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Hey why isn't there a "Member Suggestion Box" It could solve alot of problems and maybe stop a little interinal bickering.

 

 

::Drops suggestion into "Member Suggestion Box" oops forgot I just suggested that::

Here's the link to the member suggestion box:

Member Suggestion Box - Click Here

Also... I don't see this discussion as bickering. It's just questions being answered. As I've said before, if there is anything I can do for you, my private messages and e-mail is always open. :) Each person who is involved with the running of STSF care about the forum and about the members. If you ever need a virtual hug, just send me a PM. hehe

I'll toss in my two cents here too for what it's worth...

Anytime there is anything of consequence to announce, it's posted for pretty much everyone to see. There are not too many things that are kept in the dark from the players. (Though GMs and the GM council may know about them a few days before the players, that's to be expected, lol.)

Sometimes when we say it's being looked at, or we'll take it under consideration... it may not be something that is discussed day in and day out until a decision is made. Sometimes it's things we have on the back burner and hope to address eventually.

There are many things here on the website that I eventually would like to see happen. But it's not something that may be able to happen in the near future (ie as in the next few weeks/months). By posting what I think I would like to do, people start getting they're hopes and expectations up. Then if something happens where I can't deliver, it makes me end up looking bad. lol

As far as "reports" or whatever... I honestly think it's kind of counter productive. Any kind of announcement that is needed to be made is posted in our forums in the appropriate area. That way if something happens, we can communicate it quickly. Why bother with a report if the info is already there. Personally I don't see a need for "minutes" of the GM meetings needing to be posted such as "we've recieved 3 applicants for GM positions, had XXXX number of visitors to the website, want to look at organizing chat logs in a different way, etc".

Those are things that honestly have absolutely no impact on players or effect how they play. If someone has a question regarding site traffic, my e-mail and private messages have ALWAYS been open. Plans and such about wanting to change this or that are communicated already on the forums... and things such as reviewing GM applicants of course has no reason to be in the public.

Each person involved in the "management" of STSF is available to answer questions and such if you have a question. It's just there are times when a question is asked (such as when will we add more sims) that can't be answered right away. It's something that takes a while to properly look at, and sometimes the answer requires a lot more work to be done to get to it. But I don't think it's necessarily important to share each itty bitty step it takes to get there. lol

In closing... if you feel we have not been open/forthcomming/honest with you, I'm sorry. Each of us try our best to keep the forum in the know about what's going on, what changes are happening, why those changes are necessary, etc. If there is anything specifically you are interested about, please private message me. I'd be happy to talk with you a bit more and explain anything.

I was actually the XO of an Enterprise-era based SIM at one point in time.

We were not Enterprise itself, but rather a ship that had launched somewhat after NX-06. In a way, it was played off of them being a sister ship and our ship's CO had somewhat of a friendly rivalry with the CO of the NX-06.

It's plotlines generally had little to do with what was currently on the air at the time, but instead focusing on the types of things that were going on at that time.

As far as a storyline in sim interfering or not matching up with something that might later happen in the series... I don't see that as a big deal. The FUNDAMENTALS of Trek are already established. Just because your Enterprise era sim might not be in the middle of the Expanse does not mean it could not have happened during that time period or that it even has to really acknowledge EVERYTHING that happens there.

For example... we don't know the day to day operations of the Romulan empire, but we still manage to play out a sim with it pretty well... or in Aegis... the official series never really mention any kind of stations that are dedicated to helping rebuild Cardassia (although the end of DS9 showed the possibility of it being lead up to.... BUT never actually fully done yet).

I could see a sucessful sim being done based on the series. ^_^

I have them all on DVD. ;)

It is nice to turn on though when there's nothing else to watch. hehe

Also.. if you REALLY do want to write a log or two, please feel free to make use of these forums.

A character log would definately be appropriate for the STSF Academy folder. :rolleyes:

OK.... way off topic. :rolleyes:

I'm closing this thread. If you want to continue discussion, please start a new topic. Thanks. :lol:

I have not pruned any forum or catagory.

The only posts that are ever removed are the ones that are locked topics. After a couple of days, I'll cycle them off of the public boards and somewhere else into another folder.

You can try using the search feature to help find the post you are looking for. It has a number of options to help you narrow down what you want.

I would blow up my ship week after week.

I like the back up rooms more.  Even though it often lags if people abuse the sounds, it's still a good room.  The sounds, and auto colors rule, and I'll be angry when we have to go back to ST.com.

 

It's a lot easyer to use these, rather then have the ST.com page load for about five minutes, then log in, then reconfirm, then enter the chat room, then wait about another five minutes for that to load.

If you choose not to play the wavs, you should not ever expierence lag from it.

It's a pain.  All you have to do here, is click on the live chat, and then go where ever you need to go. 

 

Rather simple aye?  I think the sites become popular enough by word of mouth, that we dont need the link as bad as we did before.  It wont kill us, so I say, Why go back?

As someone who has worked with marketing for more than I care to admit... there is a rule ya have to remember.... you can NEVER have TOO MUCH advertising. The more avenues we can promote the "brand", the more attention it keeps on us. Also... remember... search engines base they're rankings based on how other sites link to them. So if we lost links to us, that would hurt the traffic to the site with visitors from search engines.

Here's a quick break down of traffic to the site from some of the major search engines (this is only for this month)

- Google 648 
- Yahoo 37 
- AOL 33 
- MSN 27 
- Unknown search engines 15 
- Google (Images) 9 
- Dogpile 5 
- Netscape 5 
- Earth Link 4 
- AltaVista 4 
- Overture 2 
- Virgilio 1 
- Euroseek 1 
- Excite 1 
- Kvasir 1 
- Lycos 1

That's ALMOST 800 unique visitors in the first 22 days of the month that have come to the site from search engines. :P

So never underestimate the power of linkage. lol

It's really just a reason to give A9 or myself a reason to play in the board's Administrative Control Panel. :)

Ooh, teach us how to do those!

Ummm... see post above? LOL

Anytime you want to include HTML tags such as <table></table> or <marquee></marquee>, you need to include [.doHTML] as the opening tag and [./doHTML] as the closing tag (without the period... I only include it so the board does not think I'm issuing a real command to do it.)

So if I want my text to scroll using the <marquee> tag, I would use:

[doHTML]<marquee>This is scrolling text</marquee>[/doHTML]

Using that code would result in:

<marquee>This is scrolling text</marquee>

That help?

Man! Why do I have to make a post along with it?

Because I said so. That's why.

/whip

You have the right command... you are just missing one element.

You need to add [.doHTML] as the opening tag (without the period) and [./doHTML] to close the tag (again without the period.)

<marquee>Test text</marquee>

is really:

[.doHTML]<.marquee>Test text<./marquee>[./doHTML]

The dohtml tag is a security measure here on the boards to prevent some of the more malicious HTML tags from being used. :)

Hope that helps. ;)

Not yet. I've been very busy the past several days, so I have not had a chance to watch it yet. I have been trying to watch one each night as I head to bed.

:::shudders seeing the Admiral's name:::

I mean... oh... hi Admiral! Welcome to the forums. :)

Recieved my Season 1 DVD in the mail yesterday. Watched Caretaker as I curled into bed last night. Was great seeing the series again. :)

I'm sorry about the problems with the site's performance today. The server it was hosted on had major problems with the master configuration file and had to be rebuilt.

In the mean time, I've moved the site to another server. I've put some changes into place where I'll be able to bounce the site between servers on as little as 15 minutes notice so if there are any major downtimes, we can try to keep anything from effecting it.

Again, my apologies.

I had to choose Bajoran. Very spiritual, while at the same time able to go in and get the job done when needed.

I've always seen them as a very pasionate people with most everything they did.

As someone who has a lot of background in radio... I loved Frasier.

It's a show I always enjoy watching. I don't think there has been a single show of it that I have not gotten a good laugh.

Hey there,

 

Well sure...but you know it looks pretty cool when his PC is displaying 160 TV channels all at the same time. B)

You would not want to see my desk at home. LOL. I have my primary desktop setup with 2 15" LCD monitors (dual monitor setup)... my laptop on the side desk, my Cisco IP phone (so I can have access to my work phone from home when needed), along with my printer, TV interface console, radio interface, my Nomad Jukebox 3 (I plan on getting one of the new iPods soon. They're just too cool.) Not to mention my Creative Labs speakers, whatever reference books I happen to have pulled out at the moment (right now a guide on advanced Bind 9 DNS settings for Linux servers), my "book of the moment"... John Grisham's The Last Juror, and my Super Big Gulp cup usually filled with ice water or iced tea. lol

I also have one of the new iMacs at my other desk (not mine, loaned by a friend out of town for a few months) for web development purposes, my digital camera, video camera, headphone microphone set, and a few other gadgets.

It's just a shame I don't get to be at home enough to play with it. lol

Oh... not this month... but next month... I think I'm planning on getting a new sound card. I have been eyeing the new Sound Blaster sound cards. It has been something I've been drooling over for a while now. lol

BTW... I normally don't watch a lot of TV on my computer monitors. I just pipe it back to the TV. It's a lot bigger, and the sound is better that way. :D

Welcome aboard.

O'Brien. Not only did he keep DS9 itself up and running (integrating Federation and Cardassian technology... but also a fleet of ships during the war. :)

The time slot makes no difference to me. LOL

My home computer records it in digital format and then when I have time to watch it, I have the video playback sent back to the TV. :)

(Yes... I'm a nerd with a nerd job and nerd toys at home.)

I actually thought about running a query on the SQL database to search for the phrase "Hey there," and replace it with something else entirely.

Never actually ended up doing it though.

There are a couple reasons we don't do real rank:

- It'd be a manual process. Anytime someone was promoted or someone was added, we'd have to manually assign they're rank.

- People use the same message board account and have several characters.

Besides... I've never been a person to stand on rank. :) As I've said... rank should not play a real roll here on the message boards. Each person's comments and ideas are just as valid as another's. :P