All News
Excitement!
Hey All,
The command team and I have been discussing a few things to add to the sim both OOC and IC. OOC we have a promotions guidelines chart:
http://uss-merlin.com/index.php/wiki/view/page/15
This chart is meant to let you guys know what we look for when we do consider promotions as well…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Sunday 14 August 2016 @ 23:33
Category: General News
New Pilot
Hey Guys,
Please join me in welcoming our newest fighter pilot Marine Warrant Officer Farida Alleen who will be in the Longwings squadron of Dragon Air Group! Welcome Aboard!
Andrew
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Wednesday 10 August 2016 @ 19:50
Category: General News
Captains Personal Merit
Well done everyone. My first award since joining, and from what I have read so far, a well deserved award, I'm happy to be part of such a noteworthy crew.
Author: Lieutenant Commander David Tan
Posted on: Tuesday 2 August 2016 @ 23:19
Category: General News
Continuity
Hey All,
You guys have been doing awesome :D. There is something I would like to address though, continuity. I have a number of posts coming in that are either late night or over night during the current mission day. That would be ok except that we're no farther than…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Monday 1 August 2016 @ 20:02
Category: General News
Live Chat
Hey Guys,
I've been trying not to send as many news mails, lol, but I wanted to mention this. We have a live chat set up, like OF's, on discord. Some of you may have noticed the widget, but, if not just look directly under the Facebook plug in. All…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Saturday 30 July 2016 @ 21:55
Category: General News
Back in Action
Hey Guys,
We are now back up and running at www.use-merlin.com! I just had to recreate the account due to a typo in the original URL.
Thanks to a generous donation by one of our simmers, who approached me last night, the server has been paid until July 2017! A…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Tuesday 26 July 2016 @ 06:19
Category: Website Update
Obsidian Fleet Chat
Hey Al,
Just wanted to pass this along :D:
Have you heard of Discord? While it is one trait that has kept many a captain and ship’s counselor awake at night, this sort of Discord will do the same in all the best possible ways! Stop by at https://discord.gg/86ENTZ5…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Monday 25 July 2016 @ 00:30
Category: General News
Challenge
Hey Guys,
In looking at the saved logs we are going to hit over 70 quality logs this month! So, I'd like to issue a challenge to you guys. My report is due on 31 July by 1159 pm UTC (659 pm US EST, 559 PM CST, 359 PM PST).…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Sunday 24 July 2016 @ 21:32
Category: General News
We Grow Again!
Hey All,
As the subject says we have grown again :D. Please join me in welcoming Lieutenant Saveena (Sav) Tillatix, coming to us from Triton Seabase, who will be taking over as the CAG, or Commander Air Group. Welcome to Merlin, Lieutenant!
Andrew
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Friday 22 July 2016 @ 01:46
Category: General News
Saved Joint Posts
Hey Guys,
Over the last couple of weeks I've noticed that saved joint posts are getting resaved upwards of 5/6 times, but, there's either no additions or it's just a word or 2 changed. I just assume that it's everyone checking for additional posts. There's a little trick to do…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Thursday 21 July 2016 @ 17:20
Category: General News
Mobile Site Skin
Hey Guys,
I did some looking around and I found a skin for use with our site that has been made to work on mobile platforms (ie your phone). I'm not going to change the main site, however, this skin is in the system.
Once you log in, scroll down…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Thursday 21 July 2016 @ 06:08
Category: Website Update
Chief Science Officer
Greets,
Please join me in welcoming Lieutenant jg Zitla who will be taking up Chief Science Officer! Welcome to the madness!
Andrew
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Wednesday 20 July 2016 @ 21:44
Category: General News
Second Officer
Hey All,
I know, lots of news items, but we have a lot going on ;D. We've been growing pretty steadily the last month or so, so, I talked with Cale and we decided the has gotten big enough to have a Second Officer position. We're happy to announce that…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Sunday 17 July 2016 @ 23:41
Category: General News
New Position in the Task Group
Hey Guys,
This doesn't affect the sim itself very much, however, I wanted to share anyway :). I have been officially appointed as the Task Group Senior Ship Commanding Officer (pretty much the Task Group XO), which means a little more paperwork for me hehe. I'm excited about it and…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Sunday 17 July 2016 @ 02:56
Category: General News
Mission Days
Hey Guys,
An idea was brought to me a few days ago, and initially I wasn't sure about it, but after some looking at the logs I think the idea is a good one. That is to bring Mission Days in rather than just writing current, backpost etc. So, MD0…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Saturday 16 July 2016 @ 02:19
Category: Out of Character
Our Sim
Hey Guys,
I have shared the log stats in the chat, but, I wanted to share something else as well. The Merlin is starting to be known not just in Obsidian Fleet, but, other Fleets as well. We have had at least one recommendation to a simmer who has contacted…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Friday 15 July 2016 @ 05:44
Category: General News
XO
Hey Guys,
So, Commander Kovac has had to be let go from the sim, unfortunately. However, I have filled the spot with one of our own. Please join me in congratulating Lieutenant Llewellyn on his appointment to XO! IC this will take effect after the current plot and the subplot…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Thursday 14 July 2016 @ 21:08
Category: General News
My Silence
Hey Guys,
The last 2 and a half days I've been quiet and wanted to apologize for that, I'm not disappearing. I had some job interviews and life also threw me a few nasty curve balls. All is squared away for me though, I will be replying tonight :)
Andrew
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Thursday 14 July 2016 @ 00:18
Category: General News
New Rank Images
Hey All,
I put together a set of new rank images - found some blanks on kurorpg and combined some of them and used a combo of pips I had done with the duty uniform and kuro pips to make the collars match OF's uniforms in the OF wiki. I…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Sunday 10 July 2016 @ 10:33
Category: Website Update
Ending and Posting Joint Posts
Hey Guys,
So, something I would like to address is ending and posting joint posts. I went through some of the materials from the Academy and for consistency sake there's a few things that will need to be added in logs (things I need to start doing myself even):
All…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Friday 8 July 2016 @ 22:53
Category: Sim Announcement
Mission Notes
Hey Guys,
I updated the mission notes section. What is listed is from the Evaluations JP, who's working with who. Science, you up a lot here ;) this is just for if you get stuck on what to log refer to this and it should give you a direction to…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Thursday 7 July 2016 @ 02:28
Category: General News
One Last Thing
Sorry All, forgot this [my brains fried after being out today lol].
One thing I love doing is having "connection" to the IC universe as a whole. What I mean is sims log or have plots with pretty major events, events that most likely would be heard about around the…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Saturday 2 July 2016 @ 02:31
Category: General News
Monthly Stats
Hey Guys,
While I don't think the stats are the most important part of the sim I did want to share this. In May we had 48 logs and everyone was logging at least twice a week. This last month we had 45 and everyone was logging at least 4…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Saturday 2 July 2016 @ 02:01
Category: Out of Character
We Grow Again!
Greets All,
Please join me in welcoming Lieutenant JG Davina Lidox the new Chief Strategic Operations Officer and Lieutenant JG David Tan the new Chief Security/Tactical Officer! Welcome to you both :D
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Wednesday 29 June 2016 @ 18:57
Category: General News
Silver Unit of Merit!
Hey Guys,
I just got the announcement for the unit of merit awards for May. The Merlin has gotten silver! Here is what the nomination said:
USS Merlin, TF72
I am going to nominate the USS Merlin this month, they may not have the biggest crew and they may not…
Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Monday 27 June 2016 @ 19:20
Category: Sim Announcement