Gaiscioch Community Notes Issue 12, 2018

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Cead Mile Failte!

Greetings Everyone! Happy Holidays from all of us at Gaiscioch. It's that time of year again. That white stuff is about to bombard us with its assault on our driveways. Winter time typically drives players back into their homes and back online. During the months between December and March we typically see our highest populations. This means, more events, more players and more epic memories. I do ask that you all take time to spend with your families and friends. Don't forget about those out of game connections that we hold so dear.

This month, I've added a new section to our newsletter that I plan to have as an ongoing "Learning" section titled, "Inside the Family". This will feature explanations of how things work and will repeat occasionally to keep new members in the know. Let's go ahead and jump head first into the news.

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Gaiscioch Family News

Gaiscioch has become an official Twitch Team!

After nearly 2 years of trying to get a Gaiscioch Team on Twitch approved, we have finally done it. With the help of our first Twitch Partner and former elder Dreamtrip, we managed to convince Twitch to give us our own team. This just shows that whatever our community puts its mind to we can accomplish with hard work, devotion, and most importantly, each other.

For those budding livestreamers or anyone who wants to be a part of our Twitch Team, simply ping me in discord with your Twitch channel and I'll send an invite. Everyone who currently has their Twitch name inputed in their profile has been invited already.

To accept your invite:

  1. Login to https://twitch.tv/
  2. Click your name in the top right
  3. Click "Dashboard"
  4. Click on "Channel" under settings
  5. Scroll to "Teams" and click accept.
  6. You do not need to share Revenue or Stats with us as we're not "That kind of team". If you would like to share stats with us, it would be really neat to see how we stack up viewership wise, but it's not required.

If you would like to check out our team and help the people involved go to:
https://twitch.tv/team/gaiscioch

Extra Life Charity Event Wrap up

There is a certain level of pride I feel for seeing so many people work so hard to raise money for kids in need. It reminds me that there is good in this world and it is worth fighting for. This has been our 8th year participating in the Extra Life event and we have raised a total of $41,054 over our 8 year history. This year with our smallest community yet we still managed to bring in $2,282 and had a blast over the 3 days of livestreaming.

Over the course of the next year, I suspect we will see a surge of new players coming into the community and a wave of returning players as well. It's my hope by next fall we can get a lot more involvement in the event and once again be off to the races for the kids. Which brings me to my next topic.

The Gaiscioch Extra Life Charity Livestream Event is quite long and is a bit of a mouthful. For next years event, I plan on branding it simply as Gaiscioch #ExtraLife. I will still have all the event, livestream and extra life information on the page but I want to enable our event to be more than just extra life in the future. I want it to be able to encompass our stuffed animal drive and possibly even a springtime Child's Play event as well. By branding it on its own, we can add more diversity to the event series and possibly grow our charity involvement beyond just our fall Extra Life event.

2018 Gaiscioch Conference Recap

I would like to thank everyone who was able to make it to this year's conference. I feel the new format went really well and the live polling was epic :D. I will work on incorporating that more in our future summits.

For those that were unable to make it, we have the full video posted at:
http://gsch.info/p/241992

You won't want to miss this one as we covered a lot of good information about many of the games on the horizon.

Portland, Oregon Holiday Gathering

For those of you local to the pacific northwest United States, we will be holding a Holiday gathering on December 15th at 2PM PT at Bellagios Pizza at 16265 NW Cornell Rd #101, Beaverton, OR 97006. I will have a little something for all who attend. They offer a wide range of Pizza, Salads, and Grinders with Gluten Free and Vegan options available. Come join us for some family friendly fun and laughs.

Chapter Requirement Changes

After some evaluation of our current situation and the ever shrinking guild size requirements within games we've decided to drop the minimum guild size for chapters from 500 to 250. In addition we have revised the way we evaluate the requirements for each area based on where the current player base chooses it's focus.

Each Gameplay category of our Chapter Scorecard will be worth a total of 100 Points.

These include:

  • PvE & Raiding
  • Siege Warfare (RvR)
  • Structured PvP
  • Crafting & Gathering
  • Casual Friendliness
  • Exploration & Cartography
  • Roleplay

Once each of these areas has been scored between 1-100, they are compared against the percentage of active players who enjoy that style of gameplay. The score will be increased for percentages above 50% and reduced for percentages below 50%. So if a game scored a 100 for Siege Warfare and the playerbase had 40% who enjoyed siege warfare it would total 90 (100 - 10%). Thus shifting the focus based around what we are actively enjoying right now rather than basing it off of what we enjoyed in the distant past.

Thank You November 2018 Patreons!

As always, I cannot express my gratitude enough to all of those that have supported the community through Patreon, Twitch and YouTube. Your contributions have gone a long way into allowing us to grow and provide us with tools to streamline our operation.

  • A. Smith
  • B. Chouinard
  • C. Bradley
  • D. Hampton
  • D. W Rush
  • E. Matthews
  • G. Godwin
  • H. Hanlin
  • H. Townsend
  • Jason
  • J. Boucher-Zamzo
  • J. Buczek
  • K. Shukuun
  • K. Frankovitch
  • K. Burns
  • K. Riseling
  • L. Knudsen
  • Singing Smitty
  • M. Bukraba
  • P. McCabe
  • Rhynor
  • R. Livernois
  • R. Reynolds
  • R. Gale
  • R. Mayer
  • S. Fasching
  • S. L Starkey
  • S. DeRouen
  • T-Elf
  • Todd Reed
  • V. Maung
  • Void
  • Whoflung
  • Zoewii

If you would like to get involved, please visit: https://gsch.info/patreon

Additionally you can provide one time donations at https://paypal.me/foghladha

Inside the Family

Chapters and Adventures

The Gaiscioch Family is all about creating epic memories and lasting friendships. Our community activities are broken into two types.

Chapters are our primary focus and include games with more than 250 players involved. These meet a strict criteria to match our communities theme, goals and play style preference. By playing in chapters you can earn Leadership, Fellowship, and use the Gaiscioch Marketplace to buy in game weapons, armor or crafting materials. Our current active chapters are Guild Wars 2, Elder Scrolls Online, and Warhammer Online.  

Adventures are small to medium sized games where we put the entire focus on social gaming. Here you will earn social points for attending events with 2 or more players. Social Points earned depend on the number of people who attended the events. Some of our more popular adventures include Fallout 76, Dungeons & Dragons, Guild Wars and Conqueror's Blade.

For a full rundown of Chapters and Adventures see:
https://www.gaiscioch.com/about/structure.html

Gaiscioch Family Promotions:

I wanted to take a moment to say congratulations to a few members this month for accepting their next credo and stepping into a new role in our family.

Guardians (Seaimpín)

The Gaiscioch Family Guardians are an advanced part of the Veteran Members group and serve as the front line of our family. They help newer members learn about the family, our website, and our belief system. They occasionally will need to help get conversations back on track, or report misdoing's to the family elders. They act as advisors, guidance providers, and overall protectors of the family name. By this time a member should be involved in the family for more than 6 months and has been an active attendee in family events. For those who prefer fellowship over leadership this is the last stop on the family tree. Members must prove their leadership ability to progress to the Leadership ranks through the accumulation of both Valor Points (Earned through leading events.) as well as earning Tokens of Valor from lower ranked members of the family.

  » Wakawaka

Veteran Members (Curadh)

Veteran Members have proven their devotion to the family by participating in events and contributing to the family's success. They have been active more than 90 days and have continued to be contributing members to the family.

  » Danzig   » Lini   » Robotsu

Official Members (Lorgaire)

Official Members have earned the rank of Lorgaire and have accepted the Mark of the Kindred credo. They have officially decided to become members of the family and start their journey to ascend the roles of the Gaiscioch Family.

  » Cylwen   » DadMan

Please Welcome Our Newest Members

Gaiscioch By The Numbers

Population
Group Active
Guild Wars 2 280
Elder Scrolls Online 196
Warhammer Online 38
Social Adventures 164
Total 542
Magazine
Group Total
Subscribers 5,308
Readers 55,244
Views 1,098,213
Followers
Media Total
Twitch 925
YouTube 554
Twitter 889

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Chapter 4:
Guild Wars 2

Great Tyrian Adventure Kicks Off in January

I've got some great news to share! We've completed the construction on the Three Legendaries we will be adding to the Raffle giveaway for the Great Tyrian Adventure. This has allowed us to green light the adventure to launch in January. I am currently hard at work preparing the site for the new season and will throw together a trailer this month. Tentatively, we're looking at starting on Thursday Jan 17th however, I need to get the preparations made so we can have a successful kickoff. But rest assured January is our target date.

Fractal Console Complete

After months of seeing dancing holograms in our Guild Hall, our fractal runners have finally done it. They've raised the obscene number of fractal relics required to create the Fractal Console. This mysterious device allows for such craziness as making our Guild Hall low gravity. It's right next to where you port into the guild hall, so feel free to take it for a spin.

New Guild Wars 2 Recruitment Video Coming Soon

I am working to create each of our chapters a community highlight video to entice people to join. I may need some help filming some of the scenes as I need footage of Raiding, Dungeons, and Fractals as well as getting some setting shots with some actors. I'll be putting a special event on the calendar for filming these things.

Guild Wars 2 Events at a Glance

All Times Pacific

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Thursdays

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Top Guild Wars 2 News For November, 2018

  1. Guild Wars 2 Mount Racing Making a Mountain out of a Wurmhill
    MMORPG.com
  2. Guild Wars 2 Stream Raises $65k for Charity & 2 New PvP Maps Previewed
    MMORPG.com
  3. Guild Wars 2 is overhauling runes and sigils and making them salvageable in next week’s patch
    Massively Overpowered
  4. Guild Wars 2 devs and players raised over $65,000 for charity for Extra Life
    Massively Overpowered
  5. The Recurring Issue in Guild Wars 2
    MMORPG.com
  6. Guild Wars 2’s latest update revamps runes and sigils
    Massively Overpowered
  7. Guild Wars 2 PvP ? Automated Atrophy?
    MMORPG.com
  8. Guild Wars 2 bringing Roller Beetle races to Tyria next week
    Massively Overpowered
  9. Guild Wars 2 is literally giving away a car to promote roller beetle racing
    Massively Overpowered
  10. ArenaNet Giving Away a Custom-Wrapped Volkswagen Beetle to Celebrate Guild Wars 2 Event
    MMORPG.com

Legacy Chapter 5:
Elder Scrolls Online

New Elder Scrolls Online Recruitment Video Coming Soon

As with Guild Wars 2, I am also looking to create a highlight video of the gameplay our ESO community enjoys. I'll be setting up an event in Dec to film a couple of Trials, Dungeons, Dark Anchors, World bosses and see about creating some additional acted scenes to help put it all together.

Elder Scrolls Online Events at a Glance

All Times Pacific

Mondays

Tuesdays

Wednesdays

Fridays

Saturdays

Sundays

Top Elder Scrolls Online News For November, 2018

  1. Elder Scrolls Online offers free membership trials, introduces new rewards for subscribers
    Massively Overpowered
  2. Try Out the Elder Scrolls Online Subscription 'ESO Plus' for Free Starting November 15
    MMORPG.com
  3. Elder Scrolls Online Murkmire DLC Impressions
    MMORPG.com
  4. Elder Scrolls Online Players Can Enjoy a Return to Clockwork City Starting November 15th
    MMORPG.com
  5. Here’s how The Elder Scrolls Online’s new home-building tools work
    Massively Overpowered
  6. Elder Scrolls Online’s Clockwork City Celebration begins next week
    Massively Overpowered
  7. The Elder Scrolls Online slows down combat updates to focus on the shape of combat
    Massively Overpowered
  8. Take Part in the Elder Scrolls Online Undaunted Celebration to Earn Bonus Rewards
    MMORPG.com
  9. Go dungeon-delving for fabulous rewards in Elder Scrolls Online’s Undaunted Celebration event
    Massively Overpowered
  10. The Stream Team: Making our way to The Elder Scrolls Online’s Murkmire
    Massively Overpowered

Historical Chapter 2:
Warhammer Online

Tier 1 Returns to Friday Nights

For the month of December we'll be roaming Tier 1 on Friday Nights at 6PM PT. If you’re looking for that WAR fix, our T1 nights are a great place to start. Anyone level 1-15 can participate and it's a great way to relearn the game, ask questions, and fight some destro.

Tier 4 Standing Tall

When we started back in Warhammer, Tier 4 seemed a bit rough and it was a major breaking point for a lot of the people that rejoined the community for a romp in Warhammer. We were way undergeared and had a lot of learning to do. The keep lords would reset super easy and the fights lasted forever.

Since then, most of our crew has leveled up, the keep fights have been revised and keep lords no longer reset. The game has changed and we have enjoyed a 90% win rate at this point. Our alliance is the most active alliance in RvR and there are always premades running.

In addition the recent additions of the Altdorf Sewers and Warpblade Tunnels have brought a wealth of new gear and PvE activities to enjoy. I highly recommend giving WAR another try and join us on Thursdays at 6PM PT for our Tier 4 RvR Nights.

Warhammer Online Events at a Glance

All Times Pacific

Social Adventures News

The Rundown

There's been a bit of news coming around the Adventure scene. Let's give it a rundown so you can stay in touch with the developments.

  1. Ashes of Creation Apocalypse Announced as Free-2-Play Mini-game aimed to help reveal game breaking bugs inside the AoC MMO before it is launched.
  2. Rune to release into Early Access Q1 2019. There are 2 more planned Betas in December.
  3. Breach continues beta tests almost every week.
  4. New World continues to invite new players to Alpha Testing
  5. Torchlight Fronteers celebrates first alpha test.
  6. Legends of Aria hits Early Access on Dec 4th
  7. Wargaming.net announces new ARPG MMO titled Pagan Online
  8. Trion Worlds purchased by Gamigo. All products to continue under new ownership. Large portion of Trion's staff was released.

Conqueror's Blade

The wait intensifies for Conqueror's Blade. We purchased the House Founders Pack to award our house with a lot of early perks including getting our Guild Emblem into the actual game. We will be forming up House Tuatha throughout the betas and will have a massive presence (up to 130 people) at launch. We currently have a full house of 40 players signed up and until we level the guild a few times, space will be limited to 1 character per person. Once the game launches we will be looking at spawning up several additional guilds to make room for additional players and link them all through an alliance. Don't miss the kickoff of this Epic Siege Warfare game (Both PvE and PvP sieges). Sign up today at: https://gsch.info/cb and check out our house at https://gsch.info/cbguild

Fallout 76

What started as a livestream by Doc Restless has become a chain reaction into a bunch of people playing Bethesda's newest addition to the Fallout Universe. If you are playing Fallout 76 on PC be sure to connect with our Adventure at: https://gsch.info/sa/f76

Social Adventure Events at a Glance

All Times Pacific

Upcoming

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Gaiscioch Magazine News

Issue 17 Wraps up in December

We are almost there! We revamped the site over the summer to prepare it for our new issue format. Now we'll be aiming to release at least 1 article a week to fill the site with content. We're almost ready to deploy our last issue of 2018 and will be shooting out the announcement email to subscribers mid December.

Latest Features:

Conqueror's Blade Siege Test Giveaway
By: Edward "Screenager" Orr
Enter Madness in Call of Cthulhu
By: Brett "Radiologikal" Chouinard

Be sure to check out our latest stories and gaming news at: https://www.gaisciochmagazine.com/

Gaiscioch Livestream News

Streams of Epic Adventure Returns

We're pleased to announce that we are bringing back the Streams of Epic Adventure in January 2019 airing every Sunday at 11AM PT. Our new cast includes Kitty, Radiologikal and Foghladha with special guests each week. We will be diving into new MMORPGs, cooperative games, weird games and more. Each week will feature a new game. We will be hunting down epic adventures in the far reaches of the gaming universe.

You can follow the agenda at https://gsch.info/soea

Livestream Lineup

The Siege War
Weekend Warriors
Playstation Adventures
Streams of Epic Adventure

Schedule

The Siege War

Mon., Dec. 3rd
6:00PM PST

Weekend Warriors

Sat., Dec. 1st
11:00AM PST
Sat., Dec. 8th
11:00AM PST
Sat., Dec. 15th
11:00AM PST
Sat., Dec. 29th
11:00AM PST

Playstation Adventures

Mon., Dec. 3rd
3:00PM PST
Tue., Dec. 4th
3:00PM PST
Wed., Dec. 5th
3:00PM PST
Thu., Dec. 6th
3:00PM PST
Fri., Dec. 7th
3:00PM PST

Gaiscioch Athletics

Gaiscioch Wins 4th League Championship in 2018

For the first time ever Gaiscioch has won 4 league championships in a single year. Our team has drastically been improving over the past few years as between 2010-2015 we won 2 League Championships and 1 Regional Tournament. Between 2016-2018 we've won 6 League Championships. For most of the year we field 2 teams in the Portland Oregon area. We look forward to taking our team to the next level in 2019 and potentially start participating in some tournaments in the pacific northwest.

Learn more about our team at:
https://www.gaisciochfootball.com/

Slan Go Foill!
(Goodbye For Now)

Benjamin "Foghladha" Foley
Taoiseach de na Griobhta Glas