= State of the Fleet, July 2016 =

Greetings 44th,

A short and quick update, a more expanded Fleet Review will follow next weekend.

First weekend of July, here are our newest fleet members from June:

Gh05st0rm (Chris) from Washington State, US (provisional)
sarreous (Ty) GMT-7 area
bremmen92 (jeremy) from North America (MDST)
Resto87 (Rodney) from Florida, US
Dime407 (Frank) from Florida, US
lesliod1 (John) from the UK
Kelbrak (Cameron) from the UK
David Anderson (Henri) from London, UK
captwillriker (Eric) from Florida, US
cesttle (Mike) from the US West Coast

And again we’ve seen some more 44th veterans returning, great to see you all !

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The next full expansion Agents of Yesterday is just around the corner (July 6th) and it’s going to be a big one, in that Cryptic has put an enormous amount of effort and resources in it – it’s been in the works for over a year now. Judging from the level of detail put into the new Kelvin Timeline ships, it’s going to be a treat. Check out the coming Kelvin Lock Box goodies.

Speaking of lockboxes, the Infinity Lockboxes caused a massive drop in exchange prices; I bought a Tholian Tarantula Dreadnought for 160 mil ec that was over 350 mil ec a week before. Might be a good time to pick up that exotic Lobi/Lockbox ship on the exchange while prices are still low – you can count on it prices will skyrocket soon when the Kelvin lockboxes go live. Heck, you might even buy up some of the Infinity ones to sell for a decent ec profit later – they are very good.

Keep in mind that each launch week always comes with bugs and emergency patches, and AoY won’t change that, so expect some irregular downtime the coming days.

We already adressed the next expansion, but just to recap;
* You do not need to create a new alt character to continue to play STO.
* A new Agent character created will unlock the new content which will be Federation only.
* Agents can join our regular Federation Fleet(s) in a later stage.
* All new Agents will be based in our 44th Delta Fleet as we have the room there. Ofcourse (temporary) invites to Main Fleet will remain open.

Calendar;

July 6; Agents of Yesterday goes live
June 30 – July 14; Featured Series replay – team up with your fleet to replay old episodes to win some unique items and Boffs
July 14 – July 18; Dilithium Weekend – the 44th will slot extra Fleet Dilithium boosts to do some serious dili farming.
June 9 – July 21; Lohlunat Summer Festival
July 21 – July 25; Upgrade Weekend – craft extra Tech Upgrades to either use or sell on the exchange.

Another Fleet Update will be posted next weekend after we’ve had a first look of AoY.

See you, out there 😎

Marcase