Heres the thing about this whole idea, It's deffinatly a Grey Area. It can be seen as a great possitive idea where you can feel safe going though your school years and being with like minded people. It's bad because it kinda feels like (Please don't be offended) When the african americans were segregated in america. I feel like it can be seen this way by those that do have a "dim view" but we all truly do not know how it will work out till it's actually implimented. I hope that if it does go through I hope we see more progress in society. I'd also like to see more LGBT teachers and members of the School Boards.

In my school it was not till our Principle left in Grade 11 that we got a LGBT friendly Priniciple that actually cared and protected the students. Times are changing and we all are apart of it. With this school i'm sure it will be VULENTARY and not MANDATORy.... which will be truly the deciding factor if it will be a great thing...

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Tlek that is a very dim view to take and as this would be opening where i come from i can say i feel it would be perfectly safe.

I have a very dim view of lgbt tolerance in society, and gathering us all up in one place is heading dangerously close to either reviving the concentration camps, or at least doing an x-mutant "mutie scum" segregation, the only problem with that is, as far as I know, not one lgbt person is able to heal from being brutally beaten or burned to death by someone they trust.


I want to be wrong on this, but I can't help but fear the worst, I mean, we have cases that get noticed like luka magnotta, or jordan sheard, how many get swept under the rug by someone that feels we deserved that fate?

I am in two minds over this it could potentially avoid bullying but it could be counterproductive for integrating LGBT people into society as a whole.

Also Tlek that is a very dim view to take and as this would be opening where i come from i can say i feel it would be perfectly safe.

I wonder how long before the shooting?

We get our day in court, the SCOTUS!

Hey Everyone,

Just thought to bring this up in case someone hasn't either read up or made anyone aware of the secondary deflector slots.

The following is from the recent blog post that can be found on the STO Launcher.

Secondary Deflectors

Also Tribble Servers have also been updated with some general fixes, corrections on Command Officer Abilities and so on.

Tribble Maintenance and Release Notes - January 16, 2015

Have fun reading.

Dax

I was watching The Social on our Dining room TV at work and all of a sudden they bring this topic up. Now this is a topic that reminds me of a past topic we discussed about a LGBT village or town. This is something I feel is a great idea. It will help minimize the bullying of LGBT kids of all ages. Bullying for me started when I was in grade 3 and I didnt know why people were doing that. If this was around when I was starting High School I believe I would go into that school. Since there is all girl schools and all boy schools there should be all LBGT Schools and I aprove :)

Pink News: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/01/15/uks-first-lgbt-school-planned-for-the-manchester/

The Social: http://www.thesocial.ca/news/headlines/first-gay-school-could-be-coming-to-britain

Please put your thoughts into the Comments bellow :)

Sorry 'bout the presumptive pedantry, j00 guys.

Been thesis reviewing the kind of student that you'd rather just hand the stupid degree, to get 'er out of your hair and onto someone else's problem, y'know?

tl;dr: I'm a little edit-happy.

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Aww, who am I kidding. the new Starfleet ships will look like the prolapsed genitals of a syphilitic Gorn

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thanks sej LOL

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Again this is just an idea. Whether or not its feasible or not at this stage of the game is a completely different question all together.

Edited for you.

True, it would be a bit much of an overhaul of a ship build system.

But that said, nothing ventured nothing gained is what i say.

The idea i had was essentially you start off in the miranda class or career specific class ship and you build upon that, with each level. Once you have obtained the next rank, the ship design would open up to further customization of the look of the ship and access to other things (consoles, weapon armaments and so on).

This essentially would be like mixing R&D with the upgrade system for parts and commodities and maybe specialized slots for special items as such, the tempest rail gun weapon or console specific to that ships like cloaking or the other gold consoles.

Again this is just an idea. Whether or not its valuable or not is a completely different question all together.

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But i personally would love to see a different means or way of ship building which i personally think could be a sight worth seeing , but than again not everyone would love that idea, but hey what can one do.

So, like - a rebuild of the ship build system?

I mean, they've overhauled some game systems, crafting, reputation gear - and we're still seeing balance aftershocks from at least a few of those. I don't think any of those would be as fundamental to the operation of the game.

I've never liked STO's build system as much as I preferred Bridge Commander or Starfleet Command's. But that's one ship, I expect, has sailed.

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It seems likely to me there will be a new set of T6 ships released which are command specialised to drain all of our cash away.

With only one (and a half) of the Tier 6 ships really representing canonical hero ships, it might be their one winning opportunity to get us to buy T6 ships.

I'm just not seeing them around the game in numbers I would have expected going into DR. Leading me to suspect that what players have Ops Pack or buy T6 a la carte, do so for the Traits, and return to T5U ships for the long haul by virtue of gear investments, sentimentality, or the Boff/console ratios.

I had a feeling that Cryptic would be concerned about the ratio of how many people are using the T6 to T5-U ships to be honest but that said, there possibly a way to get people involved with these T6 ships.

But i personally would love to see a different means or way of ship building which i personally think could be a sight worth seeing , but than again not everyone would love that idea, but hey what can one do.

Mind you, i do have other thoughts of what i think has happened as such... but thats a different things all together.

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It seems likely to me there will be a new set of T6 ships released which are command specialised to drain all of our cash away.

With only one (and a half) of the Tier 6 ships really representing canonical hero ships, it might be their one winning opportunity to get us to buy T6 ships.

I'm just not seeing them around the game in numbers I would have expected going into DR. Leading me to suspect that what players have Ops Pack or buy T6 a la carte, do so for the Traits, and return to T5U ships for the long haul by virtue of gear investments, sentimentality, or the Boff/console ratios.

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It seems likely to me there will be a new set of T6 ships released which are command specialised to drain all of our cash away.

Though who knows really but its the most financially profitable thing to do and lets face it that is cryptics forte

Well, I suppose they have to recoup their profit margins somehow since I stopped buying Lock Box keys! :lol:

But even a ship-phile like me is fast approaching my satiation point. If they started creating micro transactions for additional ship upgrades/customization/skins for what we already have, that might tempt me.

Aww, who am I kidding. If the new Starfleet ships are purty & have a saucer, they'll get my money.

Yes it as and as a PWE Shareholder. ME GUSTA!

It seems likely to me there will be a new set of T6 ships released which are command specialised to drain all of our cash away.

Though who knows really but its the most financially profitable thing to do and lets face it that is cryptics forte

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The question will be are we getting new ships with this specialisation or are current ships getting retrofitted.

To paraphrase, did they just screw over everyone who shelled out for Tier 6 ships or Tier 6 upgrades just three months ago?

i'm so confused with all these new fancy wotsits....i'm just going to party pop around ESD again!