Release Notes: November 30, 2012

pwebranflakes · November 2012

General:

Private queues have been re-enabled.
Updated the level range of PvE private queue maps.
- This affects only those PvE queue maps for which the level can be adjusted.
- The level of a queue map must be within two of the queue's creator.
- Players that are more than two levels above the map's level cannot join.
- For example, if a level 10 player creates a private queue, he can set it to levels 8 through 12.
  - Players level 10 through 14 would be able to join this example queue map.
The rewards for the Undine Font mission "Assimilated" have been updated.
- Universal Console - Assimilated Module has been relocated to Tier 1 of the Omega Reputation System.
The Cutting Beam rewarded by the Reputation system is no longer firing from the center of the player's ship.
The 29th Century Uniforms, Wells for Fed and Korath for KDF, have been released to the Lobi Store, at the price of 200 Lobi Crystals.
Updated the audio and FX for Species M-113.
Added audio to EV Suit Tholian attacks.
Updated Azure Nebula so two rescue ships will no longer spawn in the same location.
Updated the visual appearance of all of the Breen ships.
New Romulus Updates:
- The timer should now reliably start after tagging the first epohh.
- Updated the visual appearance of the trees and rocks on New Romulus.
- Exiting the Mountain Pass will no longer cause the player to be laying down upon spawn in.
- Updated the voice over audio for the New Romulus content.
- Staging Area event mission updated to increase bug population and make it easier to complete.
- Added audio to New Romulus interacts.
Tholian Red Alert: Moved the Spawn in Location back away from the Tholian encounters so that there is a less of a chance that players will get spawncamped by the Tholian Dreadnaughts.
- It is still possible, but hopefully less likely.
When on the Logs tab of the Journal the tabs should no longer shake back and forth.
The Gorn Minefield daily mission can be completed, once again.
Updated STFs to add additional rewards.
- There is now a chance to earn additional Omega Marks, Borg Neural Processors, or level-appropriate gear.
Resolved an issue that prevented several missions from completing.
The Tau Dewa Radiation Scan Daily is now correctly being offered from the Radiation Radiophysicist in the Staging Area of New Romulus after scanning radiation 10 times.

Fleets:

Added four new Fleet ships to the Fleet ship vendors, two for Federation and two for KDF.
- All of these ships are for level 50 (VA/LG) characters.
- Fleet Assault Cruiser
  - Costs 20,000 Fleet Credits, 4 fleet ship modules, and 1 military requisition.
    - Only 1 fleet ship module if you have purchased the Sovereign refit.
  - Requires Shipyard tier 5.
- Fleet Advanced Heavy Cruiser Retrofit
  - Costs 20,000 FC + 5 fleet modules + 1 military requisition.
    - 1 fleet ship module if you have purchased an Excelsior.
  - Requires Shipyard tier 3.
- Fleet B'rel Bird-of-Prey
  - Costs 20,000 FC + 5 fleet modules + 1 military requisition.
    - 1 fleet module if you have purchased the B'rel refit.
  - Requires shipyard tier 5.
- Varanus fleet support vessel
  - Cost 20,000 FC + 4 fleet modules + 1 military requisition.
    - 1 fleet module if you have purchased a Varanus.
  - Requires shipyard tier 3.
The buttons to interact with consoles in the KDF Embassy are now more informative.
- They no longer just say "Interact".
Fleet Buff Stores now use the proper Provisions.

Foundry:

Added the Wells, Mobius, Aeon, Krenn, Korath, and Rhozenko to the Foundry.
- They should all be selectable as costumes along with all of their interchangable materials/parts.
Using Duplicate Map should no longer create imperfect duplicates.
- Previously there were sometimes too many spawn points or too many of other icons.
New Romulus has been added to the Foundry for hookup as a Cryptic map.
- Authors can place Interact and Talk to Contact objectives on New Romulus.
- New Romulus has several "doors" to hook up content to in the Leave From menu for map transfers.
It's now possible to set patrol paths for your NPCs in Foundry missions.
- The patrol behavior will not work in Preview mode, but will work after the mission has been published.

Reputation:

Fixed various text and formatting errors with descriptions on Romulan Reputation projects.
Reputation XP projects now reward a small amount of Dilithium upon completion.
- 340 for the 2000 XP projects
- 140 for the 800 XP projects
- The addition of this reward means that players must now click the "Claim Reward" button when the project timer is complete.
Reputation Projects:
- All Tier-Up projects have had their durations reduced from 1 hour to 15 minutes.
- All Tier-Up projects have had their Dilithium costs completely removed.
Significantly lowered the cost of the items in the Omega reputation consumable store.
Removed Tier requirements from the Omega Conversion Crates.
- These can now be opened without restriction.
Removed Tier requirements on Mark-to-Dilithium conversion projects.
- These projects can now be slotted immediately upon reaching level 50 and unlocking the Reputation system.
Reduced duration on T3-T5 Reputation XP projects from 40 hours to 20 hours.
- This matches T1 and T2 project durations.

Systems:

Vesta ships now get a recharge reduction on launching Hangar Pets from Auxiliary Power.
Added Transwarp to Tau Dewa Sector Block to the Tier 5 Excelsior Retrofit.
- In order to get this Transwarp, the ship must be dismissed and reclaimed from the C-store.
Added Tau Dewa Sector Block to Dilithium store Transwarp Consumable.
Renamed Varanus Fleet Support Vessel to Varanus Support Vessel.
The Omega Torpedo Launcher can no longer fire multiple High Yield torpedoes in quick succession.
Fixed a description error in Elite Scorpion Fighter Carrier pets.
Variable Geometry Detonators consoles will now properly increase Mine damage.
The Kinetic Cutting beam is no longer incorrectly referred to as a turret.
Updated the description for Romulan Plasma weapons.
Romulan Plasma High Density Beam Rifles now correctly display "Plasma" in their names.
Fleet Romulan Bird-of-Prey Reinforcements no longer say they summon Starfleet Cruisers.
Romulan and Reman Security Team items now list their duration in the item description.
Romulan and Reman Security teams will no longer beam out early if they do not engage in combat.
Hyperonic Radiation now has cleaner tooltips and functions more reliably.
Reduced Vesta Quantum Field Focus Phaser bonus from Particle Generators.
- Quantum Field Focus Phaser now receives the same total level of bonus from Particle Generators as all weapons receive from Weapons Training and Energy Weapons Training Skill - including comparable lance weapons.
- Slightly increased base damage of Quantum Field Focus Phaser.
Vesta Quantum Field Focus Phaser and Aux Cannon can no longer be brought down when weapons go offline.
- These weapons will still go down when Auxiliary does offline.
All Gorn ship descriptions in the ship store now accurately display +15 Auxiliary power in the ship store.
- Previously, they displayed only +10.
- This is a text change only.
The Tier 5 B'rel and Fleet Tier 5 B'rel default weapons are now Mark 10 instead of 8.

Known Issues:

Private Queues:
- Launched private queues will show a second version of the same queue in the Join Existing tab.
  - The correct one to queue for will be the one displaying a number of players versus the map limit, such as 4/5.
- The small Private Game window may appear inside of launched private maps and display incorrect information.
- The map level displayed will be off by one level for players joining the queue of a private match.
Excelsiors purchased in the past using emblems will get the ability to transwarp to the Tau Dewa Sector Block in a future update.
Players may need to re-slot their Bridge Officers and/or Bridge Officer abilities.
- An issue was resolved that erroneously granted some players an extra Bridge Officer ability.