Hello all. Well it took a while for anyone to notice and I'm glad to respond to concerns posted here. First off I found it shitty that the fleet leadership dropped out and effectively abandoned the fleet without seeing to it's care. The senior adjunct had an opportunity to take fleet leadership and declined the honor. If you don't believe me, please go back and read the old thread, it is all right there. Only after, did he request a promotion which I agreed to, then decided against it. I was new to being in charge of a fleet and there was a learning curve. Of 300 or so members all but those that remain had not logged in a substantial time. I removed them and as I made clear to the then senior adjunct, anyone removed may always ask for reinstatement at any time and some have and I added them back to the roster.
I was pissed. Pissed that former leadership vanished without seeing to what was "claimed" to be so important. I for one value and cherish this fleet as it was the 1st fleet I joined in STO and I had a great time with many members now long gone. I am still a regular/daily player. As I told our senior adjunct at the time, my main priority is the well being of the fleet and it's remaining members. Only recently did I take the action of the higher demotion of someone with 7 alts with the rank of senior adjunct. As he stated we did not see eye to eye and that was fine. The facts come down to this: I have been in charge since November and not one person reached out to me in any way. Only now a thread has been opened to shitcan my name. I safeguarded the fleet you all so claimed to cherish but you can't even be bothered to run an update that takes 3 minutes.
The position of "senior adjunct" which I don't remember hearing before in Star Trek in the first place, should be a position the leader of a fleet can , if nothing else, trust. In the end I found we had no trust in one another, or even a regular speaking dialog. Though he was on almost as often as myself, so I finally demoted him. It was not personal. I will be looking/interviewing for a potential replacement/replacements in due course as I have no desire to run the fleet alone. In my view there is more to the job than simply keeping projects running. It took me taking my main to another fleet and seeing how things are run by people why give a damn to be involved on a daily basis not only with fleet projects but also fleet members. Making friends and learning what this game is capable of being. Beyond what was just dumped by people who only now profess to care about it. In the last 5 months I have learned more from the new fleet I joined than anyone who was in this fleet previously. I believe our fleet members who want this, deserve it, and I've spoken to those that do. But I cannot do it alone.
Without active recruitment a fleet cannot be sustained. The state of the fleet when I took over was the best demonstration of that I've ever seen. The state of things are enough to make one weep. No one speaks to one another. There is no cohesion and the former senior adjunct made it clear that this was not a concern to him. He made that clear as to go so far as to threaten me. Even then I took no action.
If I sound somewhat angry it's because I am and have been since day one taking leadership. I was just a regular member who came to find the fleet abandoned. The armada is in the same state. I went so far as to reach out the to the Armada leader trying to see if there were any guidelines I needed to adhere to as I had no guidance. His response, he forgot he even created the armada and flippantly said do what ever I want. Thought he was cordial enough I give him that. There was no leadership to be found even there. Contributions thru the armada was next to nothing, still is. Were it not so difficult to align with a reputable armada, I would have done so already. I brought in 2 fleets under us ( as the fleets they replaced had near zero activity) in the hopes to spur activity by earning marks and what not. Last week I had a meeting with the leaders of those 2 fleets and apologized as they had received next to no help and I let them out of our agreement to leave whenever they wished. They would not have done so otherwise, out of respect for what they recognized as my sincere attempt to benefit them, our fleet and armada.
If my vision of what the fleet can be doesn't align with any of yours I'll not apologize. I got not one kind word of support from anyone here, now claiming to care about their "home". Well, this fleet has been MY home since I started STO and it is still MY home. I intent to safeguard it better then those who vanished without a word or a thought until months to years after the fact and if this was that important surely things would have been different. I have a feeling from reading the posts above I can expect no support or even a kind word for doing what I thought was the best to maintain the fleet. Though I trimmed the "fat" of players not logged into the game for literally years, be assured anyone wanting back need only ask. I didn't kick out the former senior adjunct because he met that criteria.
I've given you in this post more than I was given in November, so I'll leave you with this. I and others trusted the former leadership and that leadership broke our trust in a careless and thoughtless manner. This may be just a game, not worth the few minutes to patch an update, but to others it and Star Trek itself is much more. While I deeply thank you for establishing and making the fleet what it was I want to assure all it is in the hands of someone who will be willing to have you back in a non leadership form and will never abandon it but look to its growth and health to the best of my ability. I can get over the anger of what happened with the slightest kind word but I'll not put the fleet in a position to have it happen again. I'd readily call all involved fleet mates again. As long as you log in to the game every 90 days I won't even hold you to contributions to projects. I know members of the fleet could benefit from your knowledge and experience. Newer player coming to play for the same reason, and I hope we all do or did. For the love of Star Trek. In time I would even consider raising ranks once again.
I could have ripped anything valuable out of the fleet, renamed it and disappeared but I didn't. Honestly there wasn't enough to make it worth the effort. I'm here, standing before you not afraid to speak my honest truth. Though I have just vented months of frustration I carry no malice or animosity, just a bruised spirit. I'm a good man and I want the best for the fleet. I've been a member of the Trek BBS since 2001, my 1st account glitched out explaining the date on my profile. I have been here nearly 20 years. I am not going anywhere. I have posted much outside this area but I lurk in other parts of the forum.
Vilify me if you wish. Call me what you may. It doesn't matter. In the end I'm doing what others laid aside. The fleet will go on, and with luck, and I hope to get the kind of help I need to run it day to day. It will grow and flourish again. I will be posting a link to this thread to the fleet as to make it public and I invite any fleet members to come and speak your mind whatever it may be. I welcome constructive conversation and suggestions openly. Criticism, I'll listen to that with a open mind as well. Should this thread disappear I have a copy and screen shots. What I wont tolerate is a non-caring attitude. When I told the former senior adjunct my desire to do some restructuring his response, and I quote "I'm not your man". The status quo of stagnation was acceptable to him. That's not something I can work with, I'm not the man for that.
