The purpose of this announcement is to inform you of a few matters related to Boot Camp. To begin with, the first PvP Boot Camp event will be held on
Saturday, December 29th, 2012. As it stands, we will have two sessions?one for the N. American Continent and one for the European players. The date makes sense because it falls within the Winter break for many students and was a date that many of the coaches indicated would be open. In addition, by holding the event over one month after the launch of Season 7, we reduce the chance that the excitement over Season 7 will overshadow our efforts. And finally, setting the date so far in advances allows me to coordinate with Branflakes regarding the release of a PvP Boot Camp guest blog that will appear on the STO website (and possibly also startrek.com). I am also trying to secure some advertisement with a number of podcasts, whose production staffs often plans their shows a long time in advance. At this time, I am primarily working with Gates of Stovokor and Priority One, mostly because I am very familiar with the people who work there and am myself a blog author for Priority One. In any case, if any of you have contacts with podcasts other than these two, please send me an in-game email (
@gradstudent1) and I will contact them.
I am also very pleased to announce that our very own, drkfrontiers (Blood Dragons), has created a website for PvP Boot Camp:
http://pvp-boot.camp.shivtr.com/. This website will primarily function as a central information hub for PvP Boot Camp communications and advertisement. The STO forums, however, will continue to be both a channel for disseminating information and recruitment. So please continue to check the PvP Forum. Branflakes will disseminate any official information/announcements through STO forums as well. In the coming days, I will adding some information to the new site and will be creating a registration process whereby we can gather contact information on our coaches and students.
The main task of organizing coaches, advertisements, and other administrative matters is now before us. But first, here is a bit of general information about how Boot Camp will look like for the coaches. Each session will last 1.5 hours. Coaches will be given a great deal of freedom with respect to what/how they teach their materials. With that said, it is likely that I will provide each coach with a list of target tasks that his/her student should be able to execute with some level of competence. Target tasks look something like one of these hypothetical statements:
? All students will know which of their heals can be shared and how to share them with teammates.
? All students will know how to coordinate an attack using the subnucleonic beam science ability.
? All students will know the importance of power levels.
These are just examples, but they give you an idea of what kinds of goals this initial event will attempt to accomplish. Now, on to administrivia:
1. Coaches
Everyone on the list below has shown at least some interest in coaching for PvP Boot Camp. If there is an asterisk* by your name, it means that I tried to contact you in-game through email but the
@handle I had was incorrect.
I need all coaches on this list to respond to this thread and answer the following questions, in this order please:
1. Time Zone
2. Faction (if both, please indicate)
3. Career/Ship Specialty (e.g., Engineer/Healer): There is no guarantee at this point that you will be working only with students interested in your specific specialty. In fact, you can expect your groups to be diverse, at least at the beginning. If we have large enough groups, we can break into specialty groups. But for now, expect diversity. Think about this first event as PvP Kindergarten. We want them to come away with concrete skills and a tiny taste of success that will give them confidence to keep doing PvP.
4. If your @ handle is incorrect, please tell me what the correct one is
5. If you have not already done so, please confirm whether or not you will be available on Dec 29th, 2012
6. Correct your @ handle below if incorrect.
Coaches @ Handles:
allenlabarge
bobtheyak
bubblygumsworth
devorasx? (not correct)
drkfrontiers
ertihan
havam
glassguitar
kedric1*
Hammel105
mrkollins
mimey2*
nixtux
pascalb1
PaxOttomana
shimmerless
spacepenguin121
starcommando101
thishorizon (horizon?)
wolfpack12c
xtremenoob1
2. Assistant Coaches
We are toying with the idea of having assistant coaches play a supporting role to the main coach. Anyone who has done any sort of hand-to-hand combat training or even sports training knows how important it can be to have a competent ?Number One? to serve as an example and to provide an alternative perspective. This idea is still up in the air and will depend on how many students we have and how many coaches can firmly commit to participating.
Sorry about the extra-long post. If you need to contact me personally, please use either my in-game email or my Priority One email:
sargon.priorityone@gmail.com. The Gmail is preferred.
Thanks again to everyone who has participated thus far. Boot Camp has the potential to be very successful. Over the next month, you will begin to see/hear more information, both through podcasts, the STO website, and through the forums here. If you have ideas you want to share, please either post them here or send me an email.
Qapla?!,
Sargon
Comments
Fed
Sci/sci: debuff/counters-main
Sci/escort: debuff/dps-secondary
Regulus@Aquitaine985
England UK. GMT.
Fed
Tactical/Escorts
Eating/Drinking/Fornication
Tying knots in cherry stems with my tongue/Procrastination/Delegation
@Aquitaine985
Lag Industries STO PvP Fleet - Executive
A Sad Panda of Industrial calibre.
2010: This is Cryptic PvP. Please hold the line, your call is very important to us...
I would like to assist administratively in terms of designing and publishing content from authors related to articles, build advice, videos, etc. I would gladly assist with training, in an observer/ adviser regard.
KDF
TAC - Escort
SCI - Debuff/ Healer
ENG - Healer
If I may suggest, we should set-up some matches soon with some of the talented players using demo-record.
Once that has been done, each participant can create a short write-up explaining their tactics, thoughts around their builds, comms. during the match and what stood-out in the opposing side.
Using demo record I can easily create snapshots & different camera angles at key moments explaining PvP mechanics. I just need to be an observer in the match.
Give me a shout if you think its ok.
I like that idea ill grab a video off xfire tonight of one of my matches with my pvp wingman. If you are willing to send me your email I can send it to you
Unfortunately I wouldn't be able to edit that. I would need the raw demo record file.
However, if you want I can gladly upload the video. Just need it to be on you tube to get the ID. And of course your write-up too.
@Devoras_Serenitus
PaxOttomana: gawd mirror event is like fighting a tsi premade, they keep comin and comin!
2. Both
3. Almost anything. I have 6 mains, 3 on both sides, 1 of each class. I will put them below.
4. It is just @Mimey. You can thank the forum change for the 2 on my name.
5. I will be available most likely on that date, but only in the afternoon and evening times.
My characters:
Fed Tac: Pure DPS (Fleet Defiant) or Support-DPS (Armitage)
Fed Engineer: Tanking, aka big target (Fleet Star Cruiser), Cruiser-DPS (Excelsior, D'kora, Regent, etc)
Fed Sci: Crowd control or healer (Recon sci), CC-DPS supporter (Chimera)
KDF Tac: DPS in Raptor (Mirror Qin), DPS in Battlecruiser (Tac Bortas), DPS in BoP (Hegh'ta or B'rel)
KDF Engineer: Semi-healer and tank (Engineering or Sci Bortas, or Negh'var)
KDF Sci: Torp boat/mine layer (B'rel), carrier support (Vo'quv), and what NOT to do with a carrier (same Vo'quv, just an energy drain build)
I also don't know if I would have the necessary skills to be a coach, assistant coach wouldn't be a problem though. I suppose the biggest thing would be that I think I'd need some smacks to the back of the head once in awhile asking if I remembered it was coming up. Dec. 29th is a month and a half away, and while I wanna help, good chance by then I might forget.
I can be a coach if needed, but there are probably others better qualified for the job. Assistant coach or other help like that, I can do for sure though without any problems at all.
Something tells me I won't be able to make various 'army movie' references though.
ohhh I like this idea. So we could have matches with "post-game" commentary. Okay, you and I will start getting on this idea this week.
2. Engineer/Healer Space
I will be out of town for the 29th sorry.
Any week day from 12:30 p.m. to about 2:30 p.m. (Central), this is my son's nap time. i can help make videos.
I will try to make a write up on how i paly soon.(should i just make a new thread in the PVP area?)
either faction
Eng/cruisers/carrier
sci/sci sci/bop
Regulus would love to have you on board, i m sure we can make a good team as coaches. I m good at explaining, but my tac XP is meh.
Devoras, if you need an assistant let me know
EU timezone
a history of sto pvp: 2010 - 2011
a history of sto pvp: 2012 - 2013
Federation
Tactical Cruiser (Dread)
Skywalker@starcommando101
P.S. Regulus@Aquitaine985 Is a great captain, don't let him fool ya :P. But if he wants to be an assistant coach, I can have him assist me XD
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
1) Teamwork and timing is #1
2) You cannot "Kirk It" in every ship
3) You are going to die, just get back up
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
KDF
Tactical /DPS/ hit & run - Hegh'ta Heavy Bird-of-Prey.
Available on Dec 29th, 2012.
I was having second thoughts about coaching but then I remembered the Ausmo fleet motto "Harden Up Princess." I'm sure I have some skills to share and I'm sure I'll learn a few things from being a part of this too
its @CaptainHorizon in game for any escort banter and piloting practice. pls send me a mail in game as i have a kid who seems to keep me from pm's sometimes....:)
have fun kill bad guys
KDF/Fed
Tac/sci/eng. Primarily escort and sci ship. Allergic to carriers.
Apparently so. According to my excel sheet, the handle, @mimey2 does not work in-game. Have you received any in-game emails from me? If not, then it is almost certain that the game email service is not accepting your handle. I just did a quick parusal of the Boot Camp posts and my emails and can't seem to find any notes from you with your correct handle. If you did send the correct already, I apologize for overlooking it. Otherwise, post it here or send it to my in-game mail: @gradstudent1
Ok, well, I put in my first post in this thread, my @ name is just @Mimey
That's all, there is no 2 or anything. You can thank the forum change for that part.
In return, I will send you an an in-game mail later today, so if we recieve each other's mail, we should be a-ok at that point.
Any chance of a blog promotion Bran? It's not really Season 7 related but Season 6 blogs still appear from time to time.
A few Devs stopping by and offering an hour of their time now and then would be a MASSIVE boon too!
@Aquitaine985
Lag Industries STO PvP Fleet - Executive
A Sad Panda of Industrial calibre.
2010: This is Cryptic PvP. Please hold the line, your call is very important to us...
I've also learned a lot from some of the best players in the game who've sadly taken a hiatus, really hope to see them back if we manage to rejuvenate the community.
My handle in game as always is @shimmerless
P.S. Don't listen to Reg (Aquitaine) he's a bloody fantastic pilot, he just needs to stay near his damn team and not go touring the universe when he gets bored :P
vids and guides and stuff
[9:52] [Zone #11] Neal@trapper1532: im a omega force shadow oprative and a maoc elite camander and here i am taking water samples
Here is a link to the KDF Kookie Kutter guide (The original Hilbert guide rewritten for the KDF) from the Gates Of Stovokor site.
I will work on bringing it up-to-date with current rules.
http://www.gatesofstovokor.com/?p=486
R.I.P
Thanks Roach
Nice work, wolfpack. You will start to see some more promotional materials from the event at the beginning of December. I will also be asking fleet leaders to do precise what you are currently doing.
As always, thanks for your work to help the project.
You will get plenty of "smacks" on the back of the head, reminding you of the event, especially if I am writing you from my Klingon toon.:) These will probably come through your in-game email.
Aquitaine: We will be publishing a guest blog around the second week in December, as part of a larger wave of advertisement that will come from multiple fronts. We are hoping that fleet leaders will link the blog and share it with their fleets so that as many people as possible hear the word. I will also be writing a blog for Priority One. If you know of another outlet where you would like to post something, just let me know. I would be glad to help you put together something.
Mountain Time Zone (New Mexico)
2.
BOTH
3.
Federation Officer - Alien Tactical - Armitage Heavy Escort Carrier/Mirror Assault Cruiser/Mirror Deep Space
KDF Officer - Joined Trill Science Officer - V0'quv Carrier
It's a bit far out as far as the date but I plan to be available when needed so unless Isay otherwise count me in for the 29th.