The Stonewall Times, Issue 12

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31 December 2010		Vol. 1, Issue 12, January 2010
	Upcoming Events Saturday, January 8th: New Year Meet and Greet w+ Fleet Photos Sunday, January 16th: Fleet PvP Day Saturday, January 22nd: City on the Edge of Never Time Trials Sunday, January 30th: Klingon Rampage (KDF Power Leveling) Upcoming January Birthdays Happy Birthday to the following members! 1: Jeremy1978 2: bearishbob, blk982b, desertcub, Jon 3: cmdrrom, phoenixfire422, zerofiftysix 4: Geoberg, PjhN 7: BrooksBorg, zethyr 8: Dracoven 9: invisiblepsycho 11: Mandroid 13, richabk, Spelljammer 12: munkyspooker 13: Caprica_Runner, Trebian, wolvesjames 14: Cylirius, Mordn, samster 16: Scotthomas 17: magisterlight, Oregoninvisible, zenofmoo 18: CK011885, Poe 19: David, naoboi, Rory@RORZ 20: Raemet, staticvelocity 21: darren_kitlor, trehes 22: Mizu Maxwell 24: NaTaKu 26: Gaige Straaf 27: Ben sisko, Elijah37 28: Cisco, sittaraha1 29: Mab879 30: Charlie1301, Dazza 31: adama88, jayvic, meeowww Welcome New Fleeties! New Fleeties from December DubbyaTeeEff, RhysDelta, Strorus, EBannion, greynightshirt, gunner88,Johnnystump, CK011885, Proximo Isimud, DCollins, captainvierre, Saben, RytonB, colivia, Nebula, Arton, Kalyma, Cardigan, zerofiftysix, Frankenship, QiqJoe, asclepios72, Dreathen, dr.moley, Mrlzzy, tazcubby, Kortez, Arkim, Zeryon Stonewall Fleet Store Update A new year means a time for change, and "change" is Stonewall Fleet's middle name. Currently, the Stonewall Fleet Store is undergoing a truly epic overhaul and will be disabled until we activate the new and improved one in the month of January. Get ready, because you are going to be able to order any of the 650 craft-able items, including the Aegis Set! On behalf of Stonewall Fleet's Crafting Corp, I thank you for your understanding and support and we will see you in 2011!	Happy New Year, Stonewall! By Nick (NicholasJohn16), Fleet Amiral Image created by Halish First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Second, boy has this been an amazing year! I can't believe that 2010 is already over and has the fleet changed in that time. Most importantly, we've went from being in Beta to the Live launch of Star Trek Online and for a lot of us veterans, that was a long time coming. Stonewall Fleet has grown by leaps and bounds in that amount of time; we began the year at about 100 members and now have reached over 650! Currently, we have over 950 in-game characters spanning three in-game fleets and on Christmas Eve at 5:03 AM EST, our Fleet Bank hit 100,000,000 Energy Credits! No doubt this is a huge feat, especially considering the 25,893,000 additional energy credits that we've invested in bank tabs. Back in June, we celebrated our first Pride Weekend and about 50 of us enjoyed a weekend of PvP, Fleet Actions and other games and I can't wait to plan and host it again in the new year! In July, Stonewall Fleet hit 2 years old! This year has been amazing and I know that next year will be even better, mainly thanks to great members like you. So, here is a sneak peak of a few things we are working on for the beginning of 2011... Click here to read more about Stonewall in 2011 Want to Donate to the fleet? Get a Forum Sig! By Brandon (bfelczer) Have you been wanting to make a forum signature but don't have the technical expertise or programs to do it? Well, you are in luck! Announcing the "Stonewall Fleet Forum Sig Fundraiser"! For only 200K in-game energy credits, you can get your very own forum signature made by Brandon@bfelczer. Above, you can see some examples.All proceeds with go directly to the Fleet Bank and towards the funds collection for our future Stonewall Starbase (which is rumored to cost in the 100s of millions, if not billions)! If you are interested, click here.
	Meet a Fleetie By Josh (Zepari) Welcome to this month’s very special edition of Meet-a-Fleetie; for the first time ever, we are meeting a couple of fleet members, and yes they are a couple in real life too. Sam Moyer (@samBerry) and Ross Wallace (@RossFL) live in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where Sam is an IT Analyst for a Pharmacy Benefits Management company (“In other words, I work for professional drug dealers!”) and Ross is a Private Banker for a Major US Bank. We asked Sam and Ross some very deep and meaningful questions about the nature of humanity and philosophy, but their profound insights will have to wait for another time, this is a Star Trek Online fleet so we also asked them about that. Q: When did you first start playing STO? Sam: Since the beginning, when it first came out in February 2010 (and the Collector’s Edition was a heck of a lot more than $6.99 on Amazon!) Ross: In June of 2010. Sam kept nagging me to play and eventually I got hooked. Now we both play every day together, either when he's over at my place or when we're both on Vent. Q: What is your favorite aspect of the game? Sam: That there is a whole universe to explore. I can play for hours and just lose myself in it… Click here to read more of their interview	Upcoming Role Play Event By Doug (doogiegood) Please join us for the first Roleplay Event of 2011. This is be more of a social event, so we will be using both Local Chat and also the Stonewall Fleet Roleplay Channel. If you have not yet set up the channel, please add SFRoleplay to your channel list (/channel_join SFRoleplay). This will be very important for communication in the event. The Captain of the event will be Kiddkasper, with me as his First Officer. Please be sure to sign up for the event on the Stonewall website. Also please state what type of position you would like to hold or department. Time of event: Monday, 17 January 2011 at 9pm est/6pm pst. Location of event: Quark's Bar on Deep Space Nine For questions, please contact @doogiegood. To stay up-to-date on all RP events, subscribe to this forum. A Guide to Earning Emblems By James (counterjmb) Once you become Vice Admiral level, there is only one thing on your mind – emblems. Emblems are currently to top most valued piece of currency in Star Trek Online. This is the stuff that will get you purple mark XI gear and weapons. Or if you missed out on a purple mark X that you’ve so desperately been wanting, you can exchange emblems for marks of Exploration, Marks of Honor, and Marks of Valor. We’ll go over conversion later, but first let’s go over how to earn this awesome currency. First and foremost, you must be a Vice Admiral. Once you hit Vice Admiral, you will have access to daily missions that will earn you emblems as rewards. The Klingons and Federation are matched pretty evenly on this so no side will earn more than the other. There are some missions that are Federation only but have a Klingon counterpart. Here is the break down to all current emblem missions. Click here to read the complete guide
	Data Sample Party Recap By Brandon (bfelczer) Last month, Stonewall Fleet's Crafting Corp hosted a Data Sample Gathering Party to ramp up our inventory of common and unique samples. Due to the changes to R&D within STO, as well as the revamp of our Stonewall Fleet Store, there will be much demand and we need all the samples we can get so you do not have to spend time gathering them or buying them for outrageous prices on the exchange. A big shout out to VeeBee, one of our Corp members, who ran the first-ever UK time slot for the event. A second event was held a few hours later to accommodate US players. All in all, we had some amazing results! 1934 samples were collected along with 47 unique particle traces. Prizes were awarded to those that collected the most samples from each time slot: Winners: 1st place - 1,000,000 Energy Credits Josh (Zepari), James (counterjmb) 2nd place - 500,000 Energy Credits Brandon (bfelczer), Kasper (kiddkasper) 3rd place - 250,000 Energy Credits Sean (seannewboy) x2! Thank you to everyone who participated and we look forward to our next set of parties next month in February. Boxing Day Quiz Recap By Josh (Zepari) On the 26th of December (aka Boxing Day in the UK and Canada) we held the fleet’s first live Quiz in our Ventrilo server. We used the British tradition of Pub Quizzes and avoiding the family on the day after Christmas, to test out this new type of event, and I’m pleased to say it went very well. Using the Ventrilo chat function we were able to have both “team rounds” and “fastest finger on the buzzer” rounds to make a Quiz that everyone could take part in with an equal chance of winning. The tension near the end of the Quiz was palpable as both teams (Team Borg Eaters and Team Trousersnakes) were unaware of who was in the lead until the end. Team Trousersnakes, consisting of Solari, Gigg423, IndyJonesNYS and Jack, fought valiantly and were in the lead for the majority of the event. However, Team Borg Eaters, consisting of Spark88, Koshernova, Propecius and Veebee, were triumphant at the end by staging a triumphant comeback in the last two rounds. I’d like to congratulate Team Borg Eaters on their win and thank everyone for taking part. I’d also like to add that we ran an impromptu solo quiz at a later time for people who could not make the event, and I’m pleased to announce that Starseed was the winner, congratulations! We hope to begin running more events in future that make full use of our Ventrilo server. If you have not yet logged on or have any questions about it, you can find all the information here. Editor-in-Chief Brandon (bfelczer)	Meet Your Fleet Captains By Brandon (bfelczer) Welcome to the newest edition of "Meet Your Fleet Captains". Today, we brace for impact as we interview veteran captain Jesse (@st4rseed). Rinpoche Jesse Haldorson of Canada, who tells us, “I am not a Buddhist, but I am considered to be a holy individual by some of that belief system,” was born on the 23rd of September in 1987. Here is the interview we had with him: When did you first watch Star Trek? The furthest back that I can remember, I watched VHS tapes labeled 'Star Trek'. I did not really start obsessing until about the time that the Space Channel was regularly broadcasting Star Trek marathons. As a young lad, I had an old television in my room. I would rebelliously stay up past midnight to watch DS9 reruns on broadcast television channels. What did you like about it? Quite possibly the aspect of Star Trek that appealed to me the most, was the humanist vision of the future. The show held a belief so alien to the beliefs being shoved in to my head at about the same time. A belief that we can rise above our many problems as a united species, and use those ideals to launch us into the rest of the cosmos. I was told my whole life that humanity was destined to crash and burn under the weight of our thirst for 'sin', so when I started to believe there may be hope for our species, I was hooked. Click here to read Jesse's full interview Combat Officer's Corner: Your Ship and You By Josh (GamerJosh) Greeting Fleeties! One of the questions that I hear most often in fleet chat is “what is the best kind of ship?” The answer to that question is “all of them”. Each ship in the game has it’s own strengths and weaknesses, and my goal in this article is to help you decide which ship is best for you. For the purposes of many players, there are three main classes of ship to select from, being the Escort, Science Vessel, and the Cruiser. Traditionally escorts are geared toward the strengths of tactical officers, cruisers to engineers, and science vessels to science officers. There are two different schools of thought on ship class selection, one that you should pick the ship class that matches your career, as it will enhance your abilities, the other being that you should pick a class that does not match your career, to create a new mix of strengths. Click here to read more about ship choice Combat Log: Introducing the Borg and Aegis Item Sets By Mark (sparkz88) This month saw the introduction of the next stage in loot and items for Star Trek Online. We have now begun to follow in the big footsteps of the heavy hitter MMOs, that’s right we have set items now. Not only have we been introduced to one, but two of them; the Aegis and the Borg Sets. The Aegis Set is our current crafting set available to those at near max crafting, around 1500 General Skill and includes; a shield array, deflector array and impulse engines. Let’s have a look at these lovely stats and see if they get your mouth watering for crafting. Click here to read more about these new sets Contact Us times@stonewallfleet.com *stonewallfleet.com/times*
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