Dear mates,
with the colony comes a new feature: when a project is filled with provisions, you can contribute provisions to the COFFER (last button at the holding status menu) and you get your 3.3 FCs earned per provision, as if you contributed to an open holding projects.
Fleet Officers can feed those provisions from the coffer and SSG Fleet Captain Arden encountered that phenomenon.

The odd number of FCs/Provision keeps you from contributing less than 10 provisions, except when a project needs some few to get filled. This is a bit inconvinient - I keep the "change" (provisions I can not contribute) in the bank.

Have fun, and get your risa power board to the colony!
Ed

Dear Strike Group Fellows,
a new holding came into the game. The provisions for this holding are not replicated and you do not need to spend Fleet Credits on these. Besides playing the new queues you earn them by playing mini games on Dranuur, deep in the Alpha Quadrant:


Have fun, and see one of the most beautiful maps in game

For a new website banner I made one ready for use


If some mate has a creativity flash, this is it in GIMP format, double size, to play with it:

Hey, everyone! Long time, no post.

Some of you know I'm theory-crafting a fleet cruiser for my wife. This project has been in the works for months, and then was shelved when STO stopped supporting DX9.

BUT NOW WE'RE BACK!

Those of you who donated generously to this project deserve an update, so here is the tentative plan for this new starship:

http://skillplanner.stoacademy.com/b1739...b09650c06f

Some of you donated traits and other non-gear items which don't appear in this rough draft; I will fill in the remaining blanks after I work out some glaring problems, like "How does one copy of Aux2Batt keep itself at global cooldown?" I've seen it done, on rare occasions; I just don't remember how it works. If you know the answer, please explain this to me.

The point of this ship is to be easy to fly (FAW spam), while having enough gimmicky clickies (see science BOFF abilities) to stay fun, even after press-spacebar-to-win gets old. Besides, effective crowd control disproportionately offsets low DPS due to its base CrtH being 9.5%, with no fleet/rep gear or [CrtH] weapon mods.

Mom's been at it again.

Warning: lots of flashy lights and strong language.

A recent Endeavour has been to do 3 Missions in Romulan Space. Old salt and new salt joined and we did the 3 Patrols - and as we were already there, we explored some more... We are still uplholding Federation Values (while shooting at bad guys):

*Transmission Begins*

This is the veQDuj, Dahar Master Kremmen commanding. Due to an unknown anomaly and the incompentance of my late navigator we are currently in uncharted space somewhere in the Gamma Quadrant relaying this message through an old Hirogen communications relay. My new navigator assures me that  she has plotted a course that will get us back to the Jenolan Sphere but due to the damage caused by the transition through the anomaly it is unknown how long this will take.  The engineering team are working hard to repair the damage and have been suitably motivated.

To any recipient of this broadcast able to do so, please pass this message onto Klingon High Command.

Kremmen out.

*Transmission Ends*

_______________________________

Back in the real world, I apologise for my disappearance but Im dealing with some "nasty stuff" and should be getting answers one way or the other in the next few days.  Will let you know whats going on when I can.

Catch you out there.

Dear mates,
I run Space STFs this weekend and maybe a bit on Defera or in the Dyson Sphere. All Captains at Level 50+ are welcome regardless of Fleet Rank or Fleet Affliction.
I run my Starfleet Strike Group character(s) as Tour Guide on Saturday and my Klingon Strikegroup character(s) on Sunday. However when possible I make interfaction teams - there just need to be 5 of us for private queues.
I can always pick something from my prepared favorite list. As these runs are for you, I will first serve your calls to those battles you like to do.
The Events start at 19:00 UTC and go for up to 3 hours. Check the Fleet Events to see how that fits at your time zone.
Join as you like, stay as long as you like!

I am looking forward to see you in battle!
                                                           @edarta

10 Captains or Commanders - I ran Vastam Peaks on New Romulus, and discovered that the subcommanders are counting as commanders for the purpose of the game.

If you find anything interesting in playing the Endeavour missions, put your comments in here!

Mom

A little something for the KSG. You rock.