It took a long time for the Tribble patch to complete. Then, a player logs into the game only to find that the "Shared is locked." I'm sorry, but that is annoying. It would be nice to let players know the ETA that Tribble will be back up. :cool:
A lot of changes!, looking good overall. But this:
Ground -Medical Vanguard:
- All powers you use on allies give them perfect shields for 4 seconds, along with a moderate Shield Heal.
Why the Science Class -a HP tank- is now getting Shield tanking?. I thought that this was only ground for Engineers. Why not make Medical Vaguard a perfect HP for 4 seconds?
anybody else think that with the introduction of warp cores an innate power could be eject warp core and would do a 5km aoe explosion or something to that extent?
No I will not "chill". The patch notes shouldn't be posted until the server is up and ready. Thats just common sense. And feedback threads certainly shouldnt be created until the server is ready to be played on.
No MMO I have ever played does this. The patch notes sometimes go up more than a day in advance of the patches, even. This is so that players can look at the patch notes before they actually patch the game so that they know what they are getting. (And so they have something to do while the game is patching.)
As the patch is, in fact, available, the patch notes should be up. There could after all be an important note about "NO DON'T PATCH IF X, THAT'LL BREAK SOMETHING" in the patch notes. That the patch cannot be currently played isn't really germane; it can definitely be downloaded so they need to say something about its contents.
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So, all we need now is a eject warp core button to keep us from going boom, Right?
They could a slight chance (im talking like 1.25%) to cause a warp core breach and you would have to eject the core to negate being made into tiny ship bits
anybody else think that with the introduction of warp cores an innate power could be eject warp core and would do a 5km aoe explosion or something to that extent?
So, all we need now is a eject warp core button to keep us from going boom, Right?
Haha Jynx?
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No I will not "chill". The patch notes shouldn't be posted until the server is up and ready. Thats just common sense. And feedback threads certainly shouldnt be created until the server is ready to be played on.
Seriously it should be as simple as the server team responsible for deploying the patch/running checks going to Branflakes(or the person in charge) and saying the server is up, and then Branflakes going to zer0nius and telling her to put the patch notes up and then the devs posting their feedback topics...
I don't understand why people defend such backward ways of running things.
Its like saying a cake is done baking when it still has another 15 minutes to go... no one does that.
No, but you do get told when a cake is baking, I'm just saying you may disagree, I may disagree, this is just the standard that cryptic work to.
Personally I see no problem with doing things preemptively, such as preparing feed back posts so that they are ready before the system goes live, so that the feedback can been sent the second that the patch goes live.
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All KDF and Starfleet vessels use Matter/Antimatter Warp Cores.
The way in which Warp Speed in Sector Space is calculated has been updated.
It is now based off the level of your ship's Warp Core, instead of off your captain level.
Additionally, the scale of Warp Speed throughout the game has been recalculated to allow players to go faster in Sector Space but maintain Warp 10 as the fastest displayed non-Transwarp speed.
A speed that previously displayed as Warp 7 now displays as Warp 5, but is actually the same speed.
This means captains moving at Warp 10 will now reach their destinations more quickly than they could before.
Warp Cores of every rarity now drop from space combat throughout the game. As your Warp Core increases in rarity, it gains additional pools of possible enhancements to add to your ship.
All Matter/Anti-Matter Warp Cores increase the Maximum power of either Shields, Engines, or Auxiliary by 5.
Uncommon quality Warp Cores add a bonus of 15 to an Engineering-related skill.
There are six possible enhancements you can receive on a green warp core:
Driver Coil
Starship Batteries
Warp Core Efficiency
Subsystem Repair
Electro-Plasma Systems
Starship Engine Performance
Rare quality Warp Cores add a synergy bonus between one power system and another.
For example, one possible Rare enhancement will give you bonus Weapon power equal to a percentage of your current Engine power.
There are twelve possible enhancements at the Rare level.
Very Rare quality Warp Cores add a new power to your useable powers, a Capacitor.
Capacitor powers function as reusable batteries that don't occupy a device slot, but have a longer cooldown and lower magnitude of effect than a standard battery.
There are four enhancements at the Very Rare level, one for each battery type.
Mk XI and XII Warp Cores of all qualities gain one additional travel-related enhancement that increases the usefulness of your Slipstream or Transwarp abilities.
A selection of Warp Cores can be purchased from Energy Credit vendors in most social hubs, as well as through the Dilithium store.
All told, the Warp Core slot is designed to add a lot of choice in how you configure your ship's power settings and Engineering abilities.
There are tens of thousands of possible cores out there to find and use, and tons of new builds to make with them, so good luck and happy hunting!
Does this mean we're going to get MACO/Omega/Assimilated/KHG Warpcores?
The science traits are ill conceived. Exotic damage boost is going to be hardly noticeable. The photonic fleet trait is just going to create more annoying NPC spam in PvP, but isn't actually that useful.
The tactical traits both seem incredibly powerful, though the GDF trait is balanced somewhat by the change to only allowing GDF when lower than 50%. Given how easy it is to boost critical hit chance and how profound of an impact accuracy has, crippling fire is far out of line with the other traits.
The engineer traits look useful. The MW one sounds quite powerful. Unfortunately, it doesn't change the fact that PvE is a pure DPS race and in PvP people can chose not to shoot the tank. These aren't going to fix engineers.
Tribble is back up now Please also see Zero's opening line to the patch notes: "We will be bringing the Tribble server down for maintenance to apply a new update."
Just like Holodeck, maintenance can take time We try to post patch notes before maintenance when possible and maintenance can take up to several hours, give or take.
Yeah its alive and erm wtf is that fountain spray thing on pick your character screen lol. Looks a bit daft.
Honestly, I like it. Granted not sure what it is, but I thought it was pretty. And lets be honest, the space was looking kind of empty.
On the actual patch. One thing I noticed is changing the UI color scheme effects all characters in the account. So if I choose "Romulan" for example, every character now has the romulan color scheme.
Is there any way to make this a per character change or is that impossible?
Although I don't necessarily like it when you guys look at resetting the entire basis of the game. Some of what I have read there seems quite interesting.
Honestly, I like it. Granted not sure what it is, but I thought it was pretty. And lets be honest, the space was looking kind of empty.
On the actual patch. One thing I noticed is changing the UI color scheme effects all characters in the account. So if I choose "Romulan" for example, every character now has the romulan color scheme.
Is there any way to make this a per character change or is that impossible?
EDIT:
The way it's currently implemented it's per-computer--it's stored in the same file that graphics settings are in.
The way it currently works, if you use "Default", each character will see the default for that faction. So KDF see Klingon and Feds see Starfleet, etc. However, if you override it with a set color option, it will override the default for all characters on that computer. Changing this behavior is definitely not trivial.
And thanks to those pointing out the bug with our error message about the shard being locked. We don't see that from here at Cryptic.
Yes but the message is "Shard is locked", not "shard is down" leading to the assumption that it was keep locked.
I believe this is the same message that is on Holodeck if you've patched and have logged in before we're ready for you to get in. If not, it means the same thing as what Holodeck says currently
I actually saw that same bug in holodeck, in drozana station, and it was not just UI bug, the guy was inside the mailbox with borg deflector in his TRIBBLE :P
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Damn im glad i missed that one
No MMO I have ever played does this. The patch notes sometimes go up more than a day in advance of the patches, even. This is so that players can look at the patch notes before they actually patch the game so that they know what they are getting. (And so they have something to do while the game is patching.)
As the patch is, in fact, available, the patch notes should be up. There could after all be an important note about "NO DON'T PATCH IF X, THAT'LL BREAK SOMETHING" in the patch notes. That the patch cannot be currently played isn't really germane; it can definitely be downloaded so they need to say something about its contents.
USS Shigure: Washed Clean
USS Akizuki: A Light In The Dark
They could a slight chance (im talking like 1.25%) to cause a warp core breach and you would have to eject the core to negate being made into tiny ship bits
Haha Jynx?
I reserve the right to have a completely different standpoint depending on my mood.
No, but you do get told when a cake is baking, I'm just saying you may disagree, I may disagree, this is just the standard that cryptic work to.
Personally I see no problem with doing things preemptively, such as preparing feed back posts so that they are ready before the system goes live, so that the feedback can been sent the second that the patch goes live.
I reserve the right to have a completely different standpoint depending on my mood.
this should answer your question for the most part although I do expect us to see warp cores come to fleet stores as well.
Does this mean we're going to get MACO/Omega/Assimilated/KHG Warpcores?
Details like that are awesome.
edit: Also, Events reputation?
The science traits are ill conceived. Exotic damage boost is going to be hardly noticeable. The photonic fleet trait is just going to create more annoying NPC spam in PvP, but isn't actually that useful.
The tactical traits both seem incredibly powerful, though the GDF trait is balanced somewhat by the change to only allowing GDF when lower than 50%. Given how easy it is to boost critical hit chance and how profound of an impact accuracy has, crippling fire is far out of line with the other traits.
The engineer traits look useful. The MW one sounds quite powerful. Unfortunately, it doesn't change the fact that PvE is a pure DPS race and in PvP people can chose not to shoot the tank. These aren't going to fix engineers.
Just like Holodeck, maintenance can take time
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Honestly, I like it. Granted not sure what it is, but I thought it was pretty. And lets be honest, the space was looking kind of empty.
On the actual patch. One thing I noticed is changing the UI color scheme effects all characters in the account. So if I choose "Romulan" for example, every character now has the romulan color scheme.
Is there any way to make this a per character change or is that impossible?
I don't understand... where's the bug?
Also, I love the Borg shoes.
EDIT:
The way it's currently implemented it's per-computer--it's stored in the same file that graphics settings are in.
The way it currently works, if you use "Default", each character will see the default for that faction. So KDF see Klingon and Feds see Starfleet, etc. However, if you override it with a set color option, it will override the default for all characters on that computer. Changing this behavior is definitely not trivial.
And thanks to those pointing out the bug with our error message about the shard being locked. We don't see that from here at Cryptic.
I believe this is the same message that is on Holodeck if you've patched and have logged in before we're ready for you to get in. If not, it means the same thing as what Holodeck says currently
DOH! Ninja'd by Zero.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
I actually saw that same bug in holodeck, in drozana station, and it was not just UI bug, the guy was inside the mailbox with borg deflector in his TRIBBLE :P
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It's in there:
Thanks, forgot to add that one to Known Issues.