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tylermaxwelltylermaxwell Member Posts: 184 Arc User
edited August 2013 in Controls and User Interface
Post-patch logging in, I was strolling around the galaxy in my lovely starship, when I fancied a bite to eat at my favorite dive on DS9. No problem! Just tap my trusty Transwarp button, and select the destination to take me there! But to my chagrin, the patch introduced an unexpected change to the transwarp destination descriptions. :(

Why were these changed? On the FED side, it is relatively insignificant, just renaming "Deep Space K-7" to "Starbase K7". (Though according to Memory Alpha it is supposed to be "Deep Space Station K-7", but I digress.) On the KDF side however, the transwarp destinations for the various sector blocks have been altered to a nebulous faction space reference: "Beta Ursae Sector Block" has been changed to "Cardassian space", "Alpha Centauri Sector Block" to "Romulan space", etc. (Not sure what happened with "the Regulus Sector Block" one.) While I've been playing long enough to know where those transwarp buttons go w/o thinking about it too much, I imagine that this might be confusing for someone who doesn't have prior knowledge of exactly where the transwarps go, especially the "Romulan space" one, since the "Tau Dewa Sector Block" could also count as Romulan space, but ultimately takes you to an entirely different location on the Galaxy map.

So back to my question: why were these changed? Seems like a case of fixing something that wasn't broken. Please change them back. Thank you. :)
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  • voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    /signed.
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  • lordmalak1lordmalak1 Member Posts: 4,681 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Signed

    I rarely use the feature, but when I do I'd like to know EXACTLY where I'm going to end up.
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  • nyxadrillnyxadrill Member Posts: 1,242 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    <sigh> Another change for changes sake?

    "If it aint broke....don't fix it" - seems this needs to be quoted more often.

    I second the OP.
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  • crypticgekocrypticgeko Member Posts: 87
    edited August 2013
    We cannot reproduce this problem, nor do we see any change in the data, nor can I repro this with my personal character on holodeck.

    Is anyone else having this problem? Can anyone confirm this problem? Or are folks just "sighing" because they assume it is broken for everyone. What is the source or the Transwarp power (Excelsior, Transwarp Coil, Diplomacy Transwarp)?
  • eradicator84eradicator84 Member Posts: 1,116 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    I've started seeing "the Regulus Sector Block" of late too KDF side (I guess it's the Marauding T3 CXP unlock).
    Just accessing it via the transwarp button on minimap.
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  • undarlmalalundarlmalal Member Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    We cannot reproduce this problem, nor do we see any change in the data, nor can I repro this with my personal character on holodeck.

    Is anyone else having this problem? Can anyone confirm this problem? Or are folks just "sighing" because they assume it is broken for everyone. What is the source or the Transwarp power (Excelsior, Transwarp Coil, Diplomacy Transwarp)?

    On my KDF character -- T4 Marauding and no other Transwarp abilities -- the transwarp list is currently:

    Romulan Space
    Cardassian Space
    Fleet Starbase System
    Qo'nos
    the Regulus Sector Block

    Most of my Fed characters -- including those with T4 Diplomacy and Suliban Cell Ship transwarps -- see no changes other than the aforementioned K7/Starbase 39 cleanups. However, my Fleet Advanced Heavy Cruiser Retrofit list has the Eta Eridani text as "Transwarp to Eta Eridani Sector Block".

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  • futurepastnowfuturepastnow Member Posts: 3,660 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Uh, yeah, Geko, the transwarp destinations were renamed. And whoever renamed them didn't even bother to proofread it.
  • darthpetersendarthpetersen Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    In the german localisation the destinations are more broken. The first words a cut of. Like "ernenbasis-System transwarpen" instead of "Flotten-Sternenbasis-System transwarpen" or just "Sektorblock" instead of "Tau Dewa Sektorblock".
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  • tangolighttangolight Member Posts: 777 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    I've noticed it too, just pressing T to Transwarp from any of my ships. Freighter, Odyssey, Defiant. The locations I expect to be able to travel to are there, but the names have different.

    K-7 used to be named "Sherman System" for example, and Earth was "Sol System". Now it's Starbase K-7 and Earthspace Dock respectively. And Regulus for my Klingon shows up as 'the Regulus sector block'.
  • zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    We cannot reproduce this problem, nor do we see any change in the data, nor can I repro this with my personal character on holodeck.

    Is anyone else having this problem? Can anyone confirm this problem? Or are folks just "sighing" because they assume it is broken for everyone. What is the source or the Transwarp power (Excelsior, Transwarp Coil, Diplomacy Transwarp)?

    13 of my KDF are tier 4 marauding and one says Romulan Space which is Iota/The location of the romulus memorial. Then I have Tau Dewa transwarp. It might be confusion for some players between the two is what I can figure.
  • goltzhargoltzhar Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    /signed.............
  • flyingtargflyingtarg Member Posts: 105 Cryptic Developer
    edited August 2013
    Thanks for pointing this out. This was not changed in the most recent patch, and in fact was changed a few patches ago when we made an adjustment to the Transwarp UI that changed how the transwarp names are displayed. It turns out that the Marauder transwarps are simply mislabeled, and will need to be fixed.

    Additionally, the adjustment we made to the Transwarp UI inadvertantly negatively impacted players not playing the English translation of the game. We'll be sure to fix the UI for those players as well.
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  • tonyalmeida2tonyalmeida2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    flyingtarg wrote: »
    Thanks for pointing this out. This was not changed in the most recent patch, and in fact was changed a few patches ago when we made an adjustment to the Transwarp UI that changed how the transwarp names are displayed. It turns out that the Marauder transwarps are simply mislabeled, and will need to be fixed.

    Additionally, the adjustment we made to the Transwarp UI inadvertantly negatively impacted players not playing the English translation of the game. We'll be sure to fix the UI for those players as well.

    While you are at it, consider adding a mechanic that would allow players who are in fleets to transwarp to the places that their transwarp conduit can go. Is there really a point in having to transwarp to the fleet base, then flying over to the conduit? Either way you still have a cooldown, and my suggestion would merely be a quality of life upgrade.
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  • darthpetersendarthpetersen Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    German transwarp destinations in the menu are still broken now for weeks. When we will get a fix for that localisation error (and there are a lot of other localisation errors)?
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