Do's and Dont's of the game

DO try to post at least three times a week (more is always welcome!), unless you have some real life obligation that interferes. It keeps your character in the action, and doesn't leave other players hanging for days, waiting for you to answer. If you must be absent from the game, be sure to write an email to your CO and XO, letting them know when you expect to be back. If your character is involved in an important plot movement, you could ask another player or players to move him along. You would then tell this "substitute" player how you'd like your character to react to probable turns of events.

DON'T ever kill somebody else's character, or do anything that would be life altering to him/her. Remember this version of the Golden Rule: Don't do anything to somebody's character that you would not want done to your own. If you're not sure, backchannel your Command Staff and the player in question, talk to them, and see what you can come up with.

DON'T ever be afraid to ask questions. If you find that a scene took a turn that bothers you, you don't know what to do next, or you're just plain lost, backchannel your CO or XO, or another player you trust. The Command Staff is there to help you and to answer your questions. Better that you should ask than to flounder, which isn't fun for anybody, including you.

Sometimes at the top or bottom of a post (rarely, in the middle, in brackets), you will see the letters: NRPG or NRP. This means Non-Role-Playing (Game). If a player has something to say - maybe he's saying hi to new players (like you!), maybe he's going to be out of town until Monday, maybe he has a question or information about the game or some research, whatever - he puts it here, to separate it from the actual activities of his character. When the letters RPG or RP come up (usually right after), that means the writer is back in the game again.

Very long posts are hard to read. If you find that a post you are writing is going to run more than, say, a page or so, break it up. It's perfectly acceptable to post both halves as "Joe Blow's Dinner with the Klingons Part I" and "Part II"