*looks at Julian* http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/disagree2.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':disagree2:'> *jealous*http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/hammerfight.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':hammerfight:'>
Julian and Shakira http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad2.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':sad2:'> Winterspoon retreats http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/grenade.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':grenade:'>

Poor, poor Tammy, nothing for her, http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink2.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':wink2:'>

Bah!
BTW, I vote for Shakira, too

Strider, for a Christian, YOU DO NOT HONOUR the Precepts of your Religion.
I'm very disappointed about you.
You support a War that will destroy a mass of innocents, will make eternal damages to many countries, will split the remaining harmony between people and nations for a long time.
You have an 'Apocalyps Book' in your Bible. You like it? Yes, it seems. You are enjoying the Destruction. You hate Creation and LifeCare. Question :

ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN?

If you really WERE, you would do everything to PERSUADE People around you to maintain the Balance between Death and Birth, Destruction and Construction... and so on... To say shortly : to PRESERVE LIFE.

IF this War between USA anf some of the Arabian People will increase, the World will be touched in totally. The Biological Weapon is a weapon that makes no choice... How many deaths do you want, o so-called Christian?

Finally, when I watch seriously Islamism, Jewism and Christianism, I'm proud to be CELT! And nothing else!

Hum-hum, Strider...
If I may point something...
The economy of the USA is at 200 points under the fatal limit. The recession is coming. The only way to solve this problem is to spend money. So, Bush makes war because he has no choice. Because he is not a previsionist. Because he does not forsee the future of his people.
If he could, he would discover a way to stop the relentless crash that is destroying slowly but surely the Economy of the World.

Sorry for you, bud, but Clinton was smarter than Bush. Even if he made some mistakes.

That is very honorable from you, Valory. And I congrat you for your intervention.
But, as this is described in the Christian Bilble :
"There is a time for war. And there is a time for peace......"
And so on.
I know that Al'Qaeda (and all countries supporting Al'Qaeda) is a Major Threat for the World. But, sometimes making the Choice for Peace is more courageous than making the Choice for War. When you have achieved your Goal in Seeking Justice, then War has no reason no more to continue.....

I remember this sentence that someone gave me, when I was younger :
"There are always many solutions to a problem. The most important is to find the good ONE."

When do we start voting?
http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rolling1.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':rolling1:'>
Hop! Hop! :wink1:

Errr, I will not post mine...
Too bad for me, but, with these charming faces, I have NO Chances at all.... :sad:
Don't count me in this contest.

So, I will not participate. I'm the Grand-Dad of this RPG, so..... http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/embarrassed.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':embarrassed:'>

1 How do you recruit Members? You have contacts with other Star Trek Fans? You are voting for your sites?
2 Do you build StoryLines for your Ships and Bases? (I have one General StoryLine for the Corporation and, with Geert, we are preparing more StoryLines for some Ships and Deska)
3 Intrusion in your HeadQuarters? Open a Board (like I did for the Corporation, have only one XO with you as CO) and play on the Expansion Board.
4 What about your site? Are there informations about what you are doing in this Expansion Sector?
5 Are you really interested in the RPG to give it a CREDIBLE dimension and a HUMAN dimension?

If you do that, I'm wondering WHY this RPG is failing...
And THAT is a SARCASM.

Okay, okay, guys, there is NOW something I wanna expose in here. And someone *glances to Vorak* will certainly say : "Ah! At last!" Pfffff!
If I had time enough to do what I must do for Boards and The Corp Site, as when I was on vacations, mwell, okay. But, I have returned to work................. Awaking every day at 05:00 and finishing job after 12:15 (14:00 on Saturday) is tiring enough, you don't think so?

Anyway..... The Webring Idea (Vorak, shhhhhhhhhh!)

Okay, I have analysed the architecture of our RPG.
There are 3 main Fleets :
1 StarFleet
2 Cardassians
3 The Corporation
I could count the Romulans but it seems as the Romulans are a bit, erm, sleepy.
As far as I have understood, there will be also a Shadow Fleet. So, if you follow me well, there will be 4 Fleets. Not only that but I suspect there will be more in the future of the RPG (if you guys have grown enough to stay gentlemen and stop your childish fight games -should I shut my big mouth, sometimes?- :wink: ).

So my idea is to make an Expansion Webring.
And, as the Expansion Site was the First Site to be originally built, the Expansion Site could become the Expansion Portal between all the Fleets INSIDE this Webring.
The Voting Page of the Expansion could become the Expansion Voting Page for every Fleet in the Expansion RPG. Every Fleet Site Webmaster will have to update his/her Fleet Site links, however. And invite his/her FleetMembers to V O T E frequently. So that each Fleet Site could concentrate updating sessions on each Fleet News and Pages Updating. What for? To maintain the Credibility of Each Site/Fleet.

News for Each Fleet can be achieved by the WebMaster (Fleet Admiral, General, Leader or whatever that could be) DIRECTLY in a Special Forum of the Fleet Board. I want to do that in the Corporation HQ Board and it's the best it could be if we don't want to waste our time in updating ONLINE all the informations. The easy way to do so is to have Reporters that will do the Job for us. When a mission of a Fleet is achieved in the Expansion Forum, a Reporter of this Fleet will have to copy/paste the main posts of this Mission on the HQ Fleet News Forum and build that way one article about this Mission. And this will be easily read by a permanent link on the Fleet Site.
Fleet Admirals, Fleet Generals and Fleet Leaders have enough job to do about watching their Own Board, their own Site and the Expansion Board to waste their time by building articles and so on and so forth and ad vitam eaternam et ad nauseam. May I remind you that the number of the Missions will increase in proportion of the number of the Fleets, Ships/Bases and FleetMembers? How many characters do you have, personnally?

Admiral Vorak wants to create a Board for StarFleet (Avalon) and the Expansion Board we are currently using will be the Board where all the Fleets will post their missions. This idea has my full support because I have already started this by creating the Corporation HQ Board and all of the CorpShips are playing in the Expansion Board in the "Nebula and its Borders" Forum. That way, the Expansion Forum will not grow too much (we need room for the Expansion!), we will be able to continue posting as many as we want and I can have Secret Reunions with my worthy CIB Senior http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':cool:'> .So you can imagine how enthousiastic I am for this project. :biggrin: (BTW, I have more emoticons, on my Board. can't you grab them to add these to this one? Pffff!)

Assuming I don't like this Lcars Interface for the Expansion Site, because of its 1024 resolution and Full Window Mode process, this Interface is perfect for a WebRing. And specially for the Portal.
If this Portal could be set up, the credibility of the Expansion RPG and Sites would be easier to reach. One Main Site for the Expansion Webring and Sites for Fleets linked to this Webring. Of course, to have more credibility, Particular Boards for Each Fleet Site. What for?, you could ask me. Reality and credibility. And I give you one example for you to understand :
If you want to REALLY visit The Corporation, you "warp" to the Corporation Board. If we do everything on the Expansion Board, it is not credible. Because everyone can "warp" to a forum, post in this Forum and be visiting an other forum in the same time. You have noticed? Two posts at the same time! The TimeLine is not respected. This is NOT credible. In the reality, there are DISTANCES between Stations and Ships; and even more between one Fleet and an other one.

If you want to respect the Star Trek Spirit, and the Credibility INSIDE this Spirit (do Star Trek Movies Directors respect the AstroPhysics and Science Knowledge in their Movies? Answer => YES!), this Webring is important. When Ships are moving to an other location in Space, they are REALLY moving. When someone is in one Station, this someone IS NOT on an other station (except Q, alas!). So, if you want only play a RPG like if it was a PC Game, it's your affair not mine.

What do you think of that?

100% approved!
Nothing to add.
Except there is only, for the moment, ONE Co of the Corp (me!) and ONE Xo (Geert).... It will be difficult to achive this goal, somewhere. But, when the Corp Members Number will increase, YAY!
*jumpi jumpa jumpo* © Sara
:biggrin:

Ahhhh, at last, someone interesting who has pointed one of the 2 main Problems of this RPG!
Yes = more members!
For what?
Yes = less characters!
Suggestion, a new member who desires to play ONE of your character can use your character....

Now, other thing....
We have ENOUGH Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Generals and Brigadiers in here. NO MORE!
Enough people has MUCH POWER in here.
Stop! Power corrupts unbalanced persons. We have had one sad example, this recent days, right?

I will certainly not add one ID card to my profile.
This costs in graphic resources on my comp.
I don't want my connexion to be slowed...

If you can calculate the total of ALL the votes of the Candidates of the Contests, you can easily exceed the number of the Expansion RPG. So, there is however a problem, no?

Plus, these Contests are Supposed to be EXPANSION Contests, right? For Expansion Members, right?

Even in the First Contests, we did not have some much differences between the Candidates Results.

So? The Doubt is still here...

And, last thing : I said they ARE Cheaters. But did I point YOU or MONTRELL? :biggrin: http://expansionfleet.sparks.priorweb.be/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink2.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':wink2:'>

Okay, I was right to resign from the Expansion Room Team...
You play your 'I love you' game and you have an other face...
Don't rely on me to return in the Expansion Room. Sorry....
LilQ, no need to resign... You are in StarFleet, stay in StarFleet. But do not try to come in The Corporation. You are warned.

Okay, MY New Decision : ignore the Off-Game of Expansion Sector, right now... I will not post there anymore because I notice that EVERY TIME I post something, do something, say something, you are against me...

You have won.
I will certainly pay more attention to my Corporation Site and boards than for the Expansion/StarFleet. Thanks, people... Some have not LEARNT the Lesson... You remember? THE LESSON?

(game over : last post in here)