How to Create a Fleet Announcement

Please read and incorporate the following information into your Fleet Announcement. Organizing fleets takes a lot of work and coordination. The following template will hopefully allow you to easily communicate all the relevant facts in an understandable and consistent manner. Thank you FC!

NOTE: If you are announcing a fleet sponsored and sanctioned by our Fleet Ops Division (FOD), please also refer to this additional information.

Fleet Announcement Template

1. Create a new post in the 🗪ready-room Discord forum channel.
2. Copy the raw Markdown text in the gray box below and edit to suit.
   1. The text inside the square brackets should all be replaced.
   2. Be careful about two-space breaks at the end of lines.
3. Use a time zone converter. See below for more info.
   1. Always use 24-hour UTC aka "EVE Time"
   2. Paste the link to the time zone converter as well.
   3. If the fleet day is different in UTC than your local time zone because of wrap, make sure you account for it in the announcement to avoid confusion.
   4. The in-game EVE Year can be obtained by adding 102 to the last three digits of the out-of-game year: 2023 is YC125, for example.

**Fleet Name:** [fleet name]  
**Fleet Purpose:** [fleet purpose]  
**Target Audience:** [target audience]  
**Date:** [weekday], [day] [month-name] [eve year] ([year])  
**Time:** [24-hour UTC time] EVE ([link to time zone converter])  
**Duration:** [duration]  
**Formup:** [station system and name, keep opsec in mind]  
**Destination:** [system name, keep opsec in mind]  
**FC:** [fleet commander]  
**Comms:** [FLEET # channel on discord]
**Voice:** [required/optional] 
**Doctrine:** [what kind of ships and equipment to bring]  
**Fit:** [what kind of fit is appropriate]  

[Detailed instructions]

Please arrive early (or at least on time). We have a tight schedule.

Hope to see you there! If you have any questions, just ask in a comment below.

Time Zone Converter

Fleet announcements are always posted in UTC aka "EVE Time". This avoids confusion when Signaleers from different time zones want to partake in your fleet. There are a few well known time converters that you can use. However, here are a couple of the easiest:

• Dateful Time Zone Converter
  • Simple to use and has a "copy link" button
• Nakamura Time
  • EVE specific and shows multiple time zones simultaneously
  • Note that you have to copy the URL from the address bar in order to share your link

Don't Forget to Promote It!

You want fellow Signaleers to show up, right?! Well if you do, read this.

Acknowledgements

Po Huit wrote the Fleet Announcement Template for the forums, which itself was derived primarily from Thrice Hapus's Rescue Cache Training Fleet announcement.

Reynauld Lachapelle wrote the Fleets and Timezones post for the forums.