So, do these need a close tag?

Hey Guys, Have you ever wondered why some people have a colourful Member Comment in our fleet roster? Look no further! here is a list of some HTML command you can right in to make the Member Comments Fabulous :D

Colours:

Red

Blue

Yellow

Green

Purple

Orange

Brown

Black

White

There are other variations to colours if you feel brave enough to expariment :D

Item Colours

Uncommon

Rare

Very Rare

Ultra Rare

Epic

These are just some of the ways to make your comments fabulous! :D if you know any other way please share :)

PS, Thank you to @Adammaguire for shareing his knowledge with me. :D

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Anyone grab land up in Auroria? O.O

I hear it's easy to find now, although about to get more competitive soon ;x

Woohoo! Dilithium! I'll see everyone Friday night thru Sunday evening.

***ATTENTION***
Don't forget to activate Dilithim Mining Claims on Wednesday - but don't mine them until after the 20 hour cooldown and you will be able to use 2 of them on Thursday! That's 20,000 dilithium for 2 minutes of mini-game work! This works for the Dilithium Mining Missions at the Fleet Mine and Vlugta Asteroid too! If you have any questions, just let me know!

Dan

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PVP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

down boy! :blush:

Sony Online Entertainment Becomes Daybreak Game Company

Dear Players, Partners and Friends,

Today, we are pleased to announce that we have been acquired by Columbus Nova, an investment management firm well known for its success with its existing portfolio of technology, media and entertainment focused companies. This means that effective immediately SOE will operate as an independent game development studio where we will continue to focus on creating exceptional online games for players around the world, and now as a multi-platform gaming company. Yes, that means PlayStation and Xbox, mobile and more!

As part of this transition, SOE will now become Daybreak Game Company. This name embodies who we are as an organization, and is a nod to the passion and dedication of our employees and players. It is also representative of our vision to approach each new day as an opportunity to move gaming forward.

So what exactly does this mean for you? It will be business as usual and all SOE games will continue on their current path of development and operation. In fact, we expect to have even more resources available to us as a result of this acquisition. It also means new exciting developments for our existing IP and games as we can now fully embrace the multi-platform world we are living in.

Our games and players are the heart and soul of our organization, and we are committed to maintaining our portfolio of online games and pushing the limits of where we can take online gaming together.

Thank you for your continued support. See you in game!

The Team at Daybreak

2 JH ships added to the queu.

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P R I Z E · W O N !
Congratulations to @Dax_Aussie_Boy for winning Fractured Space Alpha Access, for correctly answering our fleet bank questions!

Dax is the first of many winners of various prizes to come throughout the month, so be sure to keep your eyes finely tuned on your resources department staff in fleet chat, on TeamSpeak and in the forums for your continued chances to win! Refer to the first post in this thread for event details!

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The CoC is meant to be a short and simple to understand 1-sheet if you will. Where the MHB contains the bulk. There is more to the MHB than the CoC so I think Reference links to pertinent parts of the MHB embedded in the CoC will suffice.

Of course, the membership handbook would contain pretty much everything (including your Code of Conduct), whereas your Code of Conduct page, would simply highlight your Code of Conduct displaying your behavioral and punitive rules or in your arrangement, links to your punitive rules.

Zander Hawk

The CoC is meant to be a short and simple to understand 1-sheet if you will. Where the MHB contains the bulk. There is more to the MHB than the CoC so I think Reference links to pertinent parts of the MHB embedded in the CoC will suffice.

OMG!!!!!!!!!! AAHHHHHHHHHH I WANT THIS!!!!!!!!!!
Answers are:-

Q1. Prime Directive Rule is No Common items, No Lockboxes, No Tribbles & No Food.

Q2. No taking of items from the bank in order to sell it at the Vendors for Energy Credit.

Q3. False. Odd marked gear are inferior gear of the even marked gear of each rank.

Q4. Space Weapons Tab in the Commander columns of the Bank (3 & 4 Column).

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Halish, there's always an assumption that things are clear, but just to make sure, and because this whole endeavor is a work in progress, I asked. So what about the consequences to not following the New or updated/revised CoC, will you include a section or statement that notes the consequences when people do not follow the Code of Conduct?

Zander Hawk

The Admirals discussed this at length in our meeting on Saturday and have agreed on some of the changes, To Halish' point about the consequnces that are listed in the member handbook; we decided that we would link that particular section to the Members Handbook section that discusses said consequences. In addition changes to the MHB are forthcoming.

Hope this helps :)

So the Code of Conduct will guide the reader to a link that will connect them to a page showing a statement of consequences for not following the Code of Conduct -you could do this or centralize everything on one page.

Zander Hawk

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Halish, there's always an assumption that things are clear, but just to make sure, and because this whole endeavor is a work in progress, I asked. So what about the consequences to not following the New or updated/revised CoC, will you include a section or statement that notes the consequences when people do not follow the Code of Conduct?

Zander Hawk

The Admirals discussed this at length in our meeting on Saturday and have agreed on some of the changes, To Halish' point about the consequnces that are listed in the member handbook; we decided that we would link that particular section to the Members Handbook section that discusses said consequences. In addition changes to the MHB are forthcoming.

Hope this helps :)

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I wouldn't mind seeing a third bit as a general rule of thumb of all members in its own category referring to a more common sense and etiquette of behaviour when respecting those of different nationality, sexuality, gender, intelligence and so on. Maybe following the "K.I.S.S" method would be a good idea. (Keep it simple silly).

Being honest Dax, I'm not entirely sure I understand this. Are you saying we should go into detail about how you should behave when dealing with members of different cultures? Because honestly it would take a large document and probably a member-by-member breakdown of how people would like to be interacted with.

I do think as an LGBT community re-enforcing the point about using the correct pro-nouns may be a good idea though as the importance of this can't be understated.

We don't need a big listing of what to do as such, but a short summary of what is expected of all members in all positions. Hence why is said K.I.S.S, Simple to understand, Straight to the point and No confusions when its interpreted by all members. E.g using correct pro-nouns for members that are gender neutral who don't use binary pro-nouns of identifying a gender to them.

If we are going to embrace community, then we need to show and lead by example of what is expected of members.

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Halish, there's always an assumption that things are clear, but just to make sure, and because this whole endeavor is a work in progress, I asked. So what about the consequences to not following the New or updated/revised CoC, will you include a section or statement that notes the consequences when people do not follow the Code of Conduct?

Zander Hawk

And i would strongly agree with what Zander_Hawk has said recently regarding consequences. If member are meant to follow the Code of Conduct, then there needs to be set of consequences which is laid out and agreed upon by the Community. If the Community of Stonewall is to be expected to follow the Code of Conduct then they ave as much say on the consequences of their actions if they were to do something wrong.

I hope i have cleared up the confusion. if not then i would gladly be willing to speak about it over TS, if it helps? Apologies in advance if what i wrote sounds blunt.

Dax

Halish, there's always an assumption that things are clear, but just to make sure, and because this whole endeavor is a work in progress, I asked. So what about the consequences to not following the New or updated/revised CoC, will you include a section or statement that notes the consequences when people do not follow the Code of Conduct?

Zander Hawk

Thanks for all the feedback so far guys,

Quote by Dax_aussie_boy

I wouldn't mind seeing a third bit as a general rule of thumb of all members in its own category referring to a more common sense and etiquette of behaviour when respecting those of different nationality, sexuality, gender, intelligence and so on. Maybe following the "K.I.S.S" method would be a good idea. (Keep it simple silly).

Being honest Dax, I'm not entirely sure I understand this. Are you saying we should go into detail about how you should behave when dealing with members of different cultures? Because honestly it would take a large document and probably a member-by-member breakdown of how people would like to be interacted with.

I do think as an LGBT community re-enforcing the point about using the correct pro-nouns may be a good idea though as the importance of this can't be understated.

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Also, people in the UK spell it: behaviour?

Thanks Kasper, I'll fix the mistakes I made. I make no secret that writing is not one of my strengths. I'm lucky if I can put a sentence together most of the time.

But yes we spell it behaviour. It does pose an interesting but not really "all that" important question though. Should I be writing in American English because most of our members are? Or should I write in British English because I'm British and I'm writing it.

..... We may need a TV debate to settle that one. :p

Re: mrgig00

Thanks for your feedback.

It's an interesting point I think you're making but you've kind of hit the nail on the head. I'm trying to make the code of conduct more general to allow for judgement calls from the leadership.

It can sound like a bad thing but it's not. There is no risk that a single admiral will look at one thing you've said or done, take it out of context, and then punish you for it. That's just not how we have ever conducted ourselves.

Context and intent are very important when dealing with behavioural issues and having the extra freedom to make judgement calls actually helps us to be less authoritarian when someone makes a bad joke or accidentally says the wrong thing and someone else is offended.

This doesn't mean people will be able to get away with bad behaviour, we have our warning systems in place and they will still apply.

About your second point, it's a great point and our leader NicholasJohn also expressed similar feelings to me. I will try and reword it in a way that remedies this.

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I like the simplification, but perhaps it's a little over simplified. Seeing only the WIP version would make me go to an admiral/cap'n and ask what the *real rules* are ("So, what'll get me banned?"). However, I'm a little more outgoing than some others might be and have no problem going up to fleet leadership.

There is now way to make a more general, easier to read and understand, code of conduct but it still have the same level of detail.

Going a middle-of-the-road approach will simply allow members to bend the rules because it didn't specifically state that their exact action was wrong.

We are going with a more common sense approach and honestly anybody who can't understand that you should respect others, not post adult material and .. honestly .. not be a dick .. probably doesn't belong in a community with other living human beings.

And that's not me attacking you personally, I absolutely understand the point you're making but do we honestly believe the majority of people are reading the current code of conduct? I don't think so.

Anything we can do to help establish who are are and what we are about in an quick and easy to read manner is a good thing. Or at least, I think it is.

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Excellent points. Did the admins meet before this post went out? I know Halish was approved to work it but what's the aim, more loose and casual or more defined yet casual rules?

We didn't meet if you're talking about a Teamspeak meeting. However this has been up on the Admin forums for some time (quite a long time actually) and only recently I requested more feedback from the Admins on this and they advised we post it for public feedback.

I think it's clear what the aim is. To make a more clear, easy to understand, code of conduct that members will actually bother to read (hopefully).

This is JUST the code of conduct. This isn't a re-write of the entire welcome centre. The members handbook contains details of the disciplinary procedures.

Although the handbook is in need of new love as the code of conduct is.

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D O N A T I O N · D R I V E
DAY ONE GIVE-AWAY!

To celebrate the kick-off of our month-long fleet bank donation drive, we're giving away an AMAZING first day prize! The first person to view the fleet bank donation tutorial video and answer the corresponding questions below, will win instant early ALPHA access to Fractured Space on STEAM!*

Fractured Space is a team-based space combat game that puts you at the helm of a colossal capital ship. Each 5v5 match offers an intense cosmic skirmish, rife with deadly exchanges between craft, but underpinned by a grander strategy. Join a fleet, build your armada, refine your strategy and join the Fractured Space universe today!





*The winner will need to provide their Steam account user name or their email address in order for the game to be gifted to their account. This game is currently in alpha stage, which means that while you will have instant access to the game, it is still under development.

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To win our first day give-away, you'll need to watch the fleet bank tutorial video, a link to which is located in the first post of this thread. In the tutorial video, you'll find answers to the following questions. Be the FIRST person to CORRECTLY answer these questions by replying to this thread, in order to win!


What is the PRIME DIRECTIVE rule as it relates to donating to the fleet banks?
What is the GOLDEN RULE as it relates to using the fleet banks?
True or False?: Odd numbered mark item gear can be donated to the fleet banks
In which tab and columns of the fleet bank, could you donate a very rare Mark VI phaser beam array?

Good luck!

This look like an interesting game. What is everyone else thoughts on this?

Fractured Space

Dax

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yeah! dying with friends is much better than dying with strangers :)

Umm... i´d prefer to NOT die at all... but as I said: it´s my nightmare mission, so it won´t be avoidable, lol.

P.S.: Please refresh your CPR training, I´ll need it! :whistle:

yeah! dying with friends is much better than dying with strangers :)