Joel has now finished the Wall of Honor CL43 updates.

If you think anything is wrong with your page, Email me, do not post it here.

Note that the Origins releases (Transports Attacked, Distant Armada, E4, and ISC War) came after CL43 so the awards for those products are in CL44 and won't be added for some time yet. In theory, they won't be done before December but I might do them early. Generally speaking, I hate doing them early as it makes it a mess when I do CL44 to tell what awards have and have not been added.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, August 26, 2011 - 02:34 pm: Edit

NEW HONOR BAR: DO YOU QUALIFY FOR ONE?

I have been meaning to do this for years, but never did it because it will be impossible to award all of the ones deserved over the last 12 years, but we will make a good faith effort.

For now, we are going to call this RESEARCH but we may find a better name later. You might think of it as "I helped ADB find something."

Like all honor bars, it is a rectangle with a horizontal stripe. The stripe will have the word "reserach" (or something) on it, with a star for every time you earn one.

To get one, well, there may end up being a number of ways, but:

1. the basic way is when I ask for something (e.g., the URL for Romulan deck plans) be the first guy with the correct answer. This means that somebody got one this morning.

2. Another way to get one is to do something else that amounts to the same thing. For example, Will McCammon sent us a photo/drawing which clarified an issue with the Fed frigate we had been unable to understand.

Now, over the years, a hundred people have done something to earn one. If you did, EMAIL ME with the "evidence" or a reminder of what it was.

Specific overrules general. If you helped in the dedications project (or the gazetteer), you get that ribbon, not this bar.

Really big projects (e.g., a whole set of omega maps) get a commendation medal, which is way cooler than this honor bar.

If you're a staffer and the request was within your area, answering it is part of your staff duties. Even if you're a staffer, you would get one for finding those Romulan blueprints for me.

I am sure there will be questions. I am sure that the rules/regulations/requirements will evolve over time. I am sure that we'll never find everyone who ever earned one. But we'll do what we can to handle this honor in an honorable manner.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, December 06, 2011 - 07:37 pm: Edit

For those who are waiting for the CL44 updates, that won't happen until late January for most of you. (Joel will be out of town from 10 Dec to somewhere after 15 January and I cannot possibly get many updates done before he goes, but I have done four and will do a few more.)

For those waiting for their very first ribbon (more issued for the 2500s than anything previous ribbon) I did this:

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Tuesday, December 06, 2011 - 11:35 pm: Edit

Chuck Strong was awarded a Star Fleet Gold Star. Please join with me in congratulating this talented leader.

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Wednesday, December 07, 2011 - 11:52 pm: Edit

Terry O'Carroll earned an individual plaque on the Wall of Honor. Terry, congratulations! I must remember to never proofread your CL story submissions while I eat or drink.

By Troy Latta (Saaur) on Thursday, February 09, 2012 - 10:24 am: Edit

Does ADB keep a spreadsheet or database with a list of which rewards have been earned by which people? Or is this a manual process every time?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, February 09, 2012 - 10:44 am: Edit

Manual-graphical. The only "complete list" is the wall of honor. A separate database would just be twice as much work for no real benefit.

In a very real sense, the wall of honor IS the database. When I finish a Captain's Log, I copy the awards list to a word file and spend a week going through it, adding the ribbons and medals to each page. Adding that list to a never-published database AND to the graphical wall of honor would be twice as much work and accomplish absolutely nothing.

By Troy Latta (Saaur) on Thursday, February 09, 2012 - 01:43 pm: Edit

I was just thinking that if you maintained a database, it'd be easier to fix mistakes, keep an historical record, etc., and you could offload the graphical work to someone else.