Priority One Podcast Episode 160 -- Community Manager TNG

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• stoutes Member Posts: 4,219 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Minor typo; "how will YOU managage fleet advancement?"
  Oh, and I just started my new fleet "Soon TM", don't know yet about advancement...

  maxvitor wrote: »

  Nerf is OP, plz nerf

  That's quite the paradox, how could you nerf nerf when the nerf is nerfed. But how would the nerf be nerfed when the nerf is nerfed? This allows the nerf not to be nerfed since the nerf is nerfed? But if the nerf isn't nerfed, it could still nerf nerfs. But as soon as the nerf is nerfed, the nerf power is lost. So paradoxally it the nerf nerf lost its nerf, while it's still nerfed, which cannot be because the nerf was unable to nerf.
  
  I call it, the Stoutes paradox.

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• robdmc Member Posts: 1,619 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  I don't Think the mark hourly event bonus will doom and gloom people think it will be. Will it hurt? Yes. But for only those who do not play NWS. There were people who made 7000 fleet marks a day and were selling them.
  
  I am in a 2 man fleet. This is my progress so far.
  http://i.imgur.com/RbLUMUi.png
  http://i.imgur.com/tWvrkT6.png
  http://i.imgur.com/OF8b4AM.png
  http://i.imgur.com/vrzwuL9.png
  
  The biggest thing that is hurting fleets is the refining cap. When my Development t3 upgrade that came out I had the doff fm, provisions and doffs filled in 2 days. My dilithium requirement took 1 month to fill.
  
  With channels like NOP Public Service you do not even need to provision past t1 on anything because you can get an invite to a fully developed bass. The only thing we have problems with is access to high tier ships.
  
  I also have the unique perspective since I have one toon on an alt account that is a high ranking official in the Fed Alliance fleet. They are a fleet of 10+ fleets. I know what issues these large fleets have as well.
  
  Personally I prefer The week end bonus dilithium over the hourly mark event. At the end of the day I think what would be most ideal is split the mark event and make a seperate fleet mark event and leave it hourly and leave the rest of the marks as a week end event.
  
  If you want cheeks in seats you need to have something during the week. Even restaurants have their best deals on tue./wed. in the mid week since that is the low point for sales.
  
  Primarily I am a small fleet person and I am there by choice. If you want to talk further about it then let me know. I'm @Rob_mc_1

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• belowpar Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  My problem isn't the amount of marks I can get, because I collect about a 1000 fm a week easily. My problem is that on the projects, I can't turn them in because my other fleet mates beat me to it. But at the same time, no one wants to buy the DOFF to complete the project and I can't help because I am not able to turn in those marks to get the fleet credits to buy the officers needed.

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• abfabfleet Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Anyone have a full review of this interview?

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• azurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Small Fleet Starbases: I'll tell you, the loss of the Hourly Bonus Marks did hurt production with the small fleets I am in. We are working harder to compensate, but lost our real-life free time. Eventually this will lead to burnout, because it's not fun logging in everyday to farm Marks and Dilithium to build that base, while others are living in luxary long ago.
  
  Would've been funner to actually build that base- minecraft style than the current Starbase grinding. All work, no fun. And we really would like the fun.
  
  
  
  Step Between the Stars: It's 11 Accolades, not 10. :P
  
  It was a really good episode, though Tuvok's dialogue was at times Admiral Obvious. But I like the randomness they are exploring with new episodes, to give them a bit of longer life. Though at times it had the negative effect of the intention when accolade hunting. You wanted to go left, but always got the right. Or going for the Efficient Swarmer accolade as a Science player, wasn't fun since you didn't have the benefits of turrets or Security Teams (well free ones at least). And of course them confusing Solar Prominence with Solar Flares and Brown Dwarf stars being brighter than it should've been. But I'll leave that to Neil DeGrasse Tyson. :P

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• orangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  I just heard that Elijah is sick, so next episode is cancelled. I'm just now getting over a bad cold myself, I guess cold season hasn't ended yet. =(
  
  Hope you get well soon man!

  
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• sirboulevard Member Posts: 722 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  James and Elijah, I'm one of the heads of the EWOC fleet. When the fleet system first came out we had 25 active members (with different @handles, to clarify). In the year and a half since the fleet system has expanded, we've lost almost all of them. And here's why: the carrot and the stick model is driving people away. And I understand. Our KDF fleet completely collapsed around the time Season 8 launched. Our FED fleet is desperately hanging on, but the issue for small fleets isnt just the marks or dilithium (which our fleet cannot get enough of for the following reason), its that the carrot aspect is so alluring that small fleets have difficulty recruiting.
  
  New players to this game have greater incentive to join a large fleet for the ships and gear at their start. And its hard to blame them. "Why should I join this small fleet with 10-25 members but lacking all the cool gear?" The answer is: there is only a social element. If you know people in a small fleet thats your incentive. If you're new and know no one, a larger fleet means you get to know more new people or at least more access to knowing more people WHILE getting the awesome sweet gear.
  
  What I honestly want from Cryptic right now is: at least one (1) season of NO NEW FLEET HOLDINGS. Give small fleets a chance to catch up a bit please.

  [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  
  TRIBBLE Hydra! Hail Janeway!

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• zmacg Member Posts: 86 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  orangeitis wrote: »

  I just heard that Elijah is sick, so next episode is cancelled. I'm just now getting over a bad cold myself, I guess cold season hasn't ended yet. =(
  
  Hope you get well soon man!

  
  Elijah has been infected with nano-probes, its true.
  
  However, Episode 161 was not cancelled, it will air Monday 2/17 as planned. We only had to cancel the live recording due to the limitations of our broadcasting software.
  
  Tune in Monday to http://priorityonepodcast.com for Episode 161!

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• elijahmre Member Posts: 195 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  orangeitis wrote: »

  Hope you get well soon man!

  
  Thanks organeitis!! I got knocked awfully hard on my rear; but, we still have an episode for you to download tomorrow!!

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• z3ndor99 Member Posts: 1,391 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Hey hope you feel better soon elijah, my fleet is small and, the thing that has hurt us the most is non-active members. It sucks about the hourly event only slightly, most of the player base are probably unaware of the changes, let alone there were hourly events to begin with.

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