Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
You chose wisely 😄! There are plenty of people to meet here and do fleet things with. If you were using the fleet you belonged to before as a social hub exclusively you could probably set up a channel in chat so you can all stay in touch. When you tell them how much fun you are having (You better 😛) maybe they will consider heading this way too.
I was disappointed to miss the cozy costume contest too but work wrecked my funsies 😔. I feel vindicated that my choice of costume was the right one but I’m sure my colour choices would have been cozier 😃! I was thinking pink and baby blue with a Talaxian model to channel that extra oodie wearing slacker surfing your couches 😛.
@SgtKen60 Yeah, reddit is still a built of trash fire on that topic. I can’t recall a post I’ve made there getting smashed by so many down votes before 😆. I took the jerk approach for a suction and suggested a $5 a monthly seller’s license fee for FTP dil sellers. I think it would thin the herd and have the potential to reduce supply without affecting the rest of the community. I think that the glut of dilithium demonstrates that the FTP population can’t be sustained as it is. $5 is 3 cups of coffee in the run of a month. It’s a token sum but it is enough of an obstacle some would refuse to pay and quit on, “principle” that would reduce the seller population to a more sustainable level. Any proceeds could be earmarked for at least a part timeQA IT type to try and repair the damage this game is sitting on.
Much better! I’ve articulated this better and slapped it down on the STO forums so here’s the cut and paste. There’s no expectation anyone will agree with me but I think disapproving responses will be more sensible here 😀 .
spiritborn wrote: »the Klingon leaders present (apart from J’Ula and L’Rell) would have heirs and those heirs might not be present at the First City during that time, so all you’d accomplish with that is made many new Klingon leaders who are very pissed off with you, oh and united because of it.A single bomb cannot remove every militaristic figure with in the Klingon Empire due to its very nature. Sure J’Ula talked about crushing the Romulans and the Federation before she got a massive reality check and she’s not stupid enough to not realize that her current position is potentially earned thru a help of major Romulan or UFP hero who would obviously be more loyal to their nations then to her, in fact FED characters (and IIRC Fed-allied ROM/JH) made it clear she’s to them just the lesser of 2 evils not a friend.
This has me wondering about the viability of the Alliance moving forward. How much stability is there within the Klingon Empire and the greater alliance as a consequence of this chaos? This thread specifically addressed J’ula in terms of body count and it avoid the real issue, as well as sanitizing her behaviour. She doesn’t belong here. Where was Daniels, The Pastak, the Alliance predicated on playing temporal police? If anyone was killed by someone native to our timeline maybe they were supposed to die. When the crew of a space station and figures from an era suddenly die (and J’mpok in his position as head of state) doesn’t that seem like an incursion? I’ve only played the last couple seasons from a Klingon perspective and the exposition has been terrible. Mission briefs were partially delivered as holo simulations through the Discovery arc with the latter debriefs feeling like all bets were off and J’mpok was having a laugh at the state of the story as he broke the fourth wall. Did the Federation story bookending these missions do a better job of clarifying what was happening? J’mpok was an effective if not likeable Chancellor. From the onset he was depicted as having some skeletons in his closet but he had a pretty good run. Even Martok respected him for his martial and political prowess (And he defeated him man on man, even if he magically recovered from his mortal wounds). The heel turn was so over the top it would have made Vince Rousseau blush.
<p style=”text-align: right;”>The advantage of Star Trek as a setting is that many worlds are your multi worlds. Essentially your ship is your base while every planet/civilization is a new world waiting to be explored. For RPG purposes TOS does it most blatantly where they did everything from gladiators, Romans, Nazis, Greg gods, , to outright magicians and magical beings. More often than not there, “The magic of technology” behind the curtain but the diverse possibilities that kind of space setting offers are staggering. That’s without hitting alternate dimensions and times.</p>
s more than enough on offer in a single genre.The fusion fantasy/space setting that’s most popular is either Spelljammer or Starfinder. I’ve never been a fan but that’s just my opinion of mixed genre settings. I’ve always felt that there more than enough in one genre to explore. Old sci fi like John Carter of Mars is a bit of a blend that feels more fantasy than sci fi but it’s probably more pulp than either of those.Not even heavy just a bight in a loose cable that had been tied off but got nudged into the fan by the panel on the tower when I popped it back on. Fan went BRRRTTTT!!!! Pew Pew! :O
Did everything get sorted out? I heard you asking about second account and trying to get an invite to the fleets but having just come back and a) out of touch with who’s who and b) still MIA on the bulk of my captains I wouldn’t have been any use at all. I’m also completely out of touch with the meta and never was that good at builds when I was most active. I’m still easily the most stylish captain with the most amazing Barbie powers of all 😛 . This makes me slightly more useful than Neelix on Voyager, but not much 😀 ! I wanted to send you a welcome because I felt badly for not saying anything even if I wouldn’t have been much help at all. Welcome!
I might get a ship or not. I’m not sick of the event yet; Give it time 😀 . On the bright side it is limited to one a day which isn’t too painful a play schedule. I remember trying to earn gidgets and gadgets for EVERY captain I have on mirror events so I’m OK with this. I will try to pull my weight on runs to the best of my (and my captains) abilities 😛 . I hit a run this morning where I don’t think they were even trying. THAT I hate!
I’m not going to answer your question definitively because I’ve been away too long and don’t want to steer you wrong. I don’t even remember how to make my little captains walk right at the moment 😀 ! Don’t act on anything I suggest until someone who has been playing more recently confirms!!!! I’m pretty sure you can still mail an item (like a boxed ship) from one captain to another. The account bank is one of the best investments in game you can have if you run a lot of alts. If I remember right people used to get a sub for a month just to unlock a small number of slots in the account bank that came as part of the perks. I I have a lot of captains so I use the account to funnel gear, communal supplies, anything that isn’t nailed down to a single character. If you buy anything in game this is one of the best if you play the alt game.
Just came back for a visit and found this thread. Seems all of the ships I was actually posted to (Actual postings, not the shit wagons I got attach posted to because their own crews were too lazy to sail 😛 ) are decommissioned. My first ship was AOR 509 HMCS Protecteur and I have some good memories. DDH 280 Iroquois was a scow and I’d wish it into razor blades but it would probably give someone Hep C 😛 . I just “upgraded” to a new to me computer so I’ll soon find out if I can play a bit. Specs are more than good enough but I have to sort out the kinks.
Uh oh. I hate typing. Looks like Chief escaped my attention when my fingers got away from me. Good thing I plan to revise the NPC data to keep it simpler. All of those motivations (values) make it a little to complex when switching from character to character. I used a character generation app intended for PCs rather than a simpler NPC model. I’m not a fan of mechanics so a program that did the work for me was useful. Unfortunately it made the character a bit to good at everything and narrowed the latitude I had with assigning abilities. Inputting the data by way of a graphics program is a bit of a pain in the ass too. Once you type something in it’s like a brushstoke rather than a word document and I have to “erase” by “painting” over.
Hurray! I just had a major breakthrough regarding my plot for the whole season! Big ideas are fine but collecting the little ones that seem like nothing more than “colour” that advance the plot as whole are milestones. I’m super excited by this. On the “Oh, he actually did something I can look at front” I have a couple items I designed in the style of Enterprise as play aids. I’ve included the crew patch for USS Hunter; An Intrepid class platform launched shortly before Mariner, A character sheet for the senior flight controller, and a test for a space battle map presentation. I tried to present the information in the map and character reference in the style of ENT graphics. The patch is just for flavor and doesn’t really do anything in game other than dress things up a bit.
Wow. I never knew about the tardigrade story. My story build just kind of happened but, that guy has been on it for 4 years. That’s just too similar. If they were grabbing ideas from other sources it’s no surprise the story feels like such a convoluted mash up. So much depends on what they do with Picard. Stewart is a great actor who can prop up a mediocre cast. If they put the time into it and build a strong drama around him I think it could be killer. If they throw out like a bit of jackoff with his name on it TNG fanboys will still slurp it up even if it sucks and won’t believe anyone who tells them it is so even if it is true.
When I first saw the new Klingons I felt the same about them. Rather than reimagined cosmetics I thought there might have been some Hurq DNA in their physiology and the peculiar tomb ship.
As I said the visuals were neat and the characters were interesting apart from the lead. Burnham has to be the flattest most unremarkable Trek character I can remember; I forget shitty ones quickly. They padded the a Mary Sue with “cool stuff” because at some level they must have been aware there was nothing there. Unfortunately the I don’t think the story will age well. I just don’t feel there is some greater meaning we are missing. It’s just a rats nest of disparate ideas that aren’t tied together terribly well.
Did CBS have to do that? The Star Trek movies were the licensee who had no choice but to reimagine the franchise. CBS agreed to stand down for 10 years while Paramount (or the owner of Paramount) made their movie and established their brand. After ten years or more of sitting on their asses and collecting royalties it seems the best they could do was produce derivative work of Trek projects that emerged while they counted their money. The look was Paramount Star Trek, The period and Klingon War was Axanar, Maybe the Tartigrades did come from the developer. Hell, they even rehashed the Discovery from old McQuarrie designs for Star Trek: Phase 2. It’s a shameful train wreck. Fuck! I even have favorite episodes of Voyager 😀 . I do like Saru and Stamets though.
I meant to ask; What is your takeaway from Discovery? Mine wasn’t entirely positive but, it’s only one persons opinion.
Discovery whether a divergent timeline or canon has no effect on my story unless there is a temporal event; And I don’t have any planned. I have mixed feelings about Discovery. I like the development of individual characters. I think they made for an interesting cast. I hated the big picture. It seems to over the top. Mirror U in a Klingon War won by a single ship then straight to Section 31 plots in Season 2? I don’t know if I wrote it here or somewhere on the Cryptic forums but I posted about the best future for Trek being in the past because you can only make starships go so fast before it becomes silly magic. They set a show back in the continuity yet they still gave it a magic space engine. Christ! No foreplay and they already blew their wad. It’s like they found the writer on 4Chan. Too over the top. I stopped watching about 4 episodes in and didn’t actually finish the run until April. I feel like they poached my idea for my campaign and put it on steroids. Independent invention is well and good but I’m a little pissed that if I do my arc as I outlined it the players might think I drew inspiration from elements of Discovery. I had this planned in the summer last year before they went to air. I think I did it much better. When I do the reveal you be the judge 😀 .
