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TRIBBLE Maintenance and Release Notes - May 1, 2013

zer0niusrexzer0niusrex Member Posts: 0 Arc User
We will be bringing TRIBBLE down to update to a new build.
ST.30.20130429a.4

General:
  • Romulans now beam out of character selection using the correct beam out effect.
  • The bank, mail, exchange, and crafting consoles at New Romulus Command can now be used by multiple players at once.
  • Updated more textures all over!
    • Replaced missing or invisible Atmospheres.
      • Most noticeably, Earth's.
    • Should resolve game client crashes complaining about missing 64x64 Textures.
  • Sela now has a cape.
    • She'll be starring in a 3-part miniseries on the Elements Network (Entertainment for Romulan Women) called "How Sela Got Her Cape Back".
      • It's a feel-good story about women's empowerment and the importance of a good wardrobe for military leaders.
      • She is so sure of its commercial and critical success she has already greenlit the sequel "How Sela Got Her Cape Back Two: Romulan Boogaloo".
  • Changed Rank display name for Romulans to be Citizens at low level, and replaced Rear Admirals with Subadmirals.
  • Foundry: It's once again possible to use custom costumes with Dialogs, Contacts, and Critters.
  • Resolved an issue that occasionally caused the game client to crash when changing maps.

Missions:
  • The introductory Romulan cutscene has been made even more awesome.
    • Also made skippable, and rewatchable from the "News of the World" console on the way to the farm.
  • Price of Neutrality:
    • Changed the name of the system from Ajilon to Chaltok.
    • Added voice over throughout.
    • Added backgrounds to various dialog windows.
  • Gasko Blues:
    • Updated text to resolve typos and provide additional clarity in instructions and general flow.
    • Added some voice-over.
    • Changed space encounters in space section to be a bit easier and ramp up more gradually.
    • Added an animation when interacting with the console to open the prisoner cells.
  • The Search for New Romulus:
    • Beefed up the final space boss fight.
    • Increased the size of the waypoint for "Observe the Bridge".
    • The Eppohs should now be easier to interact with, and will flee from the player after being scanned.
    • Updated the space beacons so they only give credit once per team.
    • Updated final ground boss fight to be less ridiculously hard.
    • Updated the text to address typos and make dialog flow better.
  • Crossroads at Crateris:
    • Made it less likely for Slamek to spawn inside the wall and get stuck.
    • Added some voice over.
  • Mind Game: Updated the text to resolve typos and improve general flow.
  • Turning Point: Players on a team will no longer be disconnected when beginning the Unwanted Visitors objective.

Systems:
  • The [Trans] modifier found on Mk XI and XII Warp Cores now actually reduces the cooldown of transwarp abilities by 50%, rather than the 35% it was giving before.
  • Romulan Cloak: Increased this power's recharge time from 20 seconds to 40 seconds.
  • Romulan Battle Cloak: Increased this power's recharge time from 20 seconds to 40 seconds.
  • Romulan Cloaking and Singularity powers share a 5 second global cooldown.
  • Singularity updates:
    • All Singularity Powers now have a 30 second recharge time.
      • This recharge time is not shared between the powers.
      • This will prevent the same power from being used back to back in certain circumstances.
    • The cooldown on building Singularity energy after using a Singularity Power now scales with the level of the Singularity Power used.
      • The cooldown's duration ranges from 40 seconds, at Level 1 Singularity, to 60 seconds, at Level 5 Singularity.
    • Increased base time in seconds to reach level 5 Singularity from level 0 Singularity from 40 to 60.
    • Singularity Jump: Resolved an issue in the rank 5 version of this power that caused the duration of the Singularity effect to last longer than intended.
    • Warp Shadow:
      • The summoned Warp Shadows will now actively move around and generate additional threat on a single target, in addition to the large threat they normally generate.
      • After 19.5 seconds the player will correctly cloak.
    • Singularity Overcharge:
      • This power is now useable while cloaking.
      • Activating this power while cloaked will deactivate your cloak.

UI:
  • Resolved an issue where clicking on a skill level instead of using the increase or decrease buttons didn't properly refresh the skill window.
  • Added a respec reputations button to the reputation UI, and a field that shows the number of reputation respecs the player has.
  • Reverted display changes from previous update to stats display in the character status window.
  • Corrected a minor issue in the traits window in which it would display the wrong portrait and species name with your ship selected.
  • The skills and traits window now show your captain's skills and traits if you have a ship selected.
  • The respec window now shows the correct pips for each captain rank.
  • Bridge Officer traits now display correctly in the Trait UI.
  • Romulans will now display "Ally of the Federation" or "Ally of the Klingon Empire" on the character selection screen if they have allied with a faction
  • The chat window will now remember its minimized state between map changes.

Known Issues:
  • The Klingon Mission Journal is currently being re-worked and some missions may not yet be available to existing Klingons.
  • Neither Klingons nor Romulans are available for new characters.
    • A small number of participants can now create Romulans as part of a closed beta.
  • The C-store is disabled.
  • Players on Wine will need to use a workaround in order to play.
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  • movodormovodor Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Good to see the reputation respecs.
  • commanderkorcommanderkor Member Posts: 147 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    doubled the romulan battle cloak recharge to 40sec? ouch lol
  • ravinravin Member Posts: 509 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Damn, now I have to go create a new Romulan. It.'s a tough job being a beta tester, but somebody's gotta do it.
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  • brigadooombrigadooom Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Aagh, mah cloak!
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  • threat21threat21 Member Posts: 300
    edited May 2013
    The [Trans] modifier found on Mk XI and XII Warp Cores now actually reduces the cooldown of transwarp abilities by 50%, rather than the 35% it was giving before.

    omg thank you. stuff like that bugs me to no end.
  • qjuniorqjunior Member Posts: 2,023 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Well, to summarize, big nerf on everything Romulan it seems. :confused:

    So, Sela is a Romulan TV star now. What other shows do they have ? If I know any, you ask ?

    Desperate Empresses !

    The Walking Fed !

    The Big Singularity Theory !

    The Joy of Cooking Epohhs !

    :D
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    C'mon, honestly - was the change to the Rom cloaks because too many folks that never flew a BoP were killing themselves? :)
  • naeviusnaevius Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Hmmm... anything on the vanishing Boff skills or Boffs leaving their stations?
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  • erockererocker Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Any word on the Bridge Officer space reset bug? I'm constantly having to reset my boffs almost every time I switch maps in space.
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  • grnlbrtnfrntgrnlbrtnfrnt Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Romulans will now display "Ally of the Federation" or "Ally of the Klingon Empire" on the character selection screen if they have allied with a faction

    Please NO!

    We dont need to be reminded every time we log who we are FORCED to serve.

    The less mention of Fed and KDF for Romulan characters the better. It should be easy to forget you were ever made to subjugate yourself.
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  • cuatelacuatela Member Posts: 296 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Romulan Cloak: Increased this power's recharge time from 20 seconds to 40 seconds.
    Romulan Battle Cloak: Increased this power's recharge time from 20 seconds to 40 seconds.

    If you're gonna keep this, could you make it so exiting combat resets (or at least reduces) the cooldown on cloak? For the standard cloak at least, it feels redundant to restrict an out of combat ability even further.

  • dontdrunkimshootdontdrunkimshoot Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    [*]Romulan Battle Cloak: Increased this power's recharge time from 20 seconds to 40 seconds.

    what the hell? well you just rewrote the rules on how romulans work doing that. it certanly will make it that much harder for those horrible 5 turn ships to do anything.

    perhaps them having battle cloak at all is a bit OP, so i can see a justification. the only cloak with a 20 second cooldown should be on klingon birds of prey. what about the romulan EBCing bop? no mention of a change to it. i hope that means the E was dropped from its BC entirely...
  • stardestroyer001stardestroyer001 Member Posts: 2,615 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    She'll be starring in a 3-part miniseries on the Elements Network (Entertainment for Romulan Women) called "How Sela Got Her Cape Back".
    • It's a feel-good story about women's empowerment and the importance of a good wardrobe for military leaders.
    • She is so sure of its commercial and critical success she has already greenlit the sequel "How Sela Got Her Cape Back Two: Romulan Boogaloo".
    Hahahaha nice.

    On the subject of broken features: I've noted a few:
    • Clicking in the text field doesn't move cursor to that area of text, like it does in Holodeck.
    • For the Vesta, the "select primary ship" button covers the hangar slot in the ship selection menu.
    • Cannot zoom in on ships in the ship customization panel.
    • Ker'rat cannot be entered by Romulan allied players.
    • Type 6 hulls don't have that shiny deflector property that can be found in each of the other hulls. (This may be intentional, just thought to mention it)
    • Cruisers. ;)
    • Arena battles no longer show the score box (this may be intentional, not sure)
    • When changing characters, when a different character is selected, their character tab is selected but the 3D character does not show up, and consequently hitting the login button only selects the previous character.
    what the hell? well you just rewrote the rules on how romulans work doing that. it certanly will make it that much harder for those horrible 5 turn ships to do anything.

    perhaps them having battle cloak at all is a bit OP, so i can see a justification. the only cloak with a 20 second cooldown should be on klingon birds of prey. what about the romulan EBCing bop? no mention of a change to it. i hope that means the E was dropped from its BC entirely...
    Agreed; what happened? Pretty sure that the Romulan Cloak should be much less than 40 seconds. Look at Assimilated Donatra; her cloak isn't 40 seconds at all.
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  • daemonhelddaemonheld Member Posts: 287 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    naevius wrote: »
    Hmmm... anything on the vanishing Boff skills or Boffs leaving their stations?



    This is the big one I'm hoping is addressed soon...

    And, yeah... OUCH on the doubling the Cloak recharge... :(

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  • grnlbrtnfrntgrnlbrtnfrnt Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    what the hell? well you just rewrote the rules on how romulans work doing that. it certanly will make it that much harder for those horrible 5 turn ships to do anything.

    perhaps them having battle cloak at all is a bit OP, so i can see a justification. the only cloak with a 20 second cooldown should be on klingon birds of prey. what about the romulan EBCing bop? no mention of a change to it. i hope that means the E was dropped from its BC entirely...

    Ummm.... why BOPs. We Romulans INVENTED the freaking cloak and sold the dumb Klingons - errr our glorious new masters - inferior cloaking Technology.


    The Klingon cloaks should be ones with the longest cooldowns
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  • atatassaultatatassault Member Posts: 1,008 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Subadmiral: Nice, very Romulan.

    Also, good job on the Cloak Cooldown; 20 Seconds with 5 Superior Romulan Operatives would have been WAY OP.
  • dontdrunkimshootdontdrunkimshoot Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Ummm.... why BOPs. We Romulans INVENTED the freaking cloak and sold the dumb Klingons - errr our glorious new masters - inferior cloaking Technology.


    The Klingon cloaks should be ones with the longest cooldowns

    for balance reason. none of the romulan ships are tin cans by any stretch like they are
  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I believe they did it becasue with the Romulan abilities I was able to cloak 5-9 seconds after I decloak.
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  • raythilo2345raythilo2345 Member Posts: 148 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    anyway we are going to be getting the option to beam from Romulan Fortilia to the Romulan Command and vice versa...like ESD and SFA?
  • rifter1969rifter1969 Member Posts: 654 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Sela in a reality show.... :confused:

    Well, I guess that would be good.

    BTW... zero I think you need a vacation... :D
  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    anyway we are going to be getting the option to beam from Romulan Fortilia to the Romulan Command and vice versa...like ESD and SFA?

    what's in the flotilla you can't get in the command center?
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  • lordhavelocklordhavelock Member Posts: 2,248 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Sela now has a cape.
    • She'll be starring in a 3-part miniseries on the Elements Network (Entertainment for Romulan Women) called "How Sela Got Her Cape Back".
      • It's a feel-good story about women's empowerment and the importance of a good wardrobe for military leaders.
      • She is so sure of its commercial and critical success she has already greenlit the sequel "How Sela Got Her Cape Back Two: Romulan Boogaloo".
    Devs bringin' the Lulz! :D
    Added a respec reputations button to the reputation UI, and a field that shows the number of reputation respecs the player has.
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  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    We will be bringing TRIBBLE down to update to a new build.
    ST.30.20130429a.4

    General:
    • Romulans now beam out of character selection using the correct beam out effect.
    • The bank, mail, exchange, and crafting consoles at New Romulus Command can now be used by multiple players at once.
    • Updated more textures all over!
      • Replaced missing or invisible Atmospheres.
        • Most noticeably, Earth's.
      Thanks.
    • Should resolve game client crashes complaining about missing 64x64 Textures.
    [*]Sela now has a cape.
    • She'll be starring in a 3-part miniseries on the Elements Network (Entertainment for Romulan Women) called "How Sela Got Her Cape Back".
      • It's a feel-good story about women's empowerment and the importance of a good wardrobe for military leaders.
      • She is so sure of its commercial and critical success she has already greenlit the sequel "How Sela Got Her Cape Back Two: Romulan Boogaloo".
    Proposition 215? or just having a fun day?

    LMAO

    Wow, they did make some changes.
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  • morkargh117morkargh117 Member Posts: 231 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    So has progression above lvl 20 been unlocked yet?
  • raythilo2345raythilo2345 Member Posts: 148 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    So has progression above lvl 20 been unlocked yet?

    nope not from what ive seen
  • captaind3captaind3 Member Posts: 2,449 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    What about the rumors I heard of Sela's new Holofilm, "Waiting to Decoak"?

    She's a true monarch for a media focused era, making sure that her face is everywhere. She needs to be added to Living Color's Cult of Personality song.
    neoakiraii wrote: »
    I believe they did it becasue with the Romulan abilities I was able to cloak 5-9 seconds after I decloak.

    I suppose that makes sense then.

    And seriously the bridge officer thing, in game and at the character select. Please.
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  • trek21trek21 Member Posts: 2,246 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Please NO!

    We dont need to be reminded every time we log who we are FORCED to serve.

    The less mention of Fed and KDF for Romulan characters the better. It should be easy to forget you were ever made to subjugate yourself.
    Forced to serve? They're allies, not subjects of whom they choose...
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  • umaekoumaeko Member Posts: 748 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Yeah, I'd like to know what justifies the increase on the battle cloak cooldown.

    At 40 seconds, most of the "battle" in "Battle Cloak" has pretty much been neutered. Not to mention Romulan Cloaking is supposedly better than Klingon cloaks, and Klingons have a shorter 15 second cooldown?

    Is this because of the in-built traits Romulans have... with this being an attempt to 'pad' the cooldown times to compensate for the racial bonuses? If that's the case, you've more or less crippled the racial bonus Romulans were supposed to get - less a bonus and more a compensation for a penalty.

    I'm very interested in hearing what justified this change.
  • zer0niusrexzer0niusrex Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    erocker wrote: »
    Any word on the Bridge Officer space reset bug? I'm constantly having to reset my boffs almost every time I switch maps in space.

    We are definitely working on that. :)
  • tsurutafan01tsurutafan01 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    umaeko wrote: »

    I'm very interested in hearing what justified this change.

    Good luck.


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