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Hey everyone,

Help me bump this post!

Respond to the nice people. Ignore the trolls.

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Just a quick bump of the thread to open a dialogue with respect to where we stand as a fleet, on the Armada functionality that launched with Season 10.5; specifically, if we are approaching or have been approached by other fleets in an effort to expand Stonewall's Armada. I was hoping we could discuss what kind of discussions or plans are in the works as far as that's concerned, and whether there'd been any conversation regarding officially implemented plans to allow for cross-fleet communication within any armada that we ultimately form.

My personal feeling is that making use of the Armada system would help maintain our fleet's relevance in an ever-changing STO environment and I'm personally eager and hopeful to get the Stonewall Armada underway. Just looking for some information sharing or to have some conversation regarding Armadas and how we see it fitting with our fleet :)

As Gareth stated, sorry for not updating you guys sooner. We've had some things to discuss and things have been changing rather rapidly.

As soon as the armada feature was announced, we started getting requests to join our armada from lots of different places and this was before we even gotten to look at the system on Tribble. We needed to decide what we wanted from the armada and what information we needed to get from the fleets to inform our decision of who to invite. We had settled on a few fleets to invite and once reaching out to them, the day after 10.5 launched, they had all (save one) decided to join other armadas.

We settled on three basic rules. The fleets have to be either glbta or glbta-affirming. They have to be larger than 1 person and active. And they can't be made up of disgruntled ex-Stonewall members. Now that things are settling down a bit, we can reach out to the community and see what other kind of allies we can find.

Speaking of which: http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums#/discussion/1198618/stonewall-armada-looking-for-fleets

I agree with both of you. The bottom of that new Akira saucer looks hideous. It's a step backward (not in a cool retro vibe way) & manages to out-fugly the Dervish Class & her sister ships.

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Those are all valid concerns and I'm really appreciative that the admiralty is thinking this through in its entirety. A hastened decision could definitely lead to a the armada requiring quite a bit of unneeded effort on the part of Stonewall--mainly the additional moderation and application of our rules/guidelines. Plus, getting buy in from the other fleets might be really tough and it could come across that we're bullying them or being overbearing. It could easily shatter the armada and create an environment where the other fleets start to become a revolving door of joining and leaving.

Maybe a fleet poll or contest to name the Armada Channel? BaconArmada ?

Sorry, already beat ya too it. :P Nothing extreme in the naming as there's no actually way to name the armada. (I was personally hoping to name it the Turing Armada :(). The channel is just StonewallArmada. It exists and you can join it whenever you like.

We decided this was the best way to go as it allows us to remove offending individuals without having to kick an entire fleet and still allows for cross-faction chat. Though, StonewallFleet channel should still be our default chat for most conversation.

Fleeties are keeping busy today and finding a way to reach all those nooks and crannies. Feel free to tag yourself.

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thank you all so much! this really helped!

I agree that lower hull made me cringe. One of the things I loved about the Akira was that it was a carrier torpedo boat. She was sleek something any engineer would be proud of.

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She's always been my favourite class of ship since her inception. I'm incredibly pleased that they didn't go the Fisher-Price route with her and that they have the new, upgraded standard Akira skin out that they announced, today.

After seeing the bottom of the ship, I take it all back. They did Fisher-Price it. I would have been so pleased if they would have done justice to Alex Jaeger's initial design by creating a simple, single deck through and through hangar with doors at the leading and trailing edges of the saucer.

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finally managed to get it to install , so far its ok ( ish) only thing i'm unable to figure out is Cortana ...she no want to talk to me apparently its not available in my region, but when i check it should work in UK... *bangs head on desk*

i spent the last few hours trying to fix that (and also loss of sound...and of course lots of "old" site tech using activex no longer work in Edge or firefox) UGHD!

anyway, rant over - for cortana - change ALL your settings (location, region, language, keyboard) to English US...then run cortana...set her up, then once she's up n running, change your settings back to English UK, should be ok then

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finally managed to get it to install , so far its ok ( ish) only thing i'm unable to figure out is Cortana ...she no want to talk to me apparently its not available in my region, but when i check it should work in UK... *bangs head on desk*

I know that whole typing thing is a pain but ubaright.

finally managed to get it to install , so far its ok ( ish) only thing i'm unable to figure out is Cortana ...she no want to talk to me apparently its not available in my region, but when i check it should work in UK... *bangs head on desk*

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I'm debating about upgrading my Win8.1 laptop to Win10 to give it a whirl. It's an old dinosaur that I put 8.1 on because I had an extra license when XP was going end of life. It's an old Dell D630. I wonder if it would even take the upgrade. Guess I better check out the system analyzer thing to see if Win10 will work on it or not. It's surprisingly peppy in Win8.1 and I have it pretty much maxed out. It's like a tank and just won't die.

The system requirements are actually pretty low (which is great considering the dinosaur I'm using). My only complaint after having it installed for two days is that I can't access my external hard drive. It installs a generic driver but it just won't access the drive. I've already checked on the manufacturer's site and they don't have anything out yet. Hopefully, MS shakes a leg and updates their stuff.

Other than that, I've been pretty happy with it. I've gone through and removed Cortana and One Drive. If you choose to remove Cortana, Microsoft -claims- that it's part of the OS, blah, blah, blah. So I installed Classic Shell and have a Win 7 Start menu back.

I'm debating about upgrading my Win8.1 laptop to Win10 to give it a whirl. It's an old dinosaur that I put 8.1 on because I had an extra license when XP was going end of life. It's an old Dell D630. I wonder if it would even take the upgrade. Guess I better check out the system analyzer thing to see if Win10 will work on it or not. It's surprisingly peppy in Win8.1 and I have it pretty much maxed out. It's like a tank and just won't die.

Those are all valid concerns and I'm really appreciative that the admiralty is thinking this through in its entirety. A hastened decision could definitely lead to a the armada requiring quite a bit of unneeded effort on the part of Stonewall--mainly the additional moderation and application of our rules/guidelines. Plus, getting buy in from the other fleets might be really tough and it could come across that we're bullying them or being overbearing. It could easily shatter the armada and create an environment where the other fleets start to become a revolving door of joining and leaving.

Maybe a fleet poll or contest to name the Armada Channel? BaconArmada ?

Thanks for the update!

Nominations sent. :woohoo:

lol when i saw my post appear in the news feed it was a *face palm* moment

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See its all bout loading from the Top ( ....omg there really is no way of saying that without it sounding quite like its ..erm ..well ya know :whistle: :whistle:
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this got me excited :blush: