(12:25:40) Malfador entered the room.
(12:25:44) Malfador: Greetings!
(12:25:46) ekolis_: Yay! Hi Aaron!
(12:25:49) mode (+v Malfador ) by ChanServ
(12:25:49) AtrocitiesPCP: Hello Aaron
(12:25:55) DavidGervais: Wow, what a surprise, Hi Aaron
(12:25:57) Malfador: Sorry, the beta chat went a little long.
(12:26:01) Mallacore: Hello :)
(12:26:03) Fyron: surprise indeed!
(12:26:03) Renegade13: on your knees and bow before his holiness!!
(12:26:11) Michael_Armstron: Aaron, When will the patch for SEIV Deluxe be available?
(12:26:24) Malfador: Good question! Hopefully, next week.
(12:26:28) AtrocitiesPCP: Oh the hot topic.... the PATCH
(12:26:40) Malfador: The patches are done, I'm just waiting for an update on the Manual from SFI.
(12:26:45) AtrocitiesPCP: Will you have a signature series of box are for SEIV?
(12:26:52) Combat_Wombat: how big in Mbs will the patch be?
(12:26:59) Combat_Wombat: MB*
(12:27:03) DavidGervais: you mean the deluxe version AT?
(12:27:04) Malfador: So we should have a big patch for Standard and Gold owners. And a small patch for SE4 Deluxe owners.
(12:27:08) AtrocitiesPCP: YEs
(12:27:14) Renegade13: signed box art...hell yes!
(12:27:17) AtrocitiesPCP: For The Deluxe version. :)
(12:27:20) Malfador: ~80 MBs.
(12:27:24) Tevlik[laptop]: wow
(12:27:26) Baron_Munchausen: Yikes!
(12:27:28) Combat_Wombat: wowza!
(12:27:29) ekolis_: what a patch :D
(12:27:30) Renegade13: :o
(12:27:34) Tevlik[laptop]: it will be nice to go from classic to deluxe
(12:27:40) Renegade13: my dialup connection is screaming already
(12:27:45) Malfador: Sorry, but you have to get all of the music as MP3s, and that's a big meatball.
(12:27:47) Baron_Munchausen: That's not gonnabe easy to download.
(12:27:50) ekolis_: I have 2 copies of the game, one of each version ;)
(12:28:09) ***Baron_Munchausen hopes it will be possible to resume interrupted downloads.
(12:28:09) Malfador: I have had a request to get it on BitTorrent. I'll be looking into that.
(12:28:14) ekolis_: How about a second version where the music isn't included and you ahve to rip it from the cd yourself? ;)
(12:28:14) ***DavidGervais says Aaron should make plans for a trip to Montreal where we can meet and do a Box signing promotion thing :P lol
(12:28:26) Baron_Munchausen: Yeah, Fyron can put it on his server.
(12:28:30) Combat_Wombat: whoa why canadia
(12:28:37) Renegade13: Ahem...lets make that Vancouver not Montreal DG ;)
(12:28:43) Tevlik[laptop]: ya
(12:28:45) Tevlik[laptop]: vancouver
(12:28:46) Renegade13: I might make it to Van, no way get to Montreal!
(12:28:46) Malfador: Is a scanned box signing still as good as the real thing?
(12:28:51) AtrocitiesPCP: I would cash the SSD check for that trip.
(12:28:54) Renegade13: yep
(12:29:06) DavidGervais: because I'm here and so is the publisher, and I can't afford to go anywhere much further than Montreal.
(12:29:13) Combat_Wombat: lol
(12:29:26) Tevlik[laptop]: fair enough... i'll just have to visit some relatives then :P
(12:29:30) ***NullAshton waves to Aaron.
(12:29:34) Renegade13: I'm unemployed!  I can't get to Montreal!  :P  Hitchhike!
(12:29:34) Malfador: Maybe I'll just scan a signed box and make it freely available. But that lowers the value doesn't it?
(12:29:43) DavidGervais: besides, Montreal is a great place for Aaron to take his wife on a vacation. ;)
(12:29:52) ***AtrocitiesPCP reminds everyone that Null Ashton is harmless
(12:29:56) Renegade13: Yep, lowers value...lowers what we'll pay for it ;)
(12:29:58) Combat_Wombat: Renegade13: great minds do think alike :D
(12:30:00) Violist: AtrocitiesPCP: he is?
(12:30:07) Malfador: She does like Vancouver. We went there on our honeymoon.
(12:30:15) Renegade13: CW:  But fools seldom differ ;) :P
(12:30:26) DavidGervais: gack! coover is nothing compared to montreal.
(12:30:29) AtrocitiesPCP: Vancouver BC?
(12:30:34) Renegade13: yes yes yes!
(12:30:34) DavidGervais: lol
(12:31:04) AtrocitiesPCP: Well hell on your next trip stop on bye... I need new vic... I mean I would like to say Hi in person :D
(12:31:06) Fyron: How about Vegas? Thats always a good convention location
(12:31:11) Baron_Munchausen: NullAshton is _mostly_ harmless.... :)
(12:31:36) Malfador: Space Empires convention in Vegas! The first SpaceEmpCon!
(12:31:39) Combat_Wombat: Vegas would make DF happy :D
(12:31:44) Fyron: Me too
(12:31:50) Fyron: Only a 3 hour drive! ;)
(12:32:09) AtrocitiesPCP: Aaron do you happen to know if SEIV Deluxe is doing well in the download sales thus far?
(12:32:12) DavidGervais: Montreal has a convention center :P lol
(12:32:16) Mallacore: It would not be bad if I did not hate traveling
(12:32:21) Fyron: But it is no Vegas
(12:32:30) Malfador: Its only been available a week, but I think so. The retail is coming in a month or two.
(12:32:31) Renegade13: Only a 2 day drive for me ;)
(12:32:45) Combat_Wombat: I would enjoy attending a SE convention anywhere
(12:32:56) Combat_Wombat: I think i suggest this a year and half ago :D
(12:33:03) AtrocitiesPCP: Well count me in for a sale on the retail box copy. :)
(12:33:23) DavidGervais: I can't wait to walk into the local EBGames and buy a copy.
(12:33:37) AtrocitiesPCP: I would go as long as there was an all you can eat food court!
(12:33:39) DavidGervais: It's a matter of pride.
(12:33:50) Renegade13: It'll be available at EB?
(12:34:02) se5a: EB? yuck
(12:34:03) Malfador: I'll try and send free copies to the beta testers. Even though the last beta test was quite a while ago...
(12:34:11) NullAshton: Woo! Free copies.
(12:34:23) NullAshton: Do you mean the SE4 betatesters?
(12:34:29) Malfador: I hope they're all still alive...
(12:34:38) Tevlik[laptop]: lol
(12:34:47) Malfador: SE4 beta testers, those who haven't been driven mad...
(12:34:51) DavidGervais: if mlmbd was a tester, sadly he passed away last year.
(12:35:07) se5a: has anyone asked about the patch progress?
(12:35:14) Renegade13: yep
(12:35:14) Michael_Armstron: YSE
(12:35:16) Renegade13: next week
(12:35:20) Michael_Armstron: opps YES
(12:35:21) se5a: ok cool
(12:35:34) AtrocitiesPCP: I will take Mlmbd's copy and keep in trust for him.
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(12:35:45) se5a: lol at
(12:35:58) AtrocitiesPCP: To bad he isn't around to see SEV... :(
(12:36:11) Malfador: Sorry to cut this short, but I've got a list a mile long from the SE5 beta testers to get to.
(12:36:21) AtrocitiesPCP: Thanks Aaron for stopping bye
(12:36:24) Fyron: have fun!
(12:36:25) ekolis_: aww, well nice seeing you again!
(12:36:25) Tevlik[laptop]: :D
(12:36:28) se5a: yea, we have been driving him hard
(12:36:29) Michael_Armstron: Thanks Aaron
(12:36:32) Mallacore: see ya
(12:36:35) DavidGervais: Aaron, any chance on some advance merchandizeing through cafepress? I have already made some mug artwork based on the expand, explore, exploit and exterminate wp's
(12:36:35) CaptainKwok: We make Aaron work hard!
(12:36:42) CaptainKwok left the room.
(12:36:45) Renegade13: Thanks for stopping in!
(12:36:47) ***Baron_Munchausen begins to remember his SE IV beta days ... " Muhahahahaha!!!"
(12:36:53) Malfador: Its always "We want this" "We want that". And I have to tell them "No, gamers want a simple game like Solitare to play".
(12:37:12) Michael_Armstron: lol
(12:37:20) Tevlik[laptop]: but soliate would be better with these things :P
(12:37:20) DavidGervais: SE:The Gathering,,.. could be a great game.. ;)
(12:37:21) Renegade13: Solitaire is evil
(12:37:22) Malfador: Oooo, 4X coffee mug...
(12:37:26) Renegade13: pure, unadulterated evil
(12:37:42) Fyron: Simple like solitaire?! Blasphemy!!!
(12:37:47) Malfador: Supposedly its the most played game in history!
(12:37:58) Malfador: It must be good!
(12:38:12) ***ekolis_ thinks Aaron is starting to lose his mind ;)
(12:38:18) Malfador: David: Send me the link for the Killer Koffee Mug. I'd like to get one!
(12:38:21) Tevlik[laptop]: mwahahahaha
(12:38:39) ***AtrocitiesPCP gives Aaron Ekolis mind just to be safe
(12:38:44) ekolis_: lol
(12:38:52) DavidGervais: I'll send you the artwork, if you like it you set up the mug account, then you can reap the rewards.
(12:39:06) Fyron: That would transform SE5 into Super Metroid Brothers
(12:39:09) AtrocitiesPCP: I want a MOUSE PAD!
(12:39:14) ekolis_: super metroid bros?
(12:39:27) AtrocitiesPCP: My Duke Nukem and SEIV mouse pads are waring out!
(12:39:28) Fyron: Make that Super Metroid Megabrothers Island
(12:39:33) ekolis_: lol
(12:39:37) Tevlik[laptop]: haha
(12:39:42) DavidGervais: the mousepads at cafepress are way too expensive. 12$ without any markup
(12:39:57) Malfador: I'd like a T-Shirt with "I'm with  ->" and a picture of a Sithrak.
(12:40:09) Renegade13: hell yes!
(12:40:12) ekolis_: I wonder if the sithrak still look like the Xiati...
(12:40:14) Michael_Armstron: Great one Aaron
(12:40:16) ekolis_: *xichung
(12:40:24) AtrocitiesPCP: Make some cool artwork and send me the link.. .I still have a few bogus VISA cards left that the FBI haven't tracked yet... :D
(12:40:36) DavidGervais: anyways, we will need to discuss merchandising, at some point.
(12:40:46) se5a: a
(12:40:47) AtrocitiesPCP: Or a mug that list the top ten Addicted SEIV items.
(12:40:49) Malfador: Catch you all later! Have a great weekend!
(12:40:53) AtrocitiesPCP: Bye
(12:40:54) ekolis_: bye!
(12:40:57) DavidGervais: bye Aaron, cheers!
(12:40:57) se5a: "beware of strange warppoints" Tshirt
(12:40:59) Renegade13: Bye!
(12:41:03) Mallacore: bye
(12:41:03) Tevlik[laptop]: same you aaron, cya
(12:41:05) Michael_Armstron: Bye Aaron
(12:41:12) Malfador left the room.