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Secret Santa
In order to participate in Secret Santa, you should bring a present to give to one other person. It doesn’t have to be expensive, but it would be better if you brought a little something more exciting than dead Gagh.

Also no small hypos, you know who you are.

Quote by caijamin

Christmas is coming and the targs are getting fat,
Please put dilithium in the old trill’s hat.
If you haven’t got dilithium, then an energy credit will do.
if you haven’t got an energy credit, then Q bless you

That was simply beautiful.. No, I'm not crying. Just allergies! :P This looks amazing!! Looking forward to the fun!

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To help us get all wintery, the Morale Department are adapting the Finnish tradition of little Winter Parties, pikkujoulut, for the space age. We will be hosting not one, not two, but THREE themed little Winter parties during the run up to the holidays.

So, what’s the deal?

Each Little Winter Party, or pikkujoulut, is about 3-4 hours long. We are hosting them at different times so that everyone should be able to attend at least one!

First, we have a little boogie. And just like the office party you’ll be silently judged on your dancing skills and choice of outfit (only we give out prizes). Then it’s time for Secret Santa, in which everyone should bring one small present to give away. Yay presents xD - Then, may the odds be ever in your favour, as we have some small competitions. After that, we launch into Battlezones. ‘Cos Carnage is always fun !

So Why Battlezones?

Because they don’t get much love! Yack Ground... Yack Grind … Yack Repetition.

BUT they can be super fun and super easy AND these are quick ways to get Borg Neural Processors, Voth Cybernetic Implants, Isomorphic Injections, Ancient Power Cells, and other bits and pieces. They are also cross-faction and unlocked at level 50 (we’ll get to the specifics later).

We encourage you to bring along an Klingon or an alt toon! You don’t have to be super-dooper expert-y, this is just for fun! So for those who have never tried them, or pugged it once and vowed never to return, or are grinding an alt. This is a great opportunity to give it another whack with experienced fleet members and finish off those reputation systems or get that kit you’ve always wanted !

Don’t be shy, come hunting with us, we’ll show you the ropes ;)


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Saturday 14th November 2015 - 21.00 GMT - 16.00 EST
Theme: *Prehistoric Prude*

21.00 - Dance Party at Dyson Joint Command
21.20 - Roll Call
21.30 - Secret Santa
21.45 - Competition: Prehistoric Pickup lines (Prize: Big Booms in Space & Mystery Trait)
22.00 - Voth Ground Battle Zone
23.00 - Voth Space Battle Zone
23.30 - Voth PvE's
23.45 - Massive PvE Queues! Get your shovels out for The Big Dig, Breaking the Planet, Starbase 24 and other super fun killing sprees!
Event Page

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Saturday 28th November - 18.00 GMT - 13.00 EST
Theme: *Dress to Impress*

18.00 - Dance Party on Bajor
18.10 - Roll Call
18.20 - Secret Santa
18.30 - Competition: Show us your t... ships (Prize: Deception Console + Surprise Trait)
18.45 - Badlands Battlezone
19.30 - Nukara Prime
20.00 - Nukara SFTs - Transdimensional Tactics, Scheduled Self Destruct, The Vault Ensnared, Azure Nebula Rescue
Event Page

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Sunday 13th December - 16.00 GMT - 11.00 EST
Theme: *Dress To Kill*
NOTE THE LATER STARTING TIME
16.00 - Dance Party at Delta Quadrant Command
16.20 - Secret Santa (You can already mail present in game to @caiweaver)
16.30 - Competition: 99 probes (11x TR116B Rifles to give away)
16.45 - Kobali Adventure Zone
17.30 - 8472 Space Battle Zone
18.15 - Defera Invasion Zone
19.15 - Borg & Undine PvE Queues

Times are in GMT.


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Secret Santa
In order to participate in the Secret Santa, you should bring a present to give to one other person. It doesn’t have to be expensive, but it would be better if you brought a little something more exciting than dead Gagh.

How it works: You mail the item to Cai or you give the present to him in a private trade before / during the roll call, he makes a list, checks it twice, and then hands out the presents to all.
Tardiness: If you turn up after the presents have started to be given out, please PM Cai before the competitions starts. If two or more are late, then that’s pretty easy. However, if there is only you, then Santa might have something in his sack.

Competitions: These are small scale and just for fun. There is only one prize for each.
Competition One: This is fairly self-explanatory.
Competition Two: Beautify or theme your ship somehow.
Competition Three: This requires ZERO preparation, so don’t worry.

Themes: Dress according to the theme, use your imagination. Although, with all the Parties we know that half the people ignore the theme and the other half go overboard. There will be random spot prizes ;)

Yes, I'm here for the interview...

Quote by Andrea Maria

And this, of course (I was soooooooo looking forward to it):

Quote by bullocaj

Just sucked that the foundry was still down! The foundry event Dave has created is so epic!

I hope we´ll be given the opportunity to play this mission soon!

let's have a nightmare on christmas street!!! woots! :woohoo:

z'omgs !

This was so much fun!



Massive thanks to Dave and Gareth, and to everyone else that came along xD I never used to like Halloween but this was awesome fun! ooodles and ooooddlees of fun!

Many thanks to all those who put in the time and effort to throw a fantastic Halloween celebration.

I just came back from trick-or-treating with family, but I was glad to partake in some of the events earlier today! Gratz to all the winners at the BINGO! Thank you guys for hosting another great Halloween Event! Was fun! :D *big zombie hug squeezes-eat-brains-om-nom-nom!!*

Another awesome event!

Thank you, Dave and Gareth, for planing, organizing, hosting, designing, doing 20-peeps-fleet-stuff with us and to make sure, that people had a good time.

I´m pretty sure that many people had a lot of fun (I´m amongst them!)! Also thanks to all the fleeties and guests, who showed up!

Andrea :)


Edit:

And this, of course (I was soooooooo looking forward to it):

Quote by bullocaj

Just sucked that the foundry was still down! The foundry event Dave has created is so epic!

I hope we´ll be given the opportunity to play this mission soon!

This event was really bad... ahahaha I'd love to see the look on Dave and Gareth's beautiful faces right now! :silly: I kid of course, it was awesome as always! Just sucked that the foundry was still down! The foundry event Dave has created is so epic! :D

A million thanks to Dave and Gareth for working so hard on this. (And our awesome members who participated!) A lot of time has been spent on this and you both have done fantastically well today. Also, thanks to the FC's and those of the admiralty who joined in on the fun and gave their support to a great event.

Gareth, I will be at your event one day, I promise! Truly sorry I had missed it again! *hug*

Thanks guys!!! :)

Thanks Gareth and Dave on an awesome event. I wish I could have made it to the event earlier, but I had to work.

Sorry I couldn't stay long but alcohol called. Thanks gareth and dave for putting on such an amazing event and all the effort you put in.

We are currently accepting applications for the Chief of Fleet Morale. This is an Admiral rank position and is assisted by the Fleet Captains in the Department of Fleet Morale.

The responsibilities of the Fleets Morale Department include the following:

• Plan and facilitate regular social events
• Promote social fleet events
• Monitor Fleet for low or poor morale
• Plan and facilitate roleplaying events

If you'd like to apply for this application, and think you have the time, dedication to make an exciting addition to leadership, send me an application as a private message on this site. Please include what skills or abilities you have that would make you the right fit for this position, previous experience and any other important information.

The deadline for this application is 6th Nov at 11:59 PM GMT.

Quote by alex284

Pew pew pew! Take that, Admiral Leeta of the ISS Enterprise!

It's over!

I think there's only one thing I can say to commend you creating a quality walkth....face the wrath of THE TERRAN EMPIRE!

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In the past our Pub Quiz prizes have been.. low key.

But this time around, we have decided to up the competitive steaks

31 Questions are set, all Horror Themed General knowledge based.
(31 questions for the 31st)




If you havent been to one of our pub quizes before.. please come.. its so much fun.. even if your scared to talk.. we will all be in teams, so you may feel the confidence boost to speak up and think up an answer.

As Page 1 of this thread states.. I will divide you off into small teams and your teams go off into a room by yourselves.. so you wont feel the pressure.

our team speak settings can be found here

Please try and come.. even if your shy, or have never used teamspeak before. it really is a lot of fun! and you get to meet new friends!
Everyone will be in the same boat.. and you just may help win your team and yourself some money!

Amazing Guide Alexander!! Thank you

Thank you for this.. it cleared a lot of things up.

I was told to ignore Terok Nor .. then by another person to fire at it etc etc.. and other contradictions.. so thanks for this guide!

Great job on these PVE guides Combat Ops Team!

Alex, this guide is awesome, thank you! :woohoo:


@Sej:


To 1.: CP (for me) isn´t more laggy than GGA, when all the fancy abilities (including the Iconian´s stuff) are used, which create colors on my screen I´ve never seen before. CP is actually very playable.

The BZ lags more (for me), based on the number of ships and yeah, the fancy abities from the fancy T6-ships...


To 2.: As Alex already said, CP is more rewarding and faster than the BZ. Also, CP has a big advantage: teamchat! Forget the chat in the BZ, people won´t read it anyway.

We´re trying to do many premade games as possible for fleeties, to teach them the stuff.

´drea :)

I haven't had much lag on the Badlands BZ, and even last night I noticed an improvement on people completing the objectives efficiently (maybe I just had a good instance).

CPE gives 72 marks with all the optionals. The BZ gives 8 per area plus some at the end, and it takes longer than a round of CPE. I haven't actually done the math; that statement was based on how it has felt this past week.

And thanks!

Quote by alex284

From this past week, I've found that the easiest place to get Terran marks is in the new space queue, Counterpoint.

So, the qualifying question to this is - how much of that is due to the Badlands Battlezone:

1) Being rampant with lag (at least until Thursday's patch)?

2) Other players not yet being familiar with BZ mechanics and objectives?

(Also, excellent guide here)

From this past week, I've found that the easiest place to get Terran marks is in the new space queue, Counterpoint. I put together a little walkthru as people come to play S11 this weekend (I'll be updating this in the future as the strategy develops).

Part 1

Required Objectives:

• Clear the ships (Normal, Advanced, Elite)
• Keep ds9 above 50% (Elite)

Optional Objectives:

• Keep DS9 above 75% (Normal, Advanced)

Strategy

Fly to DS9 and kill all the Terran ships. Don't worry about healing DS9 because it's pretty solid.


Part 2

Required Objectives:

• Close 5 portals (Elite)

Optional objectives:

• Keep DS9 above 75% (Normal, Advanced, Elite)
• Close 5 portals (Normal, Advanced)
• Bonus: close additional portals (Normal, Advanced)

Strategy

There are portals that spawn several dozen kilometers from DS9 along with a few Terran ships. 2 or 3 players should go to these (they are marked on your map in white) to clear the Terran ships and close the portals, while the others stay and defend DS9. There are only 2 rifts open at a time, so everyone scrambling to the portals isn't efficient.

Taking damage stops the portal-closing process, so that's why we clear the ships first.


Part 3

Required Objectives:

• 15 Assault teams landed (Elite)

Optional Objectives:

• Assault teams landed [just a counter] (Normal, Advanced)
• Bonus assault teams landed [counter] (Elite)
• Get Terok Nor's average health to below 50% (Normal, Advanced, Elite)
• Keep DS9's average health above 50% (Normal, Advanced, Elite)

Strategy

This phase can be tricky because there's a lot going on. But you can do it in 2 easy steps:

a) Everyone go to Terok Nor and pew pew it down to 35-40%. Then stop shooting! This way you don't trigger its self-heals.

b) Now ferry assault teams from DS9 to Terok Nor. Don't shoot at Terok Nor, and you don't really need to fire at the ships that are attacking DS9 because they're pretty weak (the worst I've seen in a pug is DS9 getting down to 94% average health).

You can do stuff while transporting, so use heals and Tactical Teams to keep your health up (your shields go down or transport), and use Attack Pattern Omega, Evasive Maneuvers, and Emergency Power to Weapons to keep moving. You don't need to stay close to either station while the transport process is occurring.

[update: running this queue this weekend on normal and advanced makes me wonder if this is all necessary, if it's not more efficient to just transport troops and shoot at TN when you're near it. On elite, though, I think it still makes sense.]


Phase 4

Optional Objective:

• Defeat reinforcement groups in 3 minutes (Normal, Advanced, Elite)

Strategy

Pew pew pew! Take that, Admiral Leeta of the ISS Enterprise!

It's over!