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Do you have a favorite memory from your early years as a simmer that really got you hooked on simming long-term? | Do you have a favorite memory from your early years as a simmer that really got you hooked on simming long-term? | ||
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! {{ID Portrait|Sal Taybrim}}Taybrim | |||
|uhm... early years as a simmer or early years simming with StarBase 118? | |||
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! {{ID Portrait|Toryn Raga}}Raga | |||
|"Lol, that had to be one hell of a bet for Momma Bear to put herself and her ship through that. I figure she lost a bet with Wolf. xD | |||
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! {{ID Portrait|Talia Kecia Ohnari}}Ohnari | |||
|"Never specified who the bet was with | |||
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! {{ID Portrait|Tristan Wolf}}Wolf | |||
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! {{ID Portrait|Sal Taybrim}}Taybrim | |||
|What got me hooked on simming was when I joined a PbEM that is long since dead sim named "Liberty Fleet" where the admins had broken away from a different fleet that had a bunch of of restrictive rules and generally the CO's rules their ships with a tyrannical iron fist and created a small fleet based on the players having freedom to direct the story. That was the first time I really felt like I clicked with a game and wanted to actively continue playing | |||
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! {{ID Portrait|Kali Nicholotti}}Nicholotti | |||
|All of my favorite memories involve the more intricate stories I got to weave with others, both here and in the group I played Kali in prior. Just being able to toss in an idea and see where other people took it was amazing to me. | |||
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! {{ID Portrait|Sal Taybrim}}Taybrim | |||
|Long story short it was a wonderful sim for about five years until the admins (a married couple) announced they were having twins and couldn't admin anymore. Everyone stayed friends, I still chat with them on Facebook | |||
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! {{ID Portrait|Jalana Rajel}}Rajel | |||
|UFF that is a hard one because there are so many memories that now I come up with none LOL Well I think that it was coming from a hiatus of Roleplay, after having a bad experience in an RP i was with for almost 20 years and after 4 years of a break coming into SB118 and not really expecting that it would be as great as I remember RP (sorry lol). And I was met with so much welcoming warm energy and support and boy they even gave me a mentor and it was the CO himself .. that I just knew this is a whole other level from the Rps I had been part of before. And I saw that even the ideas that in my old RPs would have been marked as "too wacky" had a place and were integrated with joy and received so well... I had a feeling then that I would stay for a longer time. And it didn't take too long that I couldn't imagine not being part of it any more 🙂 | |||
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! {{ID Portrait|Quinn Reynolds}}Reynolds | |||
|I surely do. | |||
Fresh ensign Quinn Reynolds, simming on her first posting, and all the officers I was assigned with took a LOA at about the same time, while the rest of the crew were on a planet-based away team and couldn't get back to the ship. | |||
So Captain Rhys brought his PNPC over and we spent an entire mission simming together in a desperate scramble to save the Triumphant from being destroyed in a subspace anomaly. Dodging hull breaches, explosions, and rigging a shuttle to take over the helm controls so we could fly the ship out of there. | |||
I learnt so much on that one mission about how to sim, how to sim well, how to collaborate, how to share the spotlight. The CO made me feel welcomed, valued and fun to sim with, plus I got one of the best simmers in the fleet all to myself. 😂 | |||
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! {{ID Portrait|Rivi Vataix}}Vataix | |||
|There are so many… and I can remember doing an “early ensign trope” where I put my character in life and death danger and ended it with an OOC note about how my character’s (Tenzin Zhou) fate is up to everyone else haha. Looking back I’m sure my first CO and her command staff must have rolled their eyes but they guided me through how to really get the most of this collaborative story telling. | |||
And so that brings up one of my favorite early memories was a fleet blockbuster Operation Bright Star I believe (although I may be misremembering) where the bridge scene players were simming combat and one of them mentioned that artificial gravity was knocked out on some decks. Well, being a medical officer at the time in sickbay I used that in our sickbay scene where we lost gravity and everyone else there played along. Seeing how one end of the story can affect the other helped kindle my love of this game | |||
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! {{ID Portrait|Jalana Rajel}}Rajel | |||
|and a non SB one was that I met my best friend (like 22 years ago) and RL boyfriend (21 years ago) in a Star Trek Pbem... and we are still happy and dorks LOL | |||
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! {{ID Portrait|Aron Kells}}Kells | |||
|ooooh what a good question! this isn't super specific, but I did have a really supportive CO early on (Robin Phoenix if anyone wants to jump into the wiki archives) who supported the side plots that I wanted to introduce. it ended up pivoting one whole mission in a kind of James-Bond-esque time travel direction, which was a complete 180 from what it had been, and we all just kinda ran with it. I'd been around for a few missions by that point but had never done any kind of RPG before, and it was the first time I really felt like I could have a major impact on where the mission went. also, Fred (who played Robin Phoenix) was super supportive and vocal about that, and very much influenced my CO style | |||
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! {{ID Portrait|Aron Kells}}Kells | |||
|speaking of, David (aka the Captain Rhys Emma mentioned here) was my other big this is how you do COing influence. he was amazing! | |||
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