How To Leave Fleet Sto
Stephanie Dejoode
Before Delta Rising, the leaders cut off fleet store access as most people were saving resources for the expansion, and not contributing to the holdings. It has yet to be reopened. Whats the point earing 1 mill fleet credits if I can't spend them?
Will I still have my credits? I have enough to buy just about anything I want but still haven't gotten permission due to what appears to be massive infighting in the fleet. The command structure is all over the place and emails are not returned.
BTW if you run the Black Talon flashpoint (group required) at the end you have a choice to exit to fleet or Dromund Kaas. After running the flashpoint the first time you'll pick up a short mission upon arrival at Dromund Kaas that will give you a little additional XP.
The Fleet Composition window will give you some extra information on your fleet members. Only people in command positions have access to this screen and you can only see your subordinates. This means a Squad Commander will only see his squad, a Wing Commander his wing and the Fleet Commander and the Fleet Boss will see the entire fleet.
The Fleet Watch List allows a maximum of 100 pilots at any one time. You can add to the Watch List several ways. One method is to use the My Fleet window in hierarchy view, right click a fleet member, and select "Add to Watch List." Another method is right click on the character's portrait, drop down and select fleet, and then add to watch list. A third method is the "x up" approach, when a pilot types an "x" in Fleet chat, right click that pilot's name, go to Fleet in the pop-up menu, then "Add to Watch List". It is good practice to add the Fleet Commander, Wing Commander, Squad Commander and any scouts to your watch list, together with anyone else the Fleet Commanders instructs you to add.
You can learn the skills Fleet Formations and Fleet Coordination to create specific formations after fleet warps. Skill levels in Fleet Formations gives you more options in formation types and Fleet Coordination increases the possible size of those formations. There are six possible formations, described with ingame tooltips:
Cilidan is Correct at replicating the problem but occasionally it still catches me out. Wether your in a rush or busy elsewhere, admittedly im still getting used to the change still the update. BUT, 12mn Deut is a stealable amount in my opinion. So left with options of building often un needed ships to move it, or recalling a fleet to recollect it. Or just leaving it there for someone to collect it for themselves. After it has caught you out 5 or 6 times, its expensive. Anything less than 5mn deut i would probably leave it, but it adds up. The amounts stated above are fresh universe amounts in my opinion.
Holland America Line announced that Amsterdam, Maasdam, Rotterdam and Veendam will be leaving the fleet and transferring to undisclosed buyers. The ships have been sold in pairs, with the S-Class Maasdam and Veendam transferring to one company in August 2020, while the R-Class Amsterdam and Rotterdam will move to another company in fall 2020.
Maasdam joined the fleet in 1993 as the second of four S-Class ships. Carrying 1,258 guests, it is the fourth Holland America Line ship to bear the Maasdam name. Most recently, the 55,575-ton ship sailed longer South Pacific and Alaska voyages. Veendam, the final S-Class ship, was delivered in 1996. The fourth Holland America Line ship to bear the name Veendam, the 57,092-ton vessel carries 1,350 guests.
Very sad to see the Amsterdam leave the fleet. I had several cruises on this ship as a lecturer for the Road Scholar groups during the World Academy / Grand World Voyage. I shall miss many people on the staff who became friends. May the Amsterdam and her excellent staff be successfully re-launched and sail again. Thank you for the memories.
it is a sad day to see these ships leave the company. They were beautiful ships small and comfy. I am sure that HAL cruisers will miss them dearly. I for one will. Bigger is not better, but I understand business is business. We will miss these ships as the Ryndam and the Statendam. We are faithful to HAL and will remain faithful. Hopefully this is going in the right direction.
Our first Holland America cruise was on the Amsterdam in 2003. As with all the fleet it was an elegant skip and provided the beginning of our experiences with HAL. We were fortunate to complete our most recent cruise to Australia and New Zealand on March 13 this year, the day ports were closing to cruise ship in NZ. Our thoughts are with your outstanding crew as you navigate this unprecedented pause in business. We have sailed on several other competitors ships and none can compare to the quality of the service and experience we have enjoyed with Holland America.
My wife and I have sailed on 3 of the 4 ships that are leaving the fleet and mostly on the Amsterdam. I truly hope Holland America will take care of those wonderful employees that have spent many years on the retired ships especially the Amsterdam on the world cruises. We will wait and see before booking again and see how you treat these hard working employees.
Two items we hope for:
1. Will HAL put another ship(s) on the North Atlantic/New England routes? We had booked for Montreal-Boston for 2020, planned rollover to 2021. Now looking for something for that region.
2. We are lifelong fans of HAL, proud of the tradition. How soon will there again be a Rotterdam in the fleet?
I have enjoyed the small ships and looked forward to a few more long-distance cruises. The loss of 4 of the 6 small ships is huge. I will not cruise on large ships. Please consider adding back to the fleet a couple of ships the size of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Veendam, and configure solo cabins into the guest accommodations. Many potential cruisers are put off by the solo supplement.
Sad to see that most of the R-class ships as well as the Maasdam have been sold. This leaves only the Zaandam as the last remaining of the HAL ships we have sailed on. At least we will have fond memories of cruising with HAL and reaching 4-star status.
When drivers leave your company, it is most likely not because another company has enticed them out from under your nose. Instead, something triggers them to leave. And it's not always the big things. Instead, it's likely to be a succession of small things, until one day a driver has simply had enough.
As you probably would expect, money issues, including rates and getting enough miles, are the top reason drivers leave. Complaints about not getting enough miles have risen in the past year as the economy and freight have softened.
The unpredictability of home time is the main reason drivers leave Maverick, says Darius Cooper, vice president of operations. "While we try to get every driver home for a minimum of 34 hours each weekend, it is still unpredictable. In 2006, 97 percent of our drivers were home every weekend, but in 2007 we have only been able to maintain a 95 percent home average." In many cases, he notes, being home on a more consistent basis is much more important to the family than having a $50,000 per year income.
'People don't leave companies; people leave people," says Greatwide's Newell. For drivers, the supervisor is their dispatcher or fleet manager, their primary point of contact with the company. By the very nature of the job, this relationship is fraught with potential for problems.
Of course, there are many different personalities both behind the wheel and in the dispatch department. A driver who has friction with one dispatcher might get along great with a different one. There are companies that offer employee profiling services to help better match drivers to dispatchers. But all dispatchers/fleet managers need to have the right knowledge, tools and attitude to deal with drivers.
"Beyond issues like pay and home time, it's all about relationships," Newell says. That's why Greatwide is developing what it calls a Driver Relationship Management Initiative, focused on training fleet managers (what Greatwide is calling driver support leaders). They also are developing technology that will make the dispatching chores less time-intensive and give the driver managers more time to interact with the drivers.
Joplin, Mo.-based CFI uses fleet manager evaluations, where drivers are asked to evaluate their supervisors and offer suggestion for improvement. "It helps the fleet manager see things from the drivers' perspective, and perhaps alter how they approach implementation of new concepts," says President and CEO Herb Schmidt.
One of the interesting things Strategic Programs has found is that for owner-operators using fleet lease-purchase programs, the older the equipment, the happier the people are, rather than the other way around. Yurkus believes that's because the payments are lower, so there's less pressure. Someone on a lease-purchase program with a high payment may feel they've been set up for failure.
Dart Transit does much the same thing during its new contractor orientation, Jordan says. "The last thing that happens is, he meets with his contractor fleet manager and we go through an expectation exchange - a formal document the fleet manager refers to. We try to make it conversational, and we cover what their expectations are. If a driver says the recruiter told him he can expect 3,500 miles a week, then we invite the recruiter to come into that exchange and deal with it right then."
Communication with the driver should not be limited to his relationship with his dispatcher. If a driver feels like a mushroom - kept in the dark and fed manure - he's going to be more likely to leave.
One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than ten or twelve days by steamer. An initially successful attempt in 1858, led by Cyrus W. Field and financed by the Atlantic Telegraph Company, failed after three weeks. Two working cables were finally laid in July and September 1866, the result of repeated efforts by the indefatigable Field, a cadre of engineers, technicians, and sailors, two groups of financial backers, and significant help from the British and United States navies. Dudley documented the process in a series of watercolors and oils, this example showing the H.M.S. Agamemnon preparing to leave Ireland in 1858. On July 29th it met the U.S.S. Niagara in the middle of the Atlantic. Cables laid from east and west were spliced to establish a working connection that lasted only three weeks. In 1892 Field donated art works by Dudley, commemorative medals, memorabilia, and specimens of cable to the Museum.
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