The revamp is a long ways off, I think it'll be mid March early April at the earliest before it'll come around. (counting Lockbox 3 month cycle, October was Season 11 and Herald was released. 3 month later Mirror Lockbox was released with no major update, next lockbox should coincide with 11.5 and that's not due until Mid/Late April)

So I think it's beneficial to do the build so you're not suffering for a month and a half or longer.

That's true. Ignore that for now.

Skills are pointless ATM as they are being changed shortly lars. It's best fielding that one after the update :)

I have filled out the form and submitted it.

Two additions to my current build on stoacademy (http://skillplanner.stoacademy.com/?build=lars1091dilara_0) though:
- The torpedo on front is a Krenim Chroniton Torpedo, but couldn't find that in the list.
- Could you also take a look at my skillbuild? My current skillbuild is absolutely not optimized for the playstyle I mentioned in the form, so I would like some info on how to respec too. Respec-tokens are not a problem, since I'm a lifetimer.

yay the circle of life is now complete!

let the games begin! :woohoo:

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We're very pleased to have you here too!

W00t! I so excited to finally get this set up. As the official envoy from the Pirates/Redshirts/Prime Directive group, I just wanted to say that we are VERY excited to be joining such a large, established group of players.

i took latin in high school and was instantly reminded of it when i saw the inscription on the armada thread. as a joke, some of used to put "semper ubi sub ubi" on stuff which translates to "always wear under wear"... not exactly a direct translation but the words literally translate to that. :-)

Very, very welcome news. Thanks for your work on this... its awesome to finally fill up our armada roster.

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The vid is online :woohoo:
Part of my screen isn't shown though, and I don't understand why :(

WOOTS! I'M ON TV!!!!!! :woohoo:

The vid is online :woohoo:
Part of my screen isn't shown though, and I don't understand why :(

Welcome to the Armada, new fleets :woohoo:
Also, those are some epic fleet names right there :P

That's exciting news. And such big fleets to join!

ALPHA - Stonewall Fleet (491 Members, all holdings complete)
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Beta- DeepSpace Stonewall (399 active alts, all holdings complete)
Gamma- Federation Prime Directive (22 members, lvl 14, Holdings: 1/0/0/1/2) [NEW]
Gamma- Stonewall Vault
Gamma- Network Prime (40 members) T1/T2 bases
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Beta- Stonewall Legion (Romulan & Alt fleet, 221 Active alts, Holdings 3/3/3/3.4)
Gamma - Command Nimbus (41 members) T1/T2 Bases
Gamma - Special Task Group (36 members) T0/T1 Bases
Gamma - The Nethersphere (150 members) T3 bases
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Beta - Starfleet Anti-Borg Alliance (483 Members, Fleet Level 55, all holdings complete) [NEW]
Gamma - The Federation Anti-Borg Alliance (262 Members, Level 21, Holdings 2/1/0/1/2)[NEW]
Gamma - The Expendable Redshirts (115 members, lvl 34, Holdings: 2/2/2/2/3) [NEW]
Gamma - The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything (144 members, lvl 24, Holdings: 2/1/1/2/2) [NEW]

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its Simples! We have set up Armada chat, alongside our Stonewall channel..
it should already be active, but double check just in case..
"right click" on the chat box tab you use for Stonewall channel
and this will pop up..



Ensure that "Armada" is ticked.. and choose your own colour for the text.. so that you dont get it confused with stonewall channel.

When you want to talk in "Armada chat" in your text box (where you write your text) "right click" on the active channel (the bracketed channel box) and select Armada.. then chit chat away to all our armada friends!


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It works much like our own fleet projects... which require.. doffs.. dilithium.. fleet marks and other consumables.. it still awards you fleet credits in the exact same way when you contribute to your fleets open projects... except each fleet in the Armada is open to every single member of the Armada.

Its a great way of helping you get more fleet credits.. by just looking around each fleet too see what you have.. and they need.

You can access the Armada fleets projects by clicking on "Your fleet" (under the mini map)
and selecting "Armada" tab



Once in the Armada area, you can click on each fleet.. and it will give you a list of there projects, just click on the drop down menus to see what that fleet project needs.. and donate and receive fleet credits in return!



However.. please please remember, that if the "fleet marks" have already been filled.. there are sooo many other items you can donate, yes it may cost you a few EC.. but think of going of an easy PVE run.. fleet alert for eg.. and grab as many drops as you can find.. sell them.. and use the EC to buy what a fleet project needs.

I have a great many people saying that there is never an opportunity to donate anything... but when i look.. i see that there are loads of items a project is crying out for.. we just have to think of other ways to get the items needed (as described above)

But with as many members as this Armada has.. we are all here to aid one another's projects, so we can grow into a power house of an Armada, and there is a HUGE array of chances to obtain Fleet credits in a big Armada such as ours.


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Awesome info! Thank you Alex :) (and so detailed!)

Thank you everyone who has joined today :D
I have also streamed it all to Twitch and am uploading the vid to Youtube right now. When it is uploaded, I will link it.

Now to everyone who joined the event (either in my team or in @alex's team): I forgot to add the participation prizes to one of the emails. If this was you, send me an ingame mail or pm and I'll send them to you next time I have the opportunity.

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Hey guys, I have good and bad news.

Good news: I have a free code to use to try out Chapter 1 of the Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion.

Bad news: I only have one code.

I got this code from signing up for their Valentine's day promotion. If you are subscribed to the SWTOR newsletter, you may want to check it. It's at the bottom of the email that was sent on Feb. 19.

Please make sure you don't already have access to Knights of the Fallen Empire. First person to get it wins: D8XS-LKRM-YPXJ-6C7K

If anyone else has a code, please feel free to share it here.

@tek: The benefits to doing 1 school are a) a higher crit rate faster in that school and 2) 3 stacks of stuff to distribute between your characters instead of a bunch and a single giant stack of stuff to sell instead of more than 1. The benefit of doing more than one school is that you can do the more profitable one if prices change. The doffs are the same across all schools for making components and upgrades.

I stuck with 1 school because I was trying to get to lvl 15 as fast as possible in 1 school when this crafting system started in August 2014 so that I could have as many upgrades as possible for when quality upgrading was released in Oct. 2014 (for a brief period only the Mark of an item could be increased, not the rarity). I did the math and leveling up another school took 1 of my R&D slots out of commission for several months (back then we could only slot 1 of those daily projects per day instead of 3 like now) and just wasn't worth it. When my alts started getting to lvl 15 I thought I would have each one specialize in a different school but the profit was to stick with engineering: the alts could all benefit from my main's higher crit rate on components and I didn't have to hassle myself with multiple schools.

That was a year ago, though, so maybe things are different now.

@Jhered: The lowest effort way to get to lvl 15 is to slot 3 of those daily R&D bonus projects in a school each day and to head to the fleet Research Lab to do the 10-second daily bonus project.

The faster/higher effort way to level is to make gear. I did this on my main pre-DR so I could start making upgrades faster to sell when DR hit by just making tons of engineering consoles. I was working from home at the time so I could babysit these projects (one every 1.5 to 6 hours) and it requires a decent investment in materials to do this enough to level a school to 15.

Nice notes and good information. I am just now getting my primary toon just past 6th level in R&D and I am unsure how to get him there faster. Any suggestions?