As promised, here are the minutes from our first meeting. I did my best to edit out miscellaneous chatter and any comments made by people who hadn't given consent to be quoted. Apologies if I missed a line or two here and there.
It's amazing how a 90 minute meeting really consists of about 5 minutes worth of actual centent.
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Katrina Bixby: WELCOME ALL
Katrina Bixby: EVERY ONE while we meet and greet please met Chosen few the great builder of this ship!
Katrina Bixby: ALSO GRAND HELLOS TO Captain Power Codesmith who built the SOS Site
Katrina Bixby: IF U HAVE NOT TOUR THE SHIP U SHOULD AFTER THE MEETING
Katrina Bixby: GREETINGS ALL
Katrina Bixby: TAKE APICTURE OF YOUR SELF IN THE CAPTINS CHAIR
Katrina Bixby: we r ready to start
Katrina Bixby: i like short meetings
You: Welcome to Indigo, by the way, everyone.
Katrina Bixby: GOOD EVENING ALL
Katrina Bixby: LOL
Katrina Bixby: HERE IS THE PLAN
Katrina Bixby: rpg
Katrina Bixby: ROLE PLA GAME
Katrina Bixby: PLANS
Katrina Bixby: VARIOUS EXERCISES,AWAY MISSIONS, SHIP REPAIR ETC
Katrina Bixby: WE ARE ADDING AUDIO
Katrina Bixby: AND LIMITED MOVIE
Katrina Bixby: MEMBERS R ASKED TO SUBMIT EVENT PLANS AT LEAST 24 HRS B 4 EVENT MORE IS BETTER
Katrina Bixby: OUR MISSION IS TO BRING A ACTIVE STARFLEET TO SL
Katrina Bixby: IT IS HERE
Katrina Bixby: NEXT
Katrina Bixby: IT U R NEW U NEED A NEW MEMBER KIT
Katrina Bixby: SEE LIEUTENANT CORBRMAX OTHER END OF ROOM
Katrina Bixby: PLAN IS TO ASSIGN DUTIES PER TACKLE EVENT
Katrina Bixby: NOTE
Katrina Bixby: PLAN
Katrina Bixby: NEW MEMBER FROM NOW ON ENSIGN LEVEL ONLY
Katrina Bixby: FOR THAT DAY
Katrina Bixby: U WILL BE NOTIFIED OF DEV
Katrina Bixby: U MUST REGULAR SEARCH SL EVENTS FOR STAR FLEET
Katrina Bixby: AND VISIT THE SOS SITE
Katrina Bixby: IF U ARE THE FIRST TO AN EVENT AND ASK FOR IT U GET IT
You: SORRY TO INTERRUPT, KAT, BUT WE CAN ALSO MIRROR THAT INFO ON SCIFIGEEKS.NET
Katrina Bixby: YES THERE ARE TWO WEB SITES
Katrina Bixby: NOT I PROPOSED THE FOLLOWING
Katrina Bixby: FOUNDERS - HOWARD THOMSON, CHOSENFEW , ERIC WILL BE COMMONDOR ADMIRALS
Katrina Bixby: iM FLEET ADMIRAL
Katrina Bixby: LIEUTENANT COBRAMAX mECHANIQUE WILL BE FLEET CAPTAIN
Katrina Bixby: NEW MEMBERS ENSIGN
Katrina Bixby: ONLY
Katrina Bixby: OH YES PER PLOT
Katrina Bixby: WE HAVE SCRIPTS FOR RPG
Katrina Bixby: ROLE PLAY
Katrina Bixby: ERIC, CAPTN CODESMITH HAVE WEAPONS
Katrina Bixby: THERE ARE OTHER SHIPS EVEN
Katrina Bixby: MADE A DISPLAY BOARD
Katrina Bixby: DONT KNOW WHERE IT WENT
Katrina Bixby: AND OTHER ROOM MAY BE
Katrina Bixby: U SEE IT?
Katrina Bixby: i WANT TO SHOW SOME PICTURES
You: I'm showing no objects owned by you in this parcel, Kat
Katrina Bixby: lIEUT uRI PLEASE TAKE ROLL ON A NOTE DROP IT TO ME
Katrina Bixby: lIE sUKIA PLEASE TAKE PICTURES FOR OUR WEB SITE
Katrina Bixby: SOME OF THE EVENTS WILL BE SERIOUSE, OTHER S JUST FUN
Katrina Bixby: I SHOULD MENTION I WAS TOLD LAST NITE THAT WE WILL HAVE
Katrina Bixby: A STARFLEET WEDDING
Katrina Bixby: HOWARD & CAPTN Z
Katrina Bixby: i HAVE START RL INVENSTMENTS INTO STREAM FOR THE GROU[PP
Katrina Bixby: DONT GET UP SET IF WE HAVE EVENTS THAT REQUEST CONTRIBUTION
Katrina Bixby: I EXPECT VOLUNTARY AMTS ONLY
Katrina Bixby: i PLAY SL AT WORK IN THE DAY
Katrina Bixby: AND AT HOME IN EVENING
Katrina Bixby: PLUS ST JOB IN SL EVENT PLANNER
Katrina Bixby: THIS IS A OPEN GROUP-COMMUNICATE YOU IN U PROMOTE
Katrina Bixby: FLAKE, FAKE U R OUT
Katrina Bixby: TODAY
Katrina Bixby: A TREKKEE
Katrina Bixby: FROM OUT SIDE JOIN THROUGH OUR WEB SITE
Katrina Bixby: TO ROLE PLAY
Katrina Bixby: aLEX lU U MAY KNOW HIM
Katrina Bixby: MOVIES MAN
Katrina Bixby: TREKKEE OFFERED TO SET US UP FOR MOVIES FOR FREE
Katrina Bixby: AT THE SOS
Katrina Bixby: I WILL TALK SOON
Katrina Bixby: ITS STARTED
Katrina Bixby: fleetcaptin has spoken!
Katrina Bixby: SL WANTS US LINDEN HELP ME TO DAY
Katrina Bixby: LETS TAKE OVER GUYS
Katrina Bixby: END OF MEETING
Katrina Bixby: QUESTIONS
Katrina Bixby: SEE CALENDAR IT WILL HAVE MIN OF 2 EVENTS PER WK
Katrina Bixby: UK MEMBERS HAVE EXPRESS CONCERN OF TIME DIFFERENCE SO 1-3 AM EVENTS R NEEDED
Katrina Bixby: I SHALL DO SOME BUT WILL GET VOLUNTEER
Katrina Bixby: i EXPECT PROMOTION WILL TAKE PLACE EVERY 3 MONTHS
Katrina Bixby: AS WELL AS DEMOTIONS
Katrina Bixby: NONE ACTIVE BE REPLACED
Katrina Bixby: THANK U FOR THE ATTENDANCE
Katrina Bixby: MEETING OVER TY
Katrina Bixby: PLS SEND ME NOTE CARD FOR SUGGESTIONS
Katrina Bixby: U MUST VIST THE OPERATIONS CENTER IF U HAVE NOT
Katrina Bixby: i WILL GIVE U TO FLEET CAPTAIN cORBRA
CaptnPower Codesmith: thx
Katrina Bixby: HE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY AND THEN OUR HOWT CHOSEN, A FEW WORD PLEASE
Cobramax Mechanique: there is an upcoming tactical training event coming up
Katrina Bixby: HOST CHOSEN
Cobramax Mechanique: captpowers is leading the upcoming tactical training event
Cobramax Mechanique: and preparing the location
Cobramax Mechanique: captpowers, tell us about what you are preparing
Cobramax Mechanique: briefly
CaptnPower Codesmith: hehe
CaptnPower Codesmith: basicly its a simple red team vs yellow team industiral citty fight training
CaptnPower Codesmith: 2 teams battle in 5min rounds
CaptnPower Codesmith: points are awarded for enemy hit and substracted when you hit friendlys
CaptnPower Codesmith: we count points at the end of eatch round and when were to tired we declate a wining team
CaptnPower Codesmith: thats about the just of it
Cobramax Mechanique: good work captpowers
Cobramax Mechanique: we will be advising on the date and location of this event
Cobramax Mechanique: ok, i cede the stage to chosen
Arathos Beckenbauer: sounds good
Katrina Bixby: TY
You: Well first of all, thanks for coming, everyone.
You: Looks like we're down to just a few straggler so I'll be brief.
You: I gotta say it was a real treat to see this room filled with Starfleet personnel.
You: It's been a long time coming.
Arathos Beckenbauer: yes, it has
You: THis ship was built for this group, so it's available to you guys any time
Arathos Beckenbauer: many thanks
Cobramax Mechanique: thank you
You: As is the bird of prey below
You: Both are still under construction so stay tuned
Arathos Beckenbauer: will the viewsceen in the bridge be vieo enabled?
Arathos Beckenbauer: at least for missions
You: Good question. Most likely not, as that would require subdividing the land to create an additional plot. The theater below is for showing video. However...
Katrina Bixby: INTERESTING
You: I would like to sumulate the effect...
Arathos Beckenbauer: you could just make it a regular animation of travelling at warp
Katrina Bixby: SURE
Arathos Beckenbauer: and maybe script it to the captain saying all stop makes it stationary with stars
Arathos Beckenbauer: just an idea
Katrina Bixby: EXCELLENT
Cobramax Mechanique: keep the ideas comming people
Katrina Bixby: IT DOES COST RL$
CaptnPower Codesmith: not that easly done but doable
Katrina Bixby: WE WILL CONSIDER IT FOR SURE
You: It's certainly feasable to make that screen into an SL TV that can simulate video with animated framed textures and have it be responsive to mssion scenerios
Katrina Bixby: WILL BRING MORE RL PPL HERE
Katrina Bixby: TO PLAY
Arathos Beckenbauer gave you SLQuadrant Timezones.
Katrina Bixby: YOUR RECOMMENDATION NOTED CADET ARATHOS
Katrina Bixby: CAPTAIN CHOSEN IS ON DECK
You: BTW guys, you may have noticed we were able to keep good FPS here, even with 20+ people. We all work hard in Indigo to fight lag. I'd recommend that those of you who want to host events do the same and try to get your neighbors to do the same also.
You: It's a big group now and this amount of people can easily crash a not well maintained sim
Arathos Beckenbauer: how do you minimise lag in a sim?
You: A few things...
Katrina Bixby: YES EXERCISES WILL BE VARIOUS LOCATIONS
CaptnPower Codesmith: low prim count, low active script count
You: First of all we're careful not to use any unnecessary scripts or any scripts with things like listeners that eat up sim resources
CaptnPower Codesmith: particles and lights can cause lag too
Arathos Beckenbauer: ok
Katrina Bixby: YES
Katrina Bixby: I ACTUALLY HAVE EXCELLENT ADVISORS
Katrina Bixby: I SHOULD MENTION
You: Second, we try to keep textures as small as possible, often utilizing one texture cut into frames to account for different faces of the same object
Arathos Beckenbauer: ah. i see
Katrina Bixby: SOME OF THE EVENTS ARE TEST BETA
You: and we repeat textures as much as possible
Arathos Beckenbauer: i've noticed that on all the consoles
Katrina Bixby: THANK U FOR THE UPDATED ATTENDANCE.
You: Third, we've commited to keeping the sim at no more than 2/3 maximum prim count
Arathos Beckenbauer: that is good
You: Those consoles will become individualized. Just haven't gootten to it yet
Arathos Beckenbauer: I was wondering about that. Good to know
Katrina Bixby: IT S A WONDERFUL THAT WE HAVE SUCH A SHIP
You: They will likely be interactive, depending on the situation
Arathos Beckenbauer: it is indeed
Arathos Beckenbauer: that will be good
CaptnPower Codesmith: id like to know something chosen
Arathos Beckenbauer: if there is anyting you need help with, I'm getting better at building stuff, so I may be able to help
Arathos Beckenbauer: especially if it is urgent
Katrina Bixby: TY
CaptnPower Codesmith: if we do a rp senario that needs to have stuff setup for objective in the rp senario would it be ok ?
Katrina Bixby: NOTED
Katrina Bixby: YES CAPTAIN POWERS Q FOR CHOSEN?
CaptnPower Codesmith: if we do a rp senario that needs to have stuff setup for objective in the rp senario would it be ok ?
CaptnPower Codesmith: like an exploding bulkhead or an interactive consol
You: I appreciate the offer, Arathos. People actually make that offer almost every day. This build is not a group project though. It's important to me to complete it myself. You're welcome to contribute to exhibit on the holodeck though.
Arathos Beckenbauer: no problem
You: For scripting like that, CaptnPower, that I could use help with
You: That's the only part I can't do myself
Arathos Beckenbauer: unfortunately scripting isn't my strong point.
Katrina Bixby: HE JUST CKING, WE HAVE 5 OTHER SHIPS AND LAND TO GOT FU\CKIING NUTS ON LOL
Arathos Beckenbauer: cool
You: and I'd love to have explosions, electricutions, etc.
CaptnPower Codesmith: k cos cobra was gona do some rp senarios and i was gona work on a combadge that would interact whit external objects for certain cenarios
Arathos Beckenbauer: I have a shuttle craft that can seat 4 to fly between sims if need be
Katrina Bixby: EXCELLENT
CaptnPower Codesmith: like if thers an explotion whit in 5m your av plays a dead anim
Cobramax Mechanique: and there will be explosions in the script i am working on...
CaptnPower Codesmith: heeh
You: One thing I'd like to simulate eventually is a Maquis attack against this vessel. We can build small fighters, split the group in half and go at it. We'd need lots of scripting genius to pull it off well.
Arathos Beckenbauer: i have a collision system which I think is free to copy
CaptnPower Codesmith: i was thinking make some interactive objects
Katrina Bixby: PLS BETA TEST IT ALL AS WE HAVE BEEN MY ONLY REQUEST
Katrina Bixby: GET THE BUGS OUT
Cobramax Mechanique: yes
CaptnPower Codesmith: like have scripted triggers that you walkinto and activate an event programed in the rp scenario
CaptnPower Codesmith: ya i wanted to script a combadge that would interact whit stuff like that
You: I would love to hear suggestions on how to make this place more interactive. The first priority is to finish the build though. After that I'm all ears for what you guys think would be good features. Exploding bulkheads, electrifying panels...
You: All that wonderful 24th century technology that breaks every week
Katrina Bixby: BY
Katrina Bixby: TYVM ALL
Katrina Bixby: tu chosen
Cobramax Mechanique: yes, thanks
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