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Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 5 Are You Prepared

Segment I.    What’s Going On
A.    I took a trip to California for MacWorld.  Tried to do last week’s podcast in a train station, not a good idea.  Was going to do this one on the train but learned from my mistake.
B.    Just to familiarize those who didn’t listen to the first couple of podcasts or who might not remember, I divide my podcast into chapters, this way you can easily move back and forward within the podcasts.  The segments are:
No. 1.    What’s Going On – this one
No. 2.    WoW News
No. 3.    Alt Round Up – I did have the Burning Crusade Beta in the line up but now that it’s about to go Gold, any discussion about BC will just fall into the normal layout.
No. 4.    Server Shoutout – Listeners can email me and mention their guilds or just say hello
No. 5.    In the House – How WoW affects you at home and how your home affects your WoW.
No. 6.    Favorite Places in WoW – discusses little things about WoW that anyone can share, things that normally go unnoticed.
No. 7.    Emails, when and if I get any.
No. 8.    Closing  thoughts about the show
C.    There was a patch last Tues Jan 8th that made some changes
No. 1.    Ore now stackable by 20
No. 2.    Add Ons need to be updated- the two main ones I use were updated
1.    Titan Panel
2.    SellValue
3.     Found a new one while I was on Curse Gaming– List My Junk http://wow.curse-gaming.com/en/files/details/2623/list-my-junk-by-zayla/
Segment II.    WoW News
A.    Stores will be open at midnight on Monday night/Tuesday morning to sell the Expansion pack
B.    I patched to 2.04 but I guess there was a 2.05 version that caused some havoc.
Segment III.    Alt Round Up – All Alts transferred to Baelgun except for one on each account.  There were some glitches that caused delays, but the blues on the WoW forums said they were working on it.
A.    Who’s Doing what
No. 1.    Treshel
No. 2.    Prilfire gathering in Badlands
No. 3.    Pryl in Westfall
No. 4.    Rilfire headed to Undercity to purchase a Guild Charter from the Guild Master there.  She’s going to start Ctrl Alt WoW.  Aprillian was going to do it, but she’s stuck in the transfer queue.  This means, for those who don’t already know, after she purchases the Guild Charter from the Guild Master for 10 silver she has to find 9 other unique accounts to sign the charter and then she’ll have a guild.  By unique I mean only one alt from any account can sign, so you can’t make a guild by having you and your nine alts sign it.  So, if you don’t have 9 people all ready to join your guild, it involves running around asking total strangers to sign, usually you offer them 50 silver.  Some will ask for more, some will do it for free.  Once you have the 9 names, you go back to the Guild Master and register your guild and then you will have a guild with guild chat and you will be the Guild leader.  Most of the people you’ve asked to sign your charter will leave.  Which is okay, because I just wanted the guild because I like having all of my alts in the same guild because it makes it easier to keep track of them and automatically makes their names come up in the mailbox to entry line when you start typing the first few letters.
B.    Ideas/Discussion
No. 1.    Your First Alt.  An alt, by definition, is a backup to your main character.  What generally happens is you make a character and run around learning how to do stuff.  Then you either start running out of space in your bags and inventory, or you need something you can’t make and don’t want to pay a lot for on the Auction House, or you want to try another class.  In fact, you might find one of your alts becomes your main.  
No. 2.    The Banker Alt – some call this alt their mule
Segment IV.    Server Shout out
A.    Baelgun
No. 1.    From Whom
No. 2.    Aprillian
B.    Server
Segment V.    In The House – Discussing what is going on in our real lives that has been affected by playing World of Warcraft
A.    My Trip to MacWorld – laptop data plan with Cingular
No. 1.    Played Sims 2 when out of signal range
B.    Trains late – wanted to try to get back home by Monday night, drove me crazy
Segment VI.    Favorite Places/Things about WoW
A.    Stormwind
No. 1.    don’t like all the bridges
No. 2.    But maybe it’s because I’m Horde
B.    Burning Crusade – new places – send email
Segment VII.    Email –
A.    Still looking for some
No. 1.    Ctrlaltwow@gmail.com - email
No. 2.    http://ctrlaltwow.blogspot.com - website/blog
No. 3.    http://Ctrlaltwow.podcastspot.com - podcast site
Just checked my email and Zeam from the Frostmourne server writes “hi aprillian just dropping a line to say that i enjoy listening to your showand keep it up.” Thank you Zeam for my first email.  
Segment VIII.    Closing Thoughts
A.    Burning Crusade
No. 1.    Going to be awesome
No. 2.    Learned my lesson about audio quality
No. 3.    

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 4 - The Road to Burning Crusade

CTRL ALT WOW  004 The Road to Burning Crusade I
WHAT’S GOING ON
A.    Preparing for the Burning Crusade
i.Most upper level folks have been grinding I suppose but I’ve been gathering materials.  Level 41 Hunter Treshel is mining her heart out.  Level 10 Alliance is mining copper so she can send to my new Dranei, then she will be deleted.  I feel kind of guilty knowing she’s working so hard only to be “killed” off. ii.    Took my 52 into Azshara to do Hunter Quest – Very hard and challenging solo but it was worth it.  Found the limit of riding through mobs
B.    After listening to some other podcasts about World of Warcraft, I realized I needed to cover the “why I play World of Warcraft” subject.  I’ve touched on how I’ve come to play it, with some friends from Second Life, but I never really elaborated on why I love it so much. 1.    My history in gaming: a.    A little Magic the Gathering.  Mostly computer games.  Hitchhiker’s Guide Text game.  Played a version of Dungeons & Dragons on a DOS computer.  Loved the quest. b.    Arcade Games Pacman in Japan, Centipede, Missile Command, Asteroid House of the Dead II – Going through the same game trying to do better.  In HOD2, I knew which monsters were coming from where and when to get ready.  It was repetitious but challenging. c.    A-Train, Sim City, Deus Ex, Marathon (the whole series)The Sims, Quake 3, TSO and the Second Life,. 2.    I love virtual worlds.  There is something very attractive about a place I can visit just by logging in on my computer.  I loved playing Marathon and Quake 3.  I played Quake 3 with a friend.  She was in NY and I was in DC and we’d set up a server and played the game from start to finish.  It was so much fun.  We both had earpieces from our cell phones and we talked to each other.  Being on my computer and interacting with another person was so much fun.  The Sims were great because there were all the other aspects of interactivities, and this led to TSO, which was fun because of the interactions with other real people.  Second Life was an awesome eyeopener because you could personalize and build.    3.    But when I tried WoW and I found it had all the elements of the games I most loved.  It had quests, like     Quake 3 and Marathon, with the grouping aspects and virtual online like TSO and SL, along with the creative aspects and personalization.  Alts brings with it the whole D&D game/Sims game iii.    Played my alliance character – 2 funny things happened both in Fargodeep Mine in Elwynn Forest 1.    I came upon a player just standing in one of the tunnels.  He was being attacked by two Kobold Tunnelers and he was going down.  I took the two mobs down and was going to keep going, Pryl was farming copper.  But then I realized some more mobs would be spawning, so I stayed nearby.  I sent him a whisper telling him to wake up.  After about 5 minutes he was back and fighting.  A few min later he whispered a thanks back to me and said he had to chase his kid.  I told him I thought as much and was glad to help. 2.    Later, as I was mining, another behind me and tried to mine the same one I was mining.  I don’t mind sharing but I could tell on the mini-map there was another node just a few feet ahead into the tunnel and this person seemed to be trying to sneak in.  When I’m questing with a party, we usually take turns to get the exp, because if I hit it once and another miner hits it once, we both will get a point of exp.  But this guy almost seemed to be hitting it as I was hitting to take it from me.  I just laughed to myself and he ran ahead and got the next one after killing some mobs.  I went ahead and killed a bunch more and got another node.  Then I got a whisper that said “don’t take all the copper, I need some”.  I kind of chuckled at that and said, “we all need copper, hon” and he wrote “yeah, but don’t take it all.”  Now I’m perplexed and I said “so if I see some copper, I’m suppose to run by it?”  I wasn’t trying to be mean, the nodes in Fargodeep respawn fairly quickly, so there was no danger of my “taking all the copper” II       WOW NEWS Check the website more often, on 1/5/07 there were Burning Crusade and the Special Edition for sale on the the website. New realms opening up with Character Transfers IV       IN THE HOUSE A. Heading to MacWorld on the Train.  Hoping Blizzard is there. V       BURNING CRUSADE A.    Bloodthistle B.    Translocator in Undercity still working. I took my 8 Troll to Silvermoon City, she spoke with Defiler Emissaries and I got the message she was neutral with the Defilers.  I don’t know what she was before but I’m sure that will come in handy C.    Dranei tail VI       FAVORITE SPOTS IN WOW Azshara – Beaches to Mountains. VII    Emails please A.    CtrlAltWoW.blogspot.com B.    CtrlAltWoW@gmail.com VIII       TIPS AND HINTS Rest in Inns or major cities earns you bonus points Ctrl Alt WoW http://ctrlaltwow.blogspot.com ctrlaltwow@gmail.com

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 3 - Happy New Year

I WHAT’S GOING ON A. What I’ve been doing i. Redoing Podcast, didn’t like the shortness, I felt rushed, going to try to make it less “ummish”. ii. 2.0 features I’ve been trying 1. Quick Loot – you can choose to just right click to loot instead of shift right clicking. Shift right clicking has the opposite effect and opens the loot box so you can pick and choose 2. Re-doing Talent trees – this is a lot of work when you have 18 alts. I am the epitome of casual player. I know there are certain preconceived notions of which trees to pick, but I just do the kid in the candy shop method, i.e. ooh this looks neat, I’ll click on that. I know on WoW website there’s a tree tester https://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/hunter/talents.html It lets you experiment with different trees and you can even print them out. iii. Holiday Quests - I don’t want to give out too much, they are fun little quests that go along with the season 1. The Alterac Mountains – Stolen Winterveil Treats 2. Rescue Metzen
iv. Tried PvP in Altrac Valley v. Podcasts I’ve been listening to 1. World of Podcast.blogspot.com 2. 1-70 B. Dual Boxing i. Why ii. Equipment iii. Challenges iv. Is it for everyone? II WOW NEWS A. NY Times Games of the year http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/arts/24schi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin B. A WoW player loses his account due to phishing and attempts legal action against the thief - http://www.fundular.com/Blog/4300DD5A-4B4F-495D-A007-A3E11341BC48.html III SERVER SHOUT OUT A. Lightninghoof – Feted Inner Horde B. Alleria – Legion of Dread/The Determined – http://TheDetermined.net
IV IN THE HOUSE A. Vacation coming up, was going to MacWorld, but I changed my mind 1. More time to prepare for Burning Crusade 2. No gym on train 3. Wouldn’t be able to upload podcast B. Turtle mount card i. WoW World of Warcraft TURTLE MOUNT Saltwater Snapjaw V BURNING CRUSADE A. Buffy in Blood Elf NPC B. Hunting in Silverpine with Trillia C. Jewelcrafting and the stone guardian
VI FAVORITE SPOTS IN WOW A. Un’Goro Crater VII EMAIL A. CtrlAltWoW.blogspot.com B. CtrlAltWoW@gmail.com VIII TIPS AND HINTS A. Bank/Mule – great place to store stuff for later B. Check the Addon sites for an add on Called Character Viewer C. If you have an enchanter, you can mail her BOE stuff and she can enchant them and mail them back to you if you can’t dual box
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Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 2 - Winter Veil Special

Ctrl Alt WoW Winter Veil Special

Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 1 - Intro

First Show, went pretty well.  Covered the outline to be used in the rest of the shows.
I       WHAT’S GOING ON
    A.    Intro to CAW
    B.    Why so many alts
    C.    First Alt exp Wow
II       WOW NEWS
    A.    Accounts Closed
    B.    Key loggers in Addons
    C.    End of Weekly MaintainceI
III       SERVER SHOUT OUT
    =    Let's hear from the servers, guild, what have you.
IV       IN THE HOUSE
    =    The Real world and how it affects play
V       BURNING CRUSADE
    =    My observation of BC Beta so far
VI       SERVER COMPARISONS
    =    Request for info on similar topics across different servers
VII       EMAIL
    =    Asking for emails
VIII       TIPS AND HINTS
    =    Short tips and tricks I thought were valuable