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Release Notes - December 15, 2011

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edited December 2011 in Release Notes
General
  • Starting Klingon devices like hyposprays can now be bought in bulk.
  • Transwarp powers and Diplomacy ranks should be restored for any players who were missing them.
  • Tribble duty officer rewards have had their minimum level set to 8 for Federation and 23 for KDF in order to match the starting level for the duty officer system.
  • Borg “Adapted” text should now only be seen by the affected player.
  • Updated the costumes for Elite Vendors so they have costumes that match the tier of the items they are vending.
  • Duty Officers mailed from expired exchange lots are now claimable in the mail.
  • Added GPL conversion stores to both DS9 and Drozana.
    • They are not accessible until the winter event is over.
  • Updated the GPL conversion stores to add the option to buy back Pet Crates.
  • 360 cannon turrets now fire from front or rear turret locations regardless of where you slot them.
  • Updated the shield hit FX for beams and cannons.
  • Added Rare Mk XI antiproton mag regulator consoles to crafting.
  • Tweaked the STF token reward for 45+ players so it will auto-grant to anyone who reaches that level, including existing VA characters.
  • Updated Jiro's very rare exchange officer store to carry male Orions instead of duplicates of the female Orions.
  • Foundry: Resolved issue with incorrect error "State transition has a component on a different map selected" when the component is on the same map.
  • Slightly increased Borg tech drop rate on all STFs.
  • Tribble Award Tier 3 Automated Personnel Unity Duty Officer now can properly be slotted on the ground. 

Duty Officers
  • Updated several duty officer quotes to address typos.
  • The accolades for Rank 4 Diplomacy and Marauding now include text in the accolade explaining that you can go to Jiro Sugihara or Marauder Kazgurr for your special exchange officer.
  • Assignment-acquired device turrets names now match up properly with the actual energy type of the device.
  • Antiproton turret purchase assignment now grants the correct reward.
  • Clarified duty officer Maintenance Engineer active roster power description text

Missions
  • Empire Defense:
    • Federation mission counter is now advancing as the open missions are completed.
    • Romulans mission counter is now advancing as the open missions are completed.
    • Cardassians mission counter is now advancing as the open missions are completed.
    • Borg mission counter is now advancing as the open missions are completed.
  • Everything Old is New: Ensign Svoboda can once again be spoken to.
  • The House Always Wins: Updated to ensure speaking to J’mpok always advances the mission.
  • Level-appropriate rewards have been added to Klingon missions.
    • The House Always Wins
    • Blood of the Empire
    • Destiny
    • Second Star to the Right
    • Keep Your Enemies Closer
    • Afterlife
    • The Gates of Gre'thor
  • Federation missions with special reward items have been updated.
    • These reward items are now available in level-appropriate versions.
    • Past Imperfect
    • The Ultimate Klingon
    • Preemptive Strike
    • S'harien's Swords
    • Forging Bonds
    • Crack in the Mirror
    • The New Link
  • The queue for The Cure Space will no longer penalize you incorrectly.
  • Forging Bonds: Moved one of the respawn points out from under a rock.
  • Patrol Wrapper missions that didn't clear off people before should be gone now.
  • The Defend the Sector Block accolades now function without requiring a mission.
  • Lore missions and their contacts on Starfleet academy were moved to one of the round buildings.

Systems
  • Reduced debuffs applied by Cryonic Grenade to render the Breen slightly less deadly.
  • Borg Set:
    • Auxiliary Power on Deflector Dish updated to +5 bonus.
    • Shield Power on Shield updated to +5 bonus.
    • Adjusted skill bonuses on Deflector Dish to bring item more closely in-line with original functionality prior to recent changes to Skill System.
    • Adjusted skill bonuses on Universal Console to bring item more closely in-line with original functionality prior to recent changes to Skill System
  • Player Traits:
    • "Astrophysicist" now improves a slightly wider array of Science abilities.
      • Updated version now encompasses most available Science powers.
    • "Techie" now improves Starship Hull Repair, removed bonus to EPS.
    • "Warp Theorist" now improves both Warp Core Potential and EPS.
    • "Efficient" bonus adjusted to match scale of formula under the updated skill system.
    • "Leadership" now adds a flat skill bonus to Subsystem Repair, in addition to increasing Hull Regeneration rates.
      • This updated version will now be applied from Bridge Officers, and the skill bonus is stackable.
      • The Hull Regeneration bonus does not stack.
    • "Joined Symbiote" has been reworked.
      • Original version gave a flat bonus to the effectiveness of all space skills and space weaponry.
      • This updated version attempts to fill the same role by applying a similar bonus to several different new skills.
  • Bridge Officer Traits:
    • "Leadership" now works correctly, and partially stacks.
    • "Efficient" bonus adjusted to match scale of formula under the updated skill system.
  • Reduced the radius of Doomsday Warp Core Breach from 3km to 2km.
  • Transfer Shield Strength has been rebalanced to match updated changes to Skill System.
  • Feedback Pulse has been rebalanced to match updated changes to Skill System.
  • Hargh'Peng Torpedo has been rebalanced to match updated changes to Skill System.
  • Changed the display name of the starship skill from "Inertial Dampeners" to "Inertial Dampers" per canon references.
  • Replaced several mods on Breen Deflector with an additional skill bonus to "Inertial Dampers"
  • Tractor Beam Repulsors has been reworked
    • Repel and Damage aspects of this power can now both be improved with player skill (Graviton Generators and Particle Generators, respectively)
    • The baseline effectiveness of this power has not been reduced.
    • Tooltips now properly reflect scaling of each rank of this power (I, II, III)
  • All Starfleet and KDF personnel have had their Fleet Support distress beacons reverted to the proper frequencies for their respective factions.
    • Starfleet players using Fleet Support will now summon Starfleet support Vessels.
    • KDF players using Fleet Support will now summon KDF support vessels.
  • The Romulan Scimitar will now use its Thalaron pulse weapon again.
  • Increased Vo'quv Birds-of-Prey pet damage by about 15%.
  • The Nausicaan Power Leech console was updated to address edge-case issues of overpowered stacking.
  • The veteran rewards Fireworks work in Social zones once again.
  • Reverted power bonus on Aegis Deflector to pre-Season 5 figures.
  • Resolved issue with the Shield Emitter bonus on the Aegis Shield.
  • Holiday Food buffs will now survive death.
  • Updated the description on the Frosted Boots to make it more obvious that they have a 30 hour lifespan.

UI
  • Clarifed the message that is displayed when a player must respend all of his skillpoints.
  • Added tooltips to save and load in tailor
  • Updated the graphics for area waypoints.
  • Character creation for Foundry characters is no longer using blue UI elements.
  • The Klingon character button now tells you how to unlock Klingons in the tooltip.
  • The traits in character creation are now alphabetized.
  • In the tailor, the camera will now zoom in when selecting species, and remain zoomed until the uniform screen.
  • Self Buff icons no longer disappear if you select a target other than yourself.
  • The in-game calendar should now always display the correct month.
  • Fleet Emblems are editable once again!
  • The loot window now displays tooltips.
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