Not meaning to get too in depth with the decision - but should there be a correlation between the image and what Stonewall Vanguard represents? Or do we just choose based on cool emblems?

I'm not opposed to either - but lean towards the emblem having a meaning to some degree.

With that said I ask those with more history in the Stonewall guilds - what does it mean to you?

"Stonewall" has it's meanings and history - but what about "Vanguard"?

Here are some definitions...

1. from Old French avant-garde, from avant- fore- + garde guard
2. the leading division or units of a military force
3. the leading position in any movement or field, or the people who occupy such a position: the vanguard of modern literature

And historical/cultural references: (there are better references I'm sure)
1. HMS Vanguard - any of several ships in the British navy
2. Star Trek: Vanguard, a series of novels about a space station called Vanguard
3. Vanguard, a character class in the Mass Effect series

Is there a symbol that's more appropriate? Is there an animal that represents better than others? Dragon, Phoenix, Unicorn? lol

Just food for thought and discussion

It is probably cliche and overused - but lions seem to be very vanguard-y:


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You can have as many silver or gold accounts as you have email addresses

Episode 681 - Enterprise - "The Breach" - 04/23/2003

http://www.allstepisodes.com/megvid.php?n=5221

Due to a militant faction's demands, Enterprise is asked to retrieve Denobulan geologists from an alien world.

Enjoy!

Heya,

I did post up a thread about our emblem during one of the beta weekends .. here: http://stonewallvanguard.com/forums/divinitys-tavern/43981-guild-emblem-impromptu-design-contest-kind-of

I originally wanted to decide on an emblem before the game launches but I still think they'll be adding more options into the emblem creator (at the last beta there was a lot of duplicates). As such we'll have to unlock it and see what we can come up with.

Halish

I know it's a long ways away, but i ran across a great source of emblems today and was wondering if we had any idea of which we would chose? Maybe its already decided and I just didnt see it anywhere, but heres the link...
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gallery_of_guild_emblems
Personally, i like



&


I think that both of these feel very strong&proud :)
Anyways, i was just wondering what the thoughts/plans were? Post what you think!

Again, thank you for the amazing feedback, folks :)

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Very slick and nice range of content. Moar science articles!

The article on exoplanets was just my favourite part of the whole magazine this time. I'm so glad Robert (AstroRobLA) was willing to write that for us. The good news is, he's also agreed to write another one for the next issue! :D

If anybody else has ideas for science / factual articles they'd like to contribute, I would love to have more of that in the magazine. So let me know!

Episode 680 - Enterprise - "Horizon" - 04/16/2003

http://www.allstepisodes.com/megvid.php?n=5220

After the death of his father, Travis visits his family on their cargo ship and begins to reconsider his place aboard Enterprise.

Enjoy!

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?