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Star Trek Online Promotions

April 30 2010

Received this in email this morning. Really liking the idea of the Veteran Rewards and the demo, just wish it sooner than every 100 days.

STAR TREK ONLINE SPECIALS

Greetings!
For you and your friends, new players and old, we're pleased to offer exciting Star Trek Online offers and promotions starting May 7, 2010!

Veteran Rewards
Our sincerest thanks to players who have invested their time with us! We'd like to send some goodies your way. The more you play Star Trek Online, the more we'll give you. Skill point bonuses, titles, costume pieces, character slots... Veterans will be rewarded every 100 days! Rewards will be retroactive, too!

Free Trial Weekend
Our first free trial weekend, called the Welcome Back Weekend, is available to former players. Welcome Back Weekend features unrestricted play and begins Friday, May 7, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific and ends Monday, May 10, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific. Of course, we'll have a pre-load up early next week so everyone can get the client before the free weekend actually starts.

Refer a Friend
We want to help you bring your friends to our game. With our Refer a Friend program, you can earn rewards for introducing your buddies to Star Trek Online. You can earn special items, game time, Cryptic Points and more. The program will start on May 7.

Demo
Unlike the Welcome Back Weekend, the Star Trek Online Demo will be made available for all players starting May 7 and it features gameplay restricted to the first few missions. It's a great way to introduce your friends to the game.

Dracoven

Re:Books Books Books, We Love 'Em!

April 30 2010

I'm huge on a huge vampire kick right now, series that I am working on are:
The Black Dagger Brotherhood by JR Ward (8 books out)
The Night Huntress by Jeaniene Frost (4 books out)
Anita Black Vampire Executioner by Laurell K Hamilton (20 books out)

nicholasjohn16

Knights of Stonewall Blurb

April 28 2010

Help me make the Knights of Stonewall Burb for the front page and the various PR places we use it. I'm not so good with the Star Wars cannon and what not. Reply below with a suggestion or a few lines. The blurb has to start with:

Knights of Stonewall is a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and straight ally guild for the Star Wars: The Old Republic online universe.

What's next?

nicholasjohn16

Knights of Stonewall Moto?

April 28 2010

What should the moto be for Knights of Stonewall? Should we stick with Strength in Diversity or go with something different for the new guild?

ChessyMC

Re:Books Books Books, We Love 'Em!

April 28 2010

For Sci-Fi
Ender's Game/Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card. Both excellent, but for different reasons.
Startide Rising/Uplift War - David Brin. Probability Drive FTW. Also try Sundiver as the prequel to Startide.
Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion. Have not read Endymion yet.
A Fire Upon the Deep (don't remember author)
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke. Awesome for dated sci-fi. Has some excellent ideas in it.
Galapagos - Kurt Vonegut

For Fantasy
Talisman - Steven King and Peter Straub. I want a werewolf best friend. Loved that book as a kid.
Imagica by Clive Barker was ok, but Weaveworld ROCKED! I think it was his best.

The only "normal" book I have read is Prince of Tides, and it was awesome. I lived in Charleston, SC for a few years and it really took me back.

robbwinger

Re:Books Books Books, We Love 'Em!

April 28 2010

Under the 'Oddities' category, I just finished Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. For anyone who is into Jane Austen, it's a hilarious retake on the story with a great zombie twist.

minosb

Re:Books Books Books, We Love 'Em!

April 28 2010

Has anybody read the entire Reality Disfunction series by Anderson? If so would you recommend it? I am about 1/2 through the first book and am not sure about it yet. Mostly it's good, and I liked Fallen Dragon, but I'm not too sure on the whole "other dimensional beings take over Satan worshiping kid and make him super powerful" thing. Kinda cheesy.

minosb

Re:Books Books Books, We Love 'Em!

April 28 2010

I love both Terry Pratchett and Hitchiker too, I should have included them in the original list. Gotta love the Britcom.

I'm loving the suggestions guys, already building a summer reading list...

nicholasjohn16

Re:Books Books Books, We Love 'Em!

April 28 2010

I would definately recommend the Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy series to everyone. It's a hilarious read. There were times I could just not stop laughing.

I also love Dean Koontz. Phantoms is my favorite of his so far.

Zepari

Re:Books Books Books, We Love 'Em!

April 28 2010

Thanks for starting this thread, great idea!

When it comes to pure fantasy, I'm a huge fan of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. Every book put a mirror up to the real world and puts a hilarious twist on it.

For Sci-fi, my fave book is Intervention by Julian May. It's the prequel of a series (The Galactic Milieu Trilogy) about the mental evolution of humans and their first contact and relationship with the wider galactic community. It's a cross between Heroes and the X-files.

minosb

Re:Books Books Books, We Love 'Em!

April 28 2010

Thirteen books! Holy ***t.
What do you like about the series? Is it high fantasy or urban fantasy or some other flavor?

Protostar

Re:Books Books Books, We Love 'Em!

April 28 2010

Great thread! I would recommend to any fantasy lover the Thomas Covenant Series by Stephen R. Donaldson. The first in the series of what will eventually be 13 books (I think) is Lord Foul's Bane.

minosb

Re:Books Books Books, We Love 'Em!

April 28 2010

Thanks bfelczer :-)

I remember seeing that book and picking it up, but then setting it back down, mostly because I'm not a huge antiestablishment/paranoia fan. But of course it's always hard to tell from the quick summary read and seeing what the pic looks like (it gets points for having a bike on the cover heh). What was it that you liked about the series?

CapnBranFlakes

Re:Books Books Books, We Love 'Em!

April 28 2010

Great thread! This is one of my favorite sci-fi books:

The Traveler

it is a apart of a Trilogy and they are going to turn it into a movie :)

Edited April 28 2010 by CapnBranFlakes

Yanek

Re:Request for an Alliance from 12th Fleet Ambassa

April 28 2010

Good idea, ill be in game today afternoon - i mean mine afternoon, i have to check what time zone you actually are to me :)).

Me handle is @yanek in the game.

minosb

Re:Quick notes about DPS

April 28 2010

Thanks for the clear writeup!

I bumped across this incredibly detailed and clear post on comparing various cruiser weapon loadouts and dps results....complete with charts and everything. Highly recommended reading. After reading this I switched up my cruiser to have a couple of dual beam banks and an additional turret, and adjusted playstyle to more of a forward-focused pew pew instead of broadsiding. It's made a huge difference in my dps although my shields take much more beating now.

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=121862&highlight=energy

minosb

Books Books Books, We Love 'Em!

April 28 2010

Hi all...I'd love to get a thread going on people's recommended books. God knows I'm always on the lookout for some hidden gem to read, and now that summer is almost here it's definitely time to break out the sun chair and the good books...

So I'll start it off. It'd be helpful to categorize your recommendations so people who are into one subgenre or another can tell what might be interesting.

Here's some of my faves. I could comment on each but this is already a big post :O If anyone wants to chat about any of these or suggest some back, the let's hear it!

ODDITIES

I like reading really unexpected books in the scifi/fantasy genres, here's a couple of faves out of left field:
Ceres Storm by David Herter
Appleseed by John Clute
Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
The Stranger by Max Frei

SPACE OPERA

Hyperion/Endymion series by Dan Simmons

bradley1701

Re:Request for an Alliance from 12th Fleet Ambassa

April 27 2010

Yanek wrote:

Talkie talkie!

Guys thank you for the feedback, thank you for moving my post to the right zone. And thank you that you want to talk to me (us).

Where is the best place to get in touch with yous?

Greetings Yanek,

Thank you for contacting me this morning. I will request you as a friend in-game as well. My @handle is @bradley1701 and my character names are Kaaleb and T'Laris. Right now I am playing a lot as T'Laris. Let's get together in game and chat about our fleets and the relationship we between them.

Talk to you soon...peace and long life.

Admiral Kaaleb
Stonewall Fleet Ambassador