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A thought on ‘fleet identity’

Posted Aug. 5, 2019, 11:15 a.m. by Admiral Joe P (Librarian / TECH Chairman) (Joe P)

Posted by Tony Findora in A thought on ‘fleet identity’

Posted by Fleet Captain Adam W. (Former Ruler of the Club) in A thought on ‘fleet identity’

Posted by Robert Archer in A thought on ‘fleet identity’
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As a newish (sorta) member I have begun reading some of the various splinters and branches of the discussion regarding fleet commanders and their roles.

So, using the form suggested, there is a small suggestion I would like to make.

Problem: There are often references made to the various fleets having their own identity, character and history and so on which to myself is simply not visible and mainly appears to live in the memory of longer term members than myself.

I personally like the idea of each fleet having a visible and tangible character but I believe part of problem in making this more apparent lies in the way the site is navigated.

I may well be the only member that does this but I suspect this is not the case. I access the site almost exclusively via smartphone. To navigate between content (my ships) I press the ‘fleets’ tab which gives me a drop down list of the fleets. From this I select the fleet my ship is in, presenting a further drop down list of ship names, from which I select my ship of choice.

Thus, until very recently I was unaware that each fleet even has it’s own page, as navigating via my smartphone bypasses this automatically. Thus to me, visually, a fleet is basically a sub menu header used to group ships and nothing more.

Suggestion: If reviving ‘fleet culture’ and individual character, history, etc is considered important, I would suggest the club modify how the site is navigated via smartphone to a model where selecting a fleet takes you directly to the home page for that fleet rather than simply a drop down menu of ships. Individual access to each ship can then be presented on that page alongside interesting information such as fleet history, vacancies, articles on personalities, ships, etc.

Cons: would slow navigation of the site.

Pros: would increase visibility of the fleet as an entity in it’s own right.

Just my two pennies worth, from the point of view of a newish/inexperienced member with only basic techie knowledge :)

  • Ffi

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Thanks Ffion for contributing the idea!

If we’re going to do it, I’d want to know there’s some buy-in from the FComms that there will be something that occassionally gets updated on the Fleet MOTD’s. To me it appears they don’t really change. No one other than myself has made a post on any of the fleet boards in the last year. If these are pages and boards that I’m not going to miss anything if I click on them once or twice a year, then I’d rather have the faster navigation and click on the fleet pages when I want to.

Adam

This makes sense. If we don’t actively maintain fleet identity, what’s the point? I know when I was afcomm6, I tried seeing if the captains of the fleet wanted to try to do something on the Black Rock to include people from all over to interact. Almost like a sim or game. Some CO’s never responded, and others weren’t thrilled. It was very mixed. I don’t even know if anyone paid attention to the fleet pages other than myself.

I don’t know if other fleets are like that, or if anyone else has had similar experience, but it would make sense to do the switch if we decide to maintain fleet identity.

-Tony

I think that particular time and that particular fleet were unique. You tried to do that after a previous effort that previous staff really spent a lot of time hyping up and trying to cajole people into participating in, which sounded like it was going to be a very structured experience including everybody. We all got there and it wasn’t a very structured experience and lots of people didn’t really know what to do. So when you came around trying to offer something that sounded similar, people were negatively predisposed to it.

Joe


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