kellyplanet STT Updates 23.12.05

Hello everyone,

In the post I just did YESTERDAY, I mentioned that a bunch of new stuff is coming for December. I wasn't wrong, hence why I am posting the very next day.

This is the first time (as far as I can recall), that SEVEN new Crew were added since last week. This may be because Sidney La Forge was released as a freebie, and Grady is a new Voyage Reward Crew. For those who care about this stuff, Grady was portrayed by Clint Howard who made his first appearance on 'Trek back in 1966 as Balok when he was just seven years old. Balok's puppet was voiced by Ted Cassidy, who was also Ruk from TOS and the original Lurch. Ted was from Pennsylvania 😉 Clint Howard is a 'Trek legend as he has also appeared on Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, Discovery, and Strange New Worlds. You go, man.

Anyway, all this new stuff made me feel like going through the missing Polestars which I have not done since March of this year. 

I'm not sure when what was released, but there are ten additional since the last time I checked:

Doopler (Doopler Emissary)

Kiley (Kiley Pike)

Rakhari (Croden)

R'Ongovian (Captain Vasso L'Gaelia)

Sentient Computer (AGIMUS)

Serilian (Tiron)

Sikarian (Gathorel Labin)

Tanugan (Nel Apgar) - Mark Margolis was from PA too 😉

Vedala (Vedala Elder)

Wadi (Master Surchid Falow)

All of these are Single Crew Traits and were all originally released in the latter part of 2022.

That leaves only eight Polestars (by my count) that are still not available:

Dinaali, Gideon, Haliian, Iotian, Kalar, Metron, Scalosian, and Tribble

All of those are also Single Crew traits, with the exception of Kalar. Most of these were added in the previous few weeks. Tribble is different than "Tribbled", and only applies to Captain Tribble from March 2021.

Just two more things to mention:

One of our Captains is (temporarily) having trouble uploading his Crew. The master file from the game isn't being parsed correctly. I have already figured out exactly WHAT is happening, but not yet WHY. This is the only instance of this of which I am aware. I am working on the solution and if anyone else is having trouble (especially with a smaller Crew profile - like less than 200), please let me know. I upload my Crew from the game several times a week and have not come across this myself. 

Also, I have been contemplating for some time about doing some major interface upgrades as this has not been done for some time. What I am basically thinking of doing is consolidating the overlay information on the index images to be halfway between the data available on the individual Crew pages and what is presented now. 

Any changes I make will be done in my sandbox initially, and will be an improvement for both desktop and mobile. If this becomes a thing, I'll probably launch it for the game's anniversary in January.

LLAP -erickelly

ahhh... added 5 minutes later...

Since we now have Admiral Robert April, I noticed that the game's official designation for that character is "April Robert". So I changed Commodore Robert April from TAS to this as well. I thought "April" worked just fine, but whatever. This character did a reverse-Harvey Dent.

Also, as far as a new interface in concerned, I have been thinking about toning-down the manual MyCrew buttons to perhaps just the Crew Pages. I don't want to eliminate this feature altogether, but it would increase load times and most Captains use the automatic Crew upload from the game. If you hate this idea, let me know.