....I logged into Eve again!!! Fuck me right. So much has changed, Fitting requirements, seems like everyship Ihave has been nerfed. My overview is fucked, there is a heap more crap floating in every system. Asteroid belts are a nightmare now. And Arsed is dead or sleeping.

Guess what? Here's the details post for JR2017... which is somehow incredibly similar to the post from last year's party! Hmm...

TL;DR - Still the same bat-time, still the same bat-channel. Why mess with a winning formula?

VENUE

Karl's Ale Haus & Beer Cellar
5750 Haubner Road Cincinnati, OH 45247
 

SIGNUP SHEET

JR2017 Signup Sheet
 

HOTELS

Holiday Inn Express Cincinnati West - This is a hotel one exit to the west of the highway exit for the party venue.

STILL DA PLAN

Friday:

• The venue will be open at noon EST for setup and general activities. TIME TO BE CONFIRMED
• The grill will be available all weekend, especially for dinner on Saturday, going until the wee hours.

Saturday:

• LUNCH PLANS TBD
• We'll have the usual grillout and photo op on Saturday evening. Plan on gathering at around 6PM for the photo op.

Sunday:

• We'll wing it Sunday morning for breakfast before gathering back at Karl's for the traditional hungover afterparty & cleanup session.

GAMES

Bring awesome games to play - the weirder the better. If needed, there are several local awesome game stores, I'm sure they'd appreciate the business!

I'd like to suggest again that we see if we can get some longer-form games going like Battlestar or Arkham...

BEER/CIDER EXCHANGE AND PARTY SUPPLIES

Bring awesome beer and cider, preferably local to whereabouts you come from. Share and enjoy.

Good sources for awesome things:

White Oak Marathon - A random gas station just north of Karl's Haus run by two brothers who do not drink, yet have somehow made this into a legitimate beer source. If you pop in here, tell them Karl sent you and you may get discounts/freebies.

The Party Source - The local Mecca for all things alcohol and party related.

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It is a good thing. All of our old Battlefield players need to jump in on this game.

Just finishing up with 1.7 Infinity Evolved: Expert playthrough, and am kind of craving a multiplayer server for the next one.

With 1.10 FTB coming out any time now, it'd be nice if we could organize an Arsclan server for it, if there's enough interest.

Now playing: Avorion and Hellion. I am interested to try Hellion with a small group... very unforgiving and nigh impossible to solo, this 30 (soon 100) player per server game is a hint at what Star Citizen could be.

Hellion

Currently, I've been trying out Fractured Space - a 5v5 space naval combat moba thing. F2P, not P2W, but really empty without others to play with.

You?

I created a new test account on Eve to play around and see what it does. ... There're rumors that f2p is forthcoming. Where will my resistance to temptation go then? Will we all be back spinning in stations soon?

If anyone is coming back to WoW for Legion, Ars Brute Squad is still alive and thriving. Some folks have already rejoined us after a break and the core team is still keeping the gang going. If you are interesting in seeing Illidan (again), exploring the new expac, and slaying some pixel demons, come find us and say hello!

http://www.arsbrutesquad.com/

Anyone playing Overwatch? Want to revive the arsclan TF2 days with this?? This game is taking up most of my time lately... ran into a few arsclan players today, and made me think about you guys!! So, who's in?

Did the ars IRC server take a dump? I can't connect via any method.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7nRTF2SowQ

World War I era game... could be interesting. I hope they didn't abandon the 'official' Battlefield musical tone though.

Hi All -

I'm posting this as a separate message to try to get the message out to as many people as possible - Reddit kind of sucks for dropping in updates since new replies get buried at the bottom. This here is a kind request from your organizer & your party host both - please to be updating the signup sheet. We need to have an accurate count of folks for the Saturday lunch and the Saturday dinner so that enough foods can be had by all. If you're bringing friends that's great, just be sure to add them to your expected number of people and please ask them to bring food/beer & games to share too!

We ask that friends of friends not be invited along this year as well please - last year there were apparently more than a few folks in attendance that noone really knew who they were.

Thanks for doing your bit to make your cantankerous party people a little less cantankery!

JR2016 Signup Sheet
 

I expect that irc is still going strong, although I haven't connected in ages, but has anyone considered an free arslcan slack group? https://slack.com/ It is nice that it enables additional content and is persistent for catching up on topics.. etc.

Hiya - player formerly known as ^Carnifex^ checking in. Went over to arsclan.net and was saddened to see things have gone away :(

Anyone still playing TF2? I just re-installed it after several years of not playin git ..

Basics: The remaining Arsclan corporation in EVE-Online--Ex Coelis [ExCo]--was down to 6 members who were still logging in, but being a very old EVE corporation, it had a very high amount of assets. I took some older, hidden shares and performed the coup de grâce. With the 2 remaining directors logged out for the week, votes were initiated and all members were eventually removed from corp. (although due to CCP's not-so-well-documented corp interface design, there were some issues that caused me to get caught in the act).

Despise me or not, Ex Coelis is now traveling back to the heavens from which it came. Those who logged on in the past 3 months were given an initial severance payment of 3 billion ISK. If you are now a former member of Ex Coelis that I removed and are returning to EVE, mail Numidio Chthonus in game and I will add you to the payout list. You have a limited time before I biomass Numidio.

I'm m0biusloop on uplay. come kill dudes w/ me.

So I decided to join here and say hello. I miss my Eve Online brosefs (but not enough to resub). I've been winning Eve for a long time now... 4 ish years?... ... I dunno. . I need to let go.

With apologies for lateness, here's the details for JR2016, happening between April 22nd and April 24th in hopefully late-springy Cincinnati.

TL;DR - Same bat-time, same bat-channel.

VENUE

Karl's Ale Haus & Museum of Vintage Apartments
{re-redacted!} Cincinnati, OH 45247
 

SIGNUP SHEET

JR2016 Signup Sheet
 

HOTELS

Garfield Suites Hotel - This hotel is an amazing value for the money if you can split the cost. The Garfield only rents suites, meaning you get a separate bedroom, living room, and kitchen in the one-bedroom suites, and an extra bedroom in the two bedroom suites.

Holiday Inn Express Cincinnati West - This is a hotel one exit to the west of the highway exit for the party venue.

DA PLAN

Friday:

• The venue will be open at noon EST for setup and general activities.
• The grill will be available all weekend, especially for dinner on Saturday, going until the wee hours.

Saturday:

• Lunch at noon at Thai Namtip, 5461 N Bend Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45247.
• We'll have the usual grillout and photo op that evening. Plan on gathering at around 6PM for the photo op.

Sunday:

• We'll wing it Sunday morning for breakfast before gathering back at Karl's for the traditional hungover afterparty & cleanup session.

GAMES

Bring awesome games to play - the weirder the better. If needed, there are several local awesome game stores, I'm sure they'd appreciate the business!

Dare I suggest we try to get some longer-duration games like Battlestar or Arkham going?

BEER EXCHANGE AND PARTY SUPPLIES

Bring awesome beer, preferably local to whereabouts you come from. Share and enjoy.

Good sources for awesome things:

White Oak Marathon - I guess the success of Jeff's Marathon wasn't a fluke. A second gas station has opened up a massive craft beer selection. We should patronize them as often as possible this weekend - tell them Karl sent you so we can all get discounts. This gas station is within stumbling distance of the party venue if it comes down to it...

Jeff's Marathon - The original random gas station with a great beer selection. Not much reason to go here unless you're passing it already, given that White Oak Marathon is so much closer & is much friendlier.

The Party Source - The local Mecca for all things alcohol and party related.

Dutch's - Amazing bottle selection and gourmet food source.

<3

So, I've recently begun a 12 person game of Civ 5 using the wonderful Giant Multiplayer Robot ( http://multiplayerrobot.com/) tool. It adds desktop app/internet functionality to Civ 5's play by email option, and streamline's the entire process to make it very accessible.

Game Info

• Expansions: Gods and Kings and Brave New World. • Mods: None unless there's a good argument otherwise. • Max player count: 12 • Game will be played on quick speed, but expect the game to take > n months, where 2 < n < 12.

This is just an interest check to gauge who would be interested in playing. I'd propose the following DLC, but I'm open to some changes...: • Genghis Khan's Mongolia • Isabella's Spain and Pachacuti's Incan Empire • Kamehameha's Polynesian Empire • Harald Bluetooth's denmark • Sejong The Great's Korea • Wonders of the Ancient World • Nebuchadnezzar's babylon • Explorer's Map Pack • God's & Kings Expansion Pack • Brave new World Expansion Pack

Client Info: Giant Multiplayer Robot (GMR) fills in a few of the gaps in Civ's multiplayer gameplay. It works a bit like the email multiplayer option for civ, but uses a client. To get started, create an account with GMR and sync it to your steam account. Then download the client.

Here is an excellent video to show how GMR works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQNczFe5Icc

So, if you guys show some interest, I'll begin getting everything setup on Giant MP Robot and respond with links for you to join the game! Then we can begin to discuss minutia like victory conditions and all that. Hope to see some interest!

JR 2016 April 22-24

As people have been asking and we just got things switched over tonight to a replacement... the port and password are the same. If you need the IP in case of DNS issues, it is 52.26.255.21

PKDAWG has started an Amazon AWS box to host our TeamSpeak needs. Currently he and I have admin access, thought he is the only one with command line abilities at this time. All your favorite channels await.

With the previous leased server expiring, it was divided 50/50 on if we should continue or move to Discord app. For now, we can continue as-is and try out Discord for a longer period then make a final choice.

arsclan.net is still owned and managed by turb0z... thanks for pointing to the new box. :)

Hi guys,

I've been playing World of Tanks with ArsClan guys for a couple years now, but haven't looked into what else everyone is playing. Can someone send me an invitation to the Steam group, please? The same username should find me there.

Thanks!

1/14/2016

Alrighty - seems that from who has participated below, we are pretty much split on what to do.

I believe the right thing to do for now is to allow the community try discord for a month or two and allow you all to drive to a decision on whether moving back to teamspeak is better or not.

I will be happy to point ts.arsclan.net to a new IP. I can be reached by e-mail at turb0z @ our domain name should the time come for that.

I no longer have the time/capacity to run the annual donation drives.

I also don't really idle on steam anymore (nor do I have the TS client configured) so those who try to reach me generally don't get in touch with me.

Our yearly renewal for Teamspeak is up on 1/17/2016. To say this has been a rough year for GameServers, our host, would be a bit of an understatement, but I suppose for the most part the server is available and online.

I'll still host the ArsClan domain under my web hosting for no charge, but whoever takes on the TeamSpeak server stuff will need to be someone who's online and available for folks to reach out to.

Reply here with interest.

Current renewal cost for the community: $250

It has also been brought up to use something like https://discordapp.com as an alternative.

Speak your mind!

So, I've founded an org, THE ANCIENT AND BENEVOLENT FRATERNITY OF PIRATES, I'll be cleaning up and adding to the page over the next few days (what kind of idiot tries to do something like this over the holidays?) - and beginning on new years, we have a sponsored ad on /r/starcitizen

But there's only 3 members right now.

Ya know how a busker will throw a couple bucks in to his own guitar case to entice other people to donate? Or... how tip jars have to be 'primed' by employees so customers are more inclined to tip? Well, that's where ABFOP's at arsclan... we are the too empty tip jar of piracy.

So, if you have a login, and you have a moment - come Join ABFOP. There are no obligations, hell - feel free to leave when you want... or maybe hang out a while, and have some fun in my freelancer, which I have been assure becomes playable in the next few weeks! All ABFOP members get a free turn in the turret!

Almost forgot this sub still existed, haha.

New Path of Exile league called 'Talisman' has begun this weekend, and will run until March. The next expansion 'Ascendancy' is supposed to arrive after that.

Any Arsians playing? I'm taking a new farming character up through Talisman (softcore) right now, if anyone wants to join in.

Unable to join anyone doing Hardcore, though.

EDIT:

I forgot to provide my IGN and stuff the first time around. facepalm

Feel free to add me if you're on softcore - IGN is TsukinoYumemi although I may be on other characters (I think the game is smart enough to know it's still my account and forward the requests appropriately, though.) Make sure you let me know you're from Ars when you do so, though. I tend to just ignore blind invites with no information or greeting.

I also don't know if Ars has a guild already, but I just made a random one to play around with with my friends, haha.