I think the possibility of us being alone in the universe is as small as small gets. Somewhere, somebody is looking for us, just as much as we are looking for them.

I'm super excited about all the earth like planets that are being discovered and will continue to be discovered. It's just a matter of time before we find a planet that "seems" to be almost-exactly like our own. It'll be about the same size, about the same distance from a sun that's the same size and age as our own. It'll spin just like ours and for all intents and purposes it will be the real Earth 2.0.

What sucks is that as much as we can "kinda" see these planets and guestimate what they are like there really is no way for us to actually go and have a look. Even less way if we want to do it respectfully of a civilisation that COULD exist on the planet.

It would take a long time and super expensive to send something all the way there (if it is even possible?) and it would be disastrous to find a planet with a society similar to ours and let a probe (or some such) pass by their satellites and cause mass panic that could result in the deaths of many of innocent aliens.

The fear of a super-powerful alien strike against earth is and will continue to be a threat long after we have made peaceful allies in our universe but my fear is ultimately that our gift to the universe will be the worst of what humanity has to offer. Our evil tendencies to eliminate what we don't understand and to see ourselves ever lifted to the top of the power pyramid would be an awful curse on other-wise peacefully races.

I had this discussion with a friend of mine a while ago. What if aliens are keeping an eye on us as we speak? Would they shit a brick if we had eyes on their planet? We can't truly see what it is, we call it a different name and we have no way to get there. But just knowing that we know where their home is .. would it worry them?

Damn. I hope I don't die before the exciting stuff happens :p

While this is exciting and reaffirms the belief that there is sentient life elsewhere in the universe, I think we should proceed with caution. That life is likely far more intelligent/powerful than we are. They could be benevolent or wish to enslave or destroy the entire human species.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/23/nasa-announces-earth-exoplanet

Pub AND Quiz ....GAME ON!!! :P :P

I'll attend :)

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SUNDAY - 2:30PM EDT/7:30PM BST = GROUP MINING = : Meet up at our main fleet mine, put on our spacesuits, get the fleet mine daily mission, and Mine together to collect dilithium. all participants are welcome to join us on our Team Speak Server, where you can listen to some tunes while you drill.. and even chit chat.
Dont worry.. you dont have to talk, you can just listen to the tunes!!
Everyones invited!
at the end of the Fleet mine event, small door prizes will be handed out to everyone that joined in!
we'll then head on over to the Vlugta asteroid field mine, to turn in our VIP mining claims or to complete the additional mining dailies for even more dilithium!


SUNDAY - 3:30PM EDT/8:30PM BST = PUB QUIZ = : After a long weekend down the mines, Meet up at Quarks Bar (DS9) settle down, unwind and Join us on Team Speak, Ill put you in teams and you go off into separate TS rooms with your team mates, where we will begin our Pub Quiz!
There will be around 20 Questions, Star trek related.. and general knowledge related.
Our Quiz host will announce each question, prior to that... your team must pick someone to be your groups communicator, who will PM the quiz master your teams answer.. you will have 10 seconds (to avoid cheecky searches) to write your answers down, and PM the quiz master.
The Team that gets the most points, will win a prize each (PRIZE TBA) and get their names printed here in the Forums of Fame!


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Edited original post to add that there are telekinetic doffs in the new c-store pack: Delta Alliance Duty Officer pack. Here's the link to the pack info: http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9451433-star-trek-online%3A-delta-alliance-doffs

There's some pretty cool doffs in there too, while the blue and purple ones tend to be pretty pricey on the exchange due to the c-store only nature of the pack, the greens are super affordable if you're wanting to try out some of the new abilities to see if you like it and then save up for a higher quality.

I also tend to accumulate some of the blue quality ones during my pack opening, if you want one send me a message in game @crmonkey and if I end up getting extras I'll send one your way instead of the grinder (I tend to accumulate kdf doffs much faster, but sometimes some fed ones slip through too)

Happy Doffing everyone :)

It's utterly spectacular with Neutronium torps.

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Actually really looking forwards to this game, the preview made me dribble a bit. Victorian Great Britain AND London....so ACV and then a few weeks later Starwars Battlefront...Autumn and Winter is shaping up to be a dribble fest gaming season!!........

And don't forget Fallout 4. I hope I have decent pc by then (previous one died, so I am on a seven year old pc now - which is not going to be able to handle FA4 or AC:S), because this is a winter I plan to spent poor :P

Actually really looking forwards to this game, the preview made me dribble a bit. Victorian Great Britain AND London....so ACV and then a few weeks later Starwars Battlefront...Autumn and Winter is shaping up to be a dribble fest gaming season!!........

Oooh an interesting combo I might have to try it.

Hey fleeties. I had to take a break from STO thanks to another lengthy hospital stay (I'll spare you the details but I feel 1000% better) and started playing with a new build last night when I noticed an insane jump in my DPS.

Having a spare starship trait slot, I slotted Overwhelming Force from the YoH Fed ship trait box. Overwhelming force applies a photonic shockwave to HY torps, and a charged particle burst to beam overloads. I had the photon torps from the Counter-Command rep set equipped and fired a HY3 torp at a group of Herald ships caught in my GW1 during Gateway to Grethor.

HY torps from the counter command set are large, non-destructible projectiles that hit for high-ish damage and then apply the set rad dmg to other hostiles in a 2km radius.

The torp hit for 60k, and set off the shockwave; however the aoe effect triggered a shockwave from all the other enemies caught in the grav well, duplicating this damage. So you're looking at 5 shockwaves from a bunch of ships in close proximity. I basically took out the group in 1 attack, which for someone not in the 10k club isn't half bad.

I thought this might have been a fluke, but I have been able to re-create this with no problems, multiple times. Though it only seems to work with AOE torps. That said I could not re-create this with the Radiant Quants from the Iconian set, or the Omega torps.

Has anyone else experienced or attempted this? Seems severely OP.

I welcome your thoughts/ideas.

I'm down for learning something new. All aboard!

Come on everyone show us your cute and cuddly wuddly pet pictures! :)

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Thanks for the reply and for keeping us in the loop on this; would be nice to start teaming with our Armada members, is all. Let us know what ends up being decided!

Would a custom Stonewall Armada channel be an appropriate solution?

Thanks for the reply and for keeping us in the loop on this; would be nice to start teaming with our Armada members, is all. Let us know what ends up being decided!

Hi Dave,

As your research has shown it is indeed linked to the Fleet Chat permissions.

The restriction initially was an unconscious decision until we became aware of how the permissions were tied to fleet chat.

This is currently disabled or enabled based on a rank within the fleet. Currently, the decision by the Admiralty has been to enable fleet chat for Admirals only. It will be discussed fully in our forthcoming meeting about where our final position will lie on this access.

Before the launch of Armada's the Fleet chat was somewhat restricted in the sense that between our 4 fleets we wouldn't be able to intercommunicate and as such StonewallFleet was born. Upon the launch of Armadas, we now need to decide if this channel is still sufficient as a means of communication when inviting external fleets into our Armada. As we currently only have one external fleet, we have sufficient time to make a reasonable and well thought out decision and also have members (Admirals) with chat access in case that external fleet is using it as a communication means (currently it seems not).

There are pro's and cons to either option of the decision.

Please bare with us while we decide upon a final verdict.

Well, I'm obviously a master at this stuff *sigh* But I suppose I will sit in, you know, as a refresher. Now will this teach us how to rob banks electronically? Or perhaps divert a train full of gems and gold to the nearest train station?

So now that my life's settled down a bit and Pride's over, I'd like to put together a course on this. I'm thinking I'd show you all how to put together a simple flat file blog.

How does that sound? Is there any specific anyone would like to learn about?

Can we say this thread has jumped the shark? ::butter couldn't melt in my mouth expression::

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Damn, im sorry, I had no idea.. i rarely keep up with the news unless someone tells me whats going on.
I tooken it down

lol, lol. Nooooo, put it backs ;)