New Test Vendor for Reputation System - 20 December, 2012

zer0niusrex · December 2012

We've added a test item vendor to Tribble!

The purpose of this vendor is for the developers of Star Trek Online to be able to receive and respond to your feedback on these items and powers, without needing to wait until they are available on Holodeck, and without requiring max-level in the Reputation system.
With that in mind, some of the high-tier rewards that won't be obtainable on Holodeck for several weeks may require polish.
- There may be some bugs and placeholder animations or FX.
Season 7 Test Items:
- Players may now visit a contact on DS9 that will allow them to purchase many different items that would otherwise require high tiers of Reputations in order to obtain.
- Several store inventories are available, and include old and new Omega and Romulan Space Sets, Omega Ground Sets, and all of the newly-introduced unique items associated with each of these Reputations.
- There is also a TEST ITEM inventory which includes Consoles for space and Armors for ground that will grant players the powers associated with the Reputation Trees.
  - Different variants are available, and each contains different powers.
This vendor is only going to be available for a limited amount of time.

malkarris · December 2012

Thank you very much for adding this in.

I know I could wait and see for myself, but since I'm at work and bored, what is required to purchase these items and such on tribble? I am hoping nothing so everyone can go hog wild and get some good data both for the players and for you.

Also, why a limited amout of time? And how much time is limited?

borticuscryptic · December 2012

Every item costs 0EC.

The vendor will likely be active on Tribble until our next major feature rollout, which may not be until Season 8. No firm timeline can be guaranteed, though.

kalvorax · December 2012

sweet

on another note...im guessing there wasnt a patch today on holodeck?

considering how big it was it would make sense for it to be tomorrow

maicake716 · December 2012

borticuscryptic wrote: »

Every item costs 0EC.

The vendor will likely be active on Tribble until our next major feature rollout, which may not be until Season 8. No firm timeline can be guaranteed, though.

THANKS! and hopefully itll be around for every season so we can actually test things :P

govanatoruk · December 2012

Thank you for adding this in, it has been greatly needed for some time. now if all the items on the C-Store would be available for testing as they come out as well that would also be brilliant.

toiva · December 2012

Now make this a regular feature of Tribble. Very nice addition. Will test as soon as I can.

malkarris · December 2012

borticuscryptic wrote: »

Every item costs 0EC.

The vendor will likely be active on Tribble until our next major feature rollout, which may not be until Season 8. No firm timeline can be guaranteed, though.

Thank you again. Can I ask that when the next major roll out occures you keep this system in for changes like the rep system?

chaddy18 · December 2012

I'll be at T5 in around 5-6 days. Best all be polished up for then

borticuscryptic · December 2012

A few quick things to point out in regards to these items:

For the purposes of testing Reputation Space Powers, only equip one Test Console from each Reputation at a time. Equipping both from a single Rep may skew test results and experiences, as doing so will grant you both options from each tier which players do not have the option of doing in a real-world environment.

Fun? Yes. But inaccurate.

This doesn't really apply to Ground since you can only slot a single Armor item anyway.

Also, there is a known bug with the Flamethrower, which causes it to behave erratically while in Shooter Mode. This is also the reason it has been pulled from Holodeck temporarily, while we integrate new technology to allow it to function correctly. It should work fine in RPG Mode.

bluegeek · December 2012

What about testing the captain abilities gained at each Reputation tier? Will there be a way to claim those too, or just the items in the Rep store?

pwebranflakes · December 2012

bluegeek wrote: »

What about testing the captain abilities gained at each Reputation tier? Will there be a way to claim those too, or just the items in the Rep store?

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=7173871&postcount=10 Bort Ninja'd you

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

shapeywhelm · December 2012

I noticed the romulan scorpion fighters aren't at the vendor

lostusthorn · December 2012

Nice addition and very needed.

Adapted honor guard sniper rifle. Really, can't we lose that blade please? It makes a veru nice looking weapon into a stupid looking one. Please?

dontdrunkimshoot · December 2012

this is exactly what should have been on the season 7 tribble, we could have avoided this broken as heck tier 4 madness. im glad something like this will be available for future rep releases and other stuf going forward.

mrkollins · December 2012

Good move guys, good move

malkarris · December 2012

dontdrunkimshoot wrote: »

this is exactly what should have been on the season 7 tribble, we could have avoided this broken as heck tier 4 madness. im glad something like this will be available for future rep releases and other stuf going forward.

Actually they didn't say it would be used for future releases, that would be logical yes, but they only said that this would be going away at the next major release.

phantomeight · December 2012

I applaud this... not only does it give us the ability to help you, but it gives up the ability to test stuff for ourselves to see what works and what doesn't. I think this would increase the usage that tribble gets as well as meaningful feedback rather that baseless speculation of OPness.

This was touched on briefly, but not really answered... why is the temporary at all? Why shouldn't this type of stuff be permanently available on Tribble? Perhaps if Tribble needs some resemblance of Holodeck, you could make another "anything goes, everything is free and available" shard that gets it's characters wiped weekly on a time schedule? (I know more shards = more work on your part)

The point being, every day someone comes up with a new build or idea, every week a new item or power tweak is released that could be problematic. I know there are plenty that have the time to spare and would love to play with this stuff and share the results with you. Allowing us to consistently be able to go get anything from a special vendor so we can quickly and easily see what is possible seems like a no brainier to me. What am I missing, what is the potential harm?

Thanks again, the test vendor is a great idea. I just wish it would stick around.

Also, how about having the vendor dish out free respsec tokens?

eisenw0lf · December 2012

The Romulan Advanced Space Set seems to be an almost exact copy of the Reman Set save for ONE statchange per item. All the set bonusses are the exact same and even the description speaks of a reman set.

Is this intended or just some minor copy & paste error? Can we also expect some unique visuals for the Romulan Space Set? All I noticed so far was that my Bird of Prey turned slightly blue/green when I equipped the shield. The other items did nothing.

captainrevo1 · December 2012

I have a question and some observations.

1) Has the way the STF ground gears sets changed in the way they display? I know you can toggle the appearance on and off via the toggle display which is fine, but it seems we cant customize them any more.
So I bought a XII honour guard set for example. I can get the visuals to display but I cant set it to take off the helmet or the cape or change the colours. So is it all or nothing now, or should we still be able to change the appearance in the tailor, because its not letting me.

I was still able to make adjustments to my XI gear I had already purchesed pre season 7

2) There was a visual problem with the MACO XI gear when used with the wells uniform. The toggle switch would only display the bottom of the uniform while the top still showed the Wells.

3) The romulan XII space set, suggest the engines have a visual that can be adjusted but there was no difference to how they are normally. I would imagine they are meant to be green but they look normal no matter if you toggle them on or off.

shapeywhelm · December 2012

Was hoping the romulan shield would make our ships appear Romulan (full hull) as the reman shield does.

To bad it's only a hull pattern coloured green

entnx01 · December 2012

Where is the test vendor?

leviathan99 · December 2012

Thanks for this, guys.

voiceoftemprus · December 2012

I have no space BOFF stations on Tribble.

EDIT: None of the characters that I copied to Tribble this week have Space BOFF stations (one for each patch we have had), all the older copies or Tribble only toons do have the stations.

eisenw0lf · December 2012

This Plasma Flamethrower is sick, I'm killing large groups of Borg (including Elite Drones) in no time. The Borg can't adapt to the flames :eek:

p2wsucks · December 2012

Thank you. The Holiday time is a bad time for me to test personally, but hopefully this will be available through January.

stevehale · December 2012

I haven't been there yet but this sounds like a really great move in the right direction. Thank you very much for adding this.

farktoid5000 · December 2012

voiceoftemprus wrote: »

I have no space BOFF stations on Tribble.

EDIT: None of the characters that I copied to Tribble this week have Space BOFF stations (one for each patch we have had), all the older copies or Tribble only toons do have the stations.

If this happens, just change ships out and back. The stations should return once you do so. This is the result of transferring characters from Holodeck to Tribble only.

tachyonharmonic · December 2012

Beats putting in placeholders and taking items out of live because they're broken. At least it's a step in the right direction.

Making the items 0 EC is a good idea too.

archoncryptic · December 2012

eisenw0lf wrote: »

This Plasma Flamethrower is sick, I'm killing large groups of Borg (including Elite Drones) in no time. The Borg can't adapt to the flames :eek:

I just fixed that internally, but enjoy for now! =D

starkaos · December 2012

The Romulan Hyper-Plasma Torpedo Launcher isn't part of the Romulan Singularity Harness. Works fine for it being a torpedo launcher that launches 3 torpedoes in a second or two. Not sure if Torpedo Spread is working.

New Test Vendor for Reputation System - 20 December, 2012

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