I have never done this before

[T'Kreen 0]

I am new to this, I was hoping to start. I will probably need a lot of help if anyone is willing.

 

I was hoping to play a Vulcan and was wondering if T'Kreen is a good name or not? I am perfectly willing to change it, if it is not.

I was also wondering what age would be appropriate for my character?

 

I have read a lot of the 'moose tips' but I am still having a hard time understanding exactly how the academy works

Edited November 19, 2008 by T'Kreen

[Samantha_Kent 0]

Welcome aboard, T'Kreen!

 

The academy is basically the training ground where you learn how the game of simming works; they occur every evening in the STSF chatroom, which you can reach via the button in the top right of this message board. They're just short one-hour plots, generally without a continuing storyline. You're not expected to have created a character yet -- everyone's human and you just play the game to the best of your ability and learn how to interact with other people within the context of a story framework and move the plot along. After the GMs are sure that you understand how the game works you graduate out and can join an advanced sim, at which point you start creating your character and putting them into a continuing storyline from week to week.

 

It's not clear from your post if you're looking for actual technical help on the process of the chat...is that the case? We're all glad to help out around here but I just don't want to ramble at you about stuff you already know.

 

Again, welcome! Hope you enjoy yourself around here. :P

[Atragon9 0]

It's nothing too scary. Just come into the Holodeck room a few minutes before a scheduled Academy and ask for a posting. You will probably be in an Assistant position, so you can just chat with your department head and enjoy the role-playing environment. It's all for fun, so come and join us!

[shewhosighs 0]

Yay, welcome aboard!! :P

[TKAR 0]

WELCOME

[TKAR 0]

Welcome TKREEN- hope you enjoy your time here-----it is a good name -save the character who is vulcan untill you graduate -just enjoy

[T'Kreen 0]

Thank you everyone for welcoming me and your help!!

 

So it is at the time in the Academy reminder post by Chirakis? in the live chat button up there? in the holodeck? for one hour?

 

If you can help me, I think I will need technical help on the process of the chat... I'm not sure how to use it.

[Damian Porter 0]

So it is at the time in the Academy reminder post by Chirakis? in the live chat button up there? in the holodeck? for one hour?

 

Welcome to STSF.

The time in the post by Chirakis is one option. There are academies every day at different times.

Monday 10 PM ET

Tuesday 9 PM ET

Wednesday 10 PM ET

Thursday 9 PM ET

Friday 9 PM ET

Saturday 12 AM ET

Sunday 3 PM ET and 9 PM ET

 

You can also find the times of Academies and Advanced simulations here Schedule. To find out how to sim you can go here How To Sim.

To join an Academy just click the aforementioned button and join the Holodeck (by simply double-clicking on it) and then follow the instructions the GMs post to the screen.

 

Again, welcome to STSF and have a lot of fun, hope to see you around.

[Ezri Max 0]

WELCOME to the game ... do not worry I have not even been accepted yet but you will be :P

[Kansas_Jones 0]

I was hoping to play a Vulcan and was wondering if T'Kreen is a good name or not? I am perfectly willing to change it, if it is not.

I was also wondering what age would be appropriate for my character?

 

Hi T'Kreen and welcome to STSF. This is a wicked cool site to RPG sim on.

 

T'Kreen sounds like an okay Vulcan name to me; really, everyone here on STSF has all kinds of names, so it's totally up to you what you want to be called.

 

Playing a Vulcan is one option, and a good one. But you really don't have to worry about this for right now (as Sam explained a few posts back). All academy cadets start out human, just to keep things simple. Once you graduate from the academy chat sims, and pick your first advanced game and then get posted on that, that's when you have the freedom to start playing your Vulcan character and get some sort of Bio together and all that jazz.

 

A good Vulcan age? It's always been my understanding (TNGs "Unification" episode I think had Sarek near the 200 year old mark) that a vulcan can live to be well over 100 years of age, possibly 200. I'd say a Vulcan Fleeter Officer could be anywhere from fresh out of the academy (21 or 22) straight up to 150 years old. I'd think that the ages 150 to 200 would/could be a retirement age for the pointy ears, or at least they'd go into diplomacy or a teaching position after serving within the Starfleet.

 

That's just my Vulcan age opinion though. ;-)

[Grom 0]

Welcome aboard! :P

[Samantha_Kent 0]

If you can help me, I think I will need technical help on the process of the chat... I'm not sure how to use it.

 

I will try...I hope this is what you're looking for and that I don't just sound like I'm repeating Moose's stuff; I don't want to be redundant. If I'm veering off way in the direction of unhelpful, let me know.

 

Once you're logged into the chat room, you can go the room you want (for the Academies, that's the "Holodeck") by double-clicking on its name in the right-hand panel. This will take you into the room and you'll be able to chat with whoever else is there. The GMs will assign you a position when the academy starts and you'll be able to get started.

 

When the game begins, you start talking "in-character," saying what your character is doing to move the thread of the story along. This is done in a couple of ways...

 

• To indicate your character's speech, you just type it out; i.e.:
   
  [samantha_Kent] Welcome to the Star Trek Simulation Forum!
   
   
  
• To indicate your character's actions, you use two colons on either end of your sentence; i.e.:
   
  [samantha_Kent] ::walks onto the bridge of the USS Arcadia::
   
   
  
• To indicate who your character is talking to or interacting with, you can address them with a tag; i.e.:
   
  [samantha_Kent] T'Kreen> Welcome to the Star Trek Simulation Forum!
  indicates that not only am I speaking the words out loud, but I am speaking them directly to you.
   
   
  
• To indicate communication via commbadge or communicator, you use ++ for the tag instead of brackets; i.e.:
   
  [samantha_Kent] +T'Kreen+ Welcome to the Star Trek Simulation Forum!
  indicates that I have called you by commbadge wherever you happen to be at the moment in order to deliver my welcome.
  

And really that's all the basic stuff you need to know. While you're doing all this, other people will be interacting with you and with each other as well, and the GMs will occasionally toss out ACTION statements (sentences with the tag "ACTION>" attached) which direct the plot, and you can respond to them as well. It all seems a little complicated and fast-paced at first (certainly did for me, at least) but the more you play in the academies the more you get used to the process and can focus on the story. During the academies, to help everyone keep track of what's going on, you're also required to stick a tag in front of your posts to indicate which position you're playing, so everyone can keep an eye on their department, so if I were the assistant engineer, for example:

 

[samantha_Kent] <AENG> T'Kreen> ::walks onto the bridge of the USS Arcadia:: Welcome to the Star Trek Simulation Forum!

 

When you get onto an advanced sim, this isn't necessary but it's helpful in the academies where people are still getting their feet under them.

 

As I said, I don't know if this is helpful or if you had something else in mind that you needed assistance with -- feel free to keep asking around. Everyone here is really friendly and helpful and most of them aren't as longwinded as me either. :P

 

Again, welcome, and we look forward to seeing you around. :(

[T'Kreen 0]

Thank you everyone!!

 

And thank you so much Samantha_Kent!!!

 

I think I am going to reread everything twice over now in hopes that I may get a better understanding.

 

Thank you so much again, you have all been a wonderful help!