This is the End?

I don't know how to put money in a slashfound via PayPal but I'm willing to learn that!!!

Count me in.

Well assuming the person who sets it up knows what they are doing, it's not hard for te end - user to use it. you simply set up an account with Paypal, which goes towards the running sites of the site. For the end user; you simply register with paypal and designate how much you want to pay via a credit/debit card. it's quite simple.

As Ambassador Riva said, it's a matter of turning a disadvantage into an advantage.

Don: I guessed something like that was upcoming. First of all, I must thank you heaps for all the work, time and dedication you put into this project. Six years of holding up with two company changes and two systems. A community of over a hundred really active members, and an extended family of surely over a thousand. You don't have to worry: we have grown up. And for sure someone will take the torch (both spiritually and financially) and go on.

You go with your family, my man. They are the ones who matter.

Furthermore, I'd say the most important things here are two: keeping the community together, and migrating the content. It would be very important to get the unedited material Don has in his virtual shelves, so if someone takes the domain and website, it can go on developing it.

And also, if there's any intention of forming a cooperative workforce for keeping Trek-RPG running, I'm willing to collaborate. As always, I'm available. I'll be checking a little more often now (though I never really left ;))

Does anyone have an idea of how much getting an existing message board, and then its operating costs, would cost?

I am all in favor of supporting in via PayPal, but could we? What are the costs of such a thing?

Hey Don,

I just wanted to say thanks, and i understand why you're letting thie forum go, but damn, it's a shame. Like many, this was the 1st forum i've ever subscribed to, and i've got an incredible amount of satisfaction & fun reading the threads here, it's provided plenty of ideas for trek role playing.

It's been a blast Don, where ever the winds take you, i'd like to say thanks for keeping it going as long as you have, and i hope one day someone will pick up the reigns so we can read the past material posted here. I don't have as much time to surf as i'd like, and the thought of all this combined brain power and material just dissapering is not plesant.

But at the end of the day Real Life must come first, no matter how much we enjoy Trek, so take care, and thanks again.

Sundowner :(

I have no idea what the actual cost (in term of financial and personal investment) of maintaining such a site is, but I too want to say that if something to transfer it to someone else is done, I'm ready to contribute in any way I could.

I'm not sure I could contribute much as far as technical is concerned, mainly because my Internet access has become rather scarce lately, but I'm ready to help financially (and technically as well once my f... employer allows me to access the Net again).
Like others said, this forum was the first one I ever suscribed to, and remained my window to communicate with people from all around the world (and a constant way to improve my english skills), so, if there's any way this place and/or its contents can be saved, I'm ready to do anything I can.

Oh and I'd join everyone who answered to Don that you never let us down, Don, now or anytime before.

To echo the thoughts of others, I'm not surprised to see this come to pass, but it'll be a sad day when TrekRPG is gone.

Though I don't post much anymore, I still check in quite often, just to see what's going on, who's saying and thinking what, and to just try and keep up with the community. Like so many others here, this was the first message board that I found, way back in 1999, after I stumbled across a copy of the TNG core book from LUG. It wasn't long thereafter that I found myself wrapped up in Trek in a way that I never had been before, and I think I can safely say that I have this site, and it's wonderful membership, to thank for that.

When it's all said and done, I'm surely going to miss this place, as it's been a constant in my life for the better part of 5 years. I've made some good friends here, and many more acquaintances, that I would never have had the opportunity to otherwise.

For all that, and so much more, I thank you Don. You've been a great host and, dare I say, friend for us all. I'm sure that someday, maybe some years down the road, we'll all have stumbled across one another, either at a convention, or on a messageboard, or maybe just in passing, and when we do, we'll be able to share our memories of this site, and we'll all be able to feel proud about what we shared here.

So, good luck to you, Don. While I know that we'll always carry a bit of you and this site with us wherever we go, I hope that you'll do the same. Thanks for the memories!



Greg, who isn't going to close hailing frequencies, but rather put them on extended standby...

Well, I'll just begin by saying I'll be sad to see it go. I first came here in the middle LUG-Trek days, and found many resources on the site. I also found the information in the forum interesting as well.

And then for the longest while, I was not playing a Trek game, but this place was still useful for the academic excercise of gaming theory, and for some Trek fandom (found a few good fan-fic sites on the old links page).

Then Decipher released Coda-Trek. Excitement abounded. I bought the books, and loved them. Better than ICON-Trek, even. I started up a game for the first time in years (we're still playing). I got the LotR game as well (won a free copy of the Decipher webpage, in fact). I began a conversion of Dune: Chronacles of the Imperium to Coda (still ongoing, also). I began participating on these boards.

And now it comes to an end, as all things must. I'm sure we've all got those bittersweet feelings about it, especially after the rather shameful way Decipher treated the RPG. I'd love it if someone else stooped to pick up the banner and carry it forward from where Don has fallen (and bless him for carrying it all these years), though I don't have my hopes up too much. It is always sad to see a community like this vanish into the ether of the internet, along with its accumulated lore; searching these forums has always been a gold mine of ideas for me. And I will gladly follow this community if it migrates to a new home; I need some source of playtesters for my Coda-Dune game when I finally finish it, if nothing else.

So good luck and godspeed, Don. We all owe you more than can truly be put into words. Hopefully we'll still see you around the net.

So where do we go from here? Second star to the right?

-Chris Landmark

Vote on the future of the site - That is what we should do.