Hey All,

Well, I know it's been a while and I've been meaning to post a few bits inbetween but real life workstuff and attempting to get one of those career things has been getting in the way. So I guess I'll try to summarise things here.

First off, we've had a new flux of ppl dinging 80 and joining Continues such as Xilith, Narwhal, Evilkenny and Nightmares. (though I don't imagine the dk to be doing much...ever). As well as a few new ads for the raiding guild which have managed to pull in some brand new NuGenites that have never had the pleasure of the Alliance guild. So I say to you Good Luck!

And for all these new members I urge you to get an Addon called Guild2guild, which enables both guilds to communicate with each other. Now it only requires one person in each guild to have it, but ofc the more ppl online in both that do will make it easier. Also having the addon willl stop the [Guild] [Riande] [Aiv] ...Sup blud... double naming that you see. All you need to do is install the addon and when you log on type /g2g on. And that's it.

While I'm on the subject of addons, I might as well share a few more.

Spotter - Want to have more than on gathering profession at a time and not worry about tracking them?

Addon Control Panel (ACP) - Chatting with on vent the other night with some of the raiding guildies made me realise a few of them need this addon. But its great for everyone with a fair number of addons. Basically, it means you dont need to log out to disable or enable addons. This adds a new button in the ingame menu (when you press Esc) called Addons and you can sort them from there. I've had it so long I have to admit I thought it was part of the game. I highly recommend it.

Doc's Lazy Bags - Quite simply opens all your bags when visiting an auction house, bank, guild bank, mailbox, merchant, or trading with another player. It then closes all your bags when you are finished. Invaluable to those (me) who have never gotten their head around merging all your bags into one massive (ugly and confusing) bag. And also lazy and great. Again, I've had it so long that whenever a patch comes along which manages to disrupt it, I curse, press Esc, curse again because ACP isnt there, logout, click load out of date addons, log back in and do a dance.

We also use a ventrilo server to communicate. The details of which can be found when you join the forum (which you should all do) but we usually can provide them in guild chat. Bear in mind there are rules that accompany using using our vent and these too can be found on the forum. And with vent guildies can chat with one another and the latest addition is the creation of the Sound Station channel. This is where guildies can play music, podcasts or pretty much anything) over vent to share. You can listen to the Sound Station without leaving your channel very easily.

Right click on Sound Station > miscellaneous > Add/Remove Phantom. Ta daa, you're done.

If you want to know about how to stream music over vent so that you can still chat with your guildies...well then look it up. You'll want to start with googling 'Having two vents open' or something along those lines.

And that's all folks.