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Re: Ranks Contest!

Here's an idea.....

How about having it be the number of posts in the last two years, then?

If you don't post, you loose rank. If you drop to Ensign, you're gone in two years.....

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Okay, question....

The lowest rate is 'Midshipman', why no enlisted ranks?

In the USA: Seaman Recruit, Seaman Aprentice, Seaman, Petty Officer Third Class, Petty Officer Second Class, Petty Officer First Class, Chief Petty Officer, Senior Chief Petty Officer, Master Chief Petty Officer

Then Warrant Officers, but I don't recall the ranks - three of them IIRC....

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Re: Ranks Contest!

thedugan wrote:

Here's an idea.....

How about having it be the number of posts in the last two years, then?

If you don't post, you loose rank. If you drop to Ensign, you're gone in two years.....

[Edit]

Okay, question....

The lowest rate is 'Midshipman', why no enlisted ranks?

In the USA: Seaman Recruit, Seaman Aprentice, Seaman, Petty Officer Third Class, Petty Officer Second Class, Petty Officer First Class, Chief Petty Officer, Senior Chief Petty Officer, Master Chief Petty Officer

Then Warrant Officers, but I don't recall the ranks - three of them IIRC....

The enlisted ranks belong to the career Lurkers, and those that own the game without joining the forum. They're there, supporting the game, namelessly and selflessly. They will never have the accolades ascribed to the blow-hards, er, officers, but without them, there would be no game!
Well, there would probably be the one game.
But without them Dan wouldn't sell enough to make another!
Though they may be Red Shirts and nameless faceless extras, they are no less important!

Whoa.
I think it's time to re-evaluate my sugar intake.
Cheers,
Erik

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Re: Ranks Contest!

Dan, you need to start selling swag - say ....

Red T-Shirts?
big_smile

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Re: Ranks Contest!

Blacklancer99 wrote:
thedugan wrote:

The lowest rate is 'Midshipman', why no enlisted ranks?
In the USA: Seaman Recruit, Seaman Aprentice, Seaman, Petty Officer Third Class, Petty Officer Second Class, Petty Officer First Class, Chief Petty Officer, Senior Chief Petty Officer, Master Chief Petty Officer
Then Warrant Officers, but I don't recall the ranks - three of them IIRC....

The enlisted ranks belong to the career Lurkers, and those that own the game without joining the forum. They're there, supporting the game, namelessly and selflessly. They will never have the accolades ascribed to the blow-hards, er, officers, but without them, there would be no game!
Well, there would probably be the one game.
But without them Dan wouldn't sell enough to make another!
Though they may be Red Shirts and nameless faceless extras, they are no less important!

Whoa.
I think it's time to re-evaluate my sugar intake.

Sugar is nasty stuff, I don't touch it.

Honestly, you don't have to own the game to join the forum or make comments. It's not like there's a test or anything.

You could download the Demo Rules and use the ship builder (or unit builder for ARES - or for WARDOGS) and play MJ12 games that way - you'll miss some of the finer points of the games, but you can still PLAY.

Which is the whole point of what Dan and Company is doing......
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Re: Ranks Contest!

Perhaps a more difficult contest would be to see who can identify the sources of the quotes that show up at the top left of the mj12games.com pages...

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

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Re: Ranks Contest!

cricket wrote:

Perhaps a more difficult contest would be to see who can identify the sources of the quotes that show up at the top left of the mj12games.com pages...

It seemed to me that at least some of them are "misheard" lyrics. Although others are a bit too obscure, and I haven't seen them all yet (an unfortunate consequence of bookmarking the forum directly). Since you sya "sources, I assume they are from a varied blend of (geek) sources  :geek:
I have to go now. I have to get into my Colonial Viper pilot costume and get into the right frame of mind for the return of BSG  :ugeek:  :!:
Cheers,
Erik

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Re: Ranks Contest!

Blacklancer99 wrote:

It seemed to me that at least some of them are "misheard" lyrics.

I can assure you that, while some of them are song lyrics, none of them are 'misheard'.  wink

Although others are a bit too obscure, and I haven't seen them all yet (an unfortunate consequence of bookmarking the forum directly). Since you sya "sources, I assume they are from a varied blend of (geek) sources

Yup.

I have to go now. I have to get into my Colonial Viper pilot costume and get into the right frame of mind for the return of BSG

<blasphemy>

I don't "get" the new BSG... haven't watched it since about midway through the first season.

</blasphemy>

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

mj12games's Website

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Re: Ranks Contest!

You missed a couple really good capitol ship fights then Dan. smile  The Cylons proved WHY it's a bad idea to fly CLOSE formation or to TOO near the enemy (gotta LOVE collateral damage) when the Pegasus went after them on it's last flight.

They lost me about the third season though... wink

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Re: Ranks Contest!

go0gleplex wrote:

You missed a couple really good capitol ship fights then Dan. smile  The Cylons proved WHY it's a bad idea to fly CLOSE formation or to TOO near the enemy (gotta LOVE collateral damage) when the Pegasus went after them on it's last flight.

They lost me about the third season though... wink

True Dat. There have been a few really spectacular scenes...and a lot of "Are we sure they have a plan?" I've stuck with it throughout in the hope that the slow painful bits will be worth it in the end.
It's either BSG or watch Babylon 5 on DVD  smile
Cheers,
Erik

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Re: Ranks Contest!

I was watching Babylon 5 at SMU when I still worked there, didn't care much for 'Crusade'...

I've either worked Friday nights or been getting ready to GO to work, so haven't seen enough of BSG. What little I've seen is too 'touchy feely' for me, I'd prefer more stuff blowing up, and less "are you a cyclon"...

When I was growing up, SciFi had balls, now we've all got to be all angsty and crap. Blehh....Give me Giant Robots and guys in rubber suits if I have to sit through THIS to get to the explody bits....

..of course, I'm already on record as being a Godzilla fan, so take that as you like.
big_smile

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Re: Ranks Contest!

thedugan wrote:

I was watching Babylon 5 at SMU when I still worked there, didn't care much for 'Crusade'...

I've either worked Friday nights or been getting ready to GO to work, so haven't seen enough of BSG. What little I've seen is too 'touchy feely' for me, I'd prefer more stuff blowing up, and less "are you a cyclon"...

When I was growing up, SciFi had balls, now we've all got to be all angsty and crap. Blehh....Give me Giant Robots and guys in rubber suits if I have to sit through THIS to get to the explody bits....

..of course, I'm already on record as being a Godzilla fan, so take that as you like.
big_smile

I grew up on a steady diet of "Creature Double Feature" on Saturdays, the horrible 70's disco Buck Rogers (Which I still love to this day for some reason that doesn't include Gil Girard's chest hair), 70's BSG (Colonial Dress Uniforms were better with the capes and we all know it!), reruns of Star Trek, and of course Star Wars toys that I if I still had all intact I could use to purchase Cuba. Perhaps I would make Dan the Admiral of my Fleet, but I would have to be the Generalissimo.
Everything today is touchy-feely, but the explosions you do get are waaay better than watching the hard work of japanese model makers being crushed by a guy in a rubber suit. Not cooler, just prettier.
Cheers,
Erik
PS Crusade blew and we all know it. It should have died quietly like the Ranger spin off/pilot.