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TRIBBLE Maintenance and Release Notes - January 22, 2014
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We will be bringing down the Tribble server for maintenance to apply a new update: ST.36.20140108a.9
New Features:
General:
Systems:
Known Issues:
New Features:
- Fast Ship Swap: Change your current ship almost anywhere!
- On Sector Space maps or social maps, a new Optional Action button has been added: Switch Starship
- Click this button to open your list of ships. Click the ship to want to switch to and it will replace your current ship wherever you are.
- Your new ship retains all the equipment and bridge officer stations from the last time you used it.
- There is a one-minute cooldown after using Fast Ship Swap.
- Fast Ship Swap can only be used on Sector maps or on Space Social maps such as Sol System or Qo'noS system.
- On Sector Space maps or social maps, a new Optional Action button has been added: Switch Starship
- Loadouts: Switch builds with just a couple clicks!
- Open your ship's status window and click Manage Loadouts to create a new one. Each ship has 2 free loadouts and a maximum of 32.
- Additional loadout slots can be purchased in the C-Store in sets of 10. Use them in any order on any number of ships, and discharge a ship to have the slots refunded to you.
- Loadouts save all of your ship's current equipment and bridge officer stations.
- Loadouts pull your saved equipment from your inventory, other ships, or bank.
- Items in your account bank or fleet bank will not be retrieved.
- Changing a build takes any gear currently equipped and places it into your inventory or Overflow bag.
- Use Save As... to save any changes to your current loadout, or Rename it. Both are in the Manage Loadouts Menu.
- There is a 60 second cooldown between switching loadouts.
- Open your ship's status window and click Manage Loadouts to create a new one. Each ship has 2 free loadouts and a maximum of 32.
General:
- Resolved an issue where bridge officer power slots would sometimes not appear in the tray.
- Quick Equip:
- UI and icons have been updated closer to a final state.
- The UI will now remember if you have chosen to view the items as a list or view as icons.
- Equipping an item in icon view will now only require 1 click.
- Icons now show if something is already equipped on a ship or if an item can be equipped but is still bound on equip.
- A quick equip tutorial has been added when you click on the feature for the first time.
- Resolved an issue which was causing KDF captains to get stuck in chairs for the Lounge fleet spire special project.
- The rename button for Starships has been moved from the bottom of the pane to next to the name in both the Character Status window and the Starship Selection window.
- The buy more ship slots button has been moved from the button bar at the bottom of the pane to the sidebar, beneath the option to switch between Starships and Small Craft.
Systems:
- Powers: Beam Fire at Will:
- Resolved an issue where this ability was unable to critically hit.
- Combat Supply:
- The buffs provided by this power have been reduced in magnitude and duration to bring them in line with the effect of other kit powers. It can now provide:
- 20% Shields, 10% Max HP, 10% Damage, 20 Damage Resistance, or 20% Run Speed and Dodge, depending on which boost appears
- The distance and height that Combat Supply's boosts travel when created has been reduced to make gathering them less difficult in interior maps. They should now remain relatively close to the Combat Supply chest.
- The buffs provided by this power have been reduced in magnitude and duration to bring them in line with the effect of other kit powers. It can now provide:
- Traits: Crippling Fire:
- Resolved an issue where this trait was not affecting mines.
- Bridge Officer Powers:
- Resolved an issue where using some bridge officer powers could cause item or trait-based harmful procs to occur on the caster.
- Removed reference to "Photonic Shockwave Torpedo" from Photonic Studies Scientist Active Roster Ability.
- Console abilities of this nature should not be subject to cooldown reductions.
Known Issues:
- Ship swapping and loadouts are not in their final phase.
- Some known issues include:
- Currently, you cannot ship swap between and large ship and a small craft.
- Occasionally, a crash will occur when attempting to ship swap or unequip items.
- Many items cannot be unequipped unless dragged back into your inventory.
- Loadouts cannot be changed on ground maps.
- UI is not final.
- Cooldown for both ship switching and loadout switching do not have timers.
- It's not easy to tell when a loadout has been changed.
- Ship name cannot be renamed while in space.
- Some known issues include:
- Some KDF captains cannot switch to all of their costume slots.
- Energy Weapons which have a proc effect no longer display this in tooltips or power descriptions.
- This is a display issue only.
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I hope to update this post with a list of any bugs reported by everyone so that you devs only have to look at one post.
Bug List and/or list of Suggestions
We need clarification as to where equipment goes when to swap to a different loadout. does it return to the previous ship or the inventory. If all possible we would like to to return to a previous ship or a secondary inventory. Perhaps the overflow bag?
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Are the loadout slots account wide or per character?
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At this time, it's per character -- this may or many not change. For example, when you buy the additional slots pack on one of your characters, you buy them in packs of 10. If you use a slot on Ship A, you'll have 9 left to assign. If you use 2 more on Ship B, you'll have 7 left to assign. If you discharge Ship A, you're total left to assign will go back to 8 (since you used one on that ship).
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And going further, that one I used on the assault cruiser stays so until I discharge that ship I have three slots on that Assault Cruiser?
And what about lockbox and earned event ships? Or is cancelling a loadout slot a feature that's gonna be added at a later date?
The cancelling slots idea sounds good too.
[edit]4th attempt i brought up the ship status window first, then click ship selector and it worked.
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Your first 2 questions were answered in a ninja post by branflakes.
Loadout slots are per character. If you spend a slot on a ship then discharge it you get that slot back.
Would be interesting to be able to delete a loadout slot to get back a slot if you decide you really did not need 3 loadouts for a ship.
How much of a concern this is will come down to the cost of the slots. If they are fairly cheap then I'm unlikely to care.
1) Forcing players to discharge single character unlock ships like Fleet, Lockbox & Holiday Event ships to reclaim load slots seems exceptionally punitive for customers who have actually spent more on the game to get those items.
2) BOFF powers are being removed from trays upon swap. This is an ancient bug.
3) Pulling items out of a neatly organized inventory and dumping them in the top row is awful. Is there no way to save these positions - or perhaps its time to create separate inventory boxes for us for different types of gear like NW - because this part of the implementation now feels unpolished and annoying.
4) The new drop down menus to equip items is ok, but it forces you to open the ship menu. Why was the ability to drag and drop or double click from inventory removed?
5) A visual timer/icon for ship & load swap cooldowns would be good.
Good luck, looking forward to the next round of polish.
But, Just FYI, this bug also affect my non KDF captains (IE fed Rom and Fed). While it started on my KDF, it "propagated" to my others characters.
Tailor dropdown menu is gone from all of them, and I can't choose anything else than uniform (no off duty, MACO, Voth....). Unlocking the Voth costume recently didn't help.
This is a screenshot to show the problem. It was my OMEGA armor costume slot.
As you can see, the dropdown menu is gone, and the costume reverted to a "default" one.
One a side note, my BOFFs have the dropdown menu, but I can't use it.
I like everything about the new update except for the following. So now my inventory will fill completely up with loadout gear when I switch? Really guys I think you need to reconsider this. Want us to have more than one copy of Omega gear??? Well here is your chance, allow the gear to stay in the loadout. I mean, we are paying for storage space by having to buy ten loaouts at a time. Seems pretty chincy and NOT really a benefit for continuing to grind max level gear.
The second thing I really dislike is why is there an artificial one minute cooldown? So I enter an fleet event that has Jemmies, I accidentally hit the wrong loadout now I hurt the team for 60 seconds because i cannot switch. Please reconsider this.
Mr. D'angelo if you are watching, allowing the loadout to store the gear will make us WANT to get multiple sets of the same gear for different ships, i.e. keep re-running the same missions or using the rep system. The artificial swap timer also takes alot of wind out of this update.
You have the chance to knock this quality of life update out of the park or leave it as a meh at launch. You guys decide.
That would assume there really was a point to them now to begin with besides just this one function. I mean, when we could turn in explo marks/badges or whatever they were at least fed to the economy and repeated visits. Honestly, I have my main ship that I primarily use and have already set up how I want it to look so my trips to the shipyard are very sparse, aside from having to buy hundreds of photon torpedoes.
It was looking like a great feature until this little detail was mentioned. I have a large bank to allow me to store these things, We don't get the inventory space to be able to deal with this sort of "feature". The gear either needs to be stored in the loadout or on a different ship.
Imagine if you pick the wrong loadout, like one person up above mentioned, when you finally switch to the proper one you now how 2 sets of weapons and consoles in your inventory. I sure hope you had a maxxed, mostly empty invenotry and you just lost 20 or more slots.
Some doubts about the extra layouts:
I am not sure if selling "10 ship layouts" on a per ship basis is a good solution.
I like to dismiss and reclaim my C-Store ships, as the lockbox ships already take up slots and you cannot dismiss and reclaim them without losing them.
Due to this I am really not eager to pay for a ship-bound extra layout and will rather make do with the 2 slots we get, which should be enough for most of my ships.
So if you want to sell me some extra layouts and make some cash out of the feature, you might want to rethink this.
-> maybe you can think of char- or account wide alternatives to this?
My other gripe is the way equipment gets handled: If changing layouts dumps the equipment of the ship in our inventory, the feature might be of VERY limited use.
I will have to check this in practice, most of my changes are mostly from Beam to Cannon or some extra Neutronium rather than this or that, or just BOFF seating changes. But it can greatly limited the system and might make using it a bad idea when you switch from certain ships to others.
- Dragging ship equipment to replace another item equipped on the ship no longer works. You have to move said item to the inventory, then you can place the new item in its place.
- But simply double-clicking an item to swap it with the item equipped on the ship works, strangely enough
Loading Equipment, BOFF seating and Active Duty doffs worked nicely! That stuff gets placed in inventory wasn't as much of an issue as I feared.
1 Minute is a bit long, can't this time be lowered to maybe 30 seconds or less?
Slightly off-topic, I wonder if this system will be available for GROUND combat/equipment in future?
I can see the rage posts now when players who don't bother paying attention to what they're doing (even if the Devs put giant neon waring signs all over the screen) use this loadout swap and then proceed to vendor half their equipment thinking it's loot.
Thank you for the update on Combat Supply. I will get onto testing this a bit more over the weekend. Expect a post in my thread I made the other day sometime during that.
Only thing I wanna mention is that I feel the '20 Damage Resistance' was a bit too weakened. Even if I used a rather weak armor, 50 DR from how it was before was still hitting pretty serious diminishing returns pretty quick and didn't make much of a difference. 20 DR will make even less of one. Maybe have it so that it acts like the tier 1 dyson passive and ignores the diminishing returns scale? That'd be a bit more useful I feel.
Even though I didn't agree with them the other day, the other numbers for the rest of the buffs feel good.
Further feedback i will post in my thread when I test.
i changed ships to see if that would help, then it caused another situation (which i think was hinted at in the known issues).
basically i could now use the quick equip but it locked my weapons into place. they know displayed the little starship symbol above them. the only way to remove them was to use quick equip again to change it until the symbole was not there. however draging those weapons to the inventory just caused another weapon to take its place.
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In that order of priority? I don't want a Leech get pulled off another ship, when I have a perfectly fine one sitting in my inventory.
That could be a problem. A *major* problem, actually. On a good day I have about 4-5 open inventory slots (and yes, I purchased all upgrades to max). I most certainly don't have room for an *entire* ship equipment list. This spells disaster, quite frankly. People warping out, not realizing aforementioned 8 mil Plasmonic Leech having been put into Overflow bag... You get the gist.
And there's no guarantee the newly fitted equipment will be drawn from inventory per se, leaving a good chance you're left with an Ovverflow bag.
Please, rethink this strategy.
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It's been only 4 years the somraw uses a placeholder in its UI :mad:. Bug reports and forum posts have no effect.
At least the old one looked klingon...
And i wont start on missing windows...