7th Fleet Ship Building Guide?

[HunterAP]

Hey guys, I've been giving some thought to putting together a basic guide to the various builds that are popular in STO.  Immediate focus would be on the technician, dragon, and conn duty officer builds, but more information would be added over time.  I would, of course, try to draw as much information as possible out of our talented Mr. G, but would also use other online sources for information as well.  

Would anyone be interested in a resource like this?

[Fleet Admiral E. Fortin]

This sounds like a good idea I would be interested. Thanks in advance...

[CAPT Moroski]

You know, writing it up like a how to manual with explanations would be very cool too. It would would be easier to read and cool looking in such a book format.

 

Someone could write the builds up, and we could have the explanations as commentary from Mr. G himself.

[CAPT Moroski]

Another idea too, how about a walk through on figuring the numbers from consoles and skills?

 

Also, I will volunteer to take necessary pictures/screenshots.

[Ganos Lal]

If someone has the means, maybe we could do a voiced over video explanation of Boffs layouts, doff layouts, ship, and captain's builds. I could cover traits, consoles, skills and what not.  I would love to help out in some way!

[CAPT Moroski]

That's not a bad idea either. But i would sugest coming up with a script for the video. That way we could easily modify it to also be a writen guide as well.

 

I do like boh the written and vidoe ideas. I would be interested in helping anyway i can.

[Bando969]

Gentleman,

 

I think that is an outstanding idea and I would also like to say thank you ahead of time, for the effort that this will entail.  I'm looking forward to reading it.

 

Regards,

Lt Cmdr Starforge

[CAPT Huckabee]

Escort Advice Guide

Till then this is still up in the ship loadout section of the forums.  It's a tad outdated maybe in spots but it's still good info.  It's mainly focused around my North Carolina build/experience.  I can try and give it some of an overhaul.

[VADM Wulfric Richter CoS]

 

An excellent idea, and one worth pursuing. As a newbie to STO, building a ship can be daunting. Particularly because of unfamiliarity with the weapons load outs and minimal knowledge of ship capabilities. I was lucky to have Davis and Ganos show me where I had gone wrong in my Andorian escort configuration. It is obvious that the 7th has a great deal of technical knowledge to offer anyone who is interested in learning. Therefore, it would be a waste not to develop this idea.

Further, it could also prove to be a recruiting tool if we provide it to the STO community at large. God knows that I did a lot of research and I didn't come away with half of the knowledge that I needed. Providing basic information with our Fleet logo and contact information to new players could potentially expand our pool of applicants. At least, that is my reasoning on the topic.

 

[CAPT Moroski]

Knightnblu wrote:

An excellent idea, and one worth pursuing. As a newbie to STO, building a ship can be daunting. Particularly because of unfamiliarity with the weapons load outs and minimal knowledge of ship capabilities. I was lucky to have Davis and Ganos show me where I had gone wrong in my Andorian escort configuration. It is obvious that the 7th has a great deal of technical knowledge to offer anyone who is interested in learning. Therefore, it would be a waste not to develop this idea. Further, it could also prove to be a recruiting tool if we provide it to the STO community at large. God knows that I did a lot of research and I didn't come away with half of the knowledge that I needed. Providing basic information with our Fleet logo and contact information to new players could potentially expand our pool of applicants. At least, that is my reasoning on the topic.

I agree for the most part. I dont think that having it be a part of requirement to get people to apply is a good idea. One of the characteristics of this fleet is that there a stable number of active people. More to the point, it might be better applied as a tool for retaining applicants.

[davisjm0311]

FCapt Ganos Lal and I are going to be working on some form of a guide(most likely Videos with voice-over) I have Fraps, but we may need someone with editing software/experience to help us get the final product ready.  My thoughts on it are to create a series of short videos covering a few of the basic and advanced builds for Escorts/Cruisers/Science ships. 

 

Once you get a grasp on the basic game mechanics most of this is common sense, but my hope is to have a nice set of videos that newer players could use to get started and older players can reference. 

[CAPT Moroski]

davisjm0311 wrote:

FCapt Ganos Lal and I are going to be working on some form of a guide(most likely Videos with voice-over) I have Fraps, but we may need someone with editing software/experience to help us get the final product ready.  My thoughts on it are to create a series of short videos covering a few of the basic and advanced builds for Escorts/Cruisers/Science ships.

I do have experience with video editing software. I will volunteer my services and would like one other with experience to work with as well.

[HunterAP]

I posted my first pass of the ship building guide that I had in mind.  Feedback is welcome.

http://fleet7.guildlaunch.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9929678&gid=84053