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By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Thursday, January 04, 2024 - 03:51 pm: Edit

Gentle (and not-so-gentle) beings,

The following people have credit toward their signups. Just send me an email to let me know you are signing up. You will need to sign up also on SFBOL.

Peter Bakija
Daniel Bitsoff
Rom Brimeyer
Geoffrey Clark
Graham Cridland
Josh Driscol
Paul Franz
Jason Gray
Andrew Koch
Dana Madsen
Steve McCann
John Rigley
Bill Schoeller
Seth Shimansky
Jack Taylor
David Zimdars

If you already sent me money, I shall return it.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Thursday, January 04, 2024 - 06:39 pm: Edit

Hmm. I just signed up, but it might have been for Sapphire 15.

I'll wait a day or two...

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Thursday, January 04, 2024 - 08:55 pm: Edit

Peter,
I have fixed the signup page to have the correct tournament

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, January 05, 2024 - 01:24 am: Edit

May the best captain win!

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Friday, January 05, 2024 - 07:24 am: Edit

Successfully registered!

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Friday, January 05, 2024 - 07:24 am: Edit

https://www.sfbonline.com/tourn_signup.jsp

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Friday, January 05, 2024 - 11:17 am: Edit

I am in. I am "The Gorn". Hopefully Peter is also not "The Gorn". Cause that would be Gorns and I prefer to be "The Gorn"

By Seth Shimansky (Kingzila) on Friday, January 05, 2024 - 12:26 pm: Edit

I am in

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Friday, January 05, 2024 - 12:41 pm: Edit

Help me decide; the Kestrel or the Pirate?

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Friday, January 05, 2024 - 01:07 pm: Edit

I'm in a different, unforeseen ship, that will inevitably end in disaster!

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Friday, January 05, 2024 - 02:38 pm: Edit

Unforeseen? Sounds like a misclick^^

By Seth Shimansky (Kingzila) on Friday, January 05, 2024 - 05:02 pm: Edit

Kestrel is the RKR?

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Friday, January 05, 2024 - 05:12 pm: Edit

Yes.

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Friday, January 05, 2024 - 05:34 pm: Edit

I assume it is because they are K-class hulls, but i don't know. Old name in any case

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Friday, January 05, 2024 - 09:54 pm: Edit

I am in

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Friday, January 05, 2024 - 10:09 pm: Edit

Carl - KR easier to play than Pirate IMO. If you have played a lot of the pirate then I would say they are very close.

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Saturday, January 06, 2024 - 12:55 am: Edit

Jack, sorry I realise i should have provided more context. I found SFB sometime in the early 90's. It was the commander's ed, and people in the local gaming club asked me what race i wanted to play, and i replied that I thought the ships with birds of prey decals i had had as a plastic kit when I was a kid was very cool.

It's been Romulans since then. Started playing pbem once that become a thing, switched to the Kestrel when i convinced myself that is was not treason. Later I got bored and tried the orion.
Quit 14 years ago and now I want to play again.

If you pick one for me I will feel if it is right for me.

By Seth Shimansky (Kingzila) on Saturday, January 06, 2024 - 08:32 am: Edit

If you are starting up again big plasma is the better option because you can be more competitive faster. I find the KR is a better ship than the Rom Fire Hawk because of the 2 extra p3 and extra bridge and better turn mode. Those 3 pluses out way the higher cloak cost to me. The Orion has a much longer learning curve.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Saturday, January 06, 2024 - 10:08 am: Edit

I agree with Seth - surprisingly.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Saturday, January 06, 2024 - 02:05 pm: Edit

The Kestrel thing is ADB's nomenclature for the ex-Klingon ships, just as Eagle for the old ship based on the pre-Warp War Birds and Hawk for the new modular General War designs.


Garth L. Getgen

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Saturday, January 06, 2024 - 02:49 pm: Edit

Personally I like the KR over the FH because of the turn mode is better and you have matching LP/RP Plasma-S/F torpedoes

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Saturday, January 06, 2024 - 10:03 pm: Edit

I look forward to observing the Sapphire Star 16 Tournament battles.

[I would like to learn more on how to operate the Andromedan TKC in SFBOL client, I will have to do some more NK battles on SFBOL]

all good

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Sunday, January 07, 2024 - 09:13 am: Edit

Wayne,

The Andro TKC is still very hard to play; I think the current version is 2xTRH, 6xP2, but only 3 batteries, which makes emptying panels difficult, and makes running out of power a very real possibility.

Like, it is not completely hopeless, and a lot closer to a balanced ship (for the tournament as a whole) than previous versions, but it is definitely an uphill climb a *lot* of the time.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Monday, January 08, 2024 - 02:52 pm: Edit

Sign-ups to date:

1. Peter D Bakija Your callsign is bakija HYD

2. Ron J Brimeyer Your callsign is captainron THA

3. Daniel Bitseff Your callsign is Cadet_Stimpy LDR

4. Carl-Magnus Carlsson Your callsign is Hardcore RKR

5. Paul P Franz Your callsign is Andromedan LDR

6. Jason Gray Your callsign is The_Hood FED

7. Stephen McCann Your callsign is Moose WAX (11g1)

8. Bill Schoeller Your callsign is BS KLI

9. seth shimansky Your callsign is kingzilla HYD

10. Jack Taylor Your callsign is MadJack GRN

Still need six more to develop tree and schedule rounds.