Star Fleet 2010

I get asked the question on and off along with the occasional invite to join a group from people I used to PBEM with a long time ago. I’ll start by saying that PBEM these days bores me, it can and often does tend to be one person posting a decent amount (by decent i mean more then two sentances or even a paragraph) which really spoils a story.

Then there is the whole thing that 99% you have to watch what you type. I tend to type rather openly my characters tend to be fairly deep they will swear and yell abuse etc. Which well isn’t exactly allowed that often in PBEM saddly.

Lastly lets look at what i’ve helped with and what’s bitten me in the ass, for over a year I was one of the oh so high and mighty admiralty board members of BF then of course the Obsidian Fleet Split occured and because I gave them the majority of the back end story (as it was originally written) and the name etc I got bitten on the ass there my name got dragged through the mud more then once. After that certain people in OF started to takewhat was to me some actions  both with the original story and more on the admin side i didn’t like so i left there..

That in turn left some hard feelings of course with certain people.. I then went back and played with BF for a while helped out with the Admin side for a short time and got very very bored after those I simmed with on the Endeavour stopped simming.

Add to this the fact I’m a 3D artist I know most of the people making the trek meshes and I get soo very sick of hearing about who on a PBEM or the like has stolen which image today.. and you get to the point you just don’t want to do it anymore.

Remember though that several things people take for granted came out of work some of us old timers did.. the origins of the Task Force Management system (and some of the first ever CMS systems for PBEM), The Ship Personnel Management System or SPMS has some of my code and it’s name was my idea given I swore at one stage is was PMS’n , All those things had their origins with Smythe, Mouring, Nate and myself…

In the end though this site is the one thing that lives on a resource to those who I once gamed with in certain sections.

-Rob

Completed the Banner Exchange update. if you have recieved an email then you need to fix your banners.

If I get a bounce back.. I find the account and Delete it.

Other wise in 1 month from today so the 28th april 2010 Australian Time accounts will be deleted if no banner is on it.

Well I’m happy to say that the Recruitment Center/Centre is being used. This is good for a number of reasons not the least it is intergrated into this site so I can easily moderate/check it, but also because for once it means that it won’t get cluttered!

After I think it is 85 or so days have passed the Posted Advert removes itself automatically! thus.. No more having to worry about keeping cleaning out the database. I will later depending on how much the system is used look at other options for keeping adverts longer, however this is LARGELY based on how often and how many people use the system.

-Regards

Rob

Ok As you may have noticed there is now a new Recruitment center notice off to the side! What this allows is for the system to be intergrated into the WHOLE site and offers me some little features as I move on in the future.

However for the moment the new system will allow you to post up to 2048 Characters, Automatically link HTML text and Allow 4 images to be uploaded as part of the advert. It also allows me to create Catagories for individual Areas.. So hopefully it will become a better and easier to manage addition to the website.

I am going to move the last 10 or so posts over from the OLD recruitment Center.. Then move all links from that to point to the new one and post a REDIRECT on that page.

Regards

Management.

As you will see in the next post I have a big ass move coming up, due to this.. The Recruitment Center is going to have a repreive on everything for the next month simply so i don’t have to worry about it.

At the same time I’m looking at making that whole section into it’s own ‘wordpress’ blog like this one which gives the co’s etc a way to register and post while me a way to easily prune older entries and the like.

I’ll have to look into it, either way the recruitment center WILL become a sub section of the site… Just how and in what form is yet to be decided.