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In another thread CaptMattSchwab mentioned

And for the love of that thing beyond the Great Barrier, can we please get even some minor Fleet tools so that maybe we can spark some life again in our fleets who are suffering major bouts of AWOL officers?

Fleets / Guilds are the backbone of any MMO. How can we expect to do anything with our fleet if we don't have the tools to make it happen?

So an open question to the folks on here, Fleet Tools What's working, what isn't, and what do you want additionally?

Lets discuss the various tools we currently have and explore what sort of new tools we would like.

To head the discussion of Fleet Star Bases off before it begins, lets just say that having a persistent location where a fleet can gather is a given that has been acknowledged officially and will be coming next year (hopefully).

--Update of requests--
  • A separate Fleet Forum (non recruiting)
  • Player-run Events Forum
  • Ability to export fleet data into .csv , including
    • Fleet roster
    • Last active date
    • Fleet Join date
    • Bank deposits and withdrawls
  • Increased ability to send fleet-wide mailings
  • Separate Character Name and @Handle, with sorting.
  • Additional Rank slots/divisional rank slots
  • Ability to set internal fleet divisions--pvp, research, rp, diplomacy
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    I'd be happy with some really simple things like being able to export a csv file of my Fleet roster complete with the currently available online information. It would be nice to have info like 'hours played' or even 'last active date' as well. I know I can see the last active date when I mouse over the name, but with our Fleet's current size it isn't practical. Other info like the date someone joined the Fleet would be really helpful in coming up with a ranking system.

    Right now we do polls using the RSVP function on an Event. It would be a lot easier if we simply had a tab for polls where people could respond by clicking a radio button.

    When you mouseover a player ingame, if they are in your fleet it would be lovely if their was some visual to identify them. One of my Fleeties wanted the person to automatically glow, but I think that might be overkill especially if half your fleet is having shore leave at Quark's.

    On the Fleet roster, besides showing the location of the players currently online, have it say which instance where applicable.

    Strictly from a tools standpoint, that would be a good start for us.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    I would agree, the ability to move ingame info out of the game would be a key fleet tool. For example, it would be nice if the social tools that allow users to post ingame actions to their facebook, would allow fleets to post info to a facebook group. I also would love to see the ability to export a fleet calender to a google calender.

    That being said, the current fleet tools are very nice in comparison to the one's I dealt with in other games. I love the ability to post a website in the fleet profile. The last MMO I was in would ban anyone for even thinking of posting a url to a site. "Our game is the only site on the internet."

    So in that sense I love what we have.


    One other pie in the sky fleet tool, I would like to see, the ability to check the exchange prices while not logged in.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    I would be happy with the ability to send more than one Fleetwide mail a day.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    jennjahn wrote: »
    In another thread CaptMattSchwab mentioned

    So an open question to the folks on here, Fleet Tools What's working, what isn't, and what do you want additionally?

    Lets discuss the various tools we currently have and explore what sort of new tools we would like.

    To head the discussion of Fleet Star Bases off before it begins, lets just say that having a persistent location where a fleet can gather is a given that has been acknowledged officially and will be coming next year (hopefully).

    Hmmm, it is hard to decide one what i would like to see at the moment as well as for the future in part that we need to wait on that of Starbase Fleet locations and so on.

    In this thread, i would simply focus on that of very minor areas that can be adapted to the UI and its functionality.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    I think fixing the stuff we have right now would be the best start. You can't sort by the last online time properly. That in itself would be a huge bonus. I don't know if other people have had problems with this, but we've several times lost the ability to edit and event, either by the event creator or myself, the leader.

    I'd love it if they separated Character Name and @Handle into two columns so that we could sort by either. I wish we could get rid of the pointless Class column.

    I'd love the introduction of more Rank slots. 7 is just not enough. As well, the ability to have multiple progressions would be great. Being able to give a user multiple ranks would be nice.

    Exporting the Roster to CSV would be very nice too.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Would anyone want ways of putting fleet stuff on social networks?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    I summarized some of the requests in the main post, please feel free to add more.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    jennjahn wrote: »
    Would anyone want ways of putting fleet stuff on social networks?

    Explain, i would certainly welcome it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Well at the moment, you can set up to post some of your character achievements and the like automatically to your personal facebook profile. Not everyone, but a few fleets have setup "groups" on facebook as an additional way of connecting members. I'm wondering if people would like to be able to send fleet updates or other information to a facebook group.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Just having a real fleet event calendar would be a start. Currently, we can only post three events at any given time.

    Another thread on wanted fleet tools: http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=178858&highlight=fleet+tools
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    I wish we could get rid of the pointless Class column.

    That doesn't bother me. I don't use it, but I know some people are always asking for an Engineer to join a particular mission or looking for a Science captain to train a BO. It might make it easier for them to find someone.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    wrote:
    I think fixing the stuff we have right now would be the best start. You can't sort by the last online time properly. That in itself would be a huge bonus. I don't know if other people have had problems with this, but we've several times lost the ability to edit and event, either by the event creator or myself, the leader.

    I'd love it if they separated Character Name and @Handle into two columns so that we could sort by either. I wish we could get rid of the pointless Class column.

    I'd love the introduction of more Rank slots. 7 is just not enough. As well, the ability to have multiple progressions would be great. Being able to give a user multiple ranks would be nice.

    Exporting the Roster to CSV would be very nice too.
    This has been an ongoing struggle with the fleet that I am in. I have submitted numerous tickets, at least 7, explaining that our fleet event tab is in total shambles. It has postings in it from ex-fleet members which are recurring, and we have absolutely no way of getting rid of them. So its a cluster of old events and when we post a new event, they get mixed up in all the garble. Please cryptic, fix this.
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