DoW Episode 43 – ‘Phone calls of a sexual nature’

-Turtle and Alek joined by Deletor (and later Hanthion T Chlovirissian) from Noir. Academy and Puppy UK from EVE Co-Pilot on Youtube
-Milwaukee, WI meetup EVE-O thread: http://bit.ly/14Fo8tb
-Video guides, EVE tutorials, and the direction CCP should take the NPE
-Poll Discussion: the BC changes
-Contract Wrap Up: NA. deploys to Syndicate
-Theorycrafting the Micro Jump Drive
-This Week in Mercs: Chitsa Jason launches CSM campaign
-News: CFC/Test reset, Battle of Asakai, RvB Poinen rumble, armor tanking changes
-CSM Update: Progress on the CSM-as-Stakeholder, next expansion theme picked, CSM8 candidates announce early

DoW Episode 42 – Winter Minutes Edition

Hello friends,

Declarations of War is proud to bring you an episode devoted completely to the CSM 7’s recently released minutes from the 2012 Winter Summit. We didn’t stop there; we also convinced TWO CSM8 candidates to come! Mynnna (aka Corestwo) and Ripard Teg join the discussion to help us tackle some of the most important sections of the minutes. Enjoy!

00:04:21 Context of the CSM7 Winter Summit
00:10:40 Thoughts regarding stakeholdership
00:27:10 Null sec 1 & 2
00:54:45 CSM Whitepaper and voting reform
01:08:40 Ship Balancing
01:21:55 Closing thoughts

DoW Episode 40 w/ Connall Tara

Happy New Year! In this last Declarations of War for 2012, Fly Reckless’ Connall Tara joins us to ensure we don’t stay on script for more than a few minutes at a time. Enjoy!

-Connall details the nuances of small-ship combat and living in Red vs. Blue
-Contract Wrap Up: Noir. Returns to Providence
-This Week In Mercs: Bounties baby!
-Retribution released, the good and the bad. And the CSM (thanks Connall)
-Dec Shield: Success or Failure
-Three Titans Dead, Thirty More Take their Place
-Wars in the South: We talk HBC, Stainwagon, -A-, N3, SOLAR, Black Legion.
-CSM Pre-Summit Townhall recap
-Freaky Four Way: Ripard Teg vs. Mynnna/TheMittani.com vs. CSM vs. most other quality bloggers
-Fresh from the trenches, Alek gives his impressions of the first two days of the Winter CSM Summit.