So if trek-rpg is going down, where are people going? Is there interest in a new trek community for trek-rpg refugees?
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So if trek-rpg is going down, where are people going? Is there interest in a new trek community for trek-rpg refugees?
I suggested RolePlay OnLine! as a possible new home for Aslan's "Deep Star 6" campaign, but know of no other sites which might suit the Trek roleplaying community. All I can say is farewell, my friends, and well met. Here's hoping we shall all meet again someday.
Though I am saddened (this is actually my first web-based messageboards that I partipated in), I have no grudge against Don Mappin's decision. I got a lot of memories here, though. It was through his web site that my one and only material for LUGTrek was published. We've had some great dialogue with the LUG folk, from Ross Isaacs to Steve Long, and the ever-present Doug Burke.
And it was the only place to download Spacedock.
I will continue to visit this board and this site until the very last day. And on that day, I hope everyone will gather around one last time so we can toast its long run.
Thank you, Don, for the years of great memories. ;)
oh. :(
Well, this announcement comes almost 3 years exactly after I joined this forum.
While I had not been as active as before this year (for many reasons including no Net access from work anymore), I still regularly visited the boards, and this news is sad indeed (even if not entirely unexpected).
I want to join REG to thank Don and every one who contributed to make this place what it is/was. I'll keep a lot of good memories of conversations on this forum and the interesting people I met.
And now I'm gonna browse this site to save every topic I used to find interesting on my hard drive :p...
forums.decipher.com, perhaps?
forums.decipher.com, perhaps?
Hahahahahahahahahaha! O, you break me up. What a kidder!
Get real.
I saw that coming like a quantum torpedo.
Maybe it's for the best.
bummer :( but I understand where Don's coming from.
Thanks Don, for the years of good times I've had here.
Decipher is non-viable for three reasons...
1) I'm pretty sure they would discourage discussion of non-CODA game systems.
2) They no longer even support even their own Trek RPG.
3) To sign up for a Decipher forums account, you must give them information, such as your postal address, that they have absolutely no business asking.
I'd rather see a Yahoo! list, and I'm not a real big fan of Yahoo!
Thanks for the fun, Don. I really enjoyed this little piece of Trekdom in cyberspace. :)
Good luck and God bless.
Davy
Thank you, Don. You done good.
I will miss this board.
Any chance that we can create a new one... EZ Board, perhaps?
I could get something going, if there is interest..... like phpBB2 though.
Well then. So this is the end.
I shall miss TrekRPG Net -- but for my part, just as LUG Trek isn't dead as long as we remember it, so is this site.
We've come a long way. Even after the politics ban, even after so much arguing and whatnot, this was one of the most civilised boards I ever knew. We've had some pretty enlighted discussions here and some happy nonsense, too.
Don, I lift my glass to you. Thank you so very much for all the time you invested and the tireless diligence in pursuit of better gaming. I hope you can find the time to live well with your family and work.
Until next we meet, mate!
Captain Novaes,
Over and Out.
I'm glad you cleared that up ;) I assumed your were talking about the old Decipher messsage boards.Quote:
Originally posted by Owen E Oulton
Decipher is non-viable for three reasons...
1) I'm pretty sure they would discourage discussion of non-CODA game systems.
2) They no longer even support even their own Trek RPG.
3) To sign up for a Decipher forums account, you must give them information, such as your postal address, that they have absolutely no business asking.
I'd rather see a Yahoo! list, and I'm not a real big fan of Yahoo!
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end - The End by the Doors
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Rayaru , there's definity an interest. Its all a matter of who is willing to take the initative to keep it alive. Don did allude that he was open to selling the forum or domain, if i'm not mistaken.
Godspeed, Don.
I was hoping for the best and I am sure we all appreciate the time and love you put into this site and your work. I, for one, am particularly displeased with the teasing we received from Decipher, but I always looked forward to coming to this site for hope for the Star Trek RPG's future. I hope beyond hope that someone here will be able to keep the content of these forums safe somewhere as my primary harddrive has failed and my wife and I don't have room on this backup for all the downloads I wanted to retrieve from the forums before they close. If there is any hope of that, will someone please speak up soon?
Good Luck in your new role of family man, Don. I hope this will not be the last we hear (read?) from you, but if so, thank you so much for the gifts you have provided these six all too short years...
Damn this sucks.
While i understand Dons reasoning & I thank him for providing a forum for us to gather and exchange our ideas, this announcement does leave a hole in my being. This board was the first message board i had ever signed up for and i must say, inhabited by the friendliest group of people on the net.
So if I don't get the chance to say it before the site goes down, Farewell all! It was a pleasure to talk to all of you, thanks for the ideas for my Trek Game, and I hope to talk to you elsewhere on the web. The past 4 years have been fun.
& Thanks Don for providing the best Damn Trek RPG site I've ever seen.
Hailing Frequancies closed
Rich
Well, I've crossed sabers with a few, had interesting debates with most, and conversed with all of you. I have to say that I am disappointed that the site will be closed, I had nothing but good times here.
But, family is all important and I fully understand Don's train of thought. Don I don't know if you are/will be reading this, but I know we have been, as many have said, like oil and water. Some, however, say that praise from an "enemy" is the highest of all...So, you did a great job over the years Don. I salute you, sir. I hope your future endevours are profitable and satisfying.
Farewell.
Phantom fades.
Gawd... I feel... I dunnow what I feel, but I don't like it :(
I have made a lot of friends here (and some enemies) over the years. People I honestly consider more than just folks I talk to online.
18536996 is my ICQ
aslan_collas@yahoo.com
Anyone wants to keep in touch, please do :)
Wow... I am gonna miss this place... my first message-board...
I used to run a WWIV BBS back in the early 90's and this place reminded me of it so very very much. :(
To everything there is a season I guess.
Thanks Don, for all the highs, lows and middlings over the years. This was always a class act of a place. :)
LtCmdrMatt's working on getting his site up. When it's up and ticking, I or he'll post the address and everyone can start migrating over.
speak of the devil....It's starting to get put up. but here's the url.
http://www.ltcmdrmatt.com/fbr/forum/
Oh damn :(
I'd never think I'd see the day... TrekRPGNet was one of the stable anchors in my RPG life. And, I would say, in my life. I'm working at home, and whenever I felt I'd need a break, or just didn't feel like working ;) I'd go and read the boards. It had become a reflex.
THANK YOU so much Don and team for making this place possible and alive. It kept my Trek motivation floating... I still remember the old trekrpg mailing list; ah, this is the end of an era.
I totally understand your decision, Don. I do not have enough time on my hands either... I wish you all the best in your endeavors, and I hope we can see you around at the new boards.
I'm moved beyond words...
I've posted a few words in the Trek Chat forum but I just wanted to echo everyone's comments here.
I'll really miss the old girl when she's gone.
Renny
This comes as a catastrophe of almost epical scale. I mean it. Trek-RPG was the first forum I joined, when accidentally finding it on my very first day in the internet.
I've been in quite some others, over there at White-Wolf, swrpgnetwork, and so on - but this was home away from home.
It hurts to see it go, since I really felt comfortable here and here you could find such a load of input/ ideas and material - it was marvellous.
Although I am sad see trek-rpg go, I am very grateful for all those you have worked so hard to keep these forums up. Thank you very, very much for your efforts, your commitment, your patience with us - the users - and for giving up so much of your free time and "real" life to make this place possible. I would say Trek Roleplaying has gained more from this site than from any product released by a company ( without wanting to degrade them ).
I'd say everyone of you qualifies for the UFP Medal of Valor for yearlong commitment to Trek above the call of duty.
Well as in Matrix - Everything that has a beginning has an end. This does not mean this is the end of the trek community, in fact I refuse to believe that all this here should be in vain now. And I doubt there will be no new place to gather - after all "there are plenty more letters in the alphabet".
So I wish you all clear horizons and godspeed to all of you! See you out there.
Volker Maiwald
Perhaps we should launch a Trek-rpg-a.net website ? :D
It's a shame that the website had to be closed, but with luck the torch will be passed on to others, and the community, as a whole, will move together, to the new boards.
With luck this might be the motivation to make something bigger newer and better... All the things that Don wanted Trek-rpg to be, but didn't have the time to devote to it!
For Don. This will probably be exactly the type of thing he needs for himself. By freeing himself of the responsibility and the chore he'll open up new avenues for creativity and who knows, he may well come back shiny and new.
Rayaru , there's definity an interest. Its all a matter of who is willing to take the initative to keep it alive. Don did allude that he was open to selling the forum or domain, if i'm not mistaken. [/B][/QUOTE]
That would be the best way, because so the history of the six years here of us all together wouldn't be lost.
I think at least the forums should be "saved" there is so much stuff on them that will be lost even if we transfer some of it to a new place.
The question is IS there anyone willing to take over the forums from Don?
Thank you Don for providing a home to Star Trek RPGs. I really appreciate the work that you have done with the site.
I'm sorry to see her go, but sometimes you have to do the things you don't want to. Once again thank you!
Thanks, Don, I've had a lot of fun here, the past couple of years. I'll miss the site, and the people who hang out here. My e-mail is "tmutant@hotmail.com" if anything changes, or if a new site is started, or if someone is jonesing to talk Trek.
Reading this thread was such a big mistake. :(
All the pain, regret, and sadness that I felt making the decision and the announcement yesterday is magnified several orders of magnitude by reading this. I appreciate all the kind words and am trying my best to type through blurry eyes.
Yet for all this I still feel as if I've failed you all. I could keep the site running indefinitely but I think I really need to step away. Move aside and let some new creative people, full of energy, step in and help drive the community. On the other hand, the thought of flipping a switch and deleting the site….wow, it's like killing something that I helped create. Once it's gone….it's gone. The thought makes me sick to my stomach.
Honestly I didn't know the site meant so much to so many people. It always meant a lot to me but to others, I had no idea.
Mostly…I'll miss the people. After it's shut down, will I ever speak with Aslan, Ineti, or [insert name here] again? Probably not. All those relationships with all of you…just disappear. :( It's a sobering realization.
I wish the best to you all. The possibilities I see are endless. I just wish I had the time to make us all happy.
Yours,
Don
Hey man, the beauty of the internet is that it takes so little effort to stay in touch :)Quote:
Originally posted by Don Mappin
Mostly…I'll miss the people. After it's shut down, will I ever speak with Aslan, Ineti, or [insert name here] again?
Come over the the FBR or even drop an e-mail my way, I promise to always reply :)
Don, you kept plugging away in the face of continued adversity to an extent which is nigh unbelievable. I would say you did everything but let us down.
Like many others who have stated so, this was the first board I had ever joined. I had just gotten my first computer and my first LUG game book (TNG Corebook). A few days after having both I put "Last Unicorn Games" into the search thing. . .and found TrekRPGNet.
I couldn't imagine gaming all these past years without it. Not only for the wonderful projects and ideas you all have provided, but becuse of the ready supply of aid and assistance given whenever asked.
A while back someone started a post about their favorite play aids. I would have to say mine has been TrekRPGNet. It will be a shame to see it go. I not only keep up to date on all the current posts, but also like to poke around the older posts on a regular basis. It's amazing the amount of information available here for a Trek gamer.
Thanks Don.
Hi Don...Quote:
Originally posted by Don Mappin
Yet for all this I still feel as if I've failed you all. I could keep the site running indefinitely but I think I really need to step away. Move aside and let some new creative people, full of energy, step in and help drive the community. On the other hand, the thought of flipping a switch and deleting the site….wow, it's like killing something that I helped create. Once it's gone….it's gone. The thought makes me sick to my stomach.
Honestly I didn't know the site meant so much to so many people. It always meant a lot to me but to others, I had no idea.
Perhaps there is the chance, that some of us keep at least the forums somehow alive, so that you don't have to "flip that swith"and we all can keep the shared history alive!
Don't get me wrong, I am very thankful for all the time you've put into this and have the greatest respect for the decision you have made, but if there is a chance to let the site stay on, couldn't we explore that possibility?
That would give you the possibility "to step away" but also you could come back into things, when you find the time or feel the need.
And yes, I know that you have thought this through before making your announcment in the first place...
Perhaps I'm stepping over a line here, never having had too much influence and contacts here, but I somehow felt the need to post this.
Thank you, Nico
ah, just one more thing, that has also been said before but never mind: you definately didn't fail any one of us!
Trek-RPG.net is one of only three online forums I call myself member of and it is the first one (as with many other users here) I ever joined.
With all due respect, Don, you've made us all happy the past six years. And honestly, I could not ask you to do more. :)Quote:
Originally posted by Don Mappin
I wish the best to you all. The possibilities I see are endless. I just wish I had the time to make us all happy.
I got some wonderful memories here, from the time we discussed almost every DS9 episodes (and how it could be used in gaming) in the mailing list to the grand opening of your web site (formerly TrekRPG.net) and messageboards. We discussed, we debated, we submitted material, etc. Good memories. Good experiences. Not gonna forget'em.
In which case can you not simply transfer the site to another person who's willing?
I realise the running costs of this thing are huge, but then perhaps we could club together and look seriously about the paid sponsorship idea ? At the very least a Paypal slushfund for whoever wants to pay to own the site... In the case of this site it's not just the domain name it's self, which technically speaking is relativelly cheap, it's the bandwith!
Don, really, Don, the website has been good and with luck the community will still survive, and the reason for that was and still is because of your tenacity. No one however should make themselves a martyr, and if you don't have the energy to do it all yourself - err don't :D We don't need your blood :)
Well this is depressing . . . I know I haven't been very active since I haven't had an RPG group to call my own. However, I would always troll in here, and this place has been invaluable to me.
Yet, all good things . . . must come to an end.
So I guess I must hurry and cut and past all those interesting tidbits that may be useful later.
I'm all for this. Unfortunately, I know nothing about running a domain or a forum or whatnot. That level of technical ability is beyond me.Quote:
Originally posted by Tobian
In which case can you not simply transfer the site to another person who's willing?
I realise the running costs of this thing are huge, but then perhaps we could club together and look seriously about the paid sponsorship idea ? At the very least a Paypal slushfund for whoever wants to pay to own the site... In the case of this site it's not just the domain name it's self, which technically speaking is relativelly cheap, it's the bandwith!
I'm capable of wiring money into a Paypal account, though. :) Is anyone willing to take over the logistical aspects of running the board knowing others are willing to kick in to help the operating expenses?
I can do all the technical stuff. But I have no money. :(Quote:
Originally posted by Ineti
I'm all for this. Unfortunately, I know nothing about running a domain or a forum or whatnot. That level of technical ability is beyond me.
I'm capable of wiring money into a Paypal account, though. :) Is anyone willing to take over the logistical aspects of running the board knowing others are willing to kick in to help the operating expenses?
Well, there you go. :) Talk to Don and figure out what it would cost to take over things, and then crack the whip on us to start dropping money into a Paypal hat.Quote:
Originally posted by Lt Cmdr Matt
I can do all the technical stuff. But I have no money. :(