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TRIBBLE Maintenance and Release Notes - August 28, 2012
zer0niusrex
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We will be bringing the Tribble server down for maintenance to apply a new update.
ST.20.20120812b.16
General:
Duty Officers:
ST.20.20120812b.16
General:
- While in shooter mode, holding down the left mouse button will now continually activate the primary weapon ability.
- Resolved an issue that occasionally caused the game client to crash when logging out while in the tailor.
- Updated the discharge ship confirmation text.
- General server stability improvements.
Duty Officers:
- Dilithium rewards granted for dismissing any Duty Officer have been reduced.
- New rewards are as follows:
- White: 1
- Green: 10
- Blue: 25
- Purple: 50
- Amount of Recruitment CXP has not been altered.
- New rewards are as follows:
- All Duty Officers obtained from the Fleet Exchange can once more be contributed to Fleet Projects.
- This change is retroactive, and will allow all existing versions of these items to be contributed, as well as any obtained in the future.
- Resolved an issue that prevented some of the Replicator food from unlocking properly when acquiring certain Chefs.
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And it means we can use the exchange again without having to worry about whether the doff will slot or not. If the fix is retroactive, then come thursday any doffs you buy now will work.
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Wait... I mean.
Wow -- that's a serious change. Any reason as to why it was needed? And does this also affect the "Execute for incompetence" mission the KDF get? If not, can the Feds get one?
Please enable us to buy a token with Zen to faction change a 25th Century FED to a TOS FED.
This - this seems random and unnecessary. Now if I buy a pack of doffs and they're trash doffs I dont' even get the booby prize
Yeah, seems funny..if you read last weeks patch notes where it said fleet doffs don't give dilithium or cxp on dismisssal - that was all that was needed. Regular doffs should have been left alone. And making fleet doffs not work on projects wasn't mentioned and totally unneeded.
Still...I prefer this to not being able to use fleet doffs for fleet projects.
I imagine you are doing this because of that but the fact is if the prisoner mission didnt fail almost every single time you do it people would have used it...
Get your act together Cryptic.
I guess that also means I won't run the majority of these again. That was part of the appeal: 75*5 Dilithium for Refugee gathering missions and 75x for each Prisoner I got for Disable [race] Freighter.
Guess this means even less I'm able to contribute to the Fleet Starbase now, as both my time and wallet are extremely limited. These DOFF missions allowed me to gather decent amounts of Dilithium for contribution even when I couldn't run a ton of dailies.
Now I have to report our downgrades to the Fleet Members. They will not be happy.
This allowed you to get 2000 dil from a random purple doff with the ungrinder.
God, lvl 60 CW. 17k.
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I agree it needed to happen, but honestly this is quite an over the top nerf for the problem. Not suprising though that such an aggresive nerf has been pushed now that Heretic is no longer there and Borticus is on vacation.
Honestly however, they took the easy road out. Rather than just fixing the issue by allowing Fleet DOFFs to slotted, they chose not to take the programing time to parse a difference between Fleet DOFFs and regular DOFFs.
So that's worth going from 75 Dilithium to 1 for a White to get dismissed?
There's got to be a middle ground between "EC to Dilithium Exchange" and over-reaction.
Perhaps something like the following?
White: 10
Green: 30
Blue: 90
Purple: 270
This way downgrading has no benefit (each lower rarity is 1/3 of the one you just "shredded"/exchanged) but upgrading eventually loses you Dilithium (5 Whites would be 50 when dismissed, but when turned into a Green it's only 30).
BTW, I'm not using the Officer Exchange costs because I don't know those, so I guess even a downgrade is a loss of Dilithium if this model were in effect.
Aside from White, what were the values for Green, Blue, and Purple dismissals before this patch?
You sir are a voice of sense and reason and we can't have that type of development in mind in this game
I agree, report him and ban him:D j/k
I think adding a coast to Officer Exchange would of fixed everything, as is Under Performing Officers has a cost and I use to just upgrade my Greens to Blue (and then once Blue was getting full, to Purple). I didn't even consider Officer Exchange, until I saw there was no cost attached to it, only benefits (Recruiting XP and a higher return in Dilithium). I think this is overkill quite frankly, like using a hammer to kill a fly.
LTS, here since...when did this game launch again?
Hallelujah!
So glad this is coming. I've been missing my rare food items and will feel much safer when they're back in my menu.
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Ok, I'll grant I hadn't viewed it that way, I'll admit it shouldn't be possible to get more from the commons than their more valuable counterparts.
As it is:
White: 75
Uncommon: 150
Rare: 250
Very Rare: 500
So to make it non-advantageous I'd propose
Very Rare: 500
Rare: 150
Uncommon: 50
Common: 15
Surely that works better?
EC's are better spent on the consumables needed or the occasional duty officer purchase to complete a project or for weapons etc to level up my F2P characters. I'm running a two man fleet with alts and we have to maximize our time and resources to keep up everyday with our projects. This change only improves our capabilities because the duty officer grind is the most time consuming of any.
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Well being that there are only 20 assignments maximum you can use I would not have enough slots to do those and the other ones I do on a daily basis. So therefore it defeats the purpose of that one mission to get rid of 10 which it was stated the purpose of it but yet you miss the point pretty much all of those prisoner ones have a 99% chance to fail.
Plus I do not want to sit and doff all of these toons 24/7 is why they need to get their act together and make it actually work as they stated it was designed to work.
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
No one said it is not hard, however removing avenues for obtaining it and funneling everyone into only a handful of missions that reward it is what makes it a grind and tedious. Quite honestly, who cares how much and how fast you earn it, you can only refine 8-9K a day so the system is buffered. There is a massive Dilithium sink in game right now. But, if you do enjoy running and doing the same things over and over and over...so be it. Me, I prefer variety in a game.
There are better and more well thought out solutions to the issue than what was actually implemented.
And just because there are better/well-thought out solutions doesn't mean they're practical to use or implement.
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Well the issue that arises now is that the entire fleet system was based what people were earning, don't you think that this now impacts that and now will cause additional refinement and changes to the system. The issues are these changes that come out of no where and impact other systems causing even further dev time.
With their fix, it is still better to break a purple into three rares and then burn them. I think the two proposals here to make a purple worth 3 rares, a rare worth three uncommons, and an uncommon worth three commons makes full practical sense to what they have just tossed out.
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