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Vice Admiral Eriksson wil be replaced at the end of this quarter, and the votes for new teams will occur at the same time.
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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Awesome! Now to figure out what our priority on teams are. I assume it will be like previous ones with 2 teams at level 2 and 1 at level?
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Is she just switching job or retiring?
I was hoping to see her in the next PC-choice.
Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
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She gave notice a few quarters ago. Off to Risa for sun and scantily clad beach boys.
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Sigh ...
Sun, beaches, drinks, sports, ...
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Needs:
2nd Warp team (we are using 40 Eridani but that is our only Escort team and will need to work on Escort projects as well)
2nd Starship Construction
2nd Weapons
2nd Propulsion
2nd Mineral Tech
2nd Shields
I think there are some more fields were we could use a 2nd dedicated team but those are the main ones.
2nd Warp team (we are using 40 Eridani but that is our only Escort team and will need to work on Escort projects as well)
2nd Starship Construction
2nd Weapons
2nd Propulsion
2nd Mineral Tech
2nd Shields
I think there are some more fields were we could use a 2nd dedicated team but those are the main ones.
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Good for her. A bit sad for us. I liked her.
Because they are 1. bloody rare, 2. extremely driven to excel for biological and cultural reasons, and 3. a bit odd. Like, they objectively think about things in a different way from normal queens due to different hormone and neutrotransmitter levels. They're more prone to take risks, but also more prone to seek the unusual and unexpected, being odd ducks themselves.
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We usually had a lvl 3 team and a bunch of lvl 2 teams as options.
The top priority should be medical, it offers the most critical part for the Kepler (T'Koren sickbay), helps with crew issues in a variety of ways and offers a number of event bonuses.
Starship construction is not needed at all, we have SFFY and ONA who are going to work on this full time in the forseeable future.
Warp is not a very high priority if we do get a propulsion team, the importance has been cut down a bit now that nacelles work off propulsion. Also 40EA will likely not be tied up with escorts very long, escort design techs are cheap and we won't be researching new designs very often.
Weapons and Propulsion are among the higher priorites, but not anywhere near as high as medical, because they mostly ONLY offer new parts, and the parts they do offer aren't as important for the next design. Propulsion would be lower priority if we could expect Yoyodyne to spend significant time reseaching projects in it but that probaby won't happen. As of now it's clearly the weakest tech field (the <type> design techs would be weaker if it weren't for the fact that the actual ship design projects use the same skill), though that might change as more projects are being added.
Mineral tech is also one of the secondary priorities, very closely behind weapons and propulsion.
My ranking:
1. Medical
2./3. Weapons / one of [Warp, Propulsion]
4. Mineral tech
5. Shields
6. Starbase Design
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But they are flocking to the Academy to become Explorer officers?
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Blah, for some reason I thought we had two medical teams. Though that is one we will likely need to pick up from a snakepit. Weapons, warp, propulsion, mineral tech and starbase are all ones I can see being options between Indoria and Apiata. Shields maybe as well.
So what teams do you see on Escort, Cruise and Explorer techs? Or do you think we take a few years off of explorer techs and put their teams on starship construction and cruiser?
And warp nacelles seem to require both a propulsion tech node and warp tech node.
Well if you want to be the Best of the Best,
I mean, we're talking about maybe 13 girls per year. If we divide the Apiatia population into year-cohorts of 1% of the population each, assuming that there is 1 queen per 120 members of all other castes, that 1% of all queens are 'sterile' and that there are only a billion apiatia, we still get over 8300 sterile queens coming of age each year. The .25 explorer officers are like .15% of that cohort.
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I expect no Explorer Design for the next while. 40EA and Generic Team 3 to research Escort Design until the other techs are ready for the Kepler, then 40EA to do the actual project, Generic Team 3 (probably graduated by then) to either go to Cruiser Design or stay on Escort Design, depending on where we are planning the next ship design project. Similarly UP for the Ambassador project, then either back to Explorer Design or go to Cruiser Design. Two full time teams should be enough to keep the three branches more or less up to date, the other teams (SFFY, 40EA, Generic Team 2 and any newly recruited teams that have it as second specialization) can be used in the rush up to a concretely planned project.
pheonix89
Wants to be Seven Of Nine
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Apatia queens are freakishly, freakishly good at leadership. They're also very rare. That O-1 on thier ships? That's one or maybe two or three people. Any of them with the desire and ability to apply that talent to leading non-Apatia (or "defective" workers who can give it a go) are going to be EC material.
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... Are there game mechanics to increase the number of Apiata willing to do so?
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Not now that they have joined, no. An affiliate recruitment drive could have given us 0.3 of one of the EC crew types from them per year, and an omake asking for this as reward could probably have ensured that it was officers. It's not completely clear whether that bonus would have persisted after they joined but I think so.
Night
Widow Null
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No. But somebody is apparently considering they don't seem to do so. Or maybe Leslie's Apiata will turn into a starship captain, first worker to ever.
pbluekan
Somethin's Fucky ...
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I'm actually rather curious as to why we never concentrated on the Seyek. They are large and very heavily developed. They've always looked like an attractive option to me for keeping out industrial base moving up and beyond our neighbors.
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We haven't even been in a position to consider pushes on the Seyek for the past 2-3 years. Before that? I dunno.
Honestly, Dizzy would need major therapy just to begin to address her shyness and tendency towards deference; captaincy is probably beyond her. She's smart enough, and she's really really good at multitasking, but I can't see her actually commanding anything.
In this post we learn that Betazoids look really impressive in hooded cloaks.
[blinks]
Honestly, Dizzy would need major therapy just to begin to address her shyness and tendency towards deference; captaincy is probably beyond her. She's smart enough, and she's really really good at multitasking, but I can't see her actually commanding anything.
Night
Widow Null
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This is not an insurmountable obstacle. I'm sure we have a mustang program. Simon's probably right otherwise. (Dizzy was the only Apiata crewer I could think of.)
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That too.
But getting Dizzinramira to pass the coursework in Officer Candidate School would be really easy compared to convincing her that she can actually issue orders to other people.
But wouldn't that also be a big obstacle to getting promoted up the enlisted track as well?
She wouldn't be 'issuing' orders, just 'executing details'. In her head anyways.