w00t! Glad to have you part of the team, Mike! Big congratz!!! :D *big kitty huggle squeeze*

One of the great honors and privileges of being an Admiral of Stonewall Fleet is to share in the positive experience it affords others and to our community.

A founding principal of Stonewall Fleet is to seek out new forms of diversity, to spread the Federation ideals of unity and acceptance, and boldly go where no person has gone before. As a long time Star Trek fan myself, I am reminded of that very simple ideal every time I watch the introduction to an episode of Classic Star Trek or The Next Generation. Yet for so simple a statement, it carries such significant weight; not only to our past and the present, but also to our collective future.

In any fleet or membership based group, there must come a vision - one which is guided by the decisions of senior leaders to help influence the actions of others toward a common goal. They are tasked with the welfare of the membership, including delegating such authority to those who embrace and best represent the principles of the group as a whole.

By the powers vested in me by the Admiralty of Stonewall Fleet, I would like to announce the following promotions to Fleet Captain effective immediately:

@DBeaSSt

As a Fleet Captain, Mike (@DBeaSSt) will be responsible for general Fleet Captain duties such as assisting members in game, hosting events, fleet invites, and general forum/chat moderation just to name a few. Fleet Captains are a more senior member of the fleet due to their expanded abilities and knowledge of the game. They participate and assist with the day to day operations of this vast community we all appreciate and care about.

If you are in game and need assistance, feel free to reach out to any of the Fleet Captains, or to any Admiral that may be online at that time.

Please join me in congratulating and welcoming Mike (@DBeaSSt) to his new role as Fleet Captain!

Admiral Parker Anderson

Look for us when you get online. You can hit me up at Ludovik Silvertongue or pop by the house we have. It's a Medium, Plot #1 in Ward 3 of the Mist.

Someone in the swamp (official forums) noted that it was if her aux or weapons were knocked out. So, grav beam, lucky phasers, subsystem targeting...would polarons do it? (To this day, I don't understand which subsystems npcs have.)

Discovered today: if you download and install the Twitch app on your mobile device, you can bookmark your favorite streams, including the PvP Livestream, of course! You'll get a pushed notification to your phone when the stream goes live so you never miss it!

Moral of the story is, Don't piss off an assimilate Romulan :)

Thanks for the info Andrea Maria!

Kill all the things?

I noticed that the insta death kill bug is still around. where she decloaks and instantly fires. That was surprising after playing the game after a year of absence!

Also, keep in mind that Tractor Beam shuts down her (and anyone else's) ability to cloak. I don't know for certain if Grav Well does too, but a couple ships tagging out tractor beams can make the fight ridiculously fast.

Bibitty Bump! The schedule of events has been posted on the second post of this thread. Special rules for the Bat'leth competition will be posted soon.

Oh, sry, of course you´re right, Bao! :)

Thanks! :woohoo:
I guessed the 5 km-rule didn't apply anymore, but still stayed 5 km away just in case.

Sometimes in KASE the following question is asked: the 5 km rule... does it exist?

The answer is: No. Not anymore. And here´s the proof:


http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=11686641&postcount=6


She really cloaks randomly - depending on how bad her day was, I think....

And I´ve tested it.

I was in teams which were more than 5 km away and she cloaked many, many times (which drove us crazy, btw) and we had teams which were nearer than 5 km to her and she only cloaked once or twice.

There are only five rules:

1. Don´t stay in her firing arc.
Make sure that you can use Evasive Maneuvers (or at least your Deuterium device) or go to full impulse when she decloaks and loads her nasty weapon.

Which leads us to

2. Don´t die.
That should work if you did some of the recommended things in 1.

3. Shoot her whenever you can.

4. Use your repulsors only, if you know what you´re doing.
You don´t want to push her outside the firing range of your team mates.
And you don´t want to push her around, so that your team mates are suddenly in her Thalaron firing arc, one second before the hell breaks loose...

And of course (in case 1. and 2. didn´t work): :whistle:

5. Repair your ship´s injuries before you respawn.


I hope that helps to clear things up.


Greetings, A.M. :)


Edit:

And to all KASE newbies:

Don´t be afraid to participate if there´s a call for a KASE team in Stonewall chat.

We´ll explain and walk you through.

And IF the optional is lost: well, then it´s lost. No big deal, that just happens sometimes.

The important thing is that you have FUN! Yay! :)

To be honest, I don't know of any gaming company in which efforts to curb harassment and bullying have been successful. It's not going to come from the corporate end, but from the player base. Which is why the actions of individuals, as well as grassroots efforts like Gamers Against Bigotry, are our best shot.

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Let´s hope they really do it.

Yeah that was my first thought too. Meh, they can delete/ignore it if they want, I've done my part. If they do however, I'm not sure if I wanna keep supporting a company like that by playing their game.

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Edit: Support replied!

Let´s hope they really do it.

Get ready to learn/review one of the most useful and versatile type of ships in PVP.

As in previous livestreams, please have installed the spacebar keybind: http://hilbertguide.com/#Concepts*. This will make setting up your ship the most effective. Especially since I will describe builds without tac team, at which point you will need to be redistributing your shields all the time (i.e., with the aid of the spacebar). ;)

*A more advanced setup: As a healer/control/drain you will need to know exactly what your teammember/enemy has as buff or debuff. As such, you can use this code to enlarge the buff and debuff icons. VERY useful! This code also includes keybinds to tell others what to do "Target X target", "Heal X target" , etc. Any skills you put in row tray #7 will automatically load when you hit the spacebar as well as automatically redistribute shields. This will be explained again in future livestreams regarding team mechanics but it doesn't hurt to have it now.

Copy the code below into a .txt document and save it in your LIVE sto folder. Once saved, go into STO type /bind_load_file nameofthefileyousavedwhatever.txt and hit enter in chat.

T "team TARGET: >> $target $target $target

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I also tend to shorten transphasic anything to trans,

Oh yeah I'm totally cool with shortening it to 'trans', I mean, trans is not a slur, it just means "on the other side of", the latin opposite of cis.

And Rasilek, honestly, I don't really think we should praise people just because they calmly speak out against harmful language. A calm and demure response to bigotry isn't as uncomfortable for bigots as an angry response, so of course they'd prefer us to be docile about it. But being oppressed isn't comfortable, so why should being confronted for oppressing be? Personally I think we should deconstruct this mechanism where anger supposedly devalues an argument. Perhaps then an argument will be judged on it's own merit, no matter the tone.
Of course I understand you meant to be kind, and I do appreciate your support! I just thought it was worth remarking on is all, wasn't even specifically aimed at you, more of a general observation. :)

Anyhow thanks for the kind words, everyone.

Edit: Support replied!

Kimmy, I admire that you ultimately focused your frustration in effectively speaking up for yourself, and I think in the end you got a positive result out of it because you were so calm and articulate.

One of the biggest and ongoing lessons I learn in life is: It's not about what happens or what people say to you that matters, it is how you respond to it that defines your character.

"Tranny" is wildly unacceptable in any context, as is "Fag" or any other slur. It is unfortunate that the (gaming) world has a lot of catching up to do WRT awareness. But in the end, don't let them get you down and just keep your head held high as you've done here. While it's hard at times, you will be OK and stronger for it.

Stay strong. :)

This is tough, because I can see where both of you are coming from in your arguments but I think your argument kimmyyum takes precedent in this situation. I also tend to shorten transphasic anything to trans, it's a habit I picked up in the Corps (shortening things) and I notice you specifically didn't mention that word in your e-mail. So while I can see his argument and to an extent agree with him when it comes to shortening transphasic to trans, there is no excuse for usage of tranny in regards to equipment in this game. We don't play STO in a vacuum, and we don't play it in the future, we play this game now where we know damn well what that word means and it's implications. Thus, I think your argument holds merit and takes precedence over his.