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What are you most looking forward to in the new Armada System? What would be on your wish list for Season 10.5?
Some features I'd like to see would be Armada wide email, granting access to fleet stores and shipyard without a map invite within the armada, and being able to temporarily invite a member of another fleet in the armada to the alpha fleet for say a week and vice versa.
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I'm looking forward to a few things in the new Armada System: I'm looking forward to a larger community to exchange thoughts and ideas with, I'm hoping to find a fleet that needs a place to dump their DOffs, and as the fleet officer who maintains of fleet members' rankings, I'm really excited about the ability to export the roster and fleet stats!
Speaking of DOffs, in the interview with Al Rivera, he was talking about donating DOffs of different rarities to fleet projects. As far as I can recall, I've only seen projects that need common, white DOffs. What was he talking about?
I am more than truly amazed at the vast possibilities this system can bring...
One of those possibilities, that could be categorized as a personal wish, is taking the same system to form Armada Coalitions, where 13 Armadas could join together and maybe have some new perks etc...
*Ponders on the 84,500 possible members of that coalition*
Just my thoughts
That's correct only white Doffs can be contributed. Doesn't matter if they are Fed or KDF Doffs for either faction. Perhaps they will open any quality Doff, this will help a lot because some white Doffs are pricier than some greens and blues for this exact reason.
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That would be nice but probably not going to happen. What would be nice would be being able to add any fleet Fed or KDF to the armada channel since so many of want to talk to our fleet mates playing on the KDF side. One massive fleet invite and everyone in that fleet would have access to the channel.
Because of this we're probably likely just to use our own cross faction channel.
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Website: https://www.libertytaskforce.com
Armada (STOFA Member Fleet): https://www.libertytaskforce.com/stofa
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That is exactly what we in The Wild Bunch do with our sister fleet The Wild Bunch House of the Soulless. We have a common channel we made for cross faction talk.
We come in peace, SHOOT TO KILL!
Well, Geko was talking about it like it was fact, so either he's been play testing and forgot we don't have that yet or he hasn't ever really used the system and was making stuff up...
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15:21- geko starts talking about armadas
20:45- geko talks about the various armada permissions
22:35- geko talks about armada tiers
23:55- "the system is designed very easily for us to easily expand upon the depth and width of the tree structure. we thought that this was probably the minimum that we needed to launch in order to make this a viable and fun system, but we could very easily say 'you know what? were gonna to go ahead and allow another depth down and have epsilon fleets...' or, you can have five children each"
25:50- geko talks about the dil/xp bonuses
29:00- 'we arent trying to build the armada system where the alpha fleet is boss'
29:49- the alpha fleet will be able to name the armada and set a motd, logo, and manage an event calendar for the armada
32:10- no change to how fleet stores function
33:50- geko talks more about the dil/xp bonuses. it looks like the overall armada level will have a huge impact on the bonus modifier.
36:35- geko completely misses the intent of a question regarding members leaving gamma fleets in favour of alpha skill point bonuses.
39:15- 'what we didnt want to do was just make the bonuses completely flat, it just didnt seem interesting. if it was completely flat then there would be no drama, no meaning to your position whatsoever.'
39:55- geko talks about fleet admin. number of fleet ranks, armada mail, provision management, doff donations, fleet bank access, etc. fleet qol improvements incoming: broken fleet levels (meaning like, level 20 fleet and the like), fleet info ui changes like date joined, date of promotion, exporting of membership data
46:40- geko talks about an armadas anti-kick protections and how it will be made difficult to rort the bonus system (provisional fleet recruits). lots of talk about provisional/probationary stuff, demotion/kick waiting periods and so on.
at the end they say to check in next week for part 2.
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Didn't he say the same damn thing about the Crafting system too ?
Yup, 'minimum' is that often used thought of word when thinking about Cryptic .