Ship Talk Blog - Updates and Future Discussions
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Don't do that. I'm going to spend about 2.5K on this thing when I get around to making it so don't bother.
thanatos73
Space Marshal
!!!!!Sunder did something today....
*Before anyone asks they are in order by max power plant size
Something like this is exactly what I was about to ask about! It would also be really interesting how scouting mechanics will work and having a place that consolidated what we know about how scouting and exploration will overlap and how exactly signatures/scanning will work and such would be awesome, though probably difficult this early.
Still writing but it will be up tonight. Tumbler taking longer than expected and some of the instruction were printed backwards and out of order. grrrrr.
Just so people know there will be a Ship Talk dedicated to the 3 Starter Ships next Friday before the Reliant sale ends because @thanatos73 asked. :) After that we'll see. CIG really seems to be spitting these concept sales out fairly fast. I'm waiting for my most anticipated ship: The Crucible.
So some Updates here:
1. Hornet Ship Talk up this evening with the Hornet, Ghost, Tracker and Super Hornet.
2. Ship Talk Commentary for the Reliant up on Sunday sometime.
3.Ship Talk on Starter Ships up sometime the coming week. I want to get this one out earlier than normal. This one also was not planned but was suggested and it makes sense to do.
4. After the Starter Ships Talk I'll be taking a week break from Ship Talk so I can put my mind back into writing my new Rock Raiders thread(I'm really happy how it is coming along!)
5. After that is done the next Talk will be a single ship. Something that we have somewhat concrete information on and that will be the 890 Jump. Just something different to discuss and I think it looks like a luxury Star Destroyer.
1. Hornet Ship Talk up this evening with the Hornet, Ghost, Tracker and Super Hornet.
2. Ship Talk Commentary for the Reliant up on Sunday sometime.
3.Ship Talk on Starter Ships up sometime the coming week. I want to get this one out earlier than normal. This one also was not planned but was suggested and it makes sense to do.
4. After the Starter Ships Talk I'll be taking a week break from Ship Talk so I can put my mind back into writing my new Rock Raiders thread(I'm really happy how it is coming along!)
5. After that is done the next Talk will be a single ship. Something that we have somewhat concrete information on and that will be the 890 Jump. Just something different to discuss and I think it looks like a luxury Star Destroyer.
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Hornet Talk is written, now spell checking and reading over again before I make the pictures I need to and then post it.
Continuing on the Reliant Commentary. This may be the first Commentary I've done where I felt really good writing it. Really looking forward to posting it up this evening after I get done and reread it for errors.
So something that came up when I was on mumble(yeah I got on!) a few days ago to show off STC3 was that people like reading Ship Talk, they just don't like the wall of texts I write. I know it is a problem but it isn't all my fault.
So here is the deal with that. I'm limited in my options for formatting and presentation on the forum we have here because long articles like Ship Talk are not meant to go on forums. The pictures between the sections are an attempt to break things up so it isn't quite as bad. And I get it, it is a wall of text when I read my own stuff at work because imgur is blocked. It is daunting and I would like to do more with the formatting. This leads me into my next part.
Some background! So when I was going to college for my degree I worked in IT in the computer labs helping students and apart from that I was selected to help keep our website up to date and help faculty update their departments. I got to be very familiar with the design elements we used and the code for that(HTML and CSS) and I still retain that knowledge today. I use that knowledge now to edit my usercontent.css file in firefox to block crap I don't care for and to do some modifications I want to how sites display. What I'm saying here is if in the future we get a website up such as welcome.testsquadron.com and if I was still doing this by then(which I plan to) then I can do custom CSS code for my articles that will make things read much better than they do now such as floating pictures and text wrapping around them.
And I don't apologize for the walls of text. These are meant to go over all aspects of the ships and I think I do that fairly well but the length comes from that. Anyway, we get a site or something up, I can do cool code and make a more readable article. Cool?
p.s. the Freelancer Talk is the only one so far i have deliberately tried to make longer than the previous longest one because I wanted to see if i could do it and if there was enough to say. I accomplished that.
So here is the deal with that. I'm limited in my options for formatting and presentation on the forum we have here because long articles like Ship Talk are not meant to go on forums. The pictures between the sections are an attempt to break things up so it isn't quite as bad. And I get it, it is a wall of text when I read my own stuff at work because imgur is blocked. It is daunting and I would like to do more with the formatting. This leads me into my next part.
Some background! So when I was going to college for my degree I worked in IT in the computer labs helping students and apart from that I was selected to help keep our website up to date and help faculty update their departments. I got to be very familiar with the design elements we used and the code for that(HTML and CSS) and I still retain that knowledge today. I use that knowledge now to edit my usercontent.css file in firefox to block crap I don't care for and to do some modifications I want to how sites display. What I'm saying here is if in the future we get a website up such as welcome.testsquadron.com and if I was still doing this by then(which I plan to) then I can do custom CSS code for my articles that will make things read much better than they do now such as floating pictures and text wrapping around them.
And I don't apologize for the walls of text. These are meant to go over all aspects of the ships and I think I do that fairly well but the length comes from that. Anyway, we get a site or something up, I can do cool code and make a more readable article. Cool?
p.s. the Freelancer Talk is the only one so far i have deliberately tried to make longer than the previous longest one because I wanted to see if i could do it and if there was enough to say. I accomplished that.
Your Ship Talks are important for TESTies who don't put in the science and research time.
Your talks are like fine distillations of all things SC. Maybe you could expand past just ships to various other areas of the game (when you run out of ships of course)
thanatos73
Space Marshal
I actually like reading the wall of text, it gives me something to do while I watch the front desk at work.
WarrenPeace
Space Marshal
Your walls of text are formatted, broken with pretty pictures and headings, and usually typo free. Throw in an interesting subject and you're good in my book.
I am trying to work on that more by doing re-reads before I post. I run it through Word after I write it in notepad(easier to read more stuff).