Graduation Rates

[NDak 0]

Well Because the cadets seem interested, and I can't find anything in old posts, and I have nothing better to do....

 

How many did it take??????

[Seiben 0]

Heh, it only took me 4 sims to graduate from STSF Academy. I just stuck with HELM, with all my sims as a cadet , and I graduated. :D But of course, I wouldn't reccomend that, it's good to branch out, and explore other positions. (As HELM and other bridge postings are all taken 90% of the time on Advanced sims) A big factor in my graduating so quickly was memorising the Help Sections, the FAQs and Moose's Tips before I even set foot in a sim.

Edited June 10, 2004 by Seiben

[Chaka 0]

I honestly don't remember how many sims it took me to graduate (almost 2 years ago), but I know how many I showed up for.

 

Back then STSF was an infant organization just getting set up. There were a lot of schedule mixups, cancellations, and a couple that were pretty much useless as training tools since there were only 2 or 3 Cadets and 1 GM. (Then again there was that one sim where we started out with 1 GM and 3 Cadets in a small shuttlepod and we ended up with 9 or 10 by the time it ended. :P ) Also, other than the 3-sim minimum I don't think the GMs back then had completely ironed out how to tell when a Cadet was ready to graduate, meaning a lot of Cadets probably had the skills needed to graduate a couple sims before they actually did.

 

Things run a lot smoother now. One thing I'm pleased to see is Cadets take an interest in log writing and character development before they graduate. In the early days we didn't do that, so when we got to our Advanced sims we didn't know the first thing about building a bio or posting a log. I look back on some of my first logs and think " :D " - did I really write that?

 

So don't look at what us "old-timers" did and think that's the way it will be for you. Most of the early, early graduates are still around, and in a way the crap we took those early days makes us stronger players, but stronger doesn't equate to being smarter.

[FredM 0]

Hey there,

 

Oh don't worry...GMs knew from the get go of STSF who was and was not graduation material. The "structure" and system for deciding such things was in place a full month before the first scheduled weekly Academy sim ever took place. :D

 

As to the poll, the first time as I recall it took me three attempts....at least the first time. Over the years I did once succeed in getting a character graduated under one attempt, though I believe that was probably because someone assumed I'd been in Academy sims prior. ::shrug::

[Grom 0]

2 1/2...I came in late to the one I graduated in. :D

[Vex Xiang 0]

Also, other than the 3-sim minimum I don't think the GMs back then had completely ironed out how to tell when a Cadet was ready to graduate, meaning a lot of Cadets probably had the skills needed to graduate a couple sims before they actually did.

 

The existing academy system had been in place long before STSF was ever a twinkle in an eye...though I'm sure many of the details and particulars have changed over the years. Remember most of the GMs in this forum have been hosting in a large organized group for over 10 years.

 

I didn't vote because my option isn't there. I remember my graduation. March of 1996 by Capt Efex. Hmm what was my AOL screenname...'UnaStar' oh yes, hehe. Graduated my first sim (literally, I'd never simmed before)...course back then they didn't have the 3+ requirement.

 

One thing I'm pleased to see is Cadets take an interest in log writing and character development before they graduate. In the early days we didn't do that, so when we got to our Advanced sims we didn't know the first thing about building a bio or posting a log.

 

Very true...for my first biography, I had no idea what to do with it, so I just put my RL information instead of creating a character :D In any case...who ever heard of a Klingon named UnaStar...hehe.

Edited June 10, 2004 by Vex Xiang

[Captain Huff 0]

ROFL!!

 

I simmed for over a month, I think, going every night, before they graduated me.

 

I knew no tips. I didn't know there were message boards with tips. I just went, "Oh this is so cool!" and smeared my presence across the virtual galaxy until they couldn't take it any more.

 

I did go back through the academies after I'd been hosting many years, and it still took me about six sims to graduate, lol. (And even then I had to give up on Blurox after four sims and move to someone else's academy!)

 

My original graduater was the future Admiral Ender. '96, I think.

[Dumbass 0]

Well I was looking for the Superior Turf-Sod Farm and somehow ended up here instead. :D

[Travis Kroells 0]

3. But it took me a couple of weeks. I did the tuesdays nights at 8 pm, two times, and then I missed one, and graduated the one after that.

 

And like Dak, I did Sci all three times. Once again, not sugessted, but I knew from day one I was going to play a Sci on some ship...

 

I think that most of the top ten graduates (Me, Precip, Vanroy, Garn, etc.) did it in under five. I think it contributed to the fact that the academies were smaller then, so you got a litlte more stage time from the GM's.

[Vex Xiang 0]

I think that most of the top ten graduates (Me, Precip, Vanroy, Garn, etc.) did it in under five. I think it contributed to the fact that the academies were smaller then, so you got a litlte more stage time from the GM's.

 

I think STSF was just desperate :D :P ;)

[Darrik 0]

I gave up trying to graduate from the STSF's official academy.

 

Now I'm trying to unofficially graduate from AA. :D

Seariously, I am.

Edited June 10, 2004 by Darrik

[Tovan 0]

I gave up trying to graduate from the STSF's official academy.

 

Now I'm trying to unofficially graduate from AA. :D

Seariously, I am.

au are welcoem to eo so buet your chances are vell velow 1 out e trillion.

[Travis Kroells 0]

^_^

[Webmaster 20]

I think STSF was just desperate :lol: :lol: :lol:

Was that how we got you Vex? ^_^

 

Seriously though... in the time that STSF has officially been around, we've had some great players come through. Even before it was official, there was a core group of people that have been around for quite a while that had all worked together to create a group the way we had invisioned it to be.

 

I'm very proud of what has been done so far, and the fact that we've kept this about the game and avoided the problems sometimes seen elsewhere when it becomes more than that. It's the players that make the group, not the website, or how many sims we say are there. With the people that we have, and the people coming through now... I'm excited and believe that we still have a lot to look forward to.

[Atragon9 0]

Back then STSF was an infant organization...

 

In the early days we ...

 

So don't look at what us "old-timers" did ...

I love it - STSF isn't yet 2 years old and already we have early days and old-timers!!

[LoAmi 0]

Took me 5. I don't think that included my first sim (which was under a different name), where I was assigned as an AENG and sat around doing nothing (really, I didn't say a single word, and not a single word was said to me...).

 

After that, I actually read the getting started pages (there were no FAQs or "Tips from the Moose" in those days). I played science and engineering in all my sims as a cadet. On that fifth sim, we blew up the ship at the end (we probably **** it up, in those old chat rooms) - I think it was actually only the second time I'd seen that happen (Only 2 out of 5 ships destroyed - the GM's must have gotten soft around then). My own graduation was actually the first one I'd seen, since there weren't too many cadets and I was in the second class after Ensigns Garnoopy, Vanroy, Precip, and Kroells (in no particular order, guys) had already graduated. The whole "so-and-so, step forward..." routine had a whole different feeling to it from the inexperience. :-)

 

A few weeks later, I was the first STSF grad to join Arcadia - which I think was the least-attended ship at the time - as its only non-NPC science officer.

[Tachyon 0]

Especially now that we have a new sim opening up in an unexplored time period. With a new series to fuel us, this new sim, and all these people, STSF is definitely growing. And I am proud to be a part of it.

[volchdusema 0]

I have done 18 SIMs and am still trying!

I am getting VERY frustrated, but I will take as long as it takes...

[Chaka 0]

I love it - STSF isn't yet 2 years old and already we have early days and old-timers!!

Let's just say that when I started siming my hair was a dark black. Look at me now.

[DaryusZaphodDracal 0]

Hmmm, took me 11 days, that would be about 8 or 9 sims I guess, So many sim, so many ways to die. ^_^ STSF is a wonderful place to play, with great people. And, I'm glad I found it.

 

Zaphod,

"For one night only; KITTY"S ON ICE!!!!!!" ::anoying announcer echo::

[STSF_BluRox 0]

ROFL!!

 

I simmed for over a month, I think, going every night, before they graduated me.

 

I knew no tips. I didn't know there were message boards with tips. I just went, "Oh this is so cool!" and smeared my presence across the virtual galaxy until they couldn't take it any more.

 

I did go back through the academies after I'd been hosting many years, and it still took me about six sims to graduate, lol. (And even then I had to give up on Blurox after four sims and move to someone else's academy!)

 

My original graduater was the future Admiral Ender. '96, I think.

She was a bad seed from the start....I tried to weed her out....\

 

Darn that Ender!!

 

::snickers::

 

Oh geez.....I've been here forever too!

 

Blu

[HyperDrive 0]

I love it - STSF isn't yet 2 years old and already we have early days and old-timers!!

YAY! We also have people like me... who just "won't go away..." ^_^

 

~HD

[Merina 0]

it took me about eight. I even kept track of what I did.

[NDak 0]

Well I think it took me about 4.5.

 

Blu and Kbear gradded me (you know they are wishing they hadn't)

 

I think I did alot of Security and TAC at first. My first posting was on the Talon as SEC, but all my other ones I started out in Science. (I Had to escape the mad scientst with spots on the Arcadia ^_^ )

 

 

My first Sim was with Blu and Kbear....knowing Blu the ship got blown up!

 

 

I came around about the time the Pandarians started...so I got to see a lot of ships go BOOM and cadets get eaten :lol:

Edited June 11, 2004 by NDak

[LoAmi 0]

(I Had to escape the mad scientst with spots on the Arcadia ^_^ )

Just remember: it's bad form for scientists to experiment on themselves because it might bias their results. Now that you're a helmsman....

 

:: goes into cackling fit ::