Adder,

I'd be happy to help with this. How can Ibe of assistance?

Great! I thought I was going a little over the top after rereading my post, but this is how I've handled similar situations getting commitees together and that.

I need to take a closer look at the altmeta and meta data to see which is easier to get recent activity data from and such. Just can't use the altmeta for unaligned players. I'll try to get the draft together, if everyone still feels the letter campaign is feasable. Once I post it for inspection, we can get coordinated on the how and who of it all.

Thanks for the help   I have to be hitting the sack now, I'll check back in the morning and see how this thread has evolved. Hell, people may have come up with a totally different way to handle it by then.   People think the world of computers moves fast, they haven't seen a forum thread around here before.  

I bid you all a Goodnight and a fruitful tomorrow.

Now I have a couple of quesations regarding this. If I use the straight up email option here, who does it show the sender as and return email? If it's mine then I'll just change mine to the response email account, which I would also give you access to, since your the lead on this. If a council comes to light they can just take over the account for whatever purpose.I will also put the response email in the letter to make sure.

The response email is indeed the senders email as it currently appears in your stardock account. You can certainly change this to another email address if the current one listed isn't one that you want to spread around.   

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I'm all for getting eveyone possible involved but not everyone will be interested. I'm happy if we all do what we can to get the word out. But I don't feel it's necessary to dig folks up out of the ground to accomplish this. I'm also a little bit worried that too much formality and waiting for someone else's approval will stiffle this in the bud.

Everyone should keep in mind that this isn't the US senate split at 51-49 with one of the 51 on his death bed and a vice president with a bad heart waiting to break a tie. This is a group of folks interested in improving something that they enjoy. If we stand on formality and wait action on so and so emperor's approval or so and so senator's approval then nothing will come of this. Not everyone will be on board with this and if so then I say so what.

Not every empire will be perfectly represented and again I say, so what. As long as most folks are reasonably represented we'll be doing what most folks approve of. If we let this devolve into a pissing contest about how many reps this empire gets versus that one gets then it's doomed to failure and we shouldn't even bother.

We need to enter into this with a spirit of cooperation, without worrying about dotting every little i and crossing every little t. If you see something that you think can help then do it, don't ask for my or anyone else's permission. Basically, I'm hoping to get a few folks together that can strap on a pair of balls and make a decision.

On the manage Characters screen I click "Add Player"
Then the Add Character screen comes up with two required fields:
Character Name:
Serial Number:

I typed in a name with no serial number and it said invalid character NAME?
My name was entered simply as "Squibit". No special characters or spaces etc.?

Any ideas?

I typed in a name with no serial number and it said invalid character NAME? My name was entered simply as "Squibit". No special characters or spaces etc.?

I guess you do need a serial number then. If you have a CD its the one with 28 letters/numbers and no dashes, *not* the one that begins with GC2. If you downloaded the game it should have been in your confirmation email. There are two sticky threads related to serial numbers and account activation, if you have problems you should check these out as well.

Can't activate or register the game? See here first!

Can't find account info HELP IN HERE!

If all else fails you should email support@stardock.com and they'll help you out.

[edit] opps. Kryo already answered. If it took me less than ten minutes to compose a response I would have noticed.   [/edit]

The Galactic Diplomats, 108 total members, 51 members submitted in the last 6 months, 283 total 6 month submissions.

B.C. Space Orcas, 71 total members, 50 members submitted in the last 6 months, 403 total 6 month submissions.

The High Command Hegemony, 107 total members, 96 members submitted in the last 6 months, 673 total 6 month submissions.

Qourth Empire, 86 total members, 50 members submitted in the last 6 months, 457 total 6 month submissions.

Arrakis Imperium, 14 total members, 13 members submitted in the last 6 months, 77 total 6 month submissions.

The Galactic Empire, 28 total members, 24 members submitted in the last 6 months, 137 total 6 month submissions.

The Browncoats, 127 total members, 30 members submitted in the last 6 months, 92 total 6 month submissions.

The Overmind, 117 total members, 29 members submitted in the last 6 months, 164 total 6 month submissions.

Clan Blah, 1 total member, 1 member submitted in the last 6 months, 16 total 6 month submissions.

The Colonial Fleet, 66 total members, 19 members submitted in the last 6 months, 48 total 6 month submissions.

Lords of Chaos, 20 total members, 10 members submitted in the last 6 months, 52 total 6 month submissions.

I agree we cant let this de-evelove into a beurocracy. We will debate, but in the end we wont let the formalities keep us back from our goal. Still we do need some kind of structured system with leaders and normal members ect. Though the leaders wont have any special powers, they will be picked to act as a balancing responsible force. Although we might not want to do son, we will probably draw some of the less agreeable individuals in this community, so these "leaders" would act as moderators, their say wont have anymore worth than anyone elses. And their 'powers' will be difined by how much respect they from the members they will represent.

Now, i guess its back to our empires to see what they say. Best of luck to all of you.

TheGreatEmperor, how did you get the quote into your player profile? I've not been able to figure out how to do it, nor have I seen anyone else have a quote in their profile. What's your secret?

I really like what I am reading here. So many good ideas. These discussions are making me much more interested in the Meta, and if things get worked out, I will start posting there. (But only when DA is released, as I haven't played a single game of DL since it did.) The things that stand out in this thread are: the advice to keep things simple. Whatever works for the most players. And, rework the scoring system. This one thing alone would be enough to bring me in.

What's with all the new icons.

That guy was a little too creepy. He did give clues as to who I am though. (Chef de Cuisine who at one time was quite fond of the Greatful Dead) This one more accurately reflects my philosophy of gameplay. (and doesn't scare small children)

GreatEmperor, thanks for the tip, it's kind of amazing the complexity involved with the loose association of Stardocks website's. You learn something new everyday. I bet even Kryo didn't know that.    But now he does!

Mistralok, anything related to the Grateful Dead was cool. But I do prefer your new icon. Kind of remind's me of Data although it's obviously not Data.

There is a benefit to these grainy, ill defined icons. It allows everyone to fill in the blanks with their own imagination. In the end you do *become* the icon at least in the minds of others. When you change icons it does mess folks up, but in your case perhaps this is a better choice. For me, I'll just stick with good old, reliable, dependable, Martin Luther. And if you believe that I have a nice bridge I'd like to sell you.   

Dark-Star. He's a Stardock employee, though I'm not totally sure of his funcion

He's on the web team--did the design for this site, IIRC.

I think we all are.

Edit: I see your watching as well Kryo. I know it's your job, but as a large contributor to this community I'm sure any thoughts you have about what you see here would be greatly appreciated also.

Excellent point.

Also I had the email missing critical information problem and Kryo said to report it to websupport@stardock.com which I did. The error did clear up and I assumed the issue was fixed but perhaps not.

I would report this to websupport@stardock.com. Since Kryo mentioned that Dark-Star is on the web design team this advice is perfectly fitting. Make sure you mention the user that you're trying to contact.   

I wouldn't worry too much about any one potential contact. If one doesn't pan out move on the next. As I've said before we're not going to get everyone, but we do at least have to try.