Happy to help :)

I'm willing to help. I don't have any IT skills, but I can test it through using it.

Title: Sherman's Legacy 1/5
Title: Sherman's Legacy 2/5
Author: @Tekn0mancer
Faction: Klingon
Level Requirement: 16+
Author Notes: Yes, not just one but the first two episodes are now published from this (planned) five-part series!

Part 1 was originally published under a different title, but since it's part of a single story arc I withdrew and renamed it. Since it has a different title now, I figured I should start a new, dedicated thread for the entire series, rather than making a separate thread for each new segment.

As I've mentioned in a few other threads, I'm basically a total n00b when it comes to the Foundry. These are my first Foundry projects, so mechanically they may seem a bit basic to some of you veterans. However, I am not new to writing an interesting story and dialogue. I'm also a trained computer tech with scripting and programming experience under my belt, so I'm picking up on how to use this buggy kludge of an authoring tool reasonably fast. As the storyline evolves, you'll see my mechanics usage evolve as well.

I'm not going to give anything away about the plot, other than to say its basic hook comes from a TOS episode, with some references to the official STO early-episode storylines as well. My story outline is essentially finished, so at this point it's just a matter of translating it into Foundry usage. There won't be any time-travel or other such complicated nonsense, but if you've watched classic TOS and played through the game's early story episodes you should pick up on the connections.

I'm using canon and non-canon sources to flesh out some of the details, but the story hasn't quite gotten to that stage yet. That should all come into view in Parts 3 and 4. Some of the dialogue and so forth employs ST universe language resources for flavor (as of this writing there is plenty of Klingon, with dashes of Ferengi and Romulan). You don't have to know what the words mean since most of what I don't outright translate can be deduced from the context. If not don't worry, because it's not crucial to the story...it's just there to add flavor. There are also several pop-culture "easter eggs" sprinkled around in the dialogue, so have fun discovering those.

I'd like for lots of StonewallFleet members to go review and rate my episodes! Then feel free to come back here and let me know what you think (remembering to save any spoilers for PM, please). Also! I hate bad grammar and typos with a passion, so if you find any, tell me exactly where they are so I can go fix them. I tried to eliminate them, but you know how it is when you look at the same text over & over...you're bound to miss something that someone else will notice.

Please review and rate, and let me know what you think so far! :)

Well, I would be glad, if the game would be available on Steam or available to grab legally from somewhere. Didn´t play it when it came out years ago ...

Count me in and drop me a msg - always on for an IT task ...

I promise not to go to much into deep probing with tools or "ion cannon" :p

(I pressume, that last comment is more directed to ICT professionals ^_^)

Quote by xochild

If you still need beta testers, I'll help out.

Yup, still need more testers! Thanks.

If you still need beta testers, I'll help out.

Quote by NicholasJohn16

As some of you may know, I've been working on a new website for the community for some time. I've just gotten the new forums feature complete and they're ready for a beta. There's plenty of aspects that needed tested, investigated and searched.

I could really use some dedicated beta testers to sniff out the bugs and test the new functionality. If you're interested and up for the challenge, please let me know in a reply below or send me a message directly. I'll add you to the list. The beta test won't be open for everyone so be sure to get in quick. :P

Thanks!!

Yay Nick. LOL. You've been trying to find a suitable replacement for the website since I was an Admiral. Good luck!

Quote by NicholasJohn16

I'll add you to the lest.

Test? List? WHAT WILL YOU ADD US TO!!!

Here is trailer #1

Awesome! :cheer:

Count me in! :woohoo:

Could be interesting!

ME!!!!!

As some of you may know, I've been working on a new website for the community for some time. I've just gotten the new forums feature complete and they're ready for a beta. There's plenty of aspects that needed tested, investigated and searched.

I could really use some dedicated beta testers to sniff out the bugs and test the new functionality. If you're interested and up for the challenge, please let me know in a reply below or send me a message directly. I'll add you to the list.

Thanks!!

This looks so much fun! - and so does he!

All the FEELINGS!

There are not a lot of fan film trailers that I stop and watch all the way through... this one kept my attention! Thanks for sharing!

If anyone is coming to this topic looking for instructions or what-have-you, I'll just add my two cents' worth of tips/caveats about some of the more crazy-making bugs, er, "features" of the Foundry UI:

• If playtesting starts acting flaky (your toon/ship won't move, your starship starts "falling" in zero gravity, interact dialogs taking way too long etc,), SAVE, then go to the FILE menu and CLOSE PROJECT, then EXIT THE FOUNDRY. You will dump back out to your test toon screen, and he/she will probably load for a few extra seconds. Go back in and it should behave normally. This usually starts happening when you've either made a major edit, or a bunch of minor ones. This is probably caused by a memory leak somewhere in the programming.
• If it locks up or crashes on you, don't panic. The Foundry autosaves your progress pretty regularly, and gives you the option to recover once you restart the program.
• The "Hidden" and "Visible" fields under the "State" tab WILL MAKE YOU NUTS. From what I can tell, their labels are completely reversed (but not always!). If making an item/NPC appear or disappear isn't behaving the way it should, try using Hide when you think you should use Show and vice versa.
• You can only use an item/NPC/Reach Marker/etc as an object in a Story Library interaction ONCE. If you need the thing more than once, then make more than one of them and give them unique names.
• Do your map-building first. Build the set, put in your actors and make sure they're performing the way they're supposed to, and ONLY THEN should you worry about writing their dialogue. Just stick some placeholder text in the message boxes. I use LOLspeak for this purpose, personally. :P

There's more, but those are the ones that will piss you off and make you tear your hair out the most. And again I cannot stress this enough: when in doubt, SAVE, CLOSE, EXIT AND RETRY! Rebooting the software fixes a lot of stupidity.

I am interested in this one, enterprise is my favorite trek show, with tos and tng following behind, so I hope they did well.