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It’s so easy even a horridperson can figure it out 🙂 . I had a lot of trouble getting my avatar onto the old site. I had it there at one point but it lost it and didn’t want to accept it. When ever it set my sized image it would hiccup after I confirmed and spit me back to the forum without my avatar.
The new site is really user friendly and readily accepts images from your hard drive so there isn’t even a requirement to dick around with photobucket or external file services. The interface even has a drag and drop from browsed files so it’s super easy. Even if the avatar image you select is oversized the interface allows you yo choose a crop within it that conforms to the forum display 🙂 . Looks awesome but as I said before the ease of use really makes the experience that much better.
I haven’t tried yet but I’ll be interested to see how images are added to posts. Things behind the scenes seem at least as good as the fantastic wrapper.
The only thing I’m noticing is that the text is wrapping around the avatar and title. I’m not sure if there is a cell the text could designated to a touch to the right rather than including the avatar in the body of messages. Unless you are writing something longer you don’t pick up on it because short statements don’t overstep the the limits of the avatar.
The site looks pretty sweet palcioz; Great work! I haven’t looked at everything yet but the improvement I noticed most was how easy it was to add my avatar. So much better than before. The old site gave me nothing but grief when I tried to add my cat pics.
As an add to blackout’s suggestion (which is excellent) if you play captains belonging to the KDF and Romulan factions consider the t6 battlecruiser bundle. 5k zen gets you the arbiter, kurak and the morrigu. If you are only purchasing this for the trait this opens it for every faction you play. The Arbiter and Kurak are both good ships but the Morrigu is an amazing beast that is just plain devilish.
For me there are, “must buy” ships. These are ones that have captured my imagination. Should the right ship come along I will have it at the unadjusted price point and be happy.
Ship sales invite me to spend money but it’s putting the cart in front of the horse. More often than not it amounts to buying for the sake of buying and that is not a saving; That’s a loss.
If I buy anything during sales it is the already discounted ship bundles. If I have my eye on a ship and continue to watch it in spite of it not being a, “must buy” then I consider it. If I make a purchases during a ship sales my favorite is cross-faction packs or three versions of the same ship. The cross-faction packs give me some nice variation in play style and encourage me to revisit faction captains I neglect
The three version packs piss me off but I am compelled to purchase them because I want the costume parts to customize my ship. If I buy anything during this sale it will be the escort carrier faction pack or the T6 bortaqu’; The compounded discounts are enough to convince me I might be getting a “bargain” 🙁 .
I was a bit underwhelmed by the presentation but todays news seems more encouraging; Dare to dream of new life and exploration? Looks like we find out in late October.
Hopefully some of those graphics are placeholders. Looking at the doffs they are clearly wearing 25c uniforms and the Tellarite isn’t a TOS one. I hope they put some effort into this rather than just sliding it out. If not I feel another break coming on.
I enjoyed the mission James; I even gave you a huge 100 dil tip but don’t spend it all in one place 🙂 . The core of the story is good and there is some impressive tecchnical stuff happening there too. I’ve tried to figure out foundry but I couldn’t even set up a ground map because I could understand the plane I needed for the horizon. The entry at warp and damaged ship interior were some sharp effects.
The dialogue could use a going over for spelling and story continuity. To get the wrinkles out you need more sets of eyes. If you wanted help catching them it would involve more replays and actually taking notes because I was negligent and just wanted to play the story and enjoy it rather than be a douchey editor; I did enjoy it except I didn’t find all the easter eggs and you clearly didn’t place them where I was looking 😛 . The plot hooks you dropped left the door open for more missions down the road if you are so inclined and i thought that was very cool.
The only thing that didn’t work for me was the Klingon side of the house. The dialogue with the renegade commander might have flowed differently in my mind but what I really wondered about was our own Klingon 44th. Would it be possible to have a Representative of the 44th Assault Group liase with the 44th in the wrap up rather than a extraneous General? It doesn’t make a lot of difference in the big picture because it is a Fed only mission but if someone playing a Fed had a Klingon alt it might be nice to elaborate on our sister fleet. If you were willing to pull a substitution in the conclusion the player could have a brief interaction with The Klingon fleet member as they are leaving rather than Soolin going all Section 31 and booting you out of her office so she can have a secret meeting. The push and the secrecy didn’t gel with me for the open and honest manner that we try to foster within and without the fleet.
If I can do anything to help let me know. I apologize for letting this slide a few days too many as is.
horrid
Wow, that ship is a bit of a history lesson 🙂 . Seriously welcome back Intrepid :).
There have been a number of updates and changes to the captains skills, ships and equipment and various systems that augment the doffing system. Taken in one big blast it seems overwhelming but on closer examination it’s intuitive and built onto old concepts with no great epiphanies on the part of the design team.
Your ship may be a little long in the tooth but is probably enough to get you started teaming with the fleet and trying working at some queues to build your reputations to earn gear.
The recommendation I push to players who have been away for a while is to start a new captain and allow yourself to grow into the new game systems. Take the time to make a TOS captain and have some simple fun before you revisit your old captains. The AoY Feds have a fresh take on the classic fed tutorial, give you an excuse to throw on some TOS costumes and get your feet wet. Save the guys who are on the brink of endgame until you can make more informed decisions. Someone is almost always in game to give a hand or answer questions that you might have.
I just saw some pictures of the models they will be releasing from a con promo release they had. To plug the ones that aren’t yet produced they released a special edition Picard and a TOS Kirk fig. The sculpts look great and when they drop next year I’ll be psyched to put paint to brush.
From comments their intention is to put out a TOS and TNG settings. The range will include generic figs intended as away team members and opposition as well as personalities from the eras. Get me some classic Red shirts to fall beneath a fusilade of Klingon disruptor fire!
If the system is fluid and intuitive I’d wonder about the possibility of playing online but that is just a kernal of an idea.
Not sure about the list in it’s entirety ( didn’t look; too busy watching the clips 🙂 ) but “Duet” was brilliant. One of my favorites because of the complexity of the characters, the social relevance and seeing that sanctimonious Bajoran get served 🙂 . In a more serious examination of the last remark Kira was became less polarized about the occupation, more conflicted; Great drama.
Hi all. I’d like to extend my thanks to the rest of the command staff for allowing me to join them but with even a little power comes greater responsibilities.
For anyone that plays during the, “off hours” I’m here to help when I am online. With some administrative controls I can assist and expedite those fleet transfers when the majority of the fleet are counting Blind Grisnar Sheep. I like to chat when I’m on so if there is a conversation on the fleet diplo channel in all likelihood I’m at least “listening”. If there is silence on the channel and I’m on say hello if you need a hand or want just want to yammer about things Trek (or my cats).
@CodeWarrior
My wallet has taken a virtual beating all ready :).
On a more serious note I am a modelling snob and while I can imagine the price will be high the quality will be debatable at this point in time. 3d printing is improving but the “resolution” isn’t up to snuff. I don’t have much faith in layered goo taking on the clean finish that would be my expectations for a ship from the Star Trek universe. Print on demand objects remain inferior to cast products and should be avoided until the technology is up to the task of producing a display quality model.
I want a D7. I think I’ll have to engineer a fluke to the best of my ability because I don’t even want to know what the asking price will be on the market other than maximum allowable. There is a risk of geting taken to the cleaners in either case but I think I will have to decide on a, “speculating budget” where I get in within the range or accept that it’s not meant to be. In the past I have got some of the nice things and sometimes I got nothing. Whatever the case Daddy’s imaginary spaceships have never resulted in my little princesses going hungry 😀 .
I had a look but couldn’t figure it out. Got a nice pic of my cat on there as an avatar but that’s about it. I think grenthor was on playing WoW but I was in ten forward and didn’t know how to say hello. Typing is bad enough :P.
I’ll check in again too Wash. It can be a little overwhelming after a long time away but we have your back 🙂 .
