I guess DOffing has been replaced with the Admirality System - for which you Need to buyships, ie spend Money...so this may be working as intended- with very bad intent that is.
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).
Considering it has been broke for a month now and the issue has yet to be even mentioned as a 'known issue' in the patch notes I can't blame someone for thinking it was a deliberate change.
Is there any chance we could get an update on this and the other bugs affecting the duty officer system? Even a "There's so much going on that we can't really focus on this until after the Winter Event" would at least help set expectations, even if it is disappointing.
Is there any chance we could get an update on this and the other bugs affecting the duty officer system? Even a "There's so much going on that we can't really focus on this until after the Winter Event" would at least help set expectations, even if it is disappointing.
If we are getting an update it's unlikely to be any sooner than early next week it being Thanksgiving holiday in the US and all, so I doubt even Trendy is at work.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end of it.
Can we FINALLY get all this fixed to have the old DOFF system including all the now missing assignments back as it was?
Can't believe you break your own system and then for weeks pretend as if nothing happened, with so many assignments no longer available. But hey, keep throwing more KDF prisoners at us via Admiralty (that usually land in the buggy Overflow Bag that we cannot open) while the Negotiate Prisoner Exchange assignment is gone for Feds.
Confirmation (or just a simple update) that you're actually working on this would be swell, as well. Thanks a bunch, Cryptic.
I'm getting a lot of flickering as I do boff assignments. It's like after I start as assignment, it draws a list of available assignments and then replaces them with another list.
I'm getting a lot of flickering as I do boff assignments. It's like after I start as assignment, it draws a list of available assignments and then replaces them with another list.
Yep, it's like its redrawing all map-based assignments every time I start an assignment instead of caching it. I've seen some weird stuff happen to "personal" tab (that shouldn't change) too but I still have to figure out what did I exactly see.
Yeah, it looked to me as if -- when you're sending off an assignment and it goes back to the list -- at first you see the diminished list we had before the fix, then a second later it gets populated with more assignments.
One mission I can never find is those random 'Cultural Exchange' missions where you could get just about any race of DOFF that was in the game.
I don't think those have been in the game for over a year. You only get the three standard ones (FED: Andorian/Tellarite/Vulcan, KDF: Gorn/Nausicaan/Orion) at the academies/fleet starbases.
Actually saw a Fed Contraband mission yesterday. use to be 3-4 a week and now I don't even bother looking under Current Map cause its always generic missions. Before that you could find about 4 Investigate Trafficking of Contrabands a week and at least 2 War Crimes.
Well, they are back now, after Thursday's fix. See above in this thread.
KDF side no longer spawns 'Inspect Freighter' at all. The Marauders will go like clockwork for a couple of the days then won't see hardly any for a couple of more. Sometimes you can change zones and get one to pop but not all the time. Made me think they changed the CD. I also wondered if it was where you actually were on the map causing the issue. Too far up or down?
The KDF version of Inspect Civilian Freighter has never been gone. I found it a coupla times before the fix. And I've seen it reported in the DOFFTREKKER sheet only a few days ago. -- The DOFF regions are basically the old sector blocks (see this link). "Altitude" in a sector does not matter AFAIK. What seems to matter, however, is from where you entered a sector (unless it's within a region, some exceptions apply), especially for the colonization clusters.
Traveling with the Doff window open causes your ship not to stop at the destination and you run into planets and stars like a magnet. Going from zone to zone like that, with the window open, I've noticed the missions rarely refresh. Closing out the window does seem to force a refresh.
My experience is that the open Current Map will update if you cross a DOFF region boundary, the department heads' lists not so much. -- Not sure what you mean with your ship not stopping. As long as you give it a destination via the map, it has always automatically stopped for me (even with the DOFF window open). Unless, of course, you interrupt the "autopilot" by making course corrections.
They took down the Zone Walls and up a lot of invisible Doff borders and blocks. Is there anyway to just tear down those Doff walls and just open the entire Quads?
Also, all of the unique missions at launch of DR were removed around the time that must not be mentioned aka Argala. I don't mean to say or imply anything bad but I've not seen this mentioned anywhere and assumed it was removed in retaliation. Like I said I don't know but, those missions are no longer there either and it's a shame.
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I guess you missed the developer's post on page 1
If we are getting an update it's unlikely to be any sooner than early next week it being Thanksgiving holiday in the US and all, so I doubt even Trendy is at work.
Can't believe you break your own system and then for weeks pretend as if nothing happened, with so many assignments no longer available. But hey, keep throwing more KDF prisoners at us via Admiralty (that usually land in the buggy Overflow Bag that we cannot open) while the Negotiate Prisoner Exchange assignment is gone for Feds.
Confirmation (or just a simple update) that you're actually working on this would be swell, as well. Thanks a bunch, Cryptic.
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Assignment:_Negotiate_Prisoner_Exchange ...GONE (for Feds)
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Assignment:_Investigate_Reports_of_Trafficking_in_Contraband ...GONE
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Assignment:_Escort_Ambassador_to_Deep_Space_Nine ...GONE
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Assignment:_Substantiate_Allegations_of_War_Crimes ...GONE
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Assignment:_Represent_Federation_at_Multiparty_Talks ...GONE
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Assignment:_Inspect_Civilian_Freighter ...GONE (for Feds)
... etc. pp.
Yep, it's like its redrawing all map-based assignments every time I start an assignment instead of caching it. I've seen some weird stuff happen to "personal" tab (that shouldn't change) too but I still have to figure out what did I exactly see.
Well, they are back now, after Thursday's fix. See above in this thread.
The KDF version of Inspect Civilian Freighter has never been gone. I found it a coupla times before the fix. And I've seen it reported in the DOFFTREKKER sheet only a few days ago. -- The DOFF regions are basically the old sector blocks (see this link). "Altitude" in a sector does not matter AFAIK. What seems to matter, however, is from where you entered a sector (unless it's within a region, some exceptions apply), especially for the colonization clusters.
My experience is that the open Current Map will update if you cross a DOFF region boundary, the department heads' lists not so much. -- Not sure what you mean with your ship not stopping. As long as you give it a destination via the map, it has always automatically stopped for me (even with the DOFF window open). Unless, of course, you interrupt the "autopilot" by making course corrections.
Not sure what you mean by all that.