OP updated with more info.

So did anything happen with this while I was away? If anyone took a look at the TS/mumble alternatives, I'd love to hear what you thought.

If you're interested, I'm happy to give a demo to anyone that'd like to see life on the less staticy side, and help get the fleet out of the vent dark ages!

That's really sad. :( I guess I'll never get to play my character, Technological, again.

I take this VERY seriously... my first toon had a different name for each progressive ship. That became a bit cumbersome over time (given how many ships he now has), but they almost all conform to my naming convention:

a.) Adjectives ending in -ous or -ess (Righteous, Courageous, Valorous, Sagacious, Fearless, etc.)
b.) relevant to the toon and career (Astris; latin for 'star;' Renegade, Pioneer, etc)

I've not used letters yet to be honest. I always thought it strange that the Enterprise was really the only proven example of this seen, despite the fairly consistent reuse of historical names by Starfleet (almost every original Connie saw life later on in newer classes; no letters though).

I'm a canon freak, so you won't find me naming ships lightly or outside of the norms. Nothing worse than seeing someone flying around in a ship with a hot mess name. It ruins the entire effect of the ship, and the person flying it.

haha well out of all the MLS teams the Galaxy is my favorite, but I am not a fan of the way the MLS operates.

I was tempted to give it a go but the installed files are compressed into a format which I can't unzip. And I haven't installed a third party unzipper for years :P

Still it certainly seems to make the colours more "true" on your screenshots.

COH went down for the final time at 3:04 am PST it will be greatly missed at the request of many of the members of COH Pride I was asked to create https://www.facebook.com/groups/STO.CO.Pride/

I would probably still be a "healer" of sorts because I enjoy helping people and my background is in the field of medicine but I don't know which of the classes I'd be if force based isn't available. :)

Ugh, don't remind me that my two least-favourite teams are competing for the Cup. I think they should change the name of the Western Conference to the 1980s NFC, I swear....

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It's supposed to be with a *what, but well that's copy and paste for yah...

So if we lived in Star Wars, profession do you think you'd grow up to be(force based profession excluded)?

I saw a few people with graphics that surpass what I'm seeing when I play at max settings in GW2. I learned that they use something called SweetFX. This is an injector that enhances the graphics on your screen through your DirectX client. It does not alter any files associated with GW2. There have been posts asking for Anet to verify if it's a bannable offense to use SweetFX, but Anet is not able to validate third party programs as it would take up too much time. A response from one of the Anet Mods states the following in response to using SweetFX:

Mark Katzbach

Our development team is not able to review third-party programs to assess their components or give them any sort of approval. We make our policies clear in our User Agreement, Rules of Conduct, and the Conduct Breaches and Outcomes document, which you can find in the Legal Documentation section of our website: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/ You should know the following:
1. If you chose to use any third-party program, you do so at your own risk.
2. We cannot offer support if the third-party program impacts Guild Wars or Guild Wars 2 and, for instance, makes the game unplayable.
3. If you choose to use what you believe to be a “benign,” or non-advantage-giving program, be sure to get it from a legitimate source to protect yourself from the possible addition of cheats or key-loggers.

The best way for a player to assess whether a specific third-party program could have any impact on another player or a PvP opponent is to ask:
• “Does this program allow someone to play faster, better, longer, or more accurately than someone who doesn’t use it?”
• “Does this program allow someone to ‘play’ when he/she is not at the computer?”
• “Does this program allow the user to gain undeserved rewards?”

If you'd like to use it, go to: http://www.guru3d.com/files_tags/sweetfx.html
I used the following preset for GW2: http://sweetfx.thelazy.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SweetFX_settings.txt

I decided to give it a try... WOW... what a difference!

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Thank you all for you input, but on Voleron's wonderful note, the thread's been locked.

Yea i think i saw that its 3am tonite my time, i might just get up to watch the massively livestream.

Never played the game but i know how it felt to hear the announcements of Earth & Beyon/Auto Assault closings.

I recall before the launch of Season 6, when fleet members and leaders alike, publicly voiced their concern to Cryptic in the STO forums, about how the fleet holdings and provisioning systems had the potential to be incredibly divisive amongst the membership of fleets. I recall their public reply being that the creation of internal fleet politics, is what they had intended.

I can only guess as to what their motivation behind this was. I'm going to assume that they didn't necessarily mean that they wanted to cause conflict amongst their playerbase, but that instead, they wanted to make fleets a more lively component of the game, and didn't mind that a potential side-effect of their system, was that it would spark passionate, internal debate. Well, they've definitely succeeded.

This thread has been host to a terrific number of thoughts and ideas surrounding the fleet stores that I, and perhaps other fleet members hadn't previously considered. I'm confident in saying that your collective voices and opinions on the topic have been loudly heard by the leadership :)

I believe that this thread has served it's intended purpose, in that it has members and leaders alike, thinking about whether an evolution of our current system would be beneficial, and if so, what form that evolution might take, taking into consideration all of the points that have arisen from this discussion. In the eighteen pages since the inception of this thread, it has however, become somewhat derailed, and is in my opinion, no longer contributing to positive, forward thinking momentum regarding our fleet holdings.

I'd like to thank everyone for their passionate input. I believe everyone's input has been heard, and that we're not likely to see any additional input on this topic that hasn't been considered. For that reason, I'm in favour of locking down this thread and addressing any branching topics of discussion in alternate threads.

I'm not available Saturday, business event and LA Galaxy is gonna kick Houston's ass. But I'm free Sunday if you'll be running it then.

I saw it myself and it was really frustrating which is why I stopped contributing anything to the Starbase other then fleet marks for awhile because it is beyond aggravating to sit there waiting for the thing to count down to donate then watch it click over and as I'm in the process of donating the entire thing fills up.

This is why we are in a situation now where fleet projects sometimes stall, because some players no longer even bother checking the Starbase projects tab unless someone announces it's stalled. It's called the Pike Syndrome.

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I'm sorry for butting in, but I think there's a bit of confusion here.

You believe that Ozy was referring to yourself or players like you who were timing their gaming to help complete projects and other such strategies to help complete projects quickly. He wasn't. That was perfectly normal and we're fine with that.

There was however a small group of players who would actively prevent other members from donating to projects, gloated about it and turned it into a game to see who could donate to the most. This is what he was referring to.

If that is the case then that is what needs to be said. As it is right now myself, and others who are in and around the top 10 contributors felt like we were singled out for being in the position we are in. Lumping those who were doing others wrong and active members who felt they were helping in a statement like "those who could buy up all the resources and then some" doesn't make things clear.

Say you are JR member X, and you read that post, who are your going to think they are talking about? Your mind goes to the top 10 contributors.

It did hurt some feelings, I'm going to be 100% honest there. The whole post just put a bad taste in peoples mouths about what they had contributed, and in again all honesty is actually putting shade on future contributions from said people to fleet projects.

Again if you have the tag of Admiral on your post what you say goes a good deal deeper with members of the fleer IMO then some Jr member X. (Which I think might be a new screen name for myself ;) )

At the end of the day Joen, I stated and defined them as campers. So unless you're defining yourself as a camper, then you shouldnt have felt it was about you at all. Thats basically it. There was nothing ambigious about whom I was referring to.

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[quote="joenAtl" post=51919

I'm sorry for butting in, but I think there's a bit of confusion here.

You believe that Ozy was referring to yourself or players like you who were timing their gaming to help complete projects and other such strategies to help complete projects quickly. He wasn't. That was perfectly normal and we're fine with that.

There was however a small group of players who would actively prevent other members from donating to projects, gloated about it and turned it into a game to see who could donate to the most. This is what he was referring to.

If that is the case then that is what needs to be said. As it is right now myself, and others who are in and around the top 10 contributors felt like we were singled out for being in the position we are in. Lumping those who were doing others wrong and active members who felt they were helping in a statement like "those who could buy up all the resources and then some" doesn't make things clear.

Say you are JR member X, and you read that post, who are your going to think they are talking about? Your mind goes to the top 10 contributors.

It did hurt some feelings, I'm going to be 100% honest there. The whole post just put a bad taste in peoples mouths about what they had contributed, and in again all honesty is actually putting shade on future contributions from said people to fleet projects.

Again if you have the tag of Admiral on your post what you say goes a good deal deeper with members of the fleer IMO then some Jr member X. (Which I think might be a new screen name for myself ;) )