Nov 30, 2015 at 11:07 PM - paladinrpg: Morgan sounds very interesting... is it still active out there though, (after being destroyed at Higaflan)?
Nov 30, 2015 at 11:10 PM - Zack: Yeah, but not much of it has been seen in RP. They've provided some megamishhu and trained some officers for the warlord Zsomething ( https://wiki.stararmy.com/doku.php?id=characters:yamatai:npc:izmarhkresh )
Nov 30, 2015 at 11:12 PM - Zack: There was a plan to have them show up in a Gart plot but that is pretty much dead in the water now. I figure the Matriarch is running her faction of things, exploring crazy-tech from either a giggamishhu base or a starbased phased and hidden inside of a star. Fhion would be developing more reasonable technology, upgrades to existing tech, conventional star-fighters, ect. as part of regular NMX forces. But none of that is set in stone.
Nov 30, 2015 at 11:20 PM - Zack: There was some talk of doing an NMX civil war RP which might be worth bringing them back, and I can always use them as NMX NPCs later on if I start up a plotship again
Nov 30, 2015 at 11:47 PM - Grey Library: What is the policy on adopting Self-Insert characters? Is it considered identity theft?
Dec 1, 2015 at 10:31 AM - Wes: I just upgraded the forum to the latest version of XenForo. Sorry about the brief offline time for the forum. Also some add-ons are getting changed. Ignoring threads will temporarily be unavailable until we get the replacement add-on from the new add-on maintainer.
Dec 1, 2015 at 11:28 AM - Dragonnova: I... don't think that's how our open rp forum works.
Dec 1, 2015 at 11:28 AM - Dragonnova: Oh its a spambot
Dec 1, 2015 at 11:35 AM - Foxtrot 813:
Dec 1, 2015 at 11:55 AM - Grey Library: And just when we set up the shiny new Ad Exchange, too.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:15 PM - Wes: I moved the thread to the ad forum. Thanks for the report!
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:16 PM - Wes: (Why Is Every Word In Their Post Capitalized Like This?)
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:17 PM - Aendri: Because it's a spambot, not an actual person, Wes.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:18 PM - Wes: Roleplaying forums don't use spambots, at least not in my experience.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:18 PM - Wes: Spambots are used by people who have sites that make them money.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:19 PM - Wes: I think this is just a forum admin who is too lazy to post in the right forum.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:20 PM - Wes: Fun fact: Posts other sites make in our ad forum don't appear in active topics or in the shoutbox.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:26 PM - Wes: With so many Harry Potter RP forums out there, it must be quite a challenge to give them decent names that don't overlap.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:29 PM - Wes: http://rpg-directory.com/forum-370.html Apparently one of them named themselves Hopeless, which seems kind of silly to me.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:41 PM - Wes: Adding the ad forum back to our board will let me posts ads for Star Army on a lot of other boards. I want to do a wave of promoting the site soon.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:41 PM - Wes: I would especially like to plug the site at the same time as a bunch of Open RP stuff opens.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:42 PM - Wes: I was thinking: Maybe we should set some measureable goals for the year of 2016, like maybe trying to grow the active members per day by 25% or trying to open an Open RP thread at least once a week.
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:01 PM - Dragonnova: It's a spambot, wes
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:08 PM - Wes: No it's not. I looked up the poster. It's this girl. https://plus.google.com/u/0/106115772827134722959/posts
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:25 PM - Nashoba: Greetings
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:26 PM - Eistheid: Hello Nash
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:31 PM - Sham floats
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:32 PM - Eistheid: How are the winds treating you today Sham?
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:34 PM - Sham bobs
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:34 PM - OsakanOne: I HAVE THE FLU
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:34 PM - OsakanOne: THIS IS A CATASTROPHY
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:34 PM - Sham: Neat.
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:34 PM - OsakanOne: AND AN OUTRAGE
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:41 PM - Fian: Cat-astrophy
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:09 PM - Wes: Hello Nashoba! Stressful day at work here. Lots of stuff going on. Mainly a lot of software that needed to be installed sometime before I was told it needed to be installed or how.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:17 PM - Dragonnova: That's mildly creepy that you look that stuff up without a second thought, wes.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:23 PM - Wes: Maybe instead of saying "looked up" I should say when she created an account, our forum automatically associated her Google account and I followed the link to her G+ profile in hopes of verifying she was a person and not a spambot as some had claimed.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:23 PM - Wes: So it wasn't exactly some detective-style process.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:25 PM - Wes: To be fair, I do get detective-like when I suspect a member is underage and lying about it. It's important to me to keep kids out of the adult forums.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:26 PM - Wes: I'll go look up their email and username and see if the b-day matches on other forums they use.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:26 PM - Wes: If the person is 16 on every other forum they RP on, and somehow 18 on ours, I will ban them from ours.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:28 PM - Wes: Anyway...
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:30 PM - Wes: Hope you feel better soon Osakanone.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:31 PM - Wes: I actually deleted over a hundred forum members today. These people and/or robots met the criteria of having zero posts and accounts tat were disabled due to never activating their accounts with the registration email.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:32 PM - Wes: The motivation of deleting them was to reduce our member count so the forum looks less intimidating and so activity levels more closely match what one might expect from the number of registered users.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:34 PM - Wes: I still have like 300 users who have active accounts but 0 posts, but I will probably have to sort through them manually, because I don't want to delete people who are real, but just lurking.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:34 PM - Wes: I might just trim the ones who have 0 posts and also haven't visited at all in over 1 year or something.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:35 PM - nite train: How often do you go deleting? I assume with a hundred head, it isn't very often.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:35 PM - Wes: No, I used to do it regularly for users with 0 posts as a spam protection measure but XenForo has excellent spam blocking and I haven't needed to.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:36 PM - Wes: So this is a rare occassion, it's mainly because I am trying to make improvements here and there to make our community more appealing.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:37 PM - nite train: Ah, that makes sense.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:37 PM - Wes: We've actually got some non-trivial competition out there in terms of other forum RPs.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:38 PM - Wes: I want more players joining your plots and making new ones. Got to keep active, and that means continuing to work to draw in new generations of RPers.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:39 PM - Wes: Star Army has a lot of "momentum" that means we don't easily change, which has both pros and cons.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:39 PM - nite train: What?! Some dare rival star army?
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:40 PM - Wes: Oh, they dare indeed!
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:41 PM - Zack: stupid trekies
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:42 PM - Zack: assuming that our non fantasy compitition is trek based
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:42 PM - nite train:
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:43 PM - Wes: New Worlds Project has been really outspending us in the art department. They're relaunching their RP on January 1st, and they're an original sci-fi just like us. Thse guys are our affiliates, but nevertheless they're also competitors.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:44 PM - Wes: I remain skeptical because launching or relaunching a forum is always a gamble.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:44 PM - nite train: Wait so they just shut the site down as a whole?
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:44 PM - Wes: Yeah.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:45 PM - nite train: I just realized I posted the wrong image... I guess it fits either way...
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:46 PM - Wes: I'm pretty pleased that Star Army has basically never shut down, except for the 2007 hack, and a few random server outages and host moves.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:46 PM - Wes: And we didn't really shut down from the hack, it was more that it took a couple weeks to bring the site up to normal again.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:47 PM - nite train: Closing up shop seems like a bad move to me...
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:47 PM - nite train: Especially every year.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:47 PM - Wes: No, they didn't close regularly, but they closed for more than a year!
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:48 PM - Zack: so what else have you learned about new worlds from your secret forum owners clubhouse? what are they buying re: arts
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:48 PM - nite train: O_O how are they not dead?!
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:48 PM - Wes: Humans being humans, if you don't do something for 3 weeks or so, it starts to fall out of habit.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:49 PM - Wes: So I too, wonder how much of their original membership they might regain.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:49 PM - nite train: They'll definitely be starting from bare minimum.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:50 PM - Wes: Zack: They have been buying some incredible cityspace art for their national captials. They also commissioned soundtracks and ship and species art. Haven't seen much character art though.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:50 PM - Wes: They've made Youtube videos and wrote articles to RP blogs sites to advertise.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:51 PM - Wes: For a roleplaying site, a lot of the stuff they've done is way beyond what's normal for marketing and PR and development.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:51 PM - Zack: youtubes!? thats cheating... they sound like they both have their shit together and have an actual hype team goinf
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:51 PM - Wes: Also they commissioned a custom built CMS for their site.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:51 PM - nite train: I can only imagine Wes as M from the Bond movies, sending out field agents to gather Intel while he keeps an ugly bulldog statue on his desk.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:52 PM - Wes: SAINT has its eyes on a lot of stuff, man.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:52 PM - Eistheid: Pfft. Wes is too good for an ugly bulldog. He has a Yui statue clearly.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:53 PM - Wes: I don't want to sound like I'm advertising these guys over Star Army, but they have one thing that is very ambitious and will set them apart from any other RP site: They plan to edit people's threads and turn them into published books, and share the profits with the RPers who wrote them.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:53 PM - Wes: They have actually already published a few, so there is proof of concept.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:54 PM - Wes: I'm not sure this would work for Star Army. I mean, RP is not like writing. The view points shift back and forth and characters sometimes disappear in the middle of things because the player had an exam or something.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:55 PM - Zack: you'd have to do a lot of editing, though it might make sense to do RPs with the intention of turning it into a book
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:55 PM - Wes: It's certainly one of the boldest and novel plans I've seen to support an RP site. So I'll be watching it to see if it works or not.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:55 PM - Zack: less RP in the forum, more discussing how the events between characters should be written
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:56 PM - Eistheid: Converting RP into a novel would be a huge undertaking, even intentionally since you'd have to streamline the narrative... It would be almost like rewriting the entire thing to follow the plot.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:56 PM - nite train: I'm... Impressed, actually. Collaborative writing isn't an easy process. I know that from experience.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:56 PM - Wes: See, for me, I prefer the RP over the RP planning.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:56 PM - Eistheid: Ditto
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:56 PM - Zack: we should hire hot girls to cosplay in uniforms
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:57 PM - Zack: nothing beats hard work like boobs
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:57 PM - Wes: I've thought of that, but there is money costs involved.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:57 PM - nite train: Alright, I personally would love to be able to cosplay as my SARP character.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:58 PM - Wes: Me too, but I am poor due to low wages and high student loan bills. A proper costume, the way I want one, is pricey.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:58 PM - nite train: If nothing else, I could simply stick a patch on my shoulder and flaunt it at the nearest comicon.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:58 PM - Wes: See, I want a movie-screen-ready SAoY uniform for myself. I want it to look totally real.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:59 PM - nite train: Well lucky for me, I have two independent characters with relatively simple uniforms.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:59 PM - Wes: I would even get the Taisho pin made of metal!
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:00 PM - Wes: Side note: Maybe SAoY jacket piping should glow in the dark.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:01 PM - Zack: No! glowy bits are one step away from stupidly large shoulder pads and swords!
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:01 PM - Eistheid: I would imagine that anyone who wanted to hide would be upset that their uniform glows.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:01 PM - Zack: how much do metal pins cost? that might be neat
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:02 PM - Wes: If you're trying to hide while wearing a formal uniform, you're doing it wrong, lol.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:02 PM - Eistheid: Depends on where you get them... I'd imagine at least $15
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:02 PM - Wes: Zack: Depends. Lapel pins aren't that pricey.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:02 PM - Eistheid: Wes: You never know when your starship might get boarded!
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:03 PM - nite train: Custom ones would probably be a bit more expensive.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:03 PM - Zack: ooooh, sarp CUFFLINKS
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:03 PM - nite train: We just need to open up a site store.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:03 PM - Zack: we have one
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:03 PM - nite train: We do?
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:04 PM - Wes: http://cafepress.com/stararmy
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:04 PM - Zack: wes will post the link shortly Im sure
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:04 PM - Zack: there we are!
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:05 PM - Wes: Getting a custom Taisho rank pin of full size would probably be essentially the same as ordering a custom police badge I'd think.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:07 PM - nite train: Hmm, I'm surprised I didn't know about that...
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:08 PM - Wes: This kind of goes back to the site improvements and recruiting. More members = more ability to do cool projects like getting patches, badges, and pins made for the site.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:08 PM - Zack: cufflinks
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:09 PM - nite train: Because who wouldn't want a thermos with Hanako on it?
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:09 PM - Wes: The art just fits
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:10 PM - Zack: I'd like a sarp T shirt, but I'd have to be something low-key
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:10 PM - Wes: Origin Industries shirt
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:10 PM - Zack: awesomecorp logo on the front maybe, something people wouldnt question
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:10 PM - nite train: I'd buy a bravemart polo XD
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:10 PM - Zack: yeah, companies would be great for that
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:13 PM - nite train: Well, I'm off to do college stuffs! I'll be back on later.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:13 PM - Wes: See you.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:13 PM - Wes: BBL.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:25 PM - nite train: I'm back, the session fell through
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:35 PM - Zack: wb
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:38 PM - Gunsight1: MORNING!
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:39 PM - Zack: I sware your morning starts later amd later.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:41 PM - Aendri: Also, for once, he's actually wrong, it's not morning anymore.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:41 PM - Aendri: even for him, it's past noon now.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:41 PM - Gunsight1: I havnt eaten breakfast yet. Its still morning
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:41 PM - Gunsight1:
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:43 PM - Zack: downloaded wargame yet?
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:51 PM - Gunsight1: Its about 6gb in
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:52 PM - Zack: im flashing back to the 90s
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:54 PM - Eistheid: Running in the 90s plays muted in the background.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:55 PM - Yoshi: I THREW A COUCH OUT A FETHING WINDOW!!!
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:55 PM - Gunsight1: Lol
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:55 PM - Gunsight1: Told you my net sucks, Zack
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:55 PM - Gunsight1: Why u do that? Yoshi
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:56 PM - Gunsight1: Also afk a few
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:56 PM - Yoshi: It looked at me funny
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:58 PM - Zack: I could ship you a disk with the game on it in the time it takes to download
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:13 PM - Gunsight1: How do you think I felt when they announced that Star Citizen is gonna probably be 100 GB
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:14 PM - Gunsight1:
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:23 PM - Zack: that's gonna hurt
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:33 PM - Gunsight1: Yea, it is lol
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:52 PM - Wes: A roleplayer posted a review of our site: http://rpg-directory.com/thread-83205-post-932142.html#pid932142
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:53 PM - Wes: I like the suggestion of putting more of our awesome original art on the forum index.
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:56 PM - Zack: he has a point about there being a lot to take in. SARP could use an abridged history of the world... maybe a nice timeline graphic.
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:59 PM - Zack: also, is there a way to make a page with just the RP forums? having a few different ways to view the boards might help with what that guy is seeing.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:07 PM - Wes: I could make that happen, but really, RP forums don't make a lot of sense without the OOC ones with them.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:32 PM - Wes: I posted a bunch of historic forum graphics if anyone's interested.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:33 PM - Aendri: God, I miss those banners.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:35 PM - Aendri: Still think the old Hanako one in workout clothes with the shadowed sakura is my favorite.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:41 PM - Wes: You should post that in the thread, too! I'm actually thinking about ways to put more art back on the forum.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:45 PM - Aendri: Actually, I should totally get art made for the workout uniform again. We haven't had any art with it in years.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:47 PM - Wes: I was tryingto make an updated version in the SAoY uniform updates thread, but it's slow going.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:48 PM - Gunsight1: Wes! Dude! We need those banners again! It. Must. Happen!! 0_0
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:49 PM - Wes: I'm trying to figure out the best way to implement some art on the forum again.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:49 PM - Gunsight1: Awwyesss
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:50 PM - Zack: something tasteful, like a quiet 50-80% transparency behind the name of the plotship? or custom headers for each plot
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:50 PM - Gunsight1: Is there a template for those banners? I'd love to do up some for my plots
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:51 PM - Aendri: Mostly just a name and size, Gunny.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:51 PM - Aendri: We made them by hand, though I know there was a specific font a lot of them were made with.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:53 PM - Gunsight1: Ok. Cool
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:53 PM - Gunsight1: Any idea what the font is?
Dec 1, 2015 at 6:19 PM - OsakanOne: Art on the forums is win.
Dec 1, 2015 at 6:19 PM - OsakanOne: Banners and banner templates, whn
Dec 1, 2015 at 6:19 PM - OsakanOne: Surely there are generators
Dec 1, 2015 at 6:27 PM - Wes: Garamond, I think, Gunsight.
Dec 1, 2015 at 7:06 PM - Wes: I switched to a new version of the logo that includes some artwork. There's a Sharie-class battleship in it now!
Dec 1, 2015 at 7:07 PM - Wes: Kind of a way of saying "THIS IS ABOUT PEOPLE IN SPACESHIPS" in a straightforward way
Dec 1, 2015 at 7:10 PM - Wes: Or, it means Star Army is the battleship of roleplaying forums. Old, reliable, battle-tested, and powerful.
Dec 1, 2015 at 7:12 PM - Primitive Polygon: Looks good to me!
Dec 1, 2015 at 7:13 PM - Wes: it looks pretty sexy on the wiki where it's centered. https://wiki.stararmy.com/doku.php?id=guide:new_players
Dec 1, 2015 at 7:52 PM - Wes: Can someone get me the full size of this image? https://wiki.stararmy.com/doku.php?id=characters:yamatai:viktor_kingston
Dec 1, 2015 at 7:53 PM - Wes: Nevermind, found it.
Dec 1, 2015 at 7:53 PM - Eistheid: I- uh oh. Good to hear you found it.
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:13 PM - Gunsight1: Niiice Wes!
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:15 PM - Wes: Guys, look at the forum index, I started adding some faction images
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:17 PM - Gunsight1: Lookin
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:17 PM - Gunsight1: Yesssss!
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:18 PM - Gunsight1: Moooaarrrhhhhhhhh!!!
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:19 PM - Gunsight1: Thats awesome Wes
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:26 PM - paladinrpg: Wow, we're decking the halls alright.
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:48 PM - Wes: Added the Neshaten one!
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:48 PM - Wes: Someone link me to the best looking Lorath ship.
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:50 PM - Nashoba: Nice Wes
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:52 PM - Wes: I hope the Poku one is okay. I will replace it if you don't like it.
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:57 PM - Sham floooooooats
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:58 PM - LittleWasp buzzes Christmas cheer and the like
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:59 PM - OsakanOne debates spraying littlewasp
Nov 30, 2015 at 11:10 PM - Zack: Yeah, but not much of it has been seen in RP. They've provided some megamishhu and trained some officers for the warlord Zsomething ( https://wiki.stararmy.com/doku.php?id=characters:yamatai:npc:izmarhkresh )
Nov 30, 2015 at 11:12 PM - Zack: There was a plan to have them show up in a Gart plot but that is pretty much dead in the water now. I figure the Matriarch is running her faction of things, exploring crazy-tech from either a giggamishhu base or a starbased phased and hidden inside of a star. Fhion would be developing more reasonable technology, upgrades to existing tech, conventional star-fighters, ect. as part of regular NMX forces. But none of that is set in stone.
Nov 30, 2015 at 11:20 PM - Zack: There was some talk of doing an NMX civil war RP which might be worth bringing them back, and I can always use them as NMX NPCs later on if I start up a plotship again
Nov 30, 2015 at 11:47 PM - Grey Library: What is the policy on adopting Self-Insert characters? Is it considered identity theft?
Dec 1, 2015 at 10:31 AM - Wes: I just upgraded the forum to the latest version of XenForo. Sorry about the brief offline time for the forum. Also some add-ons are getting changed. Ignoring threads will temporarily be unavailable until we get the replacement add-on from the new add-on maintainer.
Dec 1, 2015 at 11:28 AM - Dragonnova: I... don't think that's how our open rp forum works.
Dec 1, 2015 at 11:28 AM - Dragonnova: Oh its a spambot
Dec 1, 2015 at 11:35 AM - Foxtrot 813:
Dec 1, 2015 at 11:55 AM - Grey Library: And just when we set up the shiny new Ad Exchange, too.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:15 PM - Wes: I moved the thread to the ad forum. Thanks for the report!
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:16 PM - Wes: (Why Is Every Word In Their Post Capitalized Like This?)
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:17 PM - Aendri: Because it's a spambot, not an actual person, Wes.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:18 PM - Wes: Roleplaying forums don't use spambots, at least not in my experience.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:18 PM - Wes: Spambots are used by people who have sites that make them money.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:19 PM - Wes: I think this is just a forum admin who is too lazy to post in the right forum.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:20 PM - Wes: Fun fact: Posts other sites make in our ad forum don't appear in active topics or in the shoutbox.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:26 PM - Wes: With so many Harry Potter RP forums out there, it must be quite a challenge to give them decent names that don't overlap.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:29 PM - Wes: http://rpg-directory.com/forum-370.html Apparently one of them named themselves Hopeless, which seems kind of silly to me.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:41 PM - Wes: Adding the ad forum back to our board will let me posts ads for Star Army on a lot of other boards. I want to do a wave of promoting the site soon.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:41 PM - Wes: I would especially like to plug the site at the same time as a bunch of Open RP stuff opens.
Dec 1, 2015 at 12:42 PM - Wes: I was thinking: Maybe we should set some measureable goals for the year of 2016, like maybe trying to grow the active members per day by 25% or trying to open an Open RP thread at least once a week.
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:01 PM - Dragonnova: It's a spambot, wes
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:08 PM - Wes: No it's not. I looked up the poster. It's this girl. https://plus.google.com/u/0/106115772827134722959/posts
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:25 PM - Nashoba: Greetings
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:26 PM - Eistheid: Hello Nash
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:31 PM - Sham floats
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:32 PM - Eistheid: How are the winds treating you today Sham?
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:34 PM - Sham bobs
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:34 PM - OsakanOne: I HAVE THE FLU
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:34 PM - OsakanOne: THIS IS A CATASTROPHY
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:34 PM - Sham: Neat.
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:34 PM - OsakanOne: AND AN OUTRAGE
Dec 1, 2015 at 1:41 PM - Fian: Cat-astrophy
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:09 PM - Wes: Hello Nashoba! Stressful day at work here. Lots of stuff going on. Mainly a lot of software that needed to be installed sometime before I was told it needed to be installed or how.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:17 PM - Dragonnova: That's mildly creepy that you look that stuff up without a second thought, wes.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:23 PM - Wes: Maybe instead of saying "looked up" I should say when she created an account, our forum automatically associated her Google account and I followed the link to her G+ profile in hopes of verifying she was a person and not a spambot as some had claimed.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:23 PM - Wes: So it wasn't exactly some detective-style process.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:25 PM - Wes: To be fair, I do get detective-like when I suspect a member is underage and lying about it. It's important to me to keep kids out of the adult forums.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:26 PM - Wes: I'll go look up their email and username and see if the b-day matches on other forums they use.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:26 PM - Wes: If the person is 16 on every other forum they RP on, and somehow 18 on ours, I will ban them from ours.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:28 PM - Wes: Anyway...
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:30 PM - Wes: Hope you feel better soon Osakanone.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:31 PM - Wes: I actually deleted over a hundred forum members today. These people and/or robots met the criteria of having zero posts and accounts tat were disabled due to never activating their accounts with the registration email.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:32 PM - Wes: The motivation of deleting them was to reduce our member count so the forum looks less intimidating and so activity levels more closely match what one might expect from the number of registered users.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:34 PM - Wes: I still have like 300 users who have active accounts but 0 posts, but I will probably have to sort through them manually, because I don't want to delete people who are real, but just lurking.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:34 PM - Wes: I might just trim the ones who have 0 posts and also haven't visited at all in over 1 year or something.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:35 PM - nite train: How often do you go deleting? I assume with a hundred head, it isn't very often.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:35 PM - Wes: No, I used to do it regularly for users with 0 posts as a spam protection measure but XenForo has excellent spam blocking and I haven't needed to.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:36 PM - Wes: So this is a rare occassion, it's mainly because I am trying to make improvements here and there to make our community more appealing.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:37 PM - nite train: Ah, that makes sense.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:37 PM - Wes: We've actually got some non-trivial competition out there in terms of other forum RPs.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:38 PM - Wes: I want more players joining your plots and making new ones. Got to keep active, and that means continuing to work to draw in new generations of RPers.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:39 PM - Wes: Star Army has a lot of "momentum" that means we don't easily change, which has both pros and cons.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:39 PM - nite train: What?! Some dare rival star army?
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:40 PM - Wes: Oh, they dare indeed!
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:41 PM - Zack: stupid trekies
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:42 PM - Zack: assuming that our non fantasy compitition is trek based
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:42 PM - nite train:
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:43 PM - Wes: New Worlds Project has been really outspending us in the art department. They're relaunching their RP on January 1st, and they're an original sci-fi just like us. Thse guys are our affiliates, but nevertheless they're also competitors.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:44 PM - Wes: I remain skeptical because launching or relaunching a forum is always a gamble.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:44 PM - nite train: Wait so they just shut the site down as a whole?
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:44 PM - Wes: Yeah.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:45 PM - nite train: I just realized I posted the wrong image... I guess it fits either way...
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:46 PM - Wes: I'm pretty pleased that Star Army has basically never shut down, except for the 2007 hack, and a few random server outages and host moves.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:46 PM - Wes: And we didn't really shut down from the hack, it was more that it took a couple weeks to bring the site up to normal again.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:47 PM - nite train: Closing up shop seems like a bad move to me...
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:47 PM - nite train: Especially every year.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:47 PM - Wes: No, they didn't close regularly, but they closed for more than a year!
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:48 PM - Zack: so what else have you learned about new worlds from your secret forum owners clubhouse? what are they buying re: arts
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:48 PM - nite train: O_O how are they not dead?!
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:48 PM - Wes: Humans being humans, if you don't do something for 3 weeks or so, it starts to fall out of habit.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:49 PM - Wes: So I too, wonder how much of their original membership they might regain.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:49 PM - nite train: They'll definitely be starting from bare minimum.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:50 PM - Wes: Zack: They have been buying some incredible cityspace art for their national captials. They also commissioned soundtracks and ship and species art. Haven't seen much character art though.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:50 PM - Wes: They've made Youtube videos and wrote articles to RP blogs sites to advertise.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:51 PM - Wes: For a roleplaying site, a lot of the stuff they've done is way beyond what's normal for marketing and PR and development.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:51 PM - Zack: youtubes!? thats cheating... they sound like they both have their shit together and have an actual hype team goinf
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:51 PM - Wes: Also they commissioned a custom built CMS for their site.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:51 PM - nite train: I can only imagine Wes as M from the Bond movies, sending out field agents to gather Intel while he keeps an ugly bulldog statue on his desk.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:52 PM - Wes: SAINT has its eyes on a lot of stuff, man.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:52 PM - Eistheid: Pfft. Wes is too good for an ugly bulldog. He has a Yui statue clearly.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:53 PM - Wes: I don't want to sound like I'm advertising these guys over Star Army, but they have one thing that is very ambitious and will set them apart from any other RP site: They plan to edit people's threads and turn them into published books, and share the profits with the RPers who wrote them.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:53 PM - Wes: They have actually already published a few, so there is proof of concept.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:54 PM - Wes: I'm not sure this would work for Star Army. I mean, RP is not like writing. The view points shift back and forth and characters sometimes disappear in the middle of things because the player had an exam or something.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:55 PM - Zack: you'd have to do a lot of editing, though it might make sense to do RPs with the intention of turning it into a book
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:55 PM - Wes: It's certainly one of the boldest and novel plans I've seen to support an RP site. So I'll be watching it to see if it works or not.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:55 PM - Zack: less RP in the forum, more discussing how the events between characters should be written
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:56 PM - Eistheid: Converting RP into a novel would be a huge undertaking, even intentionally since you'd have to streamline the narrative... It would be almost like rewriting the entire thing to follow the plot.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:56 PM - nite train: I'm... Impressed, actually. Collaborative writing isn't an easy process. I know that from experience.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:56 PM - Wes: See, for me, I prefer the RP over the RP planning.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:56 PM - Eistheid: Ditto
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:56 PM - Zack: we should hire hot girls to cosplay in uniforms
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:57 PM - Zack: nothing beats hard work like boobs
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:57 PM - Wes: I've thought of that, but there is money costs involved.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:57 PM - nite train: Alright, I personally would love to be able to cosplay as my SARP character.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:58 PM - Wes: Me too, but I am poor due to low wages and high student loan bills. A proper costume, the way I want one, is pricey.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:58 PM - nite train: If nothing else, I could simply stick a patch on my shoulder and flaunt it at the nearest comicon.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:58 PM - Wes: See, I want a movie-screen-ready SAoY uniform for myself. I want it to look totally real.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:59 PM - nite train: Well lucky for me, I have two independent characters with relatively simple uniforms.
Dec 1, 2015 at 2:59 PM - Wes: I would even get the Taisho pin made of metal!
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:00 PM - Wes: Side note: Maybe SAoY jacket piping should glow in the dark.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:01 PM - Zack: No! glowy bits are one step away from stupidly large shoulder pads and swords!
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:01 PM - Eistheid: I would imagine that anyone who wanted to hide would be upset that their uniform glows.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:01 PM - Zack: how much do metal pins cost? that might be neat
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:02 PM - Wes: If you're trying to hide while wearing a formal uniform, you're doing it wrong, lol.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:02 PM - Eistheid: Depends on where you get them... I'd imagine at least $15
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:02 PM - Wes: Zack: Depends. Lapel pins aren't that pricey.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:02 PM - Eistheid: Wes: You never know when your starship might get boarded!
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:03 PM - nite train: Custom ones would probably be a bit more expensive.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:03 PM - Zack: ooooh, sarp CUFFLINKS
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:03 PM - nite train: We just need to open up a site store.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:03 PM - Zack: we have one
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:03 PM - nite train: We do?
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:04 PM - Wes: http://cafepress.com/stararmy
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:04 PM - Zack: wes will post the link shortly Im sure
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:04 PM - Zack: there we are!
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:05 PM - Wes: Getting a custom Taisho rank pin of full size would probably be essentially the same as ordering a custom police badge I'd think.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:07 PM - nite train: Hmm, I'm surprised I didn't know about that...
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:08 PM - Wes: This kind of goes back to the site improvements and recruiting. More members = more ability to do cool projects like getting patches, badges, and pins made for the site.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:08 PM - Zack: cufflinks
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:09 PM - nite train: Because who wouldn't want a thermos with Hanako on it?
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:09 PM - Wes: The art just fits
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:10 PM - Zack: I'd like a sarp T shirt, but I'd have to be something low-key
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:10 PM - Wes: Origin Industries shirt
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:10 PM - Zack: awesomecorp logo on the front maybe, something people wouldnt question
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:10 PM - nite train: I'd buy a bravemart polo XD
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:10 PM - Zack: yeah, companies would be great for that
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:13 PM - nite train: Well, I'm off to do college stuffs! I'll be back on later.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:13 PM - Wes: See you.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:13 PM - Wes: BBL.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:25 PM - nite train: I'm back, the session fell through
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:35 PM - Zack: wb
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:38 PM - Gunsight1: MORNING!
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:39 PM - Zack: I sware your morning starts later amd later.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:41 PM - Aendri: Also, for once, he's actually wrong, it's not morning anymore.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:41 PM - Aendri: even for him, it's past noon now.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:41 PM - Gunsight1: I havnt eaten breakfast yet. Its still morning
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:41 PM - Gunsight1:
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:43 PM - Zack: downloaded wargame yet?
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:51 PM - Gunsight1: Its about 6gb in
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:52 PM - Zack: im flashing back to the 90s
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:54 PM - Eistheid: Running in the 90s plays muted in the background.
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:55 PM - Yoshi: I THREW A COUCH OUT A FETHING WINDOW!!!
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:55 PM - Gunsight1: Lol
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:55 PM - Gunsight1: Told you my net sucks, Zack
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:55 PM - Gunsight1: Why u do that? Yoshi
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:56 PM - Gunsight1: Also afk a few
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:56 PM - Yoshi: It looked at me funny
Dec 1, 2015 at 3:58 PM - Zack: I could ship you a disk with the game on it in the time it takes to download
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:13 PM - Gunsight1: How do you think I felt when they announced that Star Citizen is gonna probably be 100 GB
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:14 PM - Gunsight1:
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:23 PM - Zack: that's gonna hurt
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:33 PM - Gunsight1: Yea, it is lol
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:52 PM - Wes: A roleplayer posted a review of our site: http://rpg-directory.com/thread-83205-post-932142.html#pid932142
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:53 PM - Wes: I like the suggestion of putting more of our awesome original art on the forum index.
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:56 PM - Zack: he has a point about there being a lot to take in. SARP could use an abridged history of the world... maybe a nice timeline graphic.
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:59 PM - Zack: also, is there a way to make a page with just the RP forums? having a few different ways to view the boards might help with what that guy is seeing.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:07 PM - Wes: I could make that happen, but really, RP forums don't make a lot of sense without the OOC ones with them.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:32 PM - Wes: I posted a bunch of historic forum graphics if anyone's interested.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:33 PM - Aendri: God, I miss those banners.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:35 PM - Aendri: Still think the old Hanako one in workout clothes with the shadowed sakura is my favorite.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:41 PM - Wes: You should post that in the thread, too! I'm actually thinking about ways to put more art back on the forum.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:45 PM - Aendri: Actually, I should totally get art made for the workout uniform again. We haven't had any art with it in years.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:47 PM - Wes: I was tryingto make an updated version in the SAoY uniform updates thread, but it's slow going.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:48 PM - Gunsight1: Wes! Dude! We need those banners again! It. Must. Happen!! 0_0
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:49 PM - Wes: I'm trying to figure out the best way to implement some art on the forum again.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:49 PM - Gunsight1: Awwyesss
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:50 PM - Zack: something tasteful, like a quiet 50-80% transparency behind the name of the plotship? or custom headers for each plot
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:50 PM - Gunsight1: Is there a template for those banners? I'd love to do up some for my plots
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:51 PM - Aendri: Mostly just a name and size, Gunny.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:51 PM - Aendri: We made them by hand, though I know there was a specific font a lot of them were made with.
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:53 PM - Gunsight1: Ok. Cool
Dec 1, 2015 at 5:53 PM - Gunsight1: Any idea what the font is?
Dec 1, 2015 at 6:19 PM - OsakanOne: Art on the forums is win.
Dec 1, 2015 at 6:19 PM - OsakanOne: Banners and banner templates, whn
Dec 1, 2015 at 6:19 PM - OsakanOne: Surely there are generators
Dec 1, 2015 at 6:27 PM - Wes: Garamond, I think, Gunsight.
Dec 1, 2015 at 7:06 PM - Wes: I switched to a new version of the logo that includes some artwork. There's a Sharie-class battleship in it now!
Dec 1, 2015 at 7:07 PM - Wes: Kind of a way of saying "THIS IS ABOUT PEOPLE IN SPACESHIPS" in a straightforward way
Dec 1, 2015 at 7:10 PM - Wes: Or, it means Star Army is the battleship of roleplaying forums. Old, reliable, battle-tested, and powerful.
Dec 1, 2015 at 7:12 PM - Primitive Polygon: Looks good to me!
Dec 1, 2015 at 7:13 PM - Wes: it looks pretty sexy on the wiki where it's centered. https://wiki.stararmy.com/doku.php?id=guide:new_players
Dec 1, 2015 at 7:52 PM - Wes: Can someone get me the full size of this image? https://wiki.stararmy.com/doku.php?id=characters:yamatai:viktor_kingston
Dec 1, 2015 at 7:53 PM - Wes: Nevermind, found it.
Dec 1, 2015 at 7:53 PM - Eistheid: I- uh oh. Good to hear you found it.
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:13 PM - Gunsight1: Niiice Wes!
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:15 PM - Wes: Guys, look at the forum index, I started adding some faction images
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:17 PM - Gunsight1: Lookin
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:17 PM - Gunsight1: Yesssss!
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:18 PM - Gunsight1: Moooaarrrhhhhhhhh!!!
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:19 PM - Gunsight1: Thats awesome Wes
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:26 PM - paladinrpg: Wow, we're decking the halls alright.
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:48 PM - Wes: Added the Neshaten one!
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:48 PM - Wes: Someone link me to the best looking Lorath ship.
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:50 PM - Nashoba: Nice Wes
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:52 PM - Wes: I hope the Poku one is okay. I will replace it if you don't like it.
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:57 PM - Sham floooooooats
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:58 PM - LittleWasp buzzes Christmas cheer and the like
Dec 1, 2015 at 8:59 PM - OsakanOne debates spraying littlewasp