Are you guys active around 7am till noon EST? And are you active on the LDF side as well? I've been playing since January or early Feb, but I've still not done a single STF and would like a quality group to learn from and play with that is rather laid back.

EST mornings are my usual hunting grounds. Nothing like exchanging cordial well wishes at dawn then marching to the sound of the guns

Can a yank from the great white north be a redneck? If so could you send an invite to:

stanton@ endoftheworldasweknowit

Sure, I'll look you up "tomorrow morning" EST time. Or at least send some messages over.

Lol, i just wanna know is this an actual fleet?. If so i can promise you ive "always" been a redneck. Born, raised, watched the TOS back on the farm no bigger than a corn nubbin.

Personally id love to see the tools in the ship tailor so i can finally change my fed fleet logo to those Yosemite Sam mudflap lookalikes ive wanted for so long.

Scarily it is kind of an actual fleet.

I run without a fleet label (members are spread out over all timezones, no chance of getting 5 together) but there are a large amount of regular, albeit small fleet activities on both Fed and KDF, and lots of gameplay tutorial / ship optimization essays being traded round the clock.

Task Force Operations Log Stardate 90075.27

For the past two weeks the Corps of Redneck Engineers have been developing high performance ship build for the following ship types:

Sovereign Assault Cruiser (Standard Starfleet cruiser doctrine)
Galaxy R Bajoran Retrofit (Deep Space Interdiction / patrol vessel)
Prototype Odyssey Battle Cruiser (High speed 'saber dance' tactical cruiser concept)
Hegh'ta Heavy Bird of Prey (Engineering / Scientific Escort - PvP proven!)
Negh'var Battle Cruiser (KDF cruiser doctrine experiment)

With an emphasis on high DPS, high survivability and better than average tactical cruise speed, these vessels are easily employed to best effect in Elite STFs by both cadet and veteran pilots alike by virtue of an intuitive Bridge Officer skill setup and mission-adaptive tactical loadouts.

While these ship builds will not top the charts in raw damage output unlike the usual forum-posted builds, they do perfectly fine in Elite STFs and are specifically intended for a "mission adaptive" role in STFs - sometimes you have less experienced captains along for the game, or less well equipped ships, and it is our understanding that a Starfleet Captain, faced with less than perfect teammates and a difficult mission, will not resort to the kind of "noob calling" that many of us gamers are prone to do.

Nay, the Starfleet Captain will always lend a helping hand to those in need, and then use his management and leadership skills to ensure allied victory.

Remember, the strong exist to protect the weak, and that's what a Fleet should be.

It isn't about the name, or the size of the organization that counts. What counts is ironically... whether you can count on your wingmen to support you on your tours of battle and exploration.

Personal initiative, intellectual discussion, scientific and tactical concept experimentation is what we emphasize on in this motely bunch of space truckers and Klingon ranch hands. This is YOUR ship and you are entitled to bring whatever custom rod to squadron operations... we'll just make it Elite STF-spec before it's time to launch

For those who recently joined just this last week, I thank you all for giving this novel gameplay concept a chance. I hope that you will find that being a Starfleet or KDF Captain is less about reading the forums on how to do the most DPS... but more of the observational and experimental skills needed to create synergy between Captain, crew, and machinery.

From perfecting personal ship builds, you will then go on and start to run collaborative flight and attack patterns with allied vessels in team missions, protect new players from discrimination and ensure their eventual success in the STO theatre of operations, and represent the Federation or the KDF in your own special way.

And that, I say, is how a Starfleet Captain really acts. Roleplaying isn't needed, if we practise those ideals naturally to help our own people

I've learned a lot and done a lot of new things just in the last few days. It's been a blast and a great learning experience so far and I'm looking forward to the things to come :biggrin:

My fellow officers,

Since I joined starfleet and took command of my very first vessel, STO has been a huge learning curve for me, it was with great luck I happened to intersept a few communications by a member of the Redneck corp on these forums. Some time has past and I?ve learnt a lot from them, not only on pilot advice, but also good information on how to go about upgrading my ship to get the best performance.

I?ve also been engaged in some friendly war games in PVP, which gave me the opertunity to see where my ship build was lacking . . the nice thing is . . even though they could have just destroyed me with ease . . they didn?t, more of a spar and discussion session really. The funny thing is though . . I was being taught, and someone else joined the PvP . . . I was already damaged with shields low from sparing with my Redneck tutor, the new player attacked me also . . almost crippled I boosted shields, diverted all power to phasers and fired at will, I wasn?t going down without a fight. To my surprise, my tutor was already in the process of chaseing them off . . so I could heal . . I thought then, yeah this is where I wanna be, it also made me belly laugh a lot to see the other play fly off tail between legs . . in an almost ?Get off my land? kinda way. :-)

It is good to find people in the redneck corp who believe in federation priciples, which are ones I hold dear, both in STO and out.

Protect the weak.

Help the needy.

Fight for whats right.

Treat others with respect at all times.

My crew and I owe a lot, and only have to send me a hail, and I?ll be on my way . . maximum warp.

God Speed Captains,

U.S.S Valiant, Captain Marsden Commanding