Last Junior Doff weekend there was supposed to be a contact that rewarded Romulan players their own special duty officer in addition to their allied counterparts, but it didn't spawn due to a bug. Some people even had the mission that rewarded the doff in their log, but could't turn it in.
pwecaptainsmirk even noted that it was a bug and that it went on his "never forget" list:
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=16298681&postcount=177
So the solution to fixing that bug doesn't seem to be to add him the next time the event is around, but to simply remove the feature of a seperate, romulan doff altogether.
For me, that makes pwecaptainsmirk a liar.
And instead of explaining why it was removed altogether, we gget a snappy "learn to read"-kind of post from smirk.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=18636071&postcount=15
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Not happening - gone.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Nice way to pull a complete 360 there Cryptic!!! :mad:
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
nowhere in smirks quoted post does it actually say that they were going to put it in. just because thats what players were hoping he meant, doesnt mean thats what he actually said.
Edit: The linked post in the OP says that they are worling to fix the bug, but it wont be complete in time for the event, which tells me it'll be in the next one.
Think you may have missed the date on that linked post.
April, this year.
The next one, when that was written, is this one.
Then it was an admitted oversight, now it is apparently wai all along.
One of those posts contains errors of fact. We actually don't know which.
The oversight, the new explanation, the inability to acknowledge error....the worst of it for me is that, like Gekos cracks about feedback on the Doff ui, we can see the falsehood right in front of us.
It's like they don't care about the veracity of what's said, at all.
I don't even see it as a problem.
So, romulans might end up with two doffs, both with the same powers, but different species.
In amongst all the things that unbalance the game, this is really low on the list.
I believe your frustration is making you read snark into the post that wasn't there.
--Red Annorax
--Red Annorax
I'd personally be okay with that option.
The fact it would be an option is better than nothing at all.
T'Ress: WANT!!!!
Based on what Smirk said, and what we actually got.... I'm wondering if this was supposed to be a future special event...
My character Tsin'xing
The new statement is pretty heavily contradicts the old one, and Cryptic is definitely trying to wiggle out of expectations that the Doff would be back this time.
Unfortunate to see captainsmirk try to weasel out of his previous statement. I would have expected better.
Regardless, we have the previous statement on record, so I guess that's another black mark on Cryptic's record (although how big of a mark depends on how much you were looking forward to finally getting your Romulan-doff this time around)
The issue at hand here is that Cryptic once again decided to have KDF/Federation content pull double duty for the Republic again rather than develop the Republic faction, made worse by the fact in this instance that they already made and promised the doff last time around but screwed up and are now pretending they never made those promises or intended the doff to be available rather than fix the bug.
This combined with the fact that folks are reporting the glitch that caused the academy instructor to rob players of their particle fragments makes me suspect that cryptic barely touched this event since it last came up, despite the rather awful bugs. rather disappointing IMO.
That's disappointing. When my Rom couldn't get the Exocomp the first time, I felt sad, and slightly annoyed, but soon got over it, as we were led to be believe they'd get to it next round. Well, that time is now. And this time the no-show is apparently intentional.
What a let-down.
Hahaha! "Fool me once, shame on shame on you. Fool me you can't get fooled again."
The 360, was to imply originally they took the npc out, and said they would put him back in later. This is where the 180 would have applied, but instead now they went back on that word, by again saying "oh sorry we will not put this npc back into the game" it is WAI, and this is where they pulled their other 180, so 180 + 180=360!!!
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
Well technically speaking, Romulan's normally obtain 2X the doffs of their aligned faction, with recruitment from both the command center, and their aligned recruitment location, so it would seem correct.
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
In the details there is even a PICTURE of the doff T'ress.
I for one would have liked this to be available (give players that picked up a faction doff last time to keep it, and get a 2nd romulan version, players that werent around last time just geot the rom one - no big deal) but what's done is done and it isn't going to happen.
The mission should have been removed upon login after the patch so that it doesn't taunt people!
...#LLAP...
Of all the things that's been complained about (SRO boffs, warbirds, valdore console, etc etc etc) that's the one that I don't get because you can easily run another set of recruitment missions by leveling an alt to what, level 10? And having to run to Earth from NR will eventually add up to more time than just making the alt and parking it in front of the personnel officer.
If they just added 2 more missions to Velaar that takes the exocomp/reman as an input and spit out T'Ress I'd be a happy camper, and that'd be easier than unstucking poor Rojal from beneath the floor right?