A short time ago we celebrated the 3 year anniversary of the beginning of the MineTrek project, and the Shipyards forum. Today we celebrate the beginnings of a new era for MineTrek...
In the above image (and indeed on the map itself @ dynmap.minetrek.net) you can see pretty clearly the massive ships dominating the lower left quadrant, the greatest of which is none other than the Enterprise J, imported thanks to the amazing work of our admin, mheller3000!
Off to the right you can see a huge assortment of various Romulan, Klingon, Cardassian, and even Ferengi vessels. Someone recently joked that the Ferengi vessels should be quite easy to build, since they're bound to be 95% cargo space! (See, I do it too, just like I said! I'm not clever...)
And if you have a particularly keen eye you'll notice that not all of these ships are from Star Trek! What? Say it isn't so! But indeed we have branched off to include vessels from Mass Effect, Macross, Halo, and others.
We've also seen some changes server side such as the addition of more ranks to allow a few more promotion opportunities. The server has been updated to 1.6.2 of course, and the plan is to update it to 1.7.2+ sometime in the next month or three. Meanwhile we've got resource packs (download the resource pack) to update and dozens of ships to build!
So how is the Enterprise D coming along, the blog has been away for a year so a lot has been left without coverage. I'll skip the details but the ship has been opened up into split decks to allow easy access and much faster work locating and building. Decks 42-34 are finished and 33-30 are nearly done, so we'll be moving upward into the neck of the ship soon. I know the neck area is quite thin so we'll probably finish it quite quickly if we focus (there are plenty of distractions of late!)
Sundays are now the official "Build the Enterprise NCC-1701-D" day of the week, and while its not a requirement, or even actively encouraged, I'd just like to see a little more love sent the old girl's way. If nothing else comes from it, I'll have guilted myself into building her on Sundays! :P
Check back soon, expect to see some new "Check This Out" episodes as well as some videos in the not too distant future! :D
*salute*
-Bluegobln
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