that's all she wrote, kids. I'll probably set up a filter and just ignore it from now on.

They apparently do not approve. I received a very politely-worded threat to ban me if I didn't stop talking about the show in-game. Since most of the point of my shows was to promote a sense of community, if I can't talk about them in-game or link the SHOUTCast stream, there is no point to doing them. What good would a live radio show called "Flashpoint Friday" be without the in-game interaction? Even if I didn't link the stream URL someone would eventually complain, for the lulz if nothing else and with one warning on my account already, I'm banned. No, BioWare doesn't care about events like this, and they've made it very clear that they don't understand or simply do not care about helping foster a sense of community in this game.

We're still doing The Nar Shaddaa Lounge for the time being, but without the in-game presence. Not sure if Flashpoint Friday or Super Saturday will return.

Sadly, I received an account warning tonight- apparently someone complained about my show or that I posted a link to the SHOUTCast stream in chat. I'm following up with BioWare right now but it looks like all my shows are going to be cancelled effective immediately.

Me rockin' the suit and fedora: http://yafh.com/image/932b787b-IMAG0049.jpg Me and son mugging at the annual Toy Run with my VTX: http://yafh.com/image/d7480ed5-corey-alex-toyrun-2006.jpg Me in days long gone by: http://yafh.com/image/f513dc7c-Corey%20in%20Army%20Uniform.jpg

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Going on the air RIGHT NOW. Tune in for some good music and great times.

What: Flashpoint Friday Where: Your server! When: Friday evening, 6-8 PM Pacific Time Who: The Church of Alvis and Split Infinity Radio (http://siradio.fm) Hey there, my fellow SWTOR fans, Every week my guild The Church of Alvis (on Juyo) does an in-game event called Flashpoint Friday. From 6-8 PM Pacific Time every Friday evening, we run all the Flashpoints we can with any and all who show up. During the show, I'm on the Republic Fleet as my character "Jimer" on the Juyo server, but I'm also playing music and covering the event live via SHOUTCast on Split Infinity Radio. While this has been mostly on Juyo, we'd love to have other servers join in the fun, or at least join in to listen to some good music. You can tune in to the live stream at http://listen.siradio.fm!

Tune in to the weekly SWTOR talk show on Split Infinity Radio, starting in 2 minutes from this post. You can listen in at http://listen.siradio.fm, and see the link in my signature for detalis on tonight's show!

The Nar Shadda Lounge starts in 20 minutes! Hope you can join us. Tune in at http://listen.siradio.fm.

Absolutely not. It's SHOUTCast. Just tune in via your favorite media player. You can find the stream at http://listen.siradio.fm.

The Nar Shaddaa Lounge is a live weekly radio talk show about Star Wars: The Old Republic. Every week for two hours we talk in-game news, out of game news and events, patch notes, commentary and much more. Tonight's show notes are posted here: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=5962 We go live on air via SHOUTCast at http://listen.siradio.fm at 6 PM Pacific time (ten minutes from the time of this post)! Hope to see you there!

We'll be live in THIRTY MINUTES, kids! Be sure to be there!

Cross server queues and teleporting players to the instance, huh? Why do we even have a game, then? Just scrap all of the other stuff and let people queue from the launcher. If you're going to make the game a glorified server browser, then don't do it halfway. Cross-server grouping is a stake in the heart of community. Players who care about having a good time with other people will find themselves frustrated and marginalized by the ******s who know they can just drop and requeue. No downside to being a ******* plus no upside to being a decent human being means the decent people will disengage and the game will be left in the end with nothing but the ******s.

We're kicking off Flashpoint Friday in 20 minutes- 6 PM Pacific time, 9 PM Eastern. If you're on Juyo, come and join us on the Republic fleet, and if you're not, feel free to join in on your server! I'm going to be playing music, talking SWTOR and covering the whole thing live on Split Infinity Radio- tune in via your favorite SHOUTCast client at http://listen.siradio.fm!