I can confirm that some Doff Assignments appear to be missing. I can also confirm that this was NOT an intentional change, and will be investigated.
Until we can nail this down, getting additional information on which specific Assignments appear to be missing may be helpful. So far, groups that are being reported as universally absent are:
- "Scan" and "Analyze" assignments which yield R&D Materials
- "Haggle" assignments for DS9 commodities
Please post here if you can confirm the definite absence of others (and not just low odds situations).
Practically every single assignment in the Dyson Sphere except the 2 hour material ones are missing.
I can confirm that some Doff Assignments appear to be missing. I can also confirm that this was NOT an intentional change, and will be investigated.
Until we can nail this down, getting additional information on which specific Assignments appear to be missing may be helpful. So far, groups that are being reported as universally absent are:
- "Scan" and "Analyze" assignments which yield R&D Materials
- "Haggle" assignments for DS9 commodities
Please post here if you can confirm the definite absence of others (and not just low odds situations).
I can honestly say it'd be easier to tell you what ones we can find than the ones that we can't. As active a Doffer as I am, I've never seen so few assignments.
I can honestly say it'd be easier to tell you what ones we can find than the ones that we can't. As active a Doffer as I am, I've never seen so few assignments.
Looking it over, this does appear as though it may be the case.
Would've been nice to have a clear pattern emerge, though.
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Definitely noticing the scanning missions missing. To be honest, sometime before Season 11, the Delta Quadrant's "flavour" assignments stopped appearing for me (for example, Crumpled Wave Dance, Bomari Refugees, etc). These were the assignments that were to have their rewards normalized down, but I just noticed them disappearing altogether.
Good luck tracking this one down. If I notice any pattern at all, I'll post more details.
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Would've been nice to have a clear pattern emerge, though.
The few remaining assignments look an awful lot like the scraps you would get offered if you have an unaligned romulan character. So my first guess would be that one/some of the filter/s that recognize your faction/other requirements does not work properly.
Well, i've never-ever seen a "trade for TRIBBLE (commodity)", the ones where you exchanged 7500 EC for an amount of basic commodities. This is not recent, it has been this way since the map update, but as devs are looking into doff assignments it could be worth mentioning.
@borticuscryptic You asked for names and lists, well I have tried to put together one for the diplomacy assignments.
The short version is that the only ones I've been able to find so far is the 'Purchase [X] Prototype For 50000' (Common) on the Current Map tab. For the First Officer tab only Receive [Species] Dignitaries (Common), Audit/Review Diplomatic Correspondence From [Planet] (Common) occurs with any regularity. I've also found Adjudicate Asylum Request (Uncommon), Entertain Foreign Dignitaries (Uncommon) and Host Multicultural Symposium (Uncommon) under the First Officer tab, but given that these are Uncommon assignments and that I have only found them once on a single character (out of 5 Feds and not the same character for all of them) since the update I think their frequency is buggered up too. Even my Fed aligned Romulan, who up till Tuesday always had are missing the Entertain Dignitaries one and she's always had it otherwise.
For the rest of the assignments I've done my best to make a list, though I may have missed some. So if anyone knows of one that should be here but isn't, feel free to add.
Some of these are listed as unknown status, that is I don't know if they're truly gone or if they're just missing due to rarity or other reasons. And in some cases they belong in parts of sector space I rarely go so even common and uncommon ones are listed as 'unknown' for that.
List is organised as follows: Name of Assignment, Rarity, Location (Current Map or First Officer tab), Status (Missing or Unknown)
Adjudicate Separatist Reconciliation on [Planet], Uncommon, Location: Unknown (due to location), Status: Unknown (due to location, I will keep track in the future).
Appraise Political Conditions on Cardassia Prime, Uncommon, Location: Current Map (usually), Status: Missing.
Arrange Security Treaty, Uncommon, Location: First Officer, Status: Missing.
Assess/Review/Report on Refugee Conditions on [Planet], Uncommon, Location: First Officer, Status: Missing.
Attend Briefing At Facility 4028 About Escaped Dominion Prisoners (Part 1 of an assignment chain), Rare, Location: Current Map/First Officer, Status: Unknown (due to rarity and having complete this on all but one character).
Attend Caitian Diplomatic Dinner (Part 1 of an assignment chain), Rare, Location: Current Map/First Officer, Status: Unknown (due to rarity and having complete this on all but one character).
Attend the Gratitude Festival on Bajor, Rare, Location: Current Map/First Officer, Status: Unknown (due to rarity).
Coordinate Economic Compact, Uncommon, Location: First Officer, Status: Missing.
Deliver Communique to the Bajoran Government (Part 1 of an assignment chain), Rare, Location: Current Map, Status: Unknown (due to rarity and having complete this on most characters).
Deliver Communique to the Cardassian Government (Part 1 of an assignment chain), Rare, Location: Current Map, Status: Unknown (due to rarity and having complete this on most characters).
Deliver Communique to the Karemman Government (Part 1 of an assignment chain), Rare, Location: Current Map, Status: Unknown (due to rarity and having complete this on most characters).
Deliver Communique to the Paradan Government (Part 1 of an assignment chain), Rare, Location: Current Map, Status: Unknown (due to rarity and having complete this on most characters).
Escort Ambassador/Envoy/Representative of [Species] to Deep Space Nine, Uncommon, Location: First Officer, Status: Missing
Investigate/Asses/Validate Reports of Trafficking in Contraband, Rare, Location: First Officer, Status: Unknown (due to rarity)
Manage/Negotiate Cultural Convention with the [Species], Uncommon, Location: Current Map/First Officer, Status: Unknown (due to location)
Negotiate Prisoner Exchange, Uncommon, Location: First Officer (I think), Status: Unknown (I don't recall coming across this more than once before even though it should be popping in the areas I usually hang out. May have been bugged before S11)
Question Facility 4028 Administrator About Additional Fugitives, Uncommon, Location: Unknown (never come across this one), Status: Unknown (for the same reason)
Represent Federation at Multiparty/Reciprocal/Bilateral/Joint Talks on [Planet], Uncommon, Location: First Officer, Status: Missing (I think as I didn't run across this one very often before despite it being Uncommon and popping at my usual hang outs)
Resolve Dispute over Dilithium Mining Rights, Rare, Location: Current Map/First Officer, Status: Unknown (due to rarity)
Review Security Relations, Uncommon, Location: Current Map/First Officer, Status: possibly Missing (again I rarely ran into it before).
Mediate/Moderate Separatist Reconciliation on [Planet], Uncommon, Location: Current Map (near the planet in question) or First Officer, Status: Missing.
Authenticate/Confirm/Substantiate/Verify Allegations of War Crimes on [Planet], Very Rare, Location: Not Sure (only ever found is once), Status: Unknown (due to rarity)
Third Party Peace Talks, Rare, Location: First Officer, Status: Unknown (due to rarity).
Transfer Prisoners to Starfleet Command, Common, Location: Not Sure (never seen it before), Status: Unknow (for the same reason)
Transport the Bodies of Fallen Warriors Back to KDF Territory, Uncommon, Location: Not Sure (due to where it popping where I usually don't go), Status: Unknown (for the same reason)
That is the list as far as I am able to make it. For the Rare and rarer assignments it's obviously far to early to say if they're actually gone or just haven't popped for rarity reasons. The one thing I got from making this list though is that it appears that all assignments of Uncommon rarity appears to have received a "boost" in their rarity ranking making them occur as Rare or rarer ones would. But that just the theory of layman. Hope you can use this.
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Well, i've never-ever seen a "trade for TRIBBLE (commodity)", the ones where you exchanged 7500 EC for an amount of basic commodities. This is not recent, it has been this way since the map update, but as devs are looking into doff assignments it could be worth mentioning.
Now that you mention it, it's been ages since I've seen one of those either. And they used to be pretty common on both DS9 and in the Dyson Sphere.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end of it.
I had ones in the Dyson sphere right up until S11's launch, but I don't remember seeing the sector space ones, either. I know I got the opposite assignment, where you trade a commodity for EC, fairly often, but I can't remember the last time I got a trade EC for commodity one.
If it helps to track some down, there are Colonial missions that provide 360 spec XP that I've used pretty religiously in Dyson sphere that no longer appear since S11. They have unique mission names but they all provide the same rewards.
I can confirm that some Doff Assignments appear to be missing. I can also confirm that this was NOT an intentional change, and will be investigated.
Until we can nail this down, getting additional information on which specific Assignments appear to be missing may be helpful. So far, groups that are being reported as universally absent are:
- "Scan" and "Analyze" assignments which yield R&D Materials
- "Haggle" assignments for DS9 commodities
Please post here if you can confirm the definite absence of others (and not just low odds situations).
The problem is, in sector space, so FEW show up now its hard to tell you what's missing. I am currently in sector space outside of DS9 and there are only THREE (3) missions available.
I can confirm that some Doff Assignments appear to be missing. I can also confirm that this was NOT an intentional change, and will be investigated.
Until we can nail this down, getting additional information on which specific Assignments appear to be missing may be helpful. So far, groups that are being reported as universally absent are:
- "Scan" and "Analyze" assignments which yield R&D Materials
- "Haggle" assignments for DS9 commodities
Please post here if you can confirm the definite absence of others (and not just low odds situations).
I haven't been able to get any missions in the Facility 4028 - with the exception of the final recurring raid - on any characters for many months. I can't say if these aren't showing at all or are just very rare, but I've spent a lot of time looking for them on characters who have completed the entire Cardassian arc.
Ever since Season 11 dropped, I have not been able to find the Negotiate Prisoner Exchange diplomacy CXP assignment that used to pop up only on Current Map for Fed side in specific locations. On KDF side, that assignment can be found under the Military Department Head's as an espionage CXP assignment just fine. And as others mentioned, the Haggle assignments are gone from Current Map in DS9 space and ground. They can only be found occasionally (as previously) in sector space.
And since we're on the topic of DOFFing, with the introduction of the Admiralty system, the Overview tab has changed, but the "Next task completes in ..." text is now missing from the Duty Officer Summary box (and the new Admiralty Summary one), but is still there for R&D. Also, the little pins for these summary boxes seem to have no effect anymore.
Other annoying bugs I encountered:
(1) Interact panes do not consistently pop up close to mailboxes (and other objects), especially at ESD, so that you'll have to do the weird "console dance" that has been a thing for the Exchange and Bank consoles at the KDF academy for a while now.
(2) In dialogs, the active selection of responses or options does not snap back to the top one anymore, which makes quick interaction via the 'F' key a pain. Trying to intercept the Breen patrol in sector space at warp speed with this new behavior where -- as the interact pane pops up and you try to 'F' it several times to start the encounter -- suddenly the bottom-most option to leave the dialog is highlighted is no fun. Also, with NPCs that offer several missions (such as the Path to 2409 ones at the academies) you cannot accept (or complete) them all quickly by pressing 'F' a coupla times anymore.
@borticuscryptic, before you go chasing an untamed ornithoid, the haggle missions aren't missing. At least not the ones in sector space, I'm not sure about the DS9 ground ones. I got Haggle for...Jevonite, I believe, outside the Badlands just now.
@dragonsbrethren Yeah, but those are just the sporadic solitary finds of them you had before Season 11 as well. The ones you've previously found in multitudes in DS9 space and ground are definitely gone.
I have also not yet found the Trafficking in Contraband rare assignments you've previously found occasionally in the Sirius, Regulus, Pi Canis, and Eta Eridani sector blocks of the Beta Quadrant. They are diplomacy CXP assignments that only popped up on Current Map. Neither have I found the Inspect Civilian Freighter assignment which used to pop up occasionally on Current Map in the Sirius or Regulus sector blocks.
@borticuscryptic, before you go chasing an untamed ornithoid, the haggle missions aren't missing. At least not the ones in sector space, I'm not sure about the DS9 ground ones. I got Haggle for...Jevonite, I believe, outside the Badlands just now.
Yeah, they still show in Sector Space and at the Trader on DS9. But they are missing from the DS9 ground map.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end of it.
My KDF toon has plenty of missions, but my Rom and Fed toons are being impacted. To be honest, I'm only working on Trade and Recruitment. So as far they are concerned they are practically non-existent. DS9, Dyson, and ESD were where I usually went for trade missions but now i'm lucky to find them at all, and as has already been mentioned, no "haggle". Finding a recruitment mission is like find El Dorado atm.
> @borticuscryptic said: > I can confirm that some Doff Assignments appear to be missing. I can also confirm that this was NOT an intentional change, and will be investigated. > > Until we can nail this down, getting additional information on which specific Assignments appear to be missing may be helpful. So far, groups that are being reported as universally absent are: > > - "Scan" and "Analyze" assignments which yield R&D Materials > - "Haggle" assignments for DS9 commodities > > Please post here if you can confirm the definite absence of others (and not just low odds situations).
I've also noticed that before the patch, you could travel to the different star clusters to find a couple explore missions that gives r&d mats. Since the patch I have traveled to multiple star clusters, on multiple characters and all of them are missing r&d mat giving missions. Also when I go to the "science" tab under my doff department heads there is a lot of exploration missions but none of them reward r&d materials.
Has this been fixed? I notice many more assignments populating the "Current Map" list....I am on Ganalda Station this morning.
Not going to be doing a full DOFF run through sector space right now though...just running through turning around contraband and admiralty real quick before lunch.
What is everyone else seeing, over all?
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Ground maps don't seem to have the same issues as space maps. I know I get a pretty populated list of assignments in New Romulus Command...but whether it's all of them or not, I can't say. Some definitely weren't there, but I may just be on cooldown for those. Others have said the haggle missions don't appear on DS9 ground now, and I'm inclined to agree with that, any cooldowns I had there should be done by now.
Has this been fixed? I notice many more assignments populating the "Current Map" list....I am on Ganalda Station this morning.
Not going to be doing a full DOFF run through sector space right now though...just running through turning around contraband and admiralty real quick before lunch.
What is everyone else seeing, over all?
Scanning missions are still gone.
Actually, I am seeing the opposite of you, I'm seeing even less then yesterday. I opened my mission list in sector space and there were a total of two available missions.
It seems like they're getting less and less every day. I hope they fix this soon.
To be honest, it's kind of hard to "confirm" if missions are showing or not since some of them are very rare to begin with. While you're looking at duty officer assignments, here are some others that I have not seen since before the quadrant map rework (been long enough that I don't remember their exact names in some cases):
- Federation: Transfer Changeling spy to Starfleet Command/Security (equivalent to Klingon's "Execute Changeling Spy," I have seen the Romulan-specific version once)
- Romulan: It's been so long since I've seen these I don't remember it exactly, but it's a Romulan specific Blue Rare (I believe) mission that would take some R&D materials and reward 500 dilithium on normal success.
- All: Raid Jem'Hadar Supply Cache (Blue rarity I think, rewards Gamma Quadrant supplies). The green "trace supply lines" is still showing sometimes.
- Klingon: Sector space [Species X] recruitment missions similar to the academy species recruitment officer missions. Sanctuary missions do still display.
Now that I think about it, I have to agree with others that noted that something been right concerning doff missions for some time. It's only more pronounced now.
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Practically every single assignment in the Dyson Sphere except the 2 hour material ones are missing.
I can honestly say it'd be easier to tell you what ones we can find than the ones that we can't. As active a Doffer as I am, I've never seen so few assignments.
Looking it over, this does appear as though it may be the case.
Would've been nice to have a clear pattern emerge, though.
Cryptic - Lead Systems Designer
"Play smart!"
Good luck tracking this one down. If I notice any pattern at all, I'll post more details.
The few remaining assignments look an awful lot like the scraps you would get offered if you have an unaligned romulan character. So my first guess would be that one/some of the filter/s that recognize your faction/other requirements does not work properly.
The short version is that the only ones I've been able to find so far is the 'Purchase [X] Prototype For 50000' (Common) on the Current Map tab. For the First Officer tab only Receive [Species] Dignitaries (Common), Audit/Review Diplomatic Correspondence From [Planet] (Common) occurs with any regularity. I've also found Adjudicate Asylum Request (Uncommon), Entertain Foreign Dignitaries (Uncommon) and Host Multicultural Symposium (Uncommon) under the First Officer tab, but given that these are Uncommon assignments and that I have only found them once on a single character (out of 5 Feds and not the same character for all of them) since the update I think their frequency is buggered up too. Even my Fed aligned Romulan, who up till Tuesday always had are missing the Entertain Dignitaries one and she's always had it otherwise.
For the rest of the assignments I've done my best to make a list, though I may have missed some. So if anyone knows of one that should be here but isn't, feel free to add.
Some of these are listed as unknown status, that is I don't know if they're truly gone or if they're just missing due to rarity or other reasons. And in some cases they belong in parts of sector space I rarely go so even common and uncommon ones are listed as 'unknown' for that.
List is organised as follows: Name of Assignment, Rarity, Location (Current Map or First Officer tab), Status (Missing or Unknown)
That is the list as far as I am able to make it. For the Rare and rarer assignments it's obviously far to early to say if they're actually gone or just haven't popped for rarity reasons. The one thing I got from making this list though is that it appears that all assignments of Uncommon rarity appears to have received a "boost" in their rarity ranking making them occur as Rare or rarer ones would. But that just the theory of layman. Hope you can use this.
Now that you mention it, it's been ages since I've seen one of those either. And they used to be pretty common on both DS9 and in the Dyson Sphere.
The problem is, in sector space, so FEW show up now its hard to tell you what's missing. I am currently in sector space outside of DS9 and there are only THREE (3) missions available.
I haven't been able to get any missions in the Facility 4028 - with the exception of the final recurring raid - on any characters for many months. I can't say if these aren't showing at all or are just very rare, but I've spent a lot of time looking for them on characters who have completed the entire Cardassian arc.
And since we're on the topic of DOFFing, with the introduction of the Admiralty system, the Overview tab has changed, but the "Next task completes in ..." text is now missing from the Duty Officer Summary box (and the new Admiralty Summary one), but is still there for R&D. Also, the little pins for these summary boxes seem to have no effect anymore.
Other annoying bugs I encountered:
(1) Interact panes do not consistently pop up close to mailboxes (and other objects), especially at ESD, so that you'll have to do the weird "console dance" that has been a thing for the Exchange and Bank consoles at the KDF academy for a while now.
(2) In dialogs, the active selection of responses or options does not snap back to the top one anymore, which makes quick interaction via the 'F' key a pain. Trying to intercept the Breen patrol in sector space at warp speed with this new behavior where -- as the interact pane pops up and you try to 'F' it several times to start the encounter -- suddenly the bottom-most option to leave the dialog is highlighted is no fun. Also, with NPCs that offer several missions (such as the Path to 2409 ones at the academies) you cannot accept (or complete) them all quickly by pressing 'F' a coupla times anymore.
I have also not yet found the Trafficking in Contraband rare assignments you've previously found occasionally in the Sirius, Regulus, Pi Canis, and Eta Eridani sector blocks of the Beta Quadrant. They are diplomacy CXP assignments that only popped up on Current Map. Neither have I found the Inspect Civilian Freighter assignment which used to pop up occasionally on Current Map in the Sirius or Regulus sector blocks.
Yeah, they still show in Sector Space and at the Trader on DS9. But they are missing from the DS9 ground map.
I've seen Scavenge Minefield plenty, but only under the Orion Marauder tab.
I know that, because I've checked it just before I wrote my previous post here. Before S11 it was available under the "current map" too.
> I can confirm that some Doff Assignments appear to be missing. I can also confirm that this was NOT an intentional change, and will be investigated.
>
> Until we can nail this down, getting additional information on which specific Assignments appear to be missing may be helpful. So far, groups that are being reported as universally absent are:
>
> - "Scan" and "Analyze" assignments which yield R&D Materials
> - "Haggle" assignments for DS9 commodities
>
> Please post here if you can confirm the definite absence of others (and not just low odds situations).
I've also noticed that before the patch, you could travel to the different star clusters to find a couple explore missions that gives r&d mats. Since the patch I have traveled to multiple star clusters, on multiple characters and all of them are missing r&d mat giving missions. Also when I go to the "science" tab under my doff department heads there is a lot of exploration missions but none of them reward r&d materials.
Not going to be doing a full DOFF run through sector space right now though...just running through turning around contraband and admiralty real quick before lunch.
What is everyone else seeing, over all?
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Scanning missions are still gone.
Actually, I am seeing the opposite of you, I'm seeing even less then yesterday. I opened my mission list in sector space and there were a total of two available missions.
It seems like they're getting less and less every day. I hope they fix this soon.
- Federation: Transfer Changeling spy to Starfleet Command/Security (equivalent to Klingon's "Execute Changeling Spy," I have seen the Romulan-specific version once)
- Romulan: It's been so long since I've seen these I don't remember it exactly, but it's a Romulan specific Blue Rare (I believe) mission that would take some R&D materials and reward 500 dilithium on normal success.
- All: Raid Jem'Hadar Supply Cache (Blue rarity I think, rewards Gamma Quadrant supplies). The green "trace supply lines" is still showing sometimes.
- Klingon: Sector space [Species X] recruitment missions similar to the academy species recruitment officer missions. Sanctuary missions do still display.
If I think of any others I'll put them in.