(What's with the 'punny' name? Look HERE for answers!)
LATEST NEWS
HERENEW! - Bloodbath and Beyond is now an official member fleet to the Equator Alliance! Equator's allied fleets provide grouping, a busy, multi-fleet chat channel, and a home for your Fed alts, should you have the need, all with no obligation or requirement. Simply more to offer should you need it, without sacrificing our casual, no-pressure Fleet culture. "Give us your laid-back, your time-poor. Your disparate lone players, yearning to build bases. "
- @JnohStarbase at-a-glance: SB5 | M 5 | E 4+ | S 4 || Em3 | Dip 3 | Rct 3 || DM3 | T3 | D3 || Sp3 | R3 | O3- Fleet Level 17
- Current: 31,000 Fleet XP, 250,000 Mil XP, 250,000 Eng XP, 198,250 Sci XP, 13,000 Starbase XP
- A membership of over 240 characters across approximately 100 accounts, with 55 active in the last 7 days (35 active in the last 24hrs), while still maintaining a "small fleet" feel
- All Starbase Featured Projects: Windows, Interior Decor, Targs, Ops Screens, Banners, Security, Fireplace, Bloodwine/bar, Morn/dancers, Conference Room, Works of Art, 2012 Winter Ornament, Fersian Staffing, Bat'leth Staircase, Uniform Mannequins.
- All Embassy Featured Projects: Nanovs, Museum, Fish Tank & Lounge, Ops, Shuttlebay Roof, Ivy Vines, Dignitaries/Guards.
- All Mine Featured Projects: Windows, Entrance, Business (workers), Motherlode, On Display, and Commerce.
- All Spire Featured Projects: Balcony, Lounge, Omega Molecule, Banners, Holo-Fleet, Trophies, Command Room, Orrery.
- Immediate goals: Filling Starbase Engineering V!!!
"Bloodbath, the guild for those who don't want a guild." - @HallowX
Bloodbath & Beyond was founded by a small, relaxed, and comfortable group of friends with a love of gaming and a desire to simply enjoy the games we play.
Keywords are no-pressure, casual, and tolerance.
Ventrilo Server: Fully paid, 32+ person server rented by yours truly. Willing to maintain a guild forum if needed. Vent participation not required! (But it really does help in STFs)
Beginning organized Fleet grouping for PvE content, including but not limited to Elite STFs for gear/rep, and other mark-reward content.
Enjoy random tells from strangers at least once a week laughing about and/or complementing your guild's name!
Your small fleet becoming dismayed by the long road ahead and losing faith? Join the club. Literally - We're happily taking in similarly-minded and similarly-tiered groups to the Bloodbath community. Don't let the casual recruitment fool you - if you're a handful of hardcore STF raiders, you can continue to be so. You run the STFs, we'll run the base. Just respect the low-pressure atmosphere and casual playstyle of our charter.
Romulans welcome!
KDF Alts welcome!
" 'Iw HaH je Hoch! " - @Frightfall
Generally older players, early 30s to early 40s and well beyond. Globally diverse (With representation from both Europe & North America, and more). I wouldn't exactly call us "mature" though... we're goofballs. Our members often found in other games, the core group of founders rarely lets a new MMO go by without at least getting into Beta. Ventrilo occupants can be found playing together and apart on STO, CO, APB, Civ 5, and Planetside 2 - even Pen-and-paper RPGs in Vent with IRC dice-rollers! Our "extended family" can be found across most AAA games. The majority (of
this division) are in fact former SWG smugglers and scoundrels!
See sig below for contact!
@Jnoh is online most evenings (EDT), send in game mail and your contact info will be guild mailed so someone can reach you even if I am not available.
[EDIT: For the sake of ensuring the most rewarding experience for all, please include something about yourself, your sto goals, and what you are looking for in a fleet. If we aren't the guild for you, we'll be up front about it, we want you to have the best time in STO you can! There is no "interview" or "application" process, merely hoping we can eliminate any unmet expectations from "go".
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As the community has started to grow a smidgen, I've decided to start toying with Facebook's Page and Community functions:
Again, these are experiments, so please bear with them as I muck about.
Comments
It has come to my attention that Bloodbath & Beyond has gotten some bad reactions based on our name (and plenty of GOOD reactions too!). I recognize that we could reach a broader audience and overcome some of the knee-jerk reactions with some cool sounding Klingon (" 'Iw HaH je Hoch") or klingonaase. We are however bound by our long-standing connection to the name with our other divisions across multiple games, and our founder's explanation of why it was chosen *beyond* the obvious and intended silliness.
Some explanation by members of our leadership on the deeper reasons the behind the name follow:
So there you have it, love it or hate it. Lighthearted, committed, family: Bloodbath & Beyond.
'Iw HaH je Hoch!
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
I don't see any issues with RP, as most if not all of the membership has RP-friendly character and ship names (I reserved my goofier stuff for Fed-side), including backstories and what have you. Some are less immersion-friendly, but I don't recall any outright naming wackiness.
Highly considering reaching out to any mega-fleet leaders on the topic of Fleet Credit issues I'm reading about from their membership. If you are a super-sized KDF fleet member and are seeing issues with membership being unable to gain FC even with the Special Projects, please reach out to us, and hopefully we can make arrangements between leadership to allow fleet hopping to fill our Mark needs, and grant people access to quick Credits. I can even set up a low-tier rank for mega-fleet alts to quickly throw themselves invites, so they can hop into BBB without needing any of us to be on, dump their Marks, and leave to get back to their "real" fleet...
Let me know if any of that would help your fleet membership! Kahless knows it would help ours!
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
Not bad for a little guild that could.
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
Finished the Industrial Fabricator 1 project overnight. Once we clear the current pair of Engineering projects, we will begin Engineering Provisioning, then back to 2 Engineering, 1 Military project per round.
If anyone shows a real interest in Science, we will happily turn the Science projects back on. As always, we encourage our members to only dedicate time and resources to their personal goals, there is no pressure or obligation to move any other project forward, with the isolated exception of construction projects which may block the way for another preferred construction.
Bloodbath & Beyond is defined by its membership, not the other way around!
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
'Iw HaH je Hoch!
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
It's pretty much this hard to keep just one timeline intact. ♪
Will update the OP soon!
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
Slooooowly filling the Starbase 2 project.
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
Starbase Tier 2, High Security, and a slow climb up the XP ladders for Mil and Sci.
Qapla'!
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
It's pretty much this hard to keep just one timeline intact. ♪
EDIT: **NOTE** Thanks to the Perfect World merger, my in game global handle and my forum handle are *not* the same, and messages sent to "@jnohd" will fail to be received by me.
Likewise, I do not generally accept random friend requests. Please be sure to open a dialogue using in-game mail first to ensure I reply. Random tells, friend requests, and terse mails will generally be considered fleet raider requests - I may let you in but will likely keep your rank too low to access to our provisions if we have not at least had a simple exchange in mail, if only to protect our small band of lone wolfs and alts.
Please only send an in-game mail to "@Jnoh" to get the ball rolling, and I'll get back to you within 24 hours, often with an offline guild invite!
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
Plenty of XP added since last update, the Shipyard will finally finish it's upgrade to Tier 2 overnight, and the fireplace Featured Project is finished, the fire already roaring and awesome.
Crunching Sci missions for now in an effort to complete Sci tier 2, before pushing onward through Eng 3, SB 3, and a Tailor.
'Iw HaH je Hoch!
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
It's pretty much this hard to keep just one timeline intact. ♪
Minor update: About midway through the Communications Array T2, plus several Eng projects. At the request of a member, we will be mixing in more Military projects as well, and may attempt Mil 3 before Eng 3 - we'll see what the general consensus is.
I'll update the OP when I have some time tonight.
EDIT: Or, I'll forget and have to apologize here. That said, the four day (!!!) Communications Array II timer started this morning, and after the current round of Eng projects, we will likely maintain a steady 1:2 Military:Engineering stream of projects. Once one of those hits Tier 3, Starbase 3 and the tailor will be our short term goals.
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
Updated the OP and I *think* the Mil and Eng XP needs to be updated.
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/STO.Bloodbath/
Again, these are experiments, so please bear with them as I muck about.
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
Plus, we are 43% through filling the "Upgrade Industrial Fabricator III" Special Project!
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
Industrial Fabricator III underway and will complete in 6 days.
Starbase 3 and Tailor to follow, while also raising Military to 50k XP in preparation of Shipyard III.
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
This said, BBB has no intention of backing down.
To put it simply, the founding group, this name, existed well before there was a Star Trek Online, and several of us still consider STO to be "our game" when it comes to MMOs. So long as there is an STO worth playing, there will be a Bloodbath in it. Probably long after.
To those facing these changes alone or in fleets with only 2 or 3 active players, we sympathize. Before you give up on building your base completely, and redirect yourself to the new sinks for your time (via Dilithium, EC, DOffs and other Marks), consider this - you can maintain your independence, you can continue your casual, no-pressure game-days, and you can keep playing the way you want, just like the rest of us here in Bloodbath, but with one important difference - yours are not the only resources moving the Fleet forward.
Regardless of how you chose to face the mounting challenges, regardless of what Fleets you find best match your needs: Good luck out there, all of you.
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
Starbase III upgrade project is underway and already over 20% filled!
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
Starbase III provisioning well underway, stalling a bit over the daunting amount of Fleet Marks needed (thanks to the loss of "quickie" missions), 78% complete with only Fleet Marks left to fill, currently at 4,860 / 10,800 as of this writing.
Got a lump of Marks you aren't using? Join now and get instant gratification! Provisions available include:
Fleet uniforms, more ships, Elite PSGs, all coming "soon."
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
Starbase 3 timer is counting down, with a little less than 7 days to go!
Work is underway on both Embassy and Military projects in earnest while we prepare for the starbase upgrade to complete.
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
I had to suddenly leave the house for a week and live in a place with no descent computer in sight (i mean... even on the lowest graphical options they would find a way to lag and DC :mad:)
now i'm home but it seems like star trek don't want me to play, i'm getting the good old "The patchclient got a message while it was in a state with no response function." error on lunch.
hope to fix it and play with you guys soon!
(if any of you know a fix for that, i'll appreciate a friendly hint )
Edit : fixed it
Edit 2 : broken again
Reach out to me here or on the BBB Facebook Page - you may need a new "Star Trek Online.exe" launcher from one of us with a working copy.
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.
the problem seems to be that the game's patch server is blocking ALLOT of the players (some say its because of the ip, some say it some how connected to new graphical drivers).
there's no fix for now (at lest no fix i manged to find)
hum... sand me the files any way, maybe i'll have some luck and your files are magical!
Plus a new out-of-fleet chat channel has been added for alts and friends, -and- it has been a banner week for recruitment! We may not be the biggest, or the fastest, but we are lighthearted, committed, family: Bloodbath & Beyond.
'Iw HaH je Hoch!
[EDIT: "Works of Art" now done!]
ALL HOLDINGS FINISHED! - Starbase 5-5-5-5 || Embassy 3-3-3 || Mine 3-3-3 || Spire 3-3-3
A laid back KDF fleet welcoming independent, casual, & part-time players and groups. Roms & alts welcome.
Send in-game mail to Wampaq@Jnoh, visit our recruitment thread and FB page for more info.