Release Notes - March 2, 2012

System

General:

• Updated the rewards for Operation Gamma to add a Mystery Box as a possible reward.
  • This is the same Mystery Box that drops in STFs.
• The Warp to Gamma Orionis button no longer takes Klingon characters to Battle Group Omega.
• Updated State of Q to resolve issue that caused some players to get stuck and unable to progress.
• Resolved a few text issues in Operation Gamma.
• Updated the benches and chairs on Bajor Ground so they are now sittable.
• Female Alien Bridge Officers can now be earned via the New Officer missions.
• Resolved an issue that improperly prevented some silver players from chatting.
• Updated the S’harien’s Swords to prevent players from getting agro on the Romulan Commander before the mission objective became active.
• Added the Yellowstone class ship to the Ship Requisition store.

Audio:

• Updated the ambient audio for Facility 47 and Starbase 157.
• K7, Starbase 39, and Memory Alpha have had their ambient audio updated.
• Beefed up and turned up the Impulse Burst audio.
• Resolved issue with buzzing on Bajor Ground when monitoring in 7.1.
• Updated the audio in the Defiant bridge.

Duty Officers:

• Resolved an issue with purple Gorn Security duty officers not being able to be slottable in the Ground Active Roster.
• Resolved bad slotting in Ghosts of the Jem'Hadar assignment chain.
• Hologram entertainer duty officers can be slotted into standard hologram assignments.
• Resolved bad slotting in "Self Discipline Training" assignment.
• Resolved typos and updated outcome rigging in "Civil Unrest" assignments.
• Changed rewards for "Sell Slaves to Orions" assignment to reward Gold-Pressed Latinum.
• Changed requirements for "Purchase Slaves from Orions" assignment.
• Changed "Tribble Bounty" assignment to reward Gold-Pressed Latinum.
• The Ferasan Nepeta Leaves chain consumable no longer can be used to make Cryo tribbles.
• The Romulan duty officer N'vek, the Xindi-Arboreal and Ferasan Patriarch now act on assignments properly as a Technician so as to match their active roster designations.
• Adjusted odds of colonial chains to make uncommon and rarer assignments appear more often.
• Added new assignments.
• Increased rewards for "Emergency Shortage" assignments.
• Resolved bad Marauding assignment that was occasionally giving prisoners of the wrong faction.
• Updated outcome text on "Resolve Dilithium Dispute" assignment.
• Resolved bad slotting in "Police Crew on Leave" Second Wave assignment.
• Resolved bad slotting on some "Shortage" assignments.
• Adjusted Dilithium rewards upwards for "Execute Mutineer" assignment and updated outcome rigging.
• Reduced input costs of repeatable version of "Captain's Night" assignment requiring Romulan Ale.
• Increased frequency of second link of Jem'Hadar story assignment chain appearing.
  • It should both appear more often and in a couple of additional locations.
• Adjusted duration on granting Marauding; it now correctly matches Diplomatic Immunity.
• Updated some Development Scientists who didn’t have the new Development Scientist active roster power.
• Corrected some out of date tooltips on the Conn duty officer for Evasive Maneuvers: the tooltips now report the correct chance info with correct durations.
• Resolved some typos and bad rigging in some assignments.
• Adjusted the types of CXP granted for some commodity "Shortage" assignments.
• Reduced the number of data samples granted from anomaly assignments.
• Assignment to grant Vulcan and Orion Entertainer Hologram duty officers now has a chance of granting both species to both factions.
• Updated "Secure Trade Route" assignments for rigging and CXP reward types.
• Resolved an issue with the Andorian Cultural Exchange duty officer assignment.
  • A Klingon somehow snuck into the program - I would expect that from a Romulan, but a Klingon? Very disappointing.

Systems:

• Updated the Operation Gamma Leveless Polaron Beam Array for the shuttle so the proc now works as designed.
• Federation players can now correctly train Bridge Officers in Science Team III.
• Updated deployed fighters so that they now properly respond to an Attack order after using Recall.
• Updated descriptions of all C-store Shuttles and Fighters to include Hull and Shield Modifier value.
• Updated the tooltip for Sub-Zero (Breen) 2-piece set bonus:
  • It now correctly reads "+30% Transphasic Projectile Damage".
• Federation and Mirror Universe NPC enemy groups now have Odyssey-class dreadnoughts.
• Removed the Bortas and Odyssey ships from the Tribble test store.
• Updated description of "Victory is Life" set bonus for Jem'Hadar set:
  • Corrected proc percentage to match actual proc percentage of 1%.
  • Corrected description to include the Cardassian Galor as valid ship to receive this benefit.
• The Plasma-Disruptor Hybrid weapons no longer get 10x the damage bonus they should have been given.
• Torpedo consoles now properly only improve their designated torpedo type.
• Resolved an exploit that allowed players to slot bridge officers of the wrong class into ship stations.

UI:

• There is now a keybind option to clear the rally point for the current target.
• There is now a keybind option to clear all the rally points.
• It's now possible to access chat in the ship and character tailors.
• Tweaked the minimap zoom behavior to better maintain zoom levels across ground maps.
• The Duty Officer UI now sorts the completed assignment chains to the bottom of the assignment chain list.
• The amount of space the timer on the Holoemitter icon takes up has been minimized.
• Incorrect officer icons no longer appear when switching between Department Heads in the Duty Officer window.

Archived Post

Update to above Release Notes:

Systems:

• Resolved an exploit that allowed players to slot bridge officers of the wrong class into ship stations.