Don't purchase Romulan Bridge Officers

eisenw0lf

NONE of their special traits work. They are currently just ridiculously overpriced BOffs and effectively inferior to regular races. I already submitted a bug report ingame and in the forums bug section:

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=482091

avantgarde01

A similar issue was reported with the Romulan Doff that buffs the stasis field power.

olivia211

I'm not hating on Cryptic in any way, but how can things like this not be tested and confirmed? Was it and for some reason it just doesn't work live? Did they not have time to properly roll it out?

alexhurlbut

Make me wonder if they had enough testers on Tribbles or didn't bother to read the bug reports by said testers before the features went live?

latiasracer

alexhurlbut wrote: »

Make me wonder if they had enough testers on Tribbles or didn't bother to read the bug reports by said testers before the features went live?

Because of all the time gating, nobody has got to the right tiers to unlock this stuff, which is im guessing why we are having problems now.

Tribble would make far more sense if all the content was instantly unlocked, so everything could actually be tested.

goltzhar

olivia211 wrote: »

I'm not hating on Cryptic in any way, but how can things like this not be tested and confirmed? Was it and for some reason it just doesn't work live? Did they not have time to properly roll it out?

There will never be enough time....

They are probably gathering stats/info on this years "Winter Wonderland" to start planing the next year's event.

darimund

even if everything wasn't unlocked on tribble, you would think the people that made the items would have at least done a cursory test to see if they worked. But, alas, no. devs just bang on a keyboard saying DERP I MAKE STAR TREK and call it a day.

olivia211

goltzhar wrote: »

There will never be enough time....

They are probably gathering stats/info on this years "Winter Wonderland" to start planing the next year's event.

I can think of at least one other MMO that does not have problems like these and with time. I know there is the money issue, but with a better product you get more people willing to spend money. For a short time, I was dumping money into the game, but now I am slowing down because I am starting to see all these little issues building up. After a while, I don't think I will be giving any money at all because I fear that one day I will log on and people will be talking about the game ending in 2 months because too many people felt the same way I did. It's kind of like living in a house where the landlord says he will fix all the problems, but they just never get done. Eventually you get sick of it and move out.

skyranger1414

darimund wrote: »

even if everything wasn't unlocked on tribble, you would think the people that made the items would have at least done a cursory test to see if they worked. But, alas, no. devs just bang on a keyboard saying DERP I MAKE STAR TREK and call it a day.

Exactly. This, like the Rom Rep Torpedo problems had nothing to do with Tribble or testing. Whoever made it in the first place should've had enough care to at least make sure it was working before saying "yep, its done".

hanover

olivia211 wrote: »

I can think of at least one other MMO that does not have problems like these and with time. I know there is the money issue, but with a better product you get more people willing to spend money. For a short time, I was dumping money into the game, but now I am slowing down because I am starting to see all these little issues building up. After a while, I don't think I will be giving any money at all because I fear that one day I will log on and people will be talking about the game ending in 2 months because too many people felt the same way I did. It's kind of like living in a house where the landlord says he will fix all the problems, but they just never get done. Eventually you get sick of it and move out.

I get the impression that Cryptic has been constrained by the directive to milk as much money out of STO as they can, while at the same time putting as little money into it as possible (and that includes dedicating an expanding staff just to this game), because the belief from "on high" (Perfect World?) is that the game is already circling the drain and they need to hurry up and wring every last penny out of it while they can. So every deadline is a "skin of your teeth, cut corners if you must" situation, and anything that isn't an immediate source of income gets the back burner treatment.

I could be wrong about this, of course. Just my perception.

eisenw0lf

It also bothers me that all the romulan BOffs look exactly the same and cannot be customized in the tailor. I mean how hard is it to give the BOffs from each department a different face and hairstyle? Or just give the player the option to alter their appearance.

duaths1

eisenw0lf wrote: »

It also bothers me that all the romulan BOffs look exactly the same and cannot be customized in the tailor. I mean how hard is it to give the BOffs from each department a different face and hairstyle? Or just give the player the option to alter their appearance.

really? can u post a pic pls? cause my interrest just dropped a bit.. suppose that was it with daily xk Dil and some TRIBBLE EC to our fleet's Embassy projects..

eisenw0lf

The male Romulan looks somewhat ok, but his hairstyle is rather dull, even for romulan standards. The female on the other hand has the name DERP written all over her face: She has ridges on her nose (really, cryptic? WTF!) and klingon bushy eyebrows. The person who designed her has clearly NEVER seen a romulan in Star Trek.

Can't deliver any pictures right now, maybe later.

duaths1

eisenw0lf wrote: »

The male Romulan looks somewhat ok, but his hairstyle is rather dull, even for romulan standards. The female on the other hand has the name DERP written all over her face: She has ridges on her nose (really, cryptic? WTF!) and klingon bushy eyebrows. The person who designed her has clearly NEVER seen a romulan in Star Trek.

Can't deliver any pictures right now, maybe later.

pls do it, you will be very welcome..

outrageous! 10k Dill and Fleet credits for a non-customizable BOFF, with fail non-functioning traits which will perhaps not be claimable

farktoid5000

To which specific passives are you referring? Any combat logs or comparison numbers would help as well.

crypticarmsman

latiasracer wrote: »

Because of all the time gating, nobody has got to the right tiers to unlock this stuff, which is im guessing why we are having problems now.

Tribble would make far more sense if all the content was instantly unlocked, so everything could actually be tested.

^^^
This - if they really want to be able to fully test new Fleet Content, they need a way to allow Fleets to transfer their Holodeck progress to Tribble - or provide us a way to leapfrog to upper tiers on holdings. having one massive Dev created Fleet for each faction - "Cryptic Tribbles" for Feds and "Kryptic Tribbles" for the KDF players just doesn't seem to cut it.

meurik

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meurik

I would like to add just ONE single question, which should be repeated for each and every "Ask Cryptic", until the situation has improved (significantly):

What steps have been taken to reduce the amount of bugs, and "broken" features in the game, that tend to get added with every new update?

eisenw0lf

farktoid5000 wrote: »

To which specific passives are you referring? Any combat logs or comparison numbers would help as well.

I'm speaking of the racial passives "Subterfuge" (should according to the description add a bonus to the damagebuff when decloaking) and "Covert Operative" (should add a critical hit bonus and reduce cooldown on cloaks). Both are space-traits.

Cooldown on cloak stays the same despite me having two romulans with "Covert Operative" (20 seconds as always). Critical hit bonus doesn't appear in the "attack"-tab of my ship (tested in space), I therefore assume this bonus was not added.

And according to my battlecloak the damagebonus after decloaking is still +15%. I have one romulan with "Subterfuge", so where is my bonus?

markhawkman

eisenw0lf wrote: »

I'm speaking of the racial passives "Subterfuge" (should according to the description add a bonus to the damagebuff when decloaking) and "Covert Operative" (should add a critical hit bonus and reduce cooldown on cloaks). Both are space-traits.

Cooldown on cloak stays the same despite me having two romulans with "Covert Operative" (20 seconds as always). Critical hit bonus doesn't appear in the "attack"-tab of my ship (tested in space), I therefore assume this bonus was not added.

And according to my battlecloak the damagebonus after decloaking is still +15%. I have one romulan with "Subterfuge", so where is my bonus?

Are they active slotted to stations on your ship?

eisenw0lf

markhawkman wrote: »

Are they active slotted to stations on your ship?

Of course they are.

goltzhar

olivia211 wrote: »

I can think of at least one other MMO that does not have problems like these and with time. I know there is the money issue, but with a better product you get more people willing to spend money. For a short time, I was dumping money into the game, but now I am slowing down because I am starting to see all these little issues building up. After a while, I don't think I will be giving any money at all because I fear that one day I will log on and people will be talking about the game ending in 2 months because too many people felt the same way I did. It's kind of like living in a house where the landlord says he will fix all the problems, but they just never get done. Eventually you get sick of it and move out.

Agree with every word, this is actually my exact situation, was going to buy lifetime sub but I was little suspicious why they had a sale right before S7 so I decided to wait, now when I see the results of S7 I'm not unhappy with that move....
My guess to why they had the sale is that they made sure that at least some of the players didn't run away.

And all these issues that keep building up is so annoying that I really don't know what to do, and not to mention the way they handle their misstakes/situations.

And just like you I'm keeping it low with spending any money for a while.

eisenw0lf

Here are the promised pictures of the romulan bridge officers:

azniadeet

Can you change these BOFFs uniforms?

eisenw0lf

No, you can't edit their appearance in any way. The buttons are greyed out for them in the tailor window. I hope this gets changed in a future patch, because I've got an army of clones on my bridge right now. Not exactly appealing.

zahinder

hanover2 wrote: »

I get the impression that Cryptic has been constrained by the directive to milk as much money out of STO as they can, while at the same time putting as little money into it as possible (and that includes dedicating an expanding staff just to this game), because the belief from "on high" (Perfect World?) is that the game is already circling the drain and they need to hurry up and wring every last penny out of it while they can. So every deadline is a "skin of your teeth, cut corners if you must" situation, and anything that isn't an immediate source of income gets the back burner treatment.

I could be wrong about this, of course. Just my perception.

No, that's Champion Onlines.

If you ever want to feel WAY better about the amount of development and quality level of STO, go play CO for a while.

disposeableh3r0

to the question of testing I remind you all of this.

Dan said there were less than 100 people actively testing on tribble. I assume this means returning testers playing for more than the required hour for the rewards. It has also been said seveal times that due to the time gating it was impossible to unlock and test the higher tier stuff before launch.

Also remember that the test servers handle much less data than the live servers and are not subject to as manny random code errors. so some bugs may only show up on the live servers.

I also invite you to not use the broken features. You didnt have them before and you dont need them now so perhaps just being patient will pass the time it will take to fix faster.

eisenw0lf

People couldn't test the new stuff because it wasn't unlocked for them on tribble. Same with the Romulan Bridge Officiers. I'm sure someone would have already found out that their traits are not working during the testphase IF we would have gotten the chance to actually test the new stuff added with season 7.

willomally

olivia211 wrote: »

I'm not hating on Cryptic in any way, but how can things like this not be tested and confirmed? Was it and for some reason it just doesn't work live? Did they not have time to properly roll it out?

D Stahl said him self in the letter he posted after season 7 posted that about only a hundred people tested the content on tribble. As some one who was in there for the entire week before the tribble test weekend I can tell you it was mighty empty right until the the test weekend. I can also say that based on my own experience (I only was able to get to tier two in the romulan reputaion system) that they probably didn't get any feedback on the upper tiers of the reputation system and are flying blind right now fixing things as they find them.
What I can suggest is keep up on what they are doing on tribble and when big changes are in the offing spend your time there If Stahl is right and I believe he is the players need to step up and get on tribble if you want seamless and bug free launches.

magnusraven

So wait... the Romulan Boff is only available to fleets and falls under the cannot edit category? And is busted to boot? Frown worthy.

duaths1

eisenw0lf wrote: »

Here are the promised pictures of the romulan bridge officers:

thank you much! think im gonna give them a try afterall.. (ps - the woman indeed IS ugly)

hope they are going to reconsider the customization.
for some, the uniform may be an issue, for me, it is more the face. i do really like to customize my BOFF's and creating backstories on them in my mind.. then they repeat across all my toons.. but the face has to be appealing..