hrrmm, looks like there's a good sized update for the beta this weekend. People should probably patch soon.

Or as Arnold would say...

Do it! Do it naaauuuughh!

Dara's ships are mostly mythical heroines, with the exception of her current U.S.S. Atlanta, which I fudged because I live near Atlanta and everyone would assume Atalanta was a typo anyway.

Benton's ships... well... this is ridiculously teenage of me, but they've been the U.S.S.'s Greenwood, Selway, O'Brien, and Yorke. Gonna refrain from explaining that to anyone not nerdy enough to get it on their own.

Episode 672 - Enterprise - "The Catwalk" - 12/18/2002

http://www.allstepisodes.com/megvid.php?n=5212

The Enterprise crew takes refuge in a nacelle to avoid an inescapable radiation belt.

Enjoy!

Mine is just my hometown with an "-A", "-B", etc. after it.

My science officer's ships are almost all named after my boyfriend with various letters added to the end for the series. So far, my engineering officer's ships are all named "Glorious" in Russian.

I usually use one of the following:

- authors/artists I like (U.S.S. Murakami)
- places I visited (U.S.S. Cadiz, U.S.S. Teide, U.S.S. Gibraltar, U.S.S. Stralsund)
- mythological names (U.S.S. Zephyr, U.S.S. Aurora, U.S.S. Amaterasu)
- favorite fictional characters (U.S.S. Roslin, U.S.S. Akagi)

Sometimes I also use the random name generator to see whether something nice pops up. The very first name that was presented to me this way (back when I started STO), was the name of my hometown - U.S.S. Erfurt! Freaky coincidence.

Ok, so I was wondering, how do you pick names for your ships?

I've had only 3 naming schemes so far:

1. BEER! My starter Light Cruiser was named "Strongbow" Which I happened to be drinking at the time. I also had "Warsteiner" "Guinness" and a few others that don't immediately come to mind

2. Actors who played Captains in Star Trek Series and movies: Shatner, Takei, Stewart, Brooks, etc.

3. words describing determination: Stalwart, Resolute, Steadfast, and so on

I'm trying to come up with a new theme...

Episode 671 - Enterprise - "Precious Cargo" - 12/11/2002

http://www.allstepisodes.com/megvid.php?n=5211

While answering a distress call, Trip is kidnapped along with a spoiled alien princess.

Enjoy!

Can't wait!

Found this from back when Doogiegood ran some RP. It has basic positions we can look to fill.
Like I said, my husband's character background is as a counselor, And I'll throw my hat in as an engineer (chief or not, or maybe ops)

Captain:
First officer:
Chief of Operations/Second Officer:
Chief of Security/Tactical Officer:
Chief Science Officer:
Chief Medical Officer:
Cheif Engineer:

Security personnel:
Science station:
Medical Personal:
Counselor:
Engineer:
Helmsman:
Bartender/Chef:
Crewmen:

Hello. I'm involved in several RPs in STO, and would be happy to join in with other Stonewallers. I know several of us are RPers, and there are several ways to proceed. Likely, the single ship/crew is a good idea, depending on how many are involved.

Making sure everyone has something to contribute is the biggest challenge.

My husband and I have a pair of characters (based on an old tabletop game). Mine is an engineer, his is a counselor. He spends much less time in STO than I do, but I know he'd come back to play Kobi (the counselor)

I'm happy to see this effort begin, and will help in any way I can. I run and participate in RP games outside STO, and I'm supernerdy with trek trivia. Next time I see some of my stonewall RP buddies in game I'll direct them here as well!

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Does anyone know what the fleet variants of ships will be like yet? As in how they will differ?

All the Fleet ships are ingame. You can view them all by going o the Shipyard on ESD and opening up the Ship Selector. Most of them are at the end of the list now and begin with "Fleet" in the name. Most Tier 2 and 3 ships now have a Tier 5 version, bother a Fleet version and a non-Fleet version.

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At the moment it seems like its hard to contribute. I'm hoping it will be easer later on...

As we level our Starbase, the Projects will require more and more inputs and hopefully make it easier for more people to get to donate. If we're still having problems, we'll look into ways of limiting the strain. Projects have been completing very quickly in Stonewall Fleet. It may be easier to donate if you move your character to DSS (and move a different character into SWF).

Does anyone know what the fleet variants of ships will be like yet? As in how they will differ?

At the moment it seems like its hard to contribute. I'm hoping it will be easer later on...

Episode 670 - Enterprise - "Vanishing Point" - 11/27/2002

http://www.allstepisodes.com/megvid.php?n=5210

After her first trip through the transporter, Hoshi finds herself turning invisible and the rest of the crew believing she's dead.

Enjoy!

Video of Eric Flannum and Colin Johanson (ArenaNet content designers) talking about endgame and what's to be expected once you get to level 80.

Check it out: http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/b/324689481

Excited!

Here is a Massively link about the upcoming Riders of Rohan mounted combat.

Thanks Nick Nick! :silly:

If the goal is to make it as Trek-y as possible, here's what I'd do:

1. Posit a starship; the U.S.S. Stonewall, perhaps?
2. Have everyone who wants to participate pick a character to roleplay with and assign that character a rank and a role on the ship. I might say "David Benton, Lieutenant, Conn or Tactical." We would be looking for a decent mix of roles and ranks, so some adjustment might be necessary as we see what other people are picking.
3. Decide how we're going to handle captaincy; maybe have everybody vote on which character or player gets command?
4. Have our Q privately come up with a crisis reminiscent of a Trek episode. It should be a mystery or a puzzle or a moral dilemma; something to be solved by discussion and thinking. The Q will want to have an outline of the situation and at least a few possible solutions mapped out, but be prepared for the unexpected and ready to improvise.
5. The crisis is an event as many of us attend as possible, with no idea what's going to happen beyond a basic brief like "you're traveling through X sector on a mission of Y." This event might take a really long time to finish! Some can be standalone episodes where we encounter and resolve the crisis at the same event; sometimes we can introduce the crisis in one episode but leave it open ended, with players "investigating" afterward through mail with the Q and pickup scenes with each other, and then resolve it by compiling our findings in the next episode. The episodes take lots of work to set up, so they should be fairly infrequent.
6. Between episodes, players hang out in the SFRoleplay channel and do pickup sessions with whoever's handy, either to investigate an open-ended crisis or just develop the crew's characters and relationships.

Sounds like some exciting times! Good luck and see ya when you get back!!

Hello all.

I'm currently in the process of moving to another country and will have to take a leave of absence for a couple of months.

I'm looking to be back online by October so I'll see you all then :)

Take care

Fastrada