Very sad news indeed... So terrible losing such a great fleetie. May he rest in peace. :( *hugs*

Congrats, Doc! Nicely done. :)

Congrats to Doc! And thanks to all who submitted such fantastic uniform designs for the contest! :)

Congratulations DoctorDisaster! I look forward to adding this uniform to my collection. The USS PHANTOM's Captains quarters were expanded during it's last maintenance period. The Captains quarters are now the size of 2 normal Captains quarters. The new part being the Dressing Room complete with Sonic Shower etc...

Very disheartening news :(

I first met him after a few days of me joining Stonewall. He was helping me with a problem I was having with a previous fleet and was so nice and helpful about it. Looking back, it was such a silly issue. But he took it seriously and investigated with the objectivity and swiftness that I have come to expect from any of my fellow FC's.

You did this fleet and this country very proud, Hillbane. You will be sorely missed.

Nice design. :)

Congratulations, DoctorDisaster!

Fine looking uniform, damn fine.

We should do a phaser salute next pride event.

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This is ruining Star Trek (2009) for me.

I agree. I rarely watch these. I will find mistakes and bitch about it on my own time. I don't need someone else ruining it for me.

The winner of the Uniform Contest is Uniform C!

This stunning uniform with rich hues and an optional skirt for the female toons, is brought to us by DoctorDisaster!



The Fleet Uniform options will be updated in-game later today so you all can get your copy!

Such sad news. :(

I didn't know him very well but he seemed like a good guy, always welcoming new members into our community with more regularity then pretty much anybody else. He'll certainly be missed.

Rest in peace.

This is ruining Star Trek (2009) for me.

In Space I'm going for Crowd Control, on the Ground Healing. My space problem was tied to the fact my ship parts were just a collection of hosh posh and so I wasn't really good at anything and my damage was pathetic to top it all off.

It is with sadness that I bring you all the news that our member, former Stonewall Fleet Fleet Captain and Admiral of Klingon Affairs Hillbane has passed away on April 4th.

Some months ago, Hillbane unexpectedly stopped logging into the website and into Star Trek Online. This was very uncharacteristic of him and it left us wondering what had happened to him.

I'm unsure of the exact specifics of what happened. I'm still trying to contact his family or find a copy of his obituary. What I do know is that during his tenure as a Fleet Captain, he had a heart attack and had to take some time of to recuperate. This may have been a contributing factor to his passing.

Hillbane was a retired Reserve Navy Medical Service Corps: Fleet Marine Force Corpsman: Second Fleet with the rank of Lieutenant Commander (LCDR). He severed in the Persian Gulf War August 1990 to February 1991 1st Battalion 7th Marines. Operation Enduring Freedom October 2001 to December 2002, Iraq War: Battle of Baghdad, Jan 2003 to May 2004. Operation Enduring Freedom: 1st Maine Command Element. Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan July 2009 to May 2010.

His current position was Senior Field Training Officer where he monitored other Field Training Officers and their cadet.

Hillbane loved Star Trek, Star Trek Online and our Fleet. His loss will be felt by his family, friends, and our community.

Hillbane, thank you for your service to our country and our fleet.

Science Captains can play two major roles: healer and crowd control. First, ask yourself what role you want to take on, both space and ground. My science captain does crowd control with minor healing in space and is a pure healer on the ground.

As for DPS, my space DPS is pathetic! But I get into STFs and run crowd control (e.g., probe guard on Khitomer) and find a very useful role. On the ground, I find tactics far outweigh DPS anyway. I heal my team and help keep everyone moving as a cohesive unit. That will beat out DPS every day and twice on Sunday.

Follow up with how you'd like to play it, and I'll be more than happy to give you more specific advice. *continues eating crayons*

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The social experience, that would provide the tru MM sensation for mmo's."friending" should be based by player not character, private chat channels should be able to be made cross faction. Bottom line they made an awesome rpg and put a lackluster mmo social system on it.

Wait, hold up. I haven't played SWTOR, so this comes as a complete surprise to me. Friends are character-bound, not account-bound? You can't send private chats to someone in another faction?

That is some noob dev MMO mistakes right there. I thought those were all lessons learned this time last decade.

There are some that like to play without necessarily interacting with their friends. There are dozens of reasons why someone would want to do this.

This was actually the kind of system that was implement in games like Everquest and Everquest 2 and it worked extremely well.

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The social experience, that would provide the tru MM sensation for mmo's."friending" should be based by player not character, private chat channels should be able to be made cross faction. Bottom line they made an awesome rpg and put a lackluster mmo social system on it.

Wait, hold up. I haven't played SWTOR, so this comes as a complete surprise to me. Friends are character-bound, not account-bound? You can't send private chats to someone in another faction?

That is some noob dev MMO mistakes right there. I thought those were all lessons learned this time last decade.

Okay, I've been back a week or two now, and I think it is high time I actually sit down and rebuild/respec my abilities from ship to captain. Why am I telling fleet? Well, I might need some help, in a few areas. I've got an idea of what I'm going for, and have read some interesting guides on the desired setup I am looking for. Right now my DPS is laughable and I survive ship combat on pure luck. This shall change!

Going with increasing my DPS I am going to see about doing fore/aft weapons build of 1xCannon, 1xBeam and 1xTorpedo fore, and 3xTurrent on my butt. That way I have a more continuous less position based DPS for my cute lil ship. I'm piloting a Vesta class Sci vessel, and it should have the slots for this. If there are any other sci captains out there with some input into their ship builds and layouts, would be much appreciated.

The part that is going to absolutely slay me though, is going back through my captain's skills and gearing them properly... I admit to having a bad habit of "This sounds nice" when building out and putting points into skills. So right now I'm not even sure where I stand there. I would check, but I write this from work in a broom closet! Kinda. Again, if any sci captains would like to share their builds and ideas, I would most appreciate that. It's been so long since I've played and so much has changed, it is a little overwhelming. I don't want to get buy on the kindness of the fleet anymore, I want to actually contribute to the battles. I joke about it in chat sometimes with "I'm a science officer! Pew pew pew! -eats some crayons-" but it does get frustrating at times. So that I shall change.

EA have destroyed so many great franchises, like Simcity. I'd have some serious worries as a star wars fan.