On Saturday, January 16th and Sunday, January 17th, the Fleet Resources Department and the Membership Management Department will be hosting a series of fleet events, to coincide with the bonus dilithium rewards weekend in Star Trek Online.

In the spirit of the bonus dilithium weekend, we here in the Resources and Memberships Departments feel that this weekend should be ALL about lining your Captain's pockets with dilithium and prizes, in a toast to the quadrant's greediest Ferengi and traders!  To that end, we'll be hosting a number of dilithium related events over the weekend, and encourage you all to come out for the fun!

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Does mining at the Vlugta asteroid and at the Fleet Dilithium Mine bore you to tears?  Not this weekend!  Save your dilithium dailies and join us on Saturday and Sunday at 11:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM Eastern as we round up as MANY fleeties as we can and crowd Stonewall Fleet's dilithium mine, to see if we can beat the record for LARGEST number of consecutive miners on the map!  Once finished at the fleet mine, we'll venture over to the Vlugta mine for more mining!  

Let's all go as a group!  We'll be meeting up in-game and on TeamSpeak to collect our DOUBLE mining rewards!  We'll also have some fantastic mining tunes lined up for you on TeamSpeak, to make your mining adventure a little less dull and a lot more entertaining!

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In this new take on an old favourite, we'll be running the Dilithium Tycoon contest once again, this weekend.  Simply screenshot your BEST dilithium mining mini-game score by typing /screenshot_ui_jpg and post your screenshot to this thread, any time between Friday, January 15th and Sunday, January 17th, for your chance to win 10 Master Keys!  

Get ready to mine like you've never mined before, if you want to add some additional dilithium to the amount you collect this weekend!

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Every attendee of our daily dilithium group mining event, will be automatically entered to win being some door prizes!  You don't need to do anything but show up to be registered to win!  We'll hand out the door prizes at the end of the daily group mining run!

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In an effort to provide fleet members with even more dilithium, the membership management department will be running an hour-long group Battlezone run, Saturday AND Sunday, through the Voth zones on the Solanae Dyson Sphere.  The runs will be after the hour-long group mining event each day, so be sure to join us on both Saturday and Sunday for two hours of group dilithium earning fun!

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so just to be clear, if a Canadian ovine decides to travel to a neutron star to retrieve a hypersonic screwdriver, it can only do that if it listens to Beethoven's 4th symphony at the top of Olympus Mons on Mars.

Yay! Thank you, guys for coming! And big thank you to Cai, Scott, and the awesome people who helped out with the event! Had a blast! *big hugs squeeze* !!

Truly, a lot of effort obviously went into this from all of the work that went into the forum post, to the two full days of unique back to back events. Even though I could only show up for two events, they were amazing fun! Thanks Cai, Eurrsk, Scotty and everyone who came together to make it happen! Things like this are what make our community amazing!

Cheers,
D.

I was only able to attend Saturday's festivities but had a blast...especially the Pub Quiz. From ovines to goats to neutron stars to William Shatner's Canadian heritage, it was a blast. The quizzes are by far my favorite because fleeties can directly interact with other fleeties. Not often we can do that in large numbers.

So this one is complicated. There was an NBA player named Wally Szczerbiak (who I thought was very cute). And I would set his name to the Animaniacs theme song: "His name is Wally Szczerbiak/He's a hottie to the max." So, what this means now is that when I see a dolyak in game, I sing, "His name is Wally Dolyak."

This makes me think about the skill "Prayer to Lyssa."

I LOVE how it works... If a human player uses this skill, all humans on the map will hear it and may shout "May Lyssa Confound you!"

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Prayer_to_Lyssa

There are certain bits of dialogue in-game that I can't help but respond to. I'm weird, but maybe some of you do the same?

"For the Tamini!" "For the tahini! And the tzatziki!"
"It's a soldier's life for me." "Deedly-dee"

I've got more but I'm not thinking about them at the moment.

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“Admiral, we are getting strange communications from the rift”

The modified Vonph commandeered as a war trophy by Admiral Marojin at the end of the Iconian war hovered close to a portal that was opening in the devron system, no ships could pass through and all probes launched have been lost.

A few weeks ago shortly after the last Mirror Invasion incursion rifts started opening up all over the galaxy. These rifts are determined to be rifts to other planes of existences like the mirror universe, while some have been terrifying like the first that opened on Qo’Nos where the KDF described as hordes of grotesquely disfigured anthomorphic animals, flooded First City. They said they were from a realm called psychedelic relam and their leader’s head a creature is now mounted outside the High Council’s Chamber. Lore singers are now writing songs of their victory over the creature called Hello Kitty and her grotesque horde.

Others have been a proven to be collaborative, the rift that opened on New Romulus and a group that called themselves super villains flooded through wreaking havoc on the young colony. A group calling themselves “Champions” assisted the Romulan Republic in capturing these villains and bringing them back to their own realm.

This rift hasn’t opened and the Mother Monster was joined with Admiral Greendale’s ship The Darkest Timeline and both are deciding to either figure out a way to open or close the rift. Both knew the potential for both research and damage to the Federation was extremely high.

“Patch the transmission through”

Static came on the intercom but every once in a while the crew is able to make out random words

Bzzzzzrrrzzzzz….black soulst….zzzzzzzrrrzzzzzz…..ueen of blad…..zzzzzbbbrrbrrrzzzz….ich King…..rrrzzzzzzz

Then static.

Thank you everyone who attend our White Winter Whirl!! hope you all had a flurrie of a time haha! Thank you Eurrsk and Cai for being awesome teamates and everyone else who had helped out in the events :D

Thanks for the awesome fun!!

And now I get to take a break from STO missions. I have shoulder surgery on Thursday, on my dominant arm. So I won't be doing many missions, but I will still be doing all the other fun stuff. Gotta keep getting R&D and doff stuff of course. Arm has to be in a sling most of the time for at least a couple weeks.
Can't wait for it to be done though. It's a tendon tear that has been bothering me for 6 years now. Will finally be able to participate in activities, and drumming. B)

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Thank you once again Morale Dept for the weekend event, looking forward to the next ones!!!!!

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P.S, does anyone want to team with me tomorrow for the Costume contest team entry?

what's ur ideas? :)

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Had fun at the few events I was able to join today - thanks Cai, Eurrsk and everyone else!
P.S. Did our team win the trivia?

we got 2nd place n u were right with "towel" just the question was a bit ambiguous! lol :)

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Also, we'll have regular meetings

Do I need to stand, state my name and my reason for attending, at each session?

Thank you! Many more to come! I'll probably do more live commentary in the future. I almost had a breakdown near the end... one of my video tracks that took me many hours to cut and get right got messed up and I had to re-do and fudge some new video tracks in. I'm pretty new at this, so I have a lot to learn. I'm sure it was something I screwed up with, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Only room to improve now. :cheer:

Lots of great advice in this thread already, so I won't repeat anything and just add my 2 ec.

The way I play crafting is to just pick one thing to specialize in, produce that thing a lot, and then sell that thing to get ec to buy other things. This reduces the amount of doffs you have to buy and gets your toons to level up faster in a certain school (and get a better crit rate). It also makes the system easier to understand at first and the market easier to follow.

But then I think of it all as ec. The materials I get as drops are just ec because i could sell them, the ones I use for crafting are just ec because I buy them. The stuff I make is just ec because I can sell it and the stuff I buy is just ec because that's what I pay for it.

Gravity's right: neither is better in an objective sense, it just depends on what you want to do with it.

I personally prefer the arbiter because:

*Intel seating = OSS + other goodies that I like more than command
*50% higher base turn rate
*less engineering seating (1 cmdr seat is enough for me, cmdr + lc is overkill)
*lc universal instead of ensign universal means more flexibility
*mastery gives resistance to kinetic damage, and in pve that's usually what'll kill you

5/3 weapons isn't that important to me since I'd run beam arrays on both.

The yamato get a hangar, an extra device slot, and slightly more base hull, but I don't think that outweighs anything above.

I got this one pre-DR and I remember seeing it a few times in the patch notes in 2015 but not really thinking much about it. I found this thread and apparently this was a problem pre-DR too, just sometimes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/2f2pe9/vicious_cycle_lost_gekli_help/

Usually when something appears as "fixed" multiple times it means that it's permanently broken. I'm guessing this is just something buried somewhere in the spaghetti code* that STO runs on that can't be completely fixed without breaking a bunch of other things, like the loot critter bug.

*A term I've seen thrown around enough to get an idea of what it means without actually knowing the technical limits of it.