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|January 15 2009, 09:31 PM
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Re: Deck Plans VI: The Undiscovered Bowling Alley
Besides, I'm beginning to agree more with the notion that escape pods are not all they're cracked up to be, and that bailing out of the ship in almost every circumstance is a very bad idea, and in those very few circumstances where leaving the ship is the better option, you're pretty much screwed anyway.
|January 17 2009, 12:50 AM
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Re: Deck Plans VI: The Undiscovered Bowling Alley
Regarding TOS lifeboats, other than very well hidden TNG type units (which I have some doubts about there are three main alternatives:
1. Inflatable units (as in some TMP fan manuals) to be towed by shuttles.
2. Shuttle bay mounted ejectable units.
Presumably at the inward most area of the bay, presumably ejectable (like Saratoga's in DS9)
3. All turbolifts serve as escape pods, as in the "Enterprise Officer's Manual" (again a fan product).
While I am not a major proponent of TOS lifepods, I do suggest studying all the alternatives before assuming there simply are none. Its even possible that all these methods are available, as would be the 'ship/saucer as lifeboat' scenario.
> I put absolutely no stock in the "naval construction
> contract" feldercarb, especially since it doesn't fit all
> the other registries we've seen.
OK, I'll add that to the "don't agree" list.
> It's a registry number, i.e., about the same as a
> car's license plate number. It has nothing to do
> with any kind of construction contract (why the
> hell would you advertise something like that
> anyway?).
Its a somewhat different way of doing what modern navies would call "hull numbers" (BB-67, etc.), except making it non-type specific. It is a registry, that's what its called, and except in the most extraoridnary of situations (1701A) we never see it change (unless we count TNG slip-ups). A ship is born with it, and generally dies with the same number. It gets the official designation when the project is funded, hence "construction contract" is appropriate.
> What mainly indicates to me that the Constellation
> is of a slightly different, and older, class than the
> Enterprise, is
Well, we agree on a few things. Now others can disagree with that.
Since you disagree with the only premise that might be helpful I could drop the thread here and not provide any suggestions to answer your question. But I'll stick my neck out and provide what I can:
The fan produced "U.S.S. Enterprise Heavy Cruiser Evolution Blueprints" presents two externally identical (internally different) classes, similar to the Daedalus design, with the following NCC/name designations:
1000 Horizon (Class Ship)
1001 Discovery
1002 Santa Maria
1003 Mathew
1004 Gauss
1005 San Raphael
1006 Scotia
1007 Nimrod
1008 Enterprise (Cancelled)
1009 Aurora (Cancelled)
1010 Beagle (Cancelled)
1011 Norge
1012 Meteor
1013 Victoria
1014 Golden Hind
1015 Yorktown (Cancelled)
1016 Half Moon
1017 Constellation
1018 Eendracht (Cancelled)
1370 Archon (Class Ship)
1371 Republic
1372 Independence
1373 Adventure
1374 Resolution
1375 Roebuck
1376 Southern Cross
1377 Vega (Cancelled)
1378 Fram (Cancelled)
1379 Guda (Cancelled)
1380 Challenger (Cancelled)
Inclusion of the known names and registry numbers indicates that these ships "were" converted from this design to the Constitution/Achernar specifications (pilot/production versions, more or less). Normally cancelled contracts are considered to be built as some other class at some point. Today, with our 20-20 hindsight, the overall design is fine but the warp engines seem far too modern (i.e., TOS) for inclusion on such an early design. On the other hand, the spheroid design is seen at the end of TNG in "All Good Things" indicating there is plenty of life left in it, at least for small or auxillery vessels. The Space Flight Chronology gives a completely different design.
Licensed and fan sources have produced their own ideas about the sister ships of the Constellation
1010 Pulsar USS Andromeda website (defunct)
1016 Defiant Star Fleet Battles
(now, thanks to ENT, apparently not the one we were familiar with, but a destroyed/scrapped predecessor)
1018 Goeben Star Fleet Battles
1019 Eximer Star Fleet Battles
1020 Discovery Prime Directive - Federation Sourcebook
Looking at the possibly similar USS Republic (another alleged Constitution class ship with an earlier registry) we get the following the Baton Rouge class as a possible origin:
Baton Rouge (NCC-1300) Internet - Neale Davidson
USS Moscow - Lawrence Miller - Star Fleet Tactical Database Series 2
http://flare.solareclipse.net/cgi2/u...6/2431/2.html? USS Baton Rouge - David Kroth
Harry - Titan Fleet Yards
???? Baton Rouge
1357 Moscow SFC/FASA/"Woody" on finescale.com
1371 Republic Canon/Licensed
Converted to Republic/Constitution/Achernar class
1378 Tehran FASA/"Woody" on finescale.com (corrected swapped #s)
???? Glasgow FASA
???? Hokkaido FASA
???? Savannah FASA
1390-1406 Baton Rouges (17 ships2, 10 will be refitted to Lafayette) Harry - Titan Fleet Yards
1411-1430 Lafayettes (20 ships, 1425-1430 will be refitted to Nordenskjld) Harry - Titan Fleet Yards
1431-1450 Ashantis (20 ships) Harry - Titan Fleet Yards
[Additional information on these last three items would be helpful as the files are no longer available]
http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/709/nord-mosc.jpg )
Allegedly the Nordenskjold class from the "Federation Starship Recognition Chart" (by Aridas Sofia & Todd Guenther) is related to the Baton Rouge and has NCC-1427 & NCC-1430 as registries
And the alternative, or related, Republic Class:
(the background images)
Refitted to Constitution (by fan):
Refitted to System Defence Command cruisers:
1371 Republic Canon/Licensed
Converted to Constitution/Achernar class
1372 Reshadije Star Fleet Battles
Converted to Constitution/Achernar class
1373 Ramilles Star Fleet Battles
Converted to Constitution/Achernar class
???? Revenge Star Fleet Battles
Later used as National Guard cruisers
???? Warspite Star Fleet Battles
Later used as National Guard cruisers
???? Tuqareg Star Fleet Battles
Later used as National Guard cruisers
???? Stalwart Star Fleet Battles
Later used as National Guard cruisers
I'm a little spotty on the fine details here, as I can't access any of the source material at the moment. "The Final Reflection" may add a few more names to the list as the Baton Rouge class. Registries aside, the Baton Rouge (Rick Sternbach/Spaceflight Chronology), Republic (Star Fleet Battles), and Constitution classes, as various people have conceived them, are somewhat different types of "starships" despite basic design similarities. The Republic has, I believe, been depicted in comics as a Baton Rouge class. SFB's Republic class is more similar to the TOS Enterprise, but noticibly different. Is it possible that all these designs represent a series of upgrades? I suppose, but its a bit hard to swallow. The "USS Valiant" animated 3D fan film project depicts the USS Valiant as a Baton Rouge class (NCC-1102) using an alternate fan design for the secondary hull (a side view by Sternbach wasn't published). This registry is harder to "sync up" with the others. Retconning it is an option. Graphics from their website also show images of a Mann Class USS Valiant (NCC-1223), presumably an earlier vessel of the name. In comparison to the heavy cruisers of the time the Baton Rouge class is very large, and either represents a battleship, "heavy explorer", or advanced cruiser (somewhat similar to comparing Excelsior to 1701A). The variety of names indicates the latter, though it likely functioned as the former. The primary hull disc is actually larger than that of 1701 (assuming the more common of its size estimates). Woody's 1/1000 Baton Rouge model really was excellent, was different from the other available designs, and assuming that anyone is interested in this topic I'll have to find a place to upload the images.
"Starship Prototype" mentions a Constitution class fore-runner, the Korolev class, and gives a registry number of NCC-367. This is an awfully low number to be a direct predecessor, so either the registry should be considered incorrect and retconned (1367 ??) or it could be considered an early example of a design reminiscent of the Constitution class. Additionally, TNG has a Korolev class and in general class names should not be repeated.
Just a brief mention.
Joshua Bell created the Declaration class based on some of Jefferies concept drawings for 1701. He gave the lead ship the registry NCC-1000, and included several other ships and registries which are all problematic for other reasons (otherwise identified as different classes, perhaps from other eras, or non starships... civilian or otherwise) -- including the Constellation. His design was extrapolated by others into the past and future in the form of variants, one of which uses standard "Achernar" type components (with the name Declaration but a registry of 1031), the other uses a TOS type primary hull, secondary hull somewhat similar to the Daedalus, with Daedalus type engines. Obviously this is a different class than the terran pre-UFP starliner from the Spaceflight Chronology and the ST:TMP rec room images.
We note the LUG RPG's ellipsoid/spheroid primary hull Ranger Class, which may have appeared in at least one TOS novel. It shares the same design lineage of the Declaration class.
781 Ranger (text)
811 Bastion
915 Ranger (artwork)
966 Orleans
982 Sal'koth
1000 Carolina
1035 Explorer
1223 Valiant
The two different registries for the Ranger could be explained away as a second ship being commissioned after the first was lost. The Carolina is often referenced as the ship from "Friday's Child", but my memory is that this was supposed to have been a slow freighter, not a starhip, so the repeatedly made connection seems invalid. These sources also indicate that the Valiant (NCC-1223) is also the same class, which is somewhat reminicent of the Mann class, which a Valiant of the same registry has also been indicated to exist by other sources. Assuming that this isn't all a hodge-podge of confusion over classes, registries, and names, here we can speculate that the USS Ranger is either (1) an earlier design (NCC-781) unrelated to later NCC numbers or classes, (2) a upgrade of the Mann class (explaining the same Valiant's presence in both classes), (3) an independent mid-era class (NCC-915 -- not NCC-315, which appears to be a misreading), (4) Perhaps the Mann, Ranger, Horizon/Archon, early/mid/late Declaration(s), and TOS-depicted Constellation/Republic are all the same class at different stages of various conversions and upgrades. It boggles the mind what the Starfleet engineering staff is asked to do!!!
As correlations, we can look at modern 'Treknology' fan-based designs of similar registy and possibly era as USS Constellation. The Starfleet Museum's ( starfleet-museum.org ) Asia (NCC-945, 991, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1073, 1074, 1105, 1106), Lancaster (NCC-1209 to 1258), and the later Valley Forge (NCC-1463-1506) classes can all be seen as possibly related to Constellation's technology base. Bernd Schneider's ex-astris-scientia.org offers us the similar Mercury class (NCC-1288, 1296, 1360, 1361, 1362, 1424, 1425, 1426, 1427, 1428, 1440, 1441, 1532, 1533, 1534, 1535, 1576, 1577, 1578). trekmania.net (and treknology.org) offers the similar Explorer class (NCC-943) and treknology.org presents the Yorktown classes (NX-1470).
Asia (2204 AD) is an advanced technology exploration cruiser, Lancaster (2205 AD) is a medium carrier, Valley Forge (2227 AD) is more military oriented than dual-purpose (defense/research) vessel. The Mercury class (2219 AD) is described as a smaller version of the Asia (making it a medium cruiser version of the research vessel, if we believe the depiction of its decks). The Explorer class (2196 AD -- the date pleads for a retcon), and given its stated length it seems a good contender for something that could be converted to Constitution/Achernar specifications. The Yorktown (2230 AD) seems to be the dual-purpose companion to the more specialized Asia and Lancaster classes, but its extended primary hull is problematical. Once it is date corrected, the large Baton Rouge class is also contemporaneous with these vessels (i.e., 2230s on).
If we assume that the Constellation was a fairly straight-forward conversion of an existing class, what might it have looked like? The variety of the known names associated with the Constellation and Republic could be considered an indicator that this class was named after famous ships and therefore -- like the Constitution class -- was considered a heavy cruiser: this has implications for its overall design. For this class, I would speculate that removing the outer ring of Shaw's Constitution class pressure compartments and the "command blister" (underneath the bridge) would give a logical later "upgrade" path to a ship much more similar to the Constitution class (though other modifications would be necessary) while making it smaller and different. Adding in the engines and secondary hull from the earlier version of the "Declaration" class (NCC-1031) might be appropriate -- but using an Asia class or similar hull might be reasonable as well, while keeping a Constitution class arrangement to the components to differentiate it from the Declaration class. Removing TOS production era details would also be appropriate, and non-class-specific design cues and detailing should be similar to the Starfleet Museum's Asia class (they seem to be from a similar time period). Of the ships described above, the Explorer class might be the best fit.
So, which path is correct? If we go by proximity to canonicity, the Ranger class should be the fountain-head, by merit of its licensed (and somewhat Paramount sheep-herded) roots. If we go by seniority, the Horizon/Archon classes from the "Enterprise Evolution" blueprints would win. If we go by association with design lineage, the Declaration class should win because of its origin in Jeffries' sketches -- with the Baton Rouge in second place (for the Republic) due to its creation by Rick Sternbach. If we go by most logical design for retrofitting the Yorktown or Explorer classes seem the best candidates. Or we can just manufacture one out of thin air.
A secondary issue indicates that many of the more modern sources have emulated Paramount's decision to go with a non-consequtive Jein-like system of registry numbers for classes. as opposed to Franz Joseph, FASA, ADB (SFB, etc), and many "classical" Treknologists that emulated them. This makes determining appropriate registry numbers for specific ships next to impossible, problematic on a class basis, and difficult even on the basis of a given timeline. On the other hand the Franz Joseph placement of DD/SC escorts at 500-600 and Tugs at 3800-3900 can also be interpreted as somewhat capricious in terms of placement in a timeline. Possibly his intention was to have escort vessels be numbered 0-999, cruisers to be numbered 1000-1999 (in keeping with Jeffries' idea of the 17th cruiser design), larger ships perhaps to be numbered from 2000-2999, and perhaps support vessels being numbered 3000-3999. At the least one would suspect that a Vulcan was responsible for the idea. Early Treknologists didn't seem to make this distinction in their own efforts to populate the Star Trek universe, and today's tend to scatter around numbers over fairly wide ranges. As they have been taught to do by the canon. But there are exceptions.
Third, some of today's Treknologists often seem oblivious to what work has come before (and the problem is not limited to fans) and the number of NCC number "collisions" continues to grow. Efforts have been made to explain these as renaming ships, conversions, or changed "Contact Code" numbers but they have largely been unsatisfactory. Finally, to some extent, creators of designs have a tendancy to be over abundant in the proliferation of their individual ships. Franz Joseph was the first to do so: enumerating the original Constitution class, then adding the Bon Homme Richard class, then the dam burst with the Achernar and Tikopai classes, not to mention the hoards of escorts and tugs. ADB actually pruned his list excessively (for example, only a relative handful of tugs survive in their version of the Star Trek universe, as they are tactically advantageous and would cause an imbalance), but went on to be more generous when enumerating its own creations, at least in some cases. FASA created tremendous fleets of many classes of ships, but generally didn't provide full registration lists. Other Treknologists have tended to be more conservative, but with the spread of Trek-based creativity to the internet the problem continues to crop up. Someone might make a very good 3D model of a new ship, and in their description indicate that there are 100 of the things. Which might not be much of a problem in the large scale registry numbers of the TNG era but in earlier periods it becomes more and more difficult to shoe-horn them all in. It becomes increasingly difficult to take the author's assignments of NCC numbers seriously, because of the collisions, conflicts, and contradictions (as discussed in this post). The problem is not limited to fan-based material alone, as *canon* sources contradict each other and seem oblivious to the licensed and purportedly semi-official material they sell to the public.
I had a devil of a time reformatting this after the BBS code got done with it. Its still not back to where I wanted it to be as the board is overriding my formatting (no leading spaces???). I apologize for any errors but I am short on time today.
For what its worth,
|January 17 2009, 08:18 PM
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Re: Deck Plans VI: The Undiscovered Bowling Alley
|January 17 2009, 08:45 PM
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Re: Deck Plans VI: The Undiscovered Bowling Alley
Do youself a favor and simply ban the word "naval" from your lexicon when discussing this stuff. It'll be less painful that way.
|January 17 2009, 10:11 PM
Lieutenant Commander
Re: Deck Plans VI: The Undiscovered Bowling Alley
|January 18 2009, 01:15 AM
Fleet Captain
Re: Deck Plans VI: The Undiscovered Bowling Alley
|January 18 2009, 01:44 AM
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Re: Deck Plans VI: The Undiscovered Bowling Alley
For the purposes of this project, I'm going with what I think is the best interpretation of what we saw in the various Star Trek shows.
These registry codes do not translate into anything, any more than the real life counterparts do.
N = Federation registry
AR = Earth, Civilian Research
SP = Vulcan, Science
X = Experimental Prototype
CC = Starfleet Starship
CV = Starfleet Timeship
I'll probably cook up more as I feel they're needed.
|January 18 2009, 02:14 AM
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Re: Deck Plans VI: The Undiscovered Bowling Alley
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|January 18 2009, 02:33 AM
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Re: Deck Plans VI: The Undiscovered Bowling Alley
|January 19 2009, 02:42 PM
Re: Deck Plans VI: The Undiscovered Bowling Alley
Perhaps "Auxiliary Reserve" or something like that? The Vico might have been on lease to a civilian outfit because Starfleet didn't acutely need her. The Raven clearly was on a scientific errand in the opinion of her owners, but Starfleet might have disagreed.
Or if not "Reserve", to imply nonactive/surplus status, then at least the "Auxiliary" part, and definitely not the "Research" part. Perhaps Auxiliary vessels come in a number of categories, sorted out by who's doing the auxiliary work. The USN has the USNS for most of its auxiliary work, but Starfleet might have more players there; "R" might be the code for a specific organization, or then for a region of registration, in this case quite possibly Earth.
Whether the NSP-registered transport T'Pau had anything to do with science is debatable, too. The Okudagram specified "Vulcan National Merchant Fleet".
Timo Saloniemi
|January 20 2009, 01:27 AM
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Re: Deck Plans VI: The Undiscovered Bowling Alley
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Apologies for the delay,
|January 20 2009, 07:23 PM
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Re: Deck Plans VI: The Undiscovered Bowling Alley
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|January 21 2009, 01:11 AM
Vice Admiral
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Re: Deck Plans VI: The Undiscovered Bowling Alley
Like I said, this'll all be worked out somehow into something resembling logic, or at least consistent with what was shown on screen.
|January 21 2009, 03:03 PM
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Re: Deck Plans VI: The Undiscovered Bowling Alley
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|January 21 2009, 04:53 PM
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Re: Deck Plans VI: The Undiscovered Bowling Alley
And the registry business is stuff that'll go in the Technical Primer. The only registries of any importance to the blueprints all start with NCC, regardless of what it means.
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Christmas Update: HOME!
Blogging has been slow recently. The semester ended, which means teaching ended for me. I will be posting up my reflections on teaching in due course.
At present, however, my wife, son, and I are home with our families (both are families live in the same town) in South Dakota. It was an uneventful trip here, save for the fact my son got sick the first night of the trip in the car, about 30 minutes outside Waco, and continued throwing up nearly 10 times in the car and hotel room later that night. The diagnosis is a bit anomalous to us still, but I am glad to report that aside from a little cold, he seems fine now. But let me tell you, sick cards are one thing, but sick kids in the car is another. I felt so bad for him; we stopped at a gas station outside Fort Worth to clean him up after one of his episodes (and he was acting FINE, which was bizarre), and he said to me and my wife, "I'm all wet . . . I sorry." Coming from a 2 yr old, that was too precious. We told him there was no reason to apologize, but it was too adorable. Things like that are both funny and heartwarming.
Thus far, being home is as wonderful as always. My parents have done their usual onslaught of Christmas baking: special K bars, fudge, Christmas cookies, 12 gallons of chex mix (the best thing ever!), croissant rolls, garlic seasoned oyster crackers . . . . and more to come!
We did Christmas with my wife's family this evening. My son made out like a bandit . . . a Mickey Mouse book, an accessory pack for his new toy train we are getting him, a memory game, SpongeBob pajamas, the Elefun board game, a cd of kid's songs, a play tool set, and more I can't even remember. And he still has the stuff from my wife and I, as well as my parents and sister to open! He also helped pass out the gifts. Two-year olds are hardwired to be helpful. And what did I get, you ask? $50 Amazon gift cards from the in-laws, and a pack of wrestling trading cards (still sealed, and it will remain that way!) from my sisters-in-law. And, again, we still have my side of the family to do Christmas with yet.
I hope you all are enjoying this time of year, and I wish you all safe and sane travels!
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About a month ago I posted HERE that I had been allowed, by my wife and parents (both of whom are footing the bill for this) to purchase my Christmas gift early: an iPod Touch.
I very much enjoyed the touch, and it made me want an iPhone desperately. A few glitches, though: 1) We are loyal Verizon customers, unwilling to switch to AT&T . . . Verizon has always gone above and beyond for us; 2) I deeply lamented the fact that the Touch did not have internet access at all times, but only when I could find an open connection, which was rarely, or when at a 'hot spot'; 3) Price . . . it was a hunk of change for no phone, camera, and unlimited internet capabilities. I was, however, still very happy with it, and was on it every day and night religiously.
Then, my wife received a text message from Verizon saying we qualified for an early upgrade. Curious, I called and asked precisely what the discount would be. Long story short, I returned the iPod touch to Best Buy earlier this week, went to my local Verizon store and got . . . the new DROID. It's only been out about a month, but this thing is incredible. I love having email anywhere. And internet anywhere. There are some great apps, and I trust many more to come. My favorites are the barcode scanners so far, which use the camera to either take a picture of a book cover or scan the barcode and then find it online. I know these aren't anything new to iPhone users, but to a loyal Verizon customer, this is pretty sweet. Loving the DROID.
Explaining my Absence
Never fear, loyal readers. All is well. Things are just busy, as you might expect at this time of the year. Yes, the holidays draw nigh. But so does the end of the semester. At present, I am finishing up a stack of my student's final essays; they also have their final exams tomorrow (wish them luck!), so the next few days will go to grading those and then reporting final grades. Add to that dissertation work and writing, preparing a trip home for Christmas, and a host of other things, and I haven't had much time to blog productively about things recently. That will, though, change soon. No worries.
In the meantime, check out my SBL posts below, and do comment.
I hope you all are well!
My New Toy!! (or, Christmas comes early)
Yesterday I decided, finally, to break down and beg my family to let me get a Christmas gift early. What did I want, you ask? An Ipod touch (I didn't get an iphone because I have Verizon, and yes, I know about the Droid, but we aren't eligible to upgrade for another year and I can't spend $500 on a phone). So far, I love it. I was up until 2 am playing with it, downloading apps. I've gone app crazy! I am really looking forward to having it in New Orleans, assuming there will be wireless internet available at the conference site as there has been in past years.
And so I ask you, friends, to suggest to me the best FREE apps to get, be they games, document viewers, language sources, Bibles, etc. Suggest away!
On Being Frustrated
The last few weeks have seen a string of events that have left me frustrated. Things have simply not been going in my favor (not that they always did before, mind you; perhaps Deuteronomistic theology is at work and I should inspect my life to check my adherence to Torah . . . let's just hope I at least come out unlike Manasseh!). Here's a bit of what's been going on . . .
-Two weeks ago we were accidentally locked out of our house. Of course, we called a locksmith, assured it would take no time at all to pick the lock. Well, four hours later (outside with a tired 2 yr old, mind you), three locksmith companies, and five locksmiths later we got in our house . . . through a window. Sigh.
-This past weekend my wife and I set out to replace our leaky kitchen faucet. Upon taking the faucet off we attempted to remove the handles to clean out any debris. The handles, however, were stuck, so in our wisdom we hammered them off with a hammer. That broke our old faucet. So we went to Home Depot to buy a new faucet. Upon returning home we finished disconnecting the old one from the wall, only to reveal that one of the attached pipes was so brittle that the threading part broke off. We could hook the new sink up, but we had no pressure at all, and the leak was now coming out of the wall. We called a plumber and was told a simple house call would be $150 on the weekend. So after a day with no water (we obviously had to shut the water off at the street to keep it from shooting out of the wall in the kitchen) we finally found a plumber whose house call on the weekends was not so exorbitant. Two hours later and $300 later we have a new faucet that doesn't drip . . . but I'd rather have a mildly drippy faucet and $300 in my pocket.
-Today daycare called and said my son was pushed by another child, resulting in a huge bump and scrape on his forehead and some scraping around one of his eyes. He seems fine, but I don't have a lot of patience or tolerance (none, actually) for things happening to my son. He has also recently been getting bitten by a certain child at daycare. He came up to me a little bit ago and said he had an "owie" on his head, and then he said "daddy kiss it." Children are such a blessing. And there is no better feeling than being able to make your child feel better.
There are some other things, but these are three biggies . . . leaving me . . . frustrated.
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I recently took delivery of my Model S. I paid in full online as requested. When I took delivery of the vehicle the Tesla delivery mangers took me through all the features of the car as usual. (including highlighting the charge limit function. "90% for every day use, 100% for road trips" etc) A few days later my car would charge past 70% or so. I emailed Tesla service and by the next morning the problem was fixed and I got a phone call apologizing for the inconvenience. (amazing service right?)
About 2 weeks later, the car would not charge past the 70% mark again. I called Service again and they told me that my car never charged past that amount ever. At that time, the current charge level was around 85% since I had just completed a charge to 90%. I told them to look at the car data and sure enough they verified that it was at 85%. "That's weird" the tech said. He verified that I had the 60Kw-LITE version (the original 40kw order) which I said yes and he explained that's how they limit it to the 40Kw. If that is true, then why did the delivery managers explain I should only charge to 90%? Why did the service department 2 weeks prior tell me they "fixed" the problem and I was again able to set 90% or 100% charge? Why does my car have the 60Kw emblem on the back (apparently the 40Kw should not have this) As I just found out today, Tesla delivered me a 60Kw car, realized they screwed up, and then put a limit on it without telling me anything!
To TOP IT ALL OFF, they called me and told me that they screwed up and did not charge me enough. Now they want an additional $4900!
Has this happened to anyone else out there! I cant believe such a well run company that created such an amazing product is this sloppy in their delivery process...I would tweet Elon since he is so good at responding to his followers but im sure he has bigger things to worry about.
So did you pay for a 40kwh or a 60kwh?
The 40s weren't automatically upgraded to 60kwh for free...you're getting the battery size you paid for.
If you paid for a 40, you're entitled to that much battery capacity.
You didn't really say whether the $4900 was for the battery or other components, but the sales contract is the final word on both what you're entitled to, and what you must pay for it.
It's kind of like the bank accidentally depositing $5,000 into your account. You get excited about the free money, and then pissed when they inevitably discover and correct their mistake.
The $4900 was for CA Sales Tax. They forgot to add in the tax to the price they asked me to pay. The sales contract was not ready at the time I took delivery of the car, so they are asking me to sign it now.
It is correct that I Ordered and Paid for the 40KW pack. No arguments there. My issue is that they walked me through and delivered me the 60Kw pack and then went through the process of limiting it, UN-limiting it and apologizing, and re limiting it all with out informing me about what was going on. Since I had the walk through that explained the 90% limits etc, I had no idea that the 40Kw were limited at 72%. I assumed that what I saw as a full charge already incorporated that limit into it and I would be setting based on that.
They f'd up, no doubt. But it is an uncommon mistake -- only one other time have I heard of them delivering the wrong car -- and it looks like ultimately there is no harm done, no?
Wow sounds like you could have gotten away with a free upgrade to the full 60 if you hadn't called them.
We are all human, and no matter how careful we are, mistakes can still slip through the cracks.
We all have to pay taxes eventually, sooner or later. For example in your pay check, you can either pay in advance with "Tax Holding" throughout the year, or at the time of filing.
Just count it as a good mistake as you could drive off first without paying $4,900 in advance.
40kw and 60kw has been discussed in many threads already, so there should be no surprise to you.
Like ricardo said, you had an advantage and you gave it up when you called Tesla.
Your car does have 60kw battery so the 60kw emblem does not lie. It's just that you can't use all of its capacity until you pay up for it.
Sounds like everyone thought they were giving you a true 60 at delivery (charging limits and rear emblem). Out of curiousity, what is the 8th digit in your VIN? I think all the 40s have a "C" even though we really have a 60 kWh battery pack (this 8th digit would be a "G" if you ordered a 60 outright).
You got the right car, but with an emblem that shouldn't be there and the wrong version of the software. Sounds like they corrected one of the two at least. Good luck getting past paying sales tax. I pay mine at the DMV next week (in AZ).
@Longhorn92 - The 8th digit in Vin is a "G"
I am not surprised at the "G" there in the VIN, since there is no 40KW version of the car anyway, it's just a software setting. So they made a mistake, but you have to pay the tax, not they "want" more money! It's a bummer to have to come up with more money.
I am curious if you will get superior battery life than most because of the battery rotation leaving more batteries at rest and lower use. It would seem even though you cant use the full range of the battery, you would still get the benefits of having the bigger battery itself, and for free.
@email@example.com TM clearly messed-up the delivery, but I think the title of your post "Wrong Car Delivered" is really misleading. They delivered what you ordered, not the wrong car, they just had poor communication. Since it's a public thread, I would suggest you rename it to say their delivery process was confusing/misleading. From what you wrote, however, they definitely delivered the right car, but their customer service was off. There is a big difference between that and the title of your post.
Two upgrades from 40kWh are possible.
1. From 40 to 60.
2. To enable SuperCharging after #1.
Both cost money; #1 is $10K, #2 is (?)$2K.
Boy got to drive a 60kW for free for a few weeks and got away with delaying the payment on taxes. Sounds like you got a great deal. Wish they would have accidentally gave me an 85Kw battery then software limited it to a 60. I sure would not be complaining.
Those are the before you take your order pricing.
After receiving the car it is:
1. 40 to 60 $11,000
2. Enable Supercharging $2,500
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I just deleted what I really think about your post.
All I have to say is WTF?
Since your 8th digit is a "G," they definitely thought you were a full 60 kWh order. The rest of us 40 owners have a "C" even though the battery is actually a 60 kWh battery. They definitely didn't have you coded as a 40, but in any case, you paid the same as the rest of us 40s and should have the same software limit, so all is right in the end.
I hope people that read this thread to learn more about Tesla issues (as part of their buying decision) take the time to read the whole thread. If they do, they will see that Sudre_ 's assessment of the facts would appear to be the more accurate. For performance and battery degradation reasons, 40 buyers have gotten a heck of an upgrade and yet this thread reads as a complaint.
If there was any failure here, it was a failure of the DS to properly explain how 40 orders were being filled with 60s and exactly how the reduction to 40 was being achieved. It has been discussed in the forums at length and would be a simple matter to distill a single page of explanation from the questions and answers already vetted in the various threads.
It is a shame the post remains named as it is.
Seems to me op was just complaining about the mess up. He never said he deserves what he did not pay for. I think that was a cruel joke played on him if he did not know for sure what his car should be like.
I do think the title is inappropriate though.
I am picking up my "40" tomorrow. Tesla sent me an email over a month ago telling me that they were not going to make the 40 but that they would give me the restricted 60. This is great because I got a more powerful car and I probably got it a lot earlier as they would have delayed making the 40's as
Long as possible.
I had somewhat the same problem with the Tesla payment website and last time I looked there (about a week ago), it was still messing up my final payment total on a standard 85kW version. The website was NOT computing in sales tax for me either. Since I had separate paperwork directly from Tesla's sales offices with numbers that made MUCH more sense, I avoided using the website to make my final payment as I KNEW it was about $8000 low and would only confuse things even more.
I reported this website problem to my Tesla delivery representatives at the time.
However I did have the actual detailed paperwork in front of me, and I am surprised that any buyer has not received at least a nearly final total estimate of charges and that final estimate should allow one to consider any possible items, e.g. sales tax, that pretty much anyone knows they are going to have to pay.
The best benefits of the 40 are the options to upgrade and to add supercharger capability. Options have value, even if you never exercise them.
As far as delivering the wrong car, there was absolutely no harm done except a bit of confusion. As far as not collecting the sales tax, that's inconvenient.
Basically, Tesla screwed up and owes you an apology. You definitely have to pay your sales tax. Maybe you can get Tesla to give you a mobile connector bundle set or at least a Tesla jacket in way of an apology for the mix up. But I don't think you can expect a free 60kWh or not paying the sales tax especially since the additional power and supercharge potential were free upgrades in the first place.
I feel sorry for the person that got your 40 car expecting a 60kWh!
I guess like most things, your view depends upon whose ox is gored. But it does show something. Those of us who have jumped on the Tesla bandwagon fiercely defend the company. I have overlooked things that I might not have with another car. The bottom line is that now that I'm living with the car, I got a bargain, no matter what I paid. (And don't let Tesla know this, but if they recalled my car and told me that I'd have to pay more to get it back--I would!)
As I get older there are fewer things that make me laugh. I have a chuckle each time I get into the car. It's priceless. The difference between a slap on the back and a pat on the back is in the receiver's perception.
I just took delivery too of a 60. I love it, but had problems with different amounts due. There was a PAY NOW button online that said something like $7000 due. I was going to do this, but they said I can just bring a check to the factory upon pick-up. So at the factory, suddenly the amount was like $11,900! I was shocked, but they said it about California taxes. I had to do some online transfers at the factory and it was embarrassing, and fork over another $5k. I kind of wondered what would have happened if I just paid the $7000 the night before online, but I'm sure they would have caught their mistake. Oh well, you gotta pay taxes, right?
I agree with @elguapo:
Please change the title of your post so it's not misleading. This was a screw-up, no doubt. But it doesn't sound like the WRONG CAR was delivered. The right car was delivered but with the options incorrectly formatted.
The sales tax thing does suck, but that's your state laying on the pain, Tesla is just the bearer of bad news. In Washington State, there is no sales tax on electric vehicles (thank goodness)!
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There are now three very unhappy posts on Amazon regarding the P7700. Apparently they are selling "gray market" cameras. Nikon will not accept registrations, and in two cases the cameras were defective. Yikes!
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Awesome Halloween costume!
He's still alive????
In the next pic, we get to see Buster Keaton, still alive and kicking.
The real question; Is Abe Vigoda still alive?
That is what I thought when I saw the pic!! I thought he died a few years ago!! I miss the $1.98 Beauty Show!!
No, that's what Fish is… oh sorry, I misread it as "R.I.P., Taylor".
Andy Dick's dad.
Don't you mean Andy's Dad's Dick?
(in classic Rip Taylors voice)
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When this man cums, he shoots confetti. True Story.
Why can't Stephen Hawking make an effort and dress up like that? Fair play, Rip.
The center square indeed.
"You have to take your pants off first, Mr. Taylor, if you're going to shit on Billy Joel's star. Here, let me hold your cane."
This guy is an old (squared) Queen (squared).
the look when he realized he played a sea genie on an old Sid& Marty Kroft tv show.
Rip is very thankful to have nicer looking hands than Madonna.
I can't believe they paid her $750,000.00 to pose in Playboy!
I was just wondering what happened to David Hyde Pierce.
Helloooo Friscoooo!!!!
Rip as in Rest in Peace.
That's just awful.
I think he let one 'rip.'
Honestly, I thought AIDS took this guy years ago.
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- British
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- Adquisición, 1943.
David Roberts was one of the British romantic painters who traveled through Spain, capturing images that best represented the landscape and picturesque aspects of this country, especially in Andalusia. Here, he offers an image of the Guadalquivir River where it flows through Seville, with the Torre de Oro (Golden Tower) as the protagonist. The comings and goings of the boats on the water or berthed on the banks perpetuate the exotic atmosphere that romantic outsiders saw in Spain.
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Visiting Rome from Chicago, where he works as a doctor, ex-priest James Murphy answers a mysterious call for help from his friend Cristoforo. The disappearance of a briefcase containing compromising documents is enough to convince James that his friend is a victim of something shady and sinister. The Vatican's involvement and some strange parallels with his own traumatic past inspire James to get to the bottom of this mystery. Along this dangerous and disturbing path, James finds the most unlikely travelling companion who will question his deepest beliefs. And so the two characters begin both a physical journey in search of the truth, and a metaphysical exploration of the inner soul and the darkest secrets that everyone hides, even a "champion of the faith" like James. Rome is the stage for this adventure – a city bathed in eternal twilight, its skies tinted the color of blood spilled in more than thirty years of intrigue: blood of innocents and guilty, unknown and famous victims alike
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City proposing $30 increase in speeding fine
I'm pretty sure that fining somebody $500 for going 31 in a 30 is unduly burdensome. Just think of how many struggling families would be hurt by such a heavy MINIMUM fine.
Frankly, the costs are already outrageous. If they want to increase the fines for higher speed, then fine. I find it ridiculous that the minimum fine is already well over $100.
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Opinion: Obama doesn't wait for Congress to act
Have you ever heard of Separation of Powers? Checks and Balances? If the executive is bound be neither, then we no longer live in a republic.
Congress is equally elected by the People, and the People's representatives (Congressmen/women) are entrusted with the creation of laws. THEY are the Legislative branch. If Congress is divided on an issue, which is common, then consensus needs to be built before a final bill is passed into law. Senators and Representatives serve terms of different lengths specifically so that they will be influenced differently by the political winds of the moment. Massive, structural changes to the US bureaucracy are meant to be difficult to enact by our government's very design.
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Opinion: Obama doesn't wait for Congress to act
A signing statement is used by a President when he SIGNS a law. Since there is no longer a line-item veto, the signing statement essentially a way to avoid vetoing a bill that POTUS mostly agrees with instead of vetoing it whole-cloth.
Obama is choosing to ignore and/or change existing law without legislative input or approval. These two actions are FAR different, IMHO.
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Opinion: Obama doesn't wait for Congress to act
This is certainly a well-written and damning indictment of the Obama administration. Whatever one thinks of the individual ends (i.e. are the changes themselves good ones), the means certainly are terrifying for a country supposedly ruled by laws. If President Obama is comfortable going it on his own when it is too troublesome to go through Congress, what is to stop the next President from doing the same? Imagine if the next Potus decided that certain companies were exempt from securities laws, or that certain groups of individuals were exempt from certain laws?
Nixon made a terrible mistake in ordering the plumbers to break into the Watergate. Instead, he should have merely exempted the plumbers from rules on theft and exempted his own campaign from from election laws! /sarcasm
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Opinion: Obama oversteps presidential power
Well, I can't wait to see what the media says when the next Republican POTUS starts unilaterally changing laws.
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Once home to a university-run high school, nearly century-old KU building demolished
I'm all for the preservation of buildings with historic or architectural significance, but not everything can or should be saved. Wescoe, for example, is a building that doesn't need to be mourned whenever its useful life is up, whether that be in 10/50/150 years.
Even some buildings with historic significance are sometimes destroyed, and with good reason. The former Pan Am Worldport at JFK is a perfect example: it is being demolished despite its unique architecture and place in US culture because the ground that it sits on is too valuable to waste.
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Master plan will shape future of KU's campus
I absolutely agree that less sprawl is better (i.e., keep student-facing facilities on the main campus).
I personally believe that these consultants are hired just so that the administrations wanting to expand can exert pressure on the relevant legislators/donors to make it happen. Given the higher ed bubble that already exists and the dramatic building programs taking place at universities across the country, I would expect that many institutions are FAR overbuilding for the growth that will actually occur.
Students/parents are already under tremendous financial strain as tuitions have far outpaced inflation, and a lot of the unnecessary elements of campus expansion are going to worsen this for students in coming years. KU students have it easy compared to those in some other states (where in-state tuition is ludicrous), but a lot of kids are coming out with degrees of questionable value and accompanied with tens or hundreds of thousands in debt.
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KC Board of Trade closing after 157 years
Certainly a sad day, to be sure. The BoT harkens back to an era when Kansas City was a more prominent city in the US, and the exchange itself played a more important role in the history of the region than most probably know. I can certainly understand why the exchange is being rolled-into CME's Chicago operations, but it still is sad to see the exchange and associated activity move away.
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Duel begins over concealed carry in public buildings
Well, a lot more than 30 people die per day because of firearms in the States. By all causes, though, around 6,700 people die per day in this country (2,468,435 died in 2010). In all, 0.45% of deaths are the result or homocide by firearm. Around 0.5% is the result of suicide by firearm. Compare this to 1.6% of deaths resulting from drug use, 1% resulting from alcohol related causes, and a whopping 4.9% resulting from all accidents (not all numbers are cumulative, as some overlap).
Hep B and HIV (combined) kill more than firearms.
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Former police sergeant's federal lawsuit against city alleges racial discrimination, wrongful termination
Well, a couple potential points:
1) As the higher ranking officer, the expectations for conduct were higher for then-sergeant Monroe than for officer Sarna
2) Perhaps Mr. Monroe should have resigned/offered to resign immediately when the allegations came out rather than taking his chances. We don't know for certain that Sarna was offered any opportunites that Mr. Monroe was not, only that Mr. Monroe was ultimately fired
Nevertheless, a bit of an unfortunate story. I personally believe that, while Mr. Monroe's offences may have been more minor than Mr. Sarna's, demotion/termination is the appropriate course of action when ethics are compromised in the manner they were.
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Phnom Santuk
Favorite thing: I had not planned on stopping at Phnom Santuk, so I did not know what to look for or have a map of the site. There is so much there and I did not have much time, so I missed some of the main things to visit. The Ministry of Tourism of the Kingdom of Cambodia says:
"Many Buddha statues were carved from great mountain rock including three big Buddha statues reaching Nirvana, each has more than 10-meter length.
- Prasat Touch of pyramid shape, made of sandstone, has three stories and three-meter height, and is located next to the ancient wooden temple (presently, it is made of cement) with a rectangular pond (10m x 4m).
- Preah Bat Chann Tuk statue was carved on the stone shaped as food of a sacred human, and there are many other small sculptures. By the stories, the construction and the statues were erected during the reign of Preah Ponhea Dharma Reacha (1474-1494) and have been maintained until now.
Phnom Santuk has changed names to Chorn Chong Kiri and Phnom Krop Tuk. Chan Dare or Chan Chare are called two pieces of stone by local people that join all together in marked symbol and made in small hole, the passenger arrived there, they always dropped cash coins (ancient coins) into this small hole. When cash coins was dropped in, it make soft weak voice like a voice of the birds sing or music with happiness. So they did that since ancient period."
I found out later that Chan Dare is not quite to the top of the staircase. It is marked by blue painted arrows. The large reclining Buddhas are located in the bedrock below the southern end of the summit. For more information on Phnom Santuk, see also the travelogues below.Related to:
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It is a little off the way
Favorite thing: The drive from Siem Reap seemed to take forever, even if the car was air conditioned and the driver rather sleepy. On arrival, it was not difficult to find our destination: The provincial Hospital and the newly opened Diabetes Clinic. Waiting for us, was Dr Nget Bochum, who was our host for the next few hours, answering patiently the question about his province. it is a poor province and the tourism potential is very close to zero. You might have passed through here on your way to Pnom Penh.
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Indeed...it's always SO weird when you find a screencap of "our" Dukat when he relaxes for just a second (and they ARE out there)--because it's almost like a glimpse of this other person who, in the canon universe, never came to be thanks to the canon Dukat's horrible choices.
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Gul Dukat in "our" universe actually had quite a few moments where he was at ease/happy, it's just that most of the time, whenever he did smile, he made the mistake of doing it in front of Major Kira. But there were quite a few instances where we saw Dukat as "himself".
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A federal judge has blocked the government from sending out letters to employers whose workers whose Social Security numbers don't match their names. ... Some of the same employer groups (e.g. Chamber of Commerce) who backed Bush's 'amnesty + enforcement' immigration compromise are among those suing to block the 'enforcement' part. Even if they didn't, the ACLU would do the job for them. The yahoos were right to demand that any enforcement measures actually survive this interest-group litigation assault before any legalization/amnesty even gets considered. ... 10:51 A.M.
Presidents appoint Supreme Court justices! Jeff Toobin produces four grafs of mind-numblingly uninsightful, book-promoting Huffpo copy pegged to the First Monday in October. It's almost a splog. ... P.S.: Would a conservative-majority Roberts Court really be an "ideological mirror image" of the Warren Court--or have even Roberts and Alito internalized many of the Warren Court's legal structures and doctrines? That would be an interesting inquiry. Don't look for it here. ... 2: 27 A.M.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Just Linking: A taste of things to come. Ron Burkle can buy all the tabs in the world, but he can't buy the Web. The question, I guess, is whether this sort of stuff will feed back into the non-tab MSM. ... [Thanks to alert reader S.B. ] 6:42 P.M.
Now Playing in Plano: Will the current wave of Iraq/Afghan War films--most of them anti--fizzle at the box office? I've gotten into trouble with this kind of prediction, but I say yes! These films were made partly for sincere political reasons and they will lose people money. Valley Of Elah--a well-made, well-acted, depressing and dispiriting movie--certainly doesn't seem to be posting impressive numbers. ...
P.S.: I'd missed the LAT "dust-up" on this topic between David Ehrenstein and Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart's entries tend to validate the "if they can talk, they can write" rule of journalistic recruitment--he's a great unstoppable talker, and sure enough he's a entertainingly scornful South Park right pundit, like Ann Coulter on a good day but with a dada Hollybrat twist. See, for ex., his "Acceptance Speech." ...
P.P.S.: My biggest problem with Hollywood is the dominance of emotional old-style liberals. My second biggest problem with Hollywood is that the opposition to these liberals tends to be equally passionate people, like Breitbart or Roger Simon, who see themselves as warriors in a generational battle against radical Islam that to my mind will be won most efficiently--or defused, which is the same thing--if prosecuted coolly and calmly, with appropriate attention to "blowback." Conservatives in Hollywood are an oppressed minority; Centrist Dems in Hollywood are a nonexistent minority. (OK, I know one.) ... 5:39 P.M.


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February 28th, 2011 (5:17 AM). Edited March 3rd, 2011 by Diamond1304.
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Ok, regarding my Warriors fanfic, I might be writing up a second book as a sequel to he first one so should I compile the books altogether in the same thread or have a individual thread for each book. There's probably about 20 chapters in a book, I'll probably won't go more than 24 or 25. I might consider posting a sequel if my fanfic gets alot of audience and feedback and if people tell me to. XD
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