Release Notes: October 3, 2013

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General:

• Mark Valentine Memorial
  • A memorial has been placed on the grounds of the Starfleet Academy to honor the memory all the captains we've lost on our journey through Star Trek Online.
• First Contact Cluster Missions
  • Resolved an issue where sometimes mission critical contacts would not spawn.
• Romulan Temporal Ship R'Mor no longer unpacks with 2 Tipler Cylinder consoles.
• The Cure Found
  • Resolved an issue which was causing players to enter a failed version of the event.
• Crystalline Entity
  • Resolved an issue where captains were only receiving a 100 Mark of choice reward box instead of a 250 Mark of choice box from completing the project.

Systems:

• Trait Updates
  • Photonic Capacitor
    • This trait can now be triggered by the following additional Science abilities:
      • Scattering Field
      • Science Fleet
      • Tachyon Beam
      • Tractor Beam
      • Tractor Beam Repulsors
    • Any ability that has a Toggle duration (shown as a short duration countdown on your hotkey bar) will not activate Photonic Capacitor until this duration has completed.
  • Subterfuge
    • The Stealth bonus granted no longer stacks.
    • Only the highest bonus will apply.
    • The Defense bonus still stacks.
  • Inspirational Leader
    • No longer has a chance to activate on each period of maintained powers like Eject Warp Plasma.
    • Resolved an issue where Inspirational Leader would proc more frequently than intended.
    • The description now includes the "one free respec" portion.
• Resolved some issues with some Tactical Bridge Officer powers.
  • All weapon modifying Tactical Bridge Officer powers are now unable to activate while the category of buff they give is already active.
    • For example, while Beam Overload 1 buff is active, Beam Overload 2 cannot be fired.
  • All weapon modifying Tactical Bridge Officers powers are now unable to activate for 5 seconds after using the ability.
    • For example, for 5 seconds after firing Beam Overload, Beam Overload 1, 2, and 3 cannot be activated.
  • These changes affect all of the following categories of powers at all ranks:
    • Beam Overload
    • Beam Fire At Will
    • Beam Subsystem Targeting
    • Mine Dispersal Pattern Alpha
    • Mine Dispersal Pattern Beta
    • Cannon Rapid Fire
    • Cannon Scatter Volley
    • High Yield Torpedo
    • Torpedo Spread
• Gravity Well
  • Ranks 2 and 3 now properly benefit from the captain's AuxPower and Graviton Generators skill.
  • The base damage of the power has been increased at all ranks.
  • The Repel values of all ranks can now be improved slightly with Graviton Generators skill.
  • The Radius bonus gained by Graviton Generators has been increased.
  • The amount of bonus damage that Aux Power and Partical Generators give to this power have been decreased.
• Tyken's Rift
  • All ranks of Tyken's Rift now apply the proper bonuses of the user's AuxPower, Flow Capacitors and Particle Generators.
  • The base value of the periodic power drain has been increased by approximately 50%.
  • The bonus from Aux Power has been decreased to less than half of its prior potential.
  • The base kinetic damage dealt by this power has been increased by about 35%
• Graviton Pulse Generator
  • Innate Resistances to Slow (like those provided by the skill Inertial Dampers) now reduce the Duration of this debuff, instead of the Magnitude.
  • The benefit this ability gains from the Graviton Generators skill has been reduced by half.
• Duty Officers:
  • Fast Reload Projectile Officers no longer reduce the recharge time of the Destabilized Plasma Torpedo.
• Resolved some issues with the Romulan Xenobiologist kits.
  • The Mk X kit version no longer has the same powers as the very rare version Mk X.
  • The Mk X kit now correctly has Stasis Field R4 instead of R3.
• Orion Slave Hangar Pets
  • Their odds to pillage Energy Credits and Commodities have doubled.
  • Each successful pillage will result in a higher average energy credit rate.
• Warp Core Breach
  • Reduced the flee distance from 5km to 3km.
• Emergency Power to Engines now only last 5 seconds for enemy craft.
  • The 30 second duration for players remains unchanged.
• Matter/Antimatter Warp Core mod "Auxiliary to Shields" now displays the correct mod abbreviation in its item display names.
  • Cores with this power will now properly display as "A->S" instead of "E->S".
• Warhead Yield Chamber consoles no longer displays their damage tooltip twice.
• Resolved an issue where sometimes carrier's small craft would not fight against enemies while in Intercept mode.
• Elachi Crescent Wave Cannon
  • Now requires a target to be in its arc before it can be fired.
• The Tricobalt Torpedo weapons now have the correct power icon when Torpedo High Yield or Torpedo Spread is active.

UI:

• Captains can now choose to remove the "U.S.S.", "I.K.S" or "R.R.W." prefix from all lockbox ships.
  • Additionally, Klingon captains may now choose "O.S.S." for Orion ships (Orion Syndicate Ship), "G.H.S." for Gorn ships (Gorn Hegemony Ship) or "N.F.V." for Nausicaan ships (Nausicaan Free Vessel).
  • Captains can also choose to remove the prefix from Orion and Nausicaan ships.
• Resolved an issue that caused the NumpadEnter key to be recognized as the Enter keybind.
• Re-enabled game chat channel filters for Emotes and Minigame.