Fleet Starbase idea - Officer of the Watch

My idea is that we create a new fleet rank in game, which will be the officer of the watch rank. Basically it's the same as a normal member, but they are trusted by leadership to manage fleet projects whenever there is an empty slot in the queue.

Sometimes there are no projects being worked on at all. This would help remedy that.

Currently, Fleet Captains and Admirals have the ability to queue new Projects. That's a good number of people already and we've been promoting new Fleet Captains regularly. As well, we don't currently have any ranks empty in-game to create a new rank from.

Which fleet is having trouble keeping projects queued and which type of project?

Currently the main fleet has 3 fields empty as of 6:15am est this morning. KDF had one open for a short time yesterday, but as i said that did not last long.

I dont think brief respites are bad at least it prevents the minority of greedy campers from gaining another ton of fleet credits to their bloated pools while other fleeties dont get a look in.

In the main fleet, we were discussing holding off in posting any Projects for the time being. Because all the Tier are currently upgrading, the only projects that we have available are Basic Provisioning projects which take 200k Dilithium and only give 5 provisions. Its really not worth it and we don't need to deplete eveyone's Dilithium supply.

Just a quick point - it seems that the memberbase at large hasn't been made aware. It seems like there's a regular stream of people pointing out, asking for, or complaining about putting up a new Project, in spite of the present bottleneck.

rotfl.. I can't believe I just found this thread, because it contains a lot of the same ideas and concerns that we're discussing now for the kdf side of the house.

In fact, your last point Nick, is precisely my main concern, that we avoid the 200k dil/5 prov projects, even to the extent of holding off on posting new projects. It's highly unfortunate that this thinking wasn't applied on the kdf side, we could have avoided choosing 4 of them since you made that post!

Sounds like there's been a big strategic gap between the kdf and the fed side. I assume you'll find a way to ensure that the lessons you feds have been applying so successfully (e.g., nicely staggered tiers and staying away from inefficient projects) can be applied on the klingon side of the house?