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TRIBBLE Maintenance and Release Notes - March 26, 2012
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We will be bringing the Tribble server down for maintenance to apply a new update.
ST.17.20120326a.0
General:
Duty Officers:
Missions:
Systems:
UI:
Known Issues:
ST.17.20120326a.0
General:
- Added many new French and German translations.
- Updated the appearance for all loot drops.
- The containers will now indicate rarity.
- Also, they look really awesome.
- Lowered the Energy Credit costs for tailoring for players, Bridge Officers, and ships.
- Character creation will no longer fail when creating a character with a formal name thats 20 characters long.
Duty Officers:
- Improved ship interior Duty Officer contact static assignment button behavior.
- They should grey out now only when the assignment has started or is on cooldown.
- Added buttons to Duty Officer interface under Department Heads that allow access to your own ship interior non-static assignments.
- Note you will still need to go to your ship interior to do static assignments, such as making hypos, assembling consoles or turrets, or to invite friends to use your ship interior non-static assignments.
- Cleaned up some text on some of the ship interior Duty Officer contacts.
- Increased cooldowns on some sector Duty Officer recruitment assignments.
- Reduced effectiveness of Shield Distribution Duty Officer active roster power shield heal by 25%.
- Fixed some incorrect commendation experience rewards for "Provide Support" assignments in the DS9 region.
Missions:
- Mining event updates:
- You can now accept the mission directly from Isihl if you hail her from the event or the journal.
- Also added Isihl to the interior of the airlock
- Mission explainer on Isihl now tells you that you don't need a mining laser, that we do that for you automatically.
- Added a practice minigame to the console by the Dilithium in the airlock.
- Added minimum level info to mission, contact, and both event texts.
- Added transwarp locations to asteroid mining mission.
- Resolved an issue that prevented KDF characters from getting credit for mining some of the Dilithium locations.
- The entrance to the mining location will now have only one button to enter.
- Updated text to specify that the mission is once per day.
- Updated "Boldly They Rode"
- The mission should function with the new EV suits.
- Tweaked how Jem'hadar ships target in final battle; they are now less likely to target players unless player attacks first.
- Made shrouded Jem'hadar in Promenade all Ensign groups, instead of 2 Ensigns and 1 Lieutenant.
- Corpses are now properly affected by Zero G.
- The Borg Invasion of Defera has been updated.
- There are a bunch of random new missions all over; its like hide and seek.
- More info on this to follow.
- This event will be active 24/7 temporarily to aid in testing.
Systems:
- Space pet AI updates:
- Pets that are following will now fly in formation.
- Pets on attack mode will move into a wedge formation in front of the player until an enemy target is found.
- Updated text descriptions of the carrier command powers so that they explain about the toggle functionality.
- Updated Bird-of-Prey carrier AI so that Birds-of-Prey retreating under cloak will move at maximum throttle.
- Hazard Emitters will now properly cleanse Hazard debuffs over the power's full duration, every .5 seconds
- Theta Radiation clouds no longer stack their debuffs on targets unfortunate enough to get caught inside
- Performed a balance pass on the following Space STF enemies:
- Borg Cube, Borg Tactical Cube, Vila Battleship, Tethys Dreadnought, and all unique versions of these same critters.
- Reduced their innate damage bonuses:
- This will reduce their base damage by approximately 10% across the board.
- This has a more obvious impact on high-damage abilities, like High Yield Plasma, and should not reflect much of a difference for their standard weaponry since they already possess a 10%-20% variance.
- These ships no longer have the ability to Critically Hit:
- This will keep these critters deadly, while removing many of the "one shot = one kill" abilities that have been reported.
- Reduced their innate damage bonuses:
- Engineering Support Drone:
- Resolved an issue that caused its Perception Bonus to not be properly applied.
- Should now affect the entire team while the Drone is active.
- Borg Cube, Borg Tactical Cube, Vila Battleship, Tethys Dreadnought, and all unique versions of these same critters.
- Updated Beam - Fire at Will:
- All ranks of this power should now be capable of missing their target, rather than having an artificial 100% accuracy.
- The accuracy of this power should now properly inherit the modifiers of the user and target.
- Updated Space Klingon Honor Guard - Two Piece Set Bonus
- Doubled the magnitude of the Crew-based skill boosts.
- Separated saucers should not constantly try to move around behind if the owner is rotating in place.
- Field Generator Console mods can now be stacked.
- As such their effectiveness has been reduced.
- Mine and Torpedo Tactical Console mods have been fixed so they only affect Mines or Torpedoes.
- They will no longer affect other abilities that happen to do Kinetic damage.
UI:
- Changed the label of the button to access the department's assignments not say "Speak" but instead "Assignments".
- Its now possible to scroll through characters on the Character Select screen using the up and down arrow keys.
- Resolved an issue that caused players to not have a team indicator on the mission tracker while in a PvP map.
- Bridge Officers should always display the correct class icons in the Choose Your Away Team window.
- The Request Reinforcements button will now only display when its a valid option for the player.
- When discarding items with 0 value, the confirmation window will no longer report that the player will receive energy credits.
- Resolved an issue that would prevent item comparison tooltips from working correctly in space.
- Rapidly clicking on the secondary attack as it exits cooldown will no longer cause the attack to misfire.
- Polarize Hull will now display consistent stats in the skill information and power tray tooltip.
Known Issues:
- Its not possible to exit a PvE Queue map without successfully completing the mission.
- This has already been addressed, but the resolution isn't yet in a build--it should make it to Tribble soon.
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yep full consent
As such their effectiveness has been reduced....
Please change them back to the way they were before...
i just spent 91,000 energy credits to change my ship outfit
at least i will be able to change it more often now!
Put them back to they way they were and make them not stackable.
I forsee/hope for massive outrage.
They are pointless. They should be replaced with ONE unit that boosts Kinetic Dmg as they do now. Really if you mix torpedo units too boost multiple torp types you are handicaping yourself. The only saving grace has been that the same unit would boost kinetic sci skills.
This change is the nail in the sci ship coffin. Really there is no good reason too have a sci ship anymore. There control abilities are terrible... shield stripping is resisted. (and I believe your intentions are too increase those resistance skills). Building Sci Torp boats was the only really semi useful role for the sci ship... now mines will not benefit. (they where semi useful dmg wise with a couple +kinetic units).
This is not a change in the right direction. I understand they where not working properly that was obvious when they both performed the same way. However I really suggest you consider removing one from game (No one is going to miss the mine unit NO one uses them) Leave the warhead as it is now delete the Geo Thingy and everything is just fine.
Meaning, the first one still gives +35 percent, and after that, it's subject to diminishing returns?
Like me...?
What are the new Stats for a single console
Booooo! :mad:
But I have to say that this:
Keeps the secrecy in place. Why would we care to know what "reduced" means. Please don't tell us, we'd like to figure it on our own.
I don't really care about the 35% shield console (it could be removed entirely and I'd wouldn't mind) but I suspect this blatant nerf isn't going to go over well. I realize you guys wanted to make things more intuitive but keeping it unique or even giving them diminishing returns might have been better for keeping the peace.
The Shield Distribution Doff change is a nice surprise. Short of making it unique (like the Astrometrics Doff) this is a baby step in the right direction and that it's a relatively minor adjustment still keeps it as a great Doff.
Hazard Emitters continuing to clear as it heals is another great fix, that's one of the biggest issues with Theta and Warp Plasma. I hope that we can look forward to more adjustments in the event that the fix to Hazards, combined with the fix to Theta, hurts Theta too much.
QFT right here. But im curious though, why so this when there have been SOOO many new consoles added to the game?
Personally I didn't see a problem with allowing the stacking at the original percent numbers anyway as you gave up other consoles by doing that. Even stacking nothing but Field Generator Consoles would only buy you a few more seconds of intact shields with current damage output numbers.
Another way to fix this questionable change would be to give all ships an additional free science console slot or increase base shield capacity on all shields to offset the percentage loss, but we all know that is highly unlikely to happen.