Attendance
We had amazing attendance at the meeting with over 60 members participating.

Events
Over the years, we've tried to host regular fleet events in-game, from purely social events to PvP, but we constantly struggle with maintaining good fleet involvement in these events. Is there anything we can do to increase fleet participating in these events? You're input would be extremely helpful.
Suggestions:

• Sending out an e-mail blast about future events
• Bimonthly or weekly emails
• Poll the membership for the most convenient times
• Create events in-game
• Create a gmail calender
• Creating an events thread on the forums
• Create and use Social Networking pages
• Post events in the MTOD
• Utilize Smoke signals and carrier pigeons

Request events:

• Social Events
• STF Tutorials
• A Winter event like Pride
• Leveling events for new players
• Character Builds help
• Roleplay Events
• Introductory PvP

We'll start sending out more emails about up coming events. We've done polls many times and it generally comes back that most people want events on the weekends during the afternoon and evening. We'll try to do another one soon. Up until recently, the Events in the Fleet UI has been broken. With Season 6, it was fixed so we'll begin to use it now. We currently have a Facebook Page, a Twitter account and a Google+ Page. Follow/like/circle those that you like; we'll endeavor to use them more often. I'll check to see if we can outsource some message delivers to the Owls in Harry Potter. ;)

Fleet Starbases
Currently, we have the permission to purchase from the Fleet Store limited to just Fleet Captains, Admirals and a special empty rank. We're limited on the number of Fleet Ships and Fleet Items that we can have. To be able to purchase items from the Fleet Stores, we first have to run provisioning assignments that give us a limited number of requisitions. To prevent someone from purchasing all the available requisitions in the Fleet Store. The Admirals are interested in how we can fairly distribute the requisitioned items.

Suggestions

• Give out Provision to Event attendees
• Limit members to 1 ship per person
• Keep track of what's purchased what, publicly
• Assign Admirals to handing out provisions
• Make items attainable for all members
• Use the empty rank to give members the purchase permission temporarily
• Only Members and above should be allowed to purchase, not Cadets

It should be noted that there is no way to limit donations or purchases; the permissions are all or nothing. Fleet Items are Bind on Pickup; meaning the leadership cannot purchase an item and then deliver it to a member. The whole point of limiting the Purchase from Fleet Stores permission is to make sure everyone gets the chance to purchase something; we'll do our best to make sure that everyone gets a chance to purchase something from Fleet Stores.

It was agreed that we should limit the amounts a Member can purchase and that we should use the Empty rank to temporarily give members the ability to purchase from the Fleet Stores.

In order to purchase an item from the Fleet Store, simple request the promotion from a Fleet Captain or Admiral, let them know what you're wanting to purchase and inform them when they are done. Please be sure that you have all the necessary materials (Dilithium, Fleet Ship Modules, etc.) before requesting the promotion. When you are done, the Fleet Captain will demote you to the previous rank.

I want to take a moment to clarify something. I, personally, don't care how long it takes for us to get our starbase to max level. At the very fastest, its time gated to 7 months and that's with every project completing instantly and starting their countdown. It'll take us longer than that. The reason for Stonewall Fleet to exist is for us to have a safe and fun place to play STO and if we're just running and a break neck pace to the finish line, that's just not fun. So lean back and just enjoy the ride. :) We'll get to Tier 5 across the bored when we get there.

You can view the entire meeting transcript here:
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I miss having everyone to talk with so much. I suppose I could chat with everyone in the fleet via my Champions account but I'm not sure you guys would like that. That's the thing I don't like about Champions, or at least the group I'm in, people only talk about the game, they don't converse.

No worries. I will raise a petition or however you contact a GM in STO for an answer as well.

After all. What would stop you creating a new email from gmail etc and using that and details to create a silver account in theory? They cant really have issues unless you try to breach EULA using different accounts.

Just as soon as I can log in I will ask. Hopefully it wont take too many days for a reply...

An official answer would be nice, someone suggested I call but I don't have enough minutes on my phone for that.

My Google-Fu may be weak, but I can not find anything suggesting one way or the other. Any googling about both gold and silver accounts seems to call up the Matrix comparing them, but nothing more of import.

STO/PWE would be very odd if they really did cause hassle over having more then one account. I think the only issue would be using secondary/alt accounts to bypass bans for try to break EULA.

Others like EVE Online have no such issues and are happy for you to have as many accounts as you like. Even if many of them only get paid for with in game PLEX and not actual money. Ultimately an alt account is a chance at upping the player counts.

I am happy to petition it for an answer if others have not already?

That's not how STO is structured.

I can't recall and I can't check on my phone but the ? At the end of most of the limits used to say 'after 20hr of gameplay and or u had a sub the limit would be lifted' again I can't dbl check ATM

I thought I had read a rule against it when things were about to go F2P. Is there anyone out there with better Google mastery than myself who can confirm or deny? Thanks

I don't *think* there's any rules against have two accounts. I doubt Cryptic would care as the silver account is limited as it is and might give you a reason to spend some coin in the Z-store. :P

Google has not been helpful to me in trying to find this out. I am eager to get back in game. I do not want to convert my Gold account to Silver, because I would lose a lot of BOs in the process, and since you can't convert from Gold to Silver back to Gold, I would lose all that work and the fact that I create my BOs for story purposes. Is it legal for me to start a Silver account, and then also play my Gold account once I have the money? I'm not talking about a workaround, I'm talking about what is within the PWE TOS.

Thanks

Thrumdi is right. If "Eternal Grove" returns to the server list before launch then that'll be our home but if not I'm nearly sure we'll stay on Crystal Desert.

To be honest we can probably pick fault with any of the servers. WvW is a major part of the game and there's always going to be some guilds on every server who try to control it. Our enemy server would change every 2 weeks so even if we get dominated by certain WvW centric servers it won't be always and being able to give as good as we get would probably a good thing.

Certainly it's going to require a lot of guilds all working together and I'm sure most of them won't be hardcore.

Whatever happens it'll be fine, I'm sure.

As for the original topic, I can't imagine the server will be dominated be Spanish speakers, certainly it wasn't during beta.

I think seeing as it plays against top servers such as FA, but isn't necessarily, say, top 3, it should be a fairly well balanced server. I'm also not too fond of the LGBT guilds all being on one server, i think immersion would be better for all of them :) just my opinion though.

I was reading up on GW2 when i found this reddit post that was very helpful

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u3QpOmEhLOzjhyxrI5Ulf8rDz_INGgvyqHECiA2yXks/edit?pli=1

IT looks like Crystal Desert is a very filled server, just the right amount! However, it also appears to be the unofficial latin server with the brazilian alliance...do you think that will pose any annoyances when it comes to a multitude of spanish over English? Or am i just overreacting because i have nothing better to do? Thoughts?

I had thought that PWE had rules forbidding users to have both a Gold and Silver account, that's why I haven't done it. The main reason that I want to get in the game to begin with has nothing to do with the game. I miss being able to talk with my fleetmates in real time. So, I guess, really, I'm wanting to spend $15/mo for a chatroom. :(

Yeah. Dont let them spoil your idea of fun, especially when they are easy to avoid for the most part.

I seem to recall many people saying that if you were Gold and convert to Silver that you keep all you had as Gold and it would just be new chars that become restrained by Silver levels now?

As to reasons to give it another go. If you are not too sure why not create an alt account as Silver. Create a basic Fed and see how the fleet is now. And if you enjoy how Stonewall is now then think about renewing your Gold properly?

OH yes, I was playing an elementalist at the time, doing Tailoring and Jeweler actively at the time, I had a few 10 slot bags and also crafted myself some armor early on as well.

But yes, their goal like they said for crafting is, everything is useful. Which for the most part is true, even if you craft stuff you don't need you can just salvage it to go into other crafted projects as well. Otherwise, just keep the materials for other crafting disciplines.

Did you manage to get your crafting skill high enough to actually use your crafted items?

Quote by bluegamers

It isn't a whole lot you get back from it, but if you've crafted alot of items, you can maybe get enough materials back for 1 or 2 more items.

At least that is better than having to vender trash it off.

Episode 679 - Enterprise - "Judgement" - 04/09/2003

http://www.allstepisodes.com/megvid.php?n=5219

Archer is arrested and imprisoned by the Klingons for allegedly conspiring against the Empire.

Enjoy!

Oops, sorry Nick.. you beat me to it :)

I don't believe that there's been an official post on this yet, as the Admirals have been hard at work, developing a system that allows officers to track the purchases of all fleet members from fleet stores, to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to buy some of the items that the fleet has provisioned.

This system is confusing for everyone at the moment, as the learning curve is high, but what I understand is planned as far as fleet policy, is as follows:

• Fleet members will be allowed to initially purchase one ship and a certain number of other items from fleet stores
• Fleet members will need to request access to the store from a Fleet Captain or Admiral, when they're ready to make their purchase
• The Fleet Captain or Admiral will temporarily promote the member to a rank which allows access to the fleet store, so that the member can make their purchase(s), before demoting them back to regular member rank

The number of items a fleet member can purchase will initially be limited, until everyone has had a fair opportunity to make the purchases that they're interested in.

Please understand that this is simply my understanding of what is planned, and that my interpretation may be incorrect in some areas. I welcome any other Fleet Captains or Admirals to correct any errors I've made in this post.

As a Fleet Captain, I'm more than content to allow the membership to have first pick at the new items in the fleet stores; this is a sentiment that I'm certain is shared by the other Captains and Officers, so I don't believe that there's any need for concern that the provisioned items are going to the minority of the membership.

I believe that you can expect a public post on the process from the Admiralty in the very near future.

Happy Trekking!