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TRIBBLE Maintenance and Release Notes - June 11, 2013
salamiinferno
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We will be bringing the Tribble server down for maintenance to apply a new update.
ST.31.20130609a.0
New Features:
Dilithium Mine Fleet Holding
General
ST.31.20130609a.0
New Features:
Dilithium Mine Fleet Holding
- The fleet system has been expanded and players have access to a new Dilithium Mine holding.
- Fleet Members can contribute to fleet projects to earn XP for their Dilithium Mine and unlock new tiers, just like with the Embassy Holding.
- Can be compared to Embassy for time to progress.
- The Fleet Dilithium Mine consists of a space map and an interior map with two parts.
- Completing Tiers in the Dilithium Mine?s main track will cause the space map?s visuals to upgrade to the next tier.
- The Interior ground map is unlocked at Dilithium Mine tier 1.
- Players gain access to the exterior ground map once the Dilithium Mine reaches tier 2.
- Like the Embassy, the Dilithium Mine has three tracks:
- Dilithium Mine (main track)
- This track gains XP and progresses by completing tiers from the two sub-tracks below.
- Development (sub-track)
- The Development sub-track gains XP by completing repeatable fleet projects. Once enough XP has been earned you will be given an Upgrade special project to unlock the next Development tier. Completing this Upgrade project will grant XP for the Dilithium Mine main track.
- Trade (sub-track)
- The Trade sub-track gains XP by completing repeatable fleet projects. Once enough XP has been earned you will be given an Upgrade special project to unlock the next Trade tier. Completing this Upgrade project will grant XP for the Dilithium Mine main track.
- Provisioning
- There is a single provisioning type for each sub-track (Trade and Development) as opposed to several types found in the Starbase and Embassy holdings. These Provisions are earned by completing fleet projects. Below are items that can be purchased with the two types of Provisioning:
- Trade Personal Requisition Provisioning
- (Ultra Rare) Advanced Engineering Armor Consoles Mk X to Mk XII
- (Ultra Rare) Advanced Engineering RCS Consoles Mk X to Mk XII
- Development Personal Requisition Provisioning
- (Ultra Rare) Advanced Fleet Warp Cores Mk XII
- (Ultra Rare) Advanced Fleet Singularity Warp Cores Mk XII
- (Ultra Rare) Elite Fleet Warp Cores Mk XII
- (Ultra Rare) Elite Fleet Singularity Warp Cores Mk XII
- Fleet Rewards
- Unlock perks for all fleet members by increasing tiers in your fleet?s main Dilithium Mine, Development and Trade tracks:
- Dilithium Mine (Main Track): Below are some examples of the rewards unlocked by gaining Tiers in the Dilithium Mine track
- Three tiers of Dilithium Input Discounts
- Three tiers of the Dilithium Store Discounts (Contruction Project)
- Daily Dilithium Mining Missions
- Daily Ore Refining Mission
- Trade (Sub-Track): Below are some examples of the rewards unlocked by gaining Tiers in the Trade sub-track
- Three tiers of Item and Commodity Input Discounts
- Two tiers of Improved Call Trade Freighter (reduces cooldown on Call Trade Freighter power)
- Development (Sub-Track): Below are some examples of the rewards unlocked by gaining Tiers in the Development sub-track
- Three tiers of high Dilithium and Energy Credit awarding Duty Officer assignments
- Three tiers of Fleet Mark fleet project input discounts
- Three tiers of special Miner Duty Officers
- Dilithium Mine (Main Track): Below are some examples of the rewards unlocked by gaining Tiers in the Dilithium Mine track
- Unlock perks for all fleet members by increasing tiers in your fleet?s main Dilithium Mine, Development and Trade tracks:
General
- Adjusted Queue behavior in regards to teams:
- When in a team only the team leader can queue for PVE or PVP queues, and they will queue the entire team
- When joining a team, all queues a player is currently in will be dropped
- When a player leaves a team that is in a queue, that player is dropped from the queue
- When a player is invited to a team that is in a queue, that player is added to the queue
- Romulan Embassies will once again spawn the proper NPC critters.
- Tachyon Harmonic, Pulsewave Assault Weapons and Charged Burst Assault Weapons will no longer occasionally fire in an odd direction when used.
- Private Queues will no longer appear in the public queue list.
- Queue counts now have an additional layer of backend logic to ensure accuracy.
- Shaders and shader fallbacks have been generally improved.
- The heads of players should no longer disappear when activating their EV suit.
- Ambient audio should remain active if the player is within range of the sound and their camera isn?t.
- Added livelier ambient audio in the First City fighting arena.
- The Elachi Walker Audio has been improved.
- Reduced the default volume on Nadel?s voice over lines so they are more in line with the volume of other voiced lines in the game.
- Orion Interceptor and Orion Marauding Force carrier pets did now have deployment audio.
- The credits have been updated.
- Sensor Scan is now correctly applying its damage bonus.
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- Ships
- The Valdore's hull strength is no properly described in the C-Store description
- The Qaw'Dun Bird-of-Prey now has its Shield Modifier listed in the C-Store.
- The description for the Mirror Ha'feh Assault Warbird's reward pack now lists the correct officer seating.
- The Guramba's Javelin is now able to charge up immediately when the ship enters Siege Mode, even if it is already on cooldown from being used previously.
- The Javelin still cannot be fired until the cooldown is over, but it can be fully charged up prior to this time.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Fleet Mogai Heavy Warbird to gain abnormally high benefits from the Starship Impulse Thrusters and Structural Integrity skills.
- Dominion Polaron Dual Cannons can now be used on Warbirds.
- Fleet Updates
- Updated all Fleet project inputs to allow fleet members to input Engineering and Operations department duty officers where you could previously only slot Engineering OR Operations.
- Updated all Fleet project inputs to allow fleet members to input Science and Medical department duty officers where you could previously only slot Science OR Medical.
- Corrected tooltip text in the Starbase "Provision Fleet Ships" projects for the Non-Civilian Duty Officer inputs.
- This should now correctly state that the project requires Non-Civilian duty officers instead of Tactical department officers.
- Updated replicator food/drink unlocks to work with Romulan bartender and chef Duty Officers
- Singularity Powers
- Quantum Absorption
- This power's tooltip and Long Help now explains that the durations of the temporary hit points and shield regeneration are different.
- Warp Shadow
- This power no longer prevents the caster from being untargetable for a short period of time after activating Ranks 4 and 5.
- A buff icon will now only appear for this power only when the caster enters the Perfect Cloaking state after the Warp Shadows vanish.
- Crystalline Entity Adjustments
- Reward Updates
- The normal Crystalline Entity will now reward 30 marks instead of 25
- The elite Crystalline Entity mission will now reward 60 marks instead of 40.
- The number of targets hit by the Matter Conversion Beam has been decreased during Phase 2 and Phase 3, on both Normal and Elite versions.
- On Elite, the following additional changes have been made:
- Reduced the max number of Fragments that may be present on the map from 12 to 9.
- Reduced the spawn frequency of Fragments slightly
- Reduced the Entity's regeneration rates
[*]Dilithium Store Updates[*]
- Tetryon Beam weapons had their prices reduced on the Dilithium store.
- Tetryon Dual Heavy Cannons were missing from Marks VI to X on the Dilithium Store.
- Disruptor Cannons and Turrets are now available at all Ranks on the Dilithium store.
- Mark VIII and Mark X Polaron Space weapon types are now available on the Dilithium Store.
- Plasma Turrets, Single Cannons, and Dual Cannons are now available for Mark IV to X on the Dilithium Store.
- Phaser Dual Cannons and Dual Heavy Cannons are now available from Marks II to X on the Dilithium Store.
- Dual Plasma Beam Bank Mk IV is now available in the Dilithium Store.
[*]Matter/Anti-Matter Warp Cores have been added as additional mission rewards to the following Starfleet missions:- Kuvah'magh
- Spin The Wheel (also available to KDF and ROM)
- Friend of my Enemy
- Seeds of Dissent
[*]Players are now able to use a Hypospray to escape the Tholian Drone Stasis Beam.- This change affects both the reprogrammed drone pets from the Nukara Strikeforce Reputation as well as the Tholian stasis drone.
[*]Romulan Captains now have access to a series of "Bridge Officer Applicant" Recruitment assignments which can reward Romulan or Reman Bridge Officer candidates of Green or better quality depending on the outcome.- These assignments will only appear in Tau Dewa Sector, New Romulus Command, and are not common.
[*]Updated the descriptions of Plasmotic Leech and Power Conduit Link to indicate that they do not stack with each other.- This is a display change only; they were prevented from stacking in a previous patch.
[*]Carrier pets no longer display specific character class categories that can equip them.- Only carrier pets that require a specific ship will now display these requirements.
[*]Updated description text for all Singularity Warp Cores.- They now correctly state that they grant a flat bonus plus a scaling amount of power based on Singularity level.
[*]Fixed an issue where the Military Commendation Report DOFF assignment was requiring an Assault Squad Officer for increased success percentage on a Tactical slot.- This has been changed to using an Energy Weapons Officer instead, which is a proper Tactical specialization.
[*]Jakan, a Romulan Duty Officer, did not have enough traits.- He has gained the Cunning trait.
[*]Livona, a Romulan Duty Officer, no longer has the Founders of the Federation trait.[*]Gorn are now receiving all of their species traits.
[*]Romulan captains are now able to Reassign duty officers that are Romulan Republic personnel.
[*]Updated the description of Power Conduit Link to indicate it can stack up to 5 times
[*]KDF-allied Romulan characters would now gain Marauding reward powers properly.
[*]In the Overview page of the Duty Officer window for Klingon-allied characters, the description of rank 3 of Marauding now refers to the power "Assign Raiding Party" by its actual name.
[*]Techie now provides 30 points in Starship Hull Repair instead of 10.
[*]Well-Travelled now appears under the "Other" section in the Passives list on the character sheet after it has been earned.
[*]Romulans are now able to purchase Commendation rank Duty Officers from Centurion Velar for Dilithium.
[*]Rank 4 Disruptor turrets now do damage that is in line with expectations.
[*]Summoned Engineer Disruptor turrets will now have a unique appearance.
- Slightly updated the appearance of the character Law on Nimbus.
- Added additional head customization options for Romulans.
- Romulan Aliengen Females to have a slightly wider range of available heights.
- Reman female make-up patterns can now all have their colors changed.
- The standard Romulan species will appear first during New Character Creation.
- Resolved an issue where an NPC-only Suliban head was appearing in Tailor for AlienGen males wearing off-duty Vedek hoods
- Female costume preset for Klingon Romulan should now appear correctly in Tailor
FX- The frequency that FX icons should pop in has been severely reduced..
- Raiding Party no longer has blank icons.
- Updated the art for Fekihri portal death.
- Updated the hit location for the Grappler Console power.
- FX no longer fade out when the player zooms in their camera.
- NPCs will now only react to a grenade when it goes off, not when it is thrown.
- Romulan ship explosions are no longer slightly misaligned.
- Shrapnel torpedo rockets will now fire from all proper and available torpedo nodes.
UI- The Romulan Singularity UI will now update its Singularity Level display correctly when piloting shuttles
- Made the name of the items in the need/greed window always be white to enhance legibility.
- Made the need/greed window fit contents vertically so that when there were more than two items they did not expand beyond the edge of the window.
- The "Color Scheme" option has been renamed to "Color Palette".
- The tooltip of the Color Palette has been made more descriptive.
- Fixed an issue where the icons to summon To'duj Fighter carrier pets were incorrectly using Scorpion Fighter icons instead.
- The biography display will no longer be inconsistent.
- Added skinning override to the region icon in the column list for the PvE windows so that it displays a Romulan ship if you're using the Romulan UI.
- The icon for the Romulan shuttle accolade "Size Doesn't Matter" has been updated to show a Romulan shuttle and symbol.
- Addressed readability issues with certain color schemes and duty officer/c-store listrows.
- Fixed a bug where popup tips could appear twice, pointing to different areas of the screen.
- Team Window Improvements
- When you are in a space map and a teammate is on a ground map, a person icon will appear instead of a square where their ship icon is.
- When you are on a ground map and a teammate is in a space map, a starship icon will appear instead of an empty portrait frame.
- Players are now able to click the team window to select teammates again
- Added a mouseover state for when a teammate is selectable from the team window
- When they are alive and on the same map as you
- Buff icons for teammates on the ground now fill to the right instead of the left and should no longer overlap the teammate window.
- Improved visuals of ship HP HUD element.
- Disable rotation of character on character selection screen.
- When a duty officer is slotted to an assigment, the frame and background will now show the correct faction art.
- Romulans allied with the KDF will see KDF themed images for duty officer assignments that have it.
- Updated the Featured Foundry Spotlight image and the PVE image in the Mission Journal Overview screen to show Klingon art if you are a KDF aligned romulan.
- Updated icon for Klingon version of the "bite" trait icon so it uses new trait icon style.
Known IssuesAnother holding..
Another boost to big fleets and their equipment, and another mountainous task for small fleets.
Lordy Lordy how this game hates anyone in a less than 100 man fleet lol
Your Javelin deals 125417 (89066) Disruptor Damage(Critical) to Tholian Recluse. > lol
So does this mean that the 1000 XP fleet missions will require 180 science/medical department inputs, or do we still need 90 science and 90 med? The wording is confusing.
Updated all Fleet project inputs to allow fleet members to input Engineering and Operations department duty officers where you could previously only slot Engineering OR Operations.
The exception to this rule is projects that have to separate Engineering and Operation department inputs.
Updated all Fleet project inputs to allow fleet members to input Science and Medical department duty officers where you could previously only slot Science OR Medical.
The exception to this rule is projects that have to separate Science and Medical department inputs."
So no flipping change? Jebus guys!!! come on now!!!! Just combine the two requirements into one larger requirement for either!
Instead of 60 sci and 70 med.. make it 150 of Sci/med!
Your Javelin deals 125417 (89066) Disruptor Damage(Critical) to Tholian Recluse. > lol
Agreed. Salamiinferno, could you give 1 example of a project that will change and 1 example of a project that won't?
One question about the Romulan singularity implosions: when Scimitar Dreadnoughts are destroyed, the implosion animation plays but the ship itself just sits there looking stupid. Was that fixed with the animations listed here?
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Also, the fix on duty officer inputs ignores the actual problem:
It's the ones with separate inputs that are the problem, due to huge disparities between some departments availability, such as science officers being roughly five times as common as medical. Many of the others already took either/or and with generally much lower doff inputs the disparities didn't cause issues. The issues are with those 90/90 missions, which the exceptions imply aren't being changed.
It reduces the cost of all other projects in all holdings, going back to the starbase and any moving forward.
Here is a rough example.
A project that used to only require Science duty officers will now accept science OR medical, giving you more options.
A project that had two separate slots with one requiring science and the other requiring medical can now accept either science OR medical, giving you more options.
Edit! I spoke with our systems designers and updated the patchnotes accordingly. It is "either or" in all cases.
We are expecting our next large localization drop in a few weeks.
Salami, would you be willing to explain why was the latter left unchanged? The imbalance between sci/med and tac/sec is the biggest obstacle to completing the Shipyard and Communications Array and has severely distorted the market for commons of the security and medical categories.
Does the dilithium mine expansion reduce the amount of doffs necessary for each project, at least?
Except the projects that have been causing bottlenecks are virtually all of this type, caused by the disparity between departments. The projects that would be changed by this with few exceptions have low costs and most were already either/or.
This combined with the lack of a duty officer discount on the mine sound like somebody made a careful effort to fix everything that wasn't broken while leaving the one real problem alone.
You've completely missed the point with that and as a results this changes nothing with the absurd doff requirements. At least adjust the ratio to properly reflect the amount of sci vs medical doffs...
Pre-LOR: you scan an enemy unit. It and any other enemy units in a 3 km radius from it are affected by a de-buff
Post-LOR: You scan an enemy unit. The de-buff only works if those units are within a 3km bubble centred on you
ie turn 70 tac/60 security into 70 tac/30 security.
the real slow down happens when the tac or the science gets filled up but you still need 30 or 40 of the security/medical. cutting that number in half for those projects would really help.
seriously if you buy 100 white science doffs from the starbase vendor you will most likely end up with around 75 science and 25 medical. so unless you can balance that better or combine, cutting the numbers would probably be the simplest thing.
I have an idea for what Season 11 should be; Season 11: The Big Bug Fix.
I have not been able to read my bug tickets in over a year, not even the tickets about not being able to see my tickets.
I find the drama of your signature proof of your immaturity, this means you, DR whiners.
Good going guys and ladies!
Things are moving forward.
Rather than adjusting them to frequency, a more brute force solution could easily match.
The tier 4 1000 xp projects are:
90 tac/90 sec
90 eng/90 ops
90 sci/90 med
Change these to:
90 tac or sec/90 any*
90 eng or ops/90 any*
90 sci or med/90 any*
*- any could be reasonably limited to non-civilians. However, there's also a general under-utilization of civilian doffs in the fleet system that this would relieve.
No reduction of costs, but this does equalize any disparities across-the-board. Not only are disparities like the science/medical split resolved, but larger scale issues like science being more common than tactical or security as well are resolved by overflow from any department going into others.
It's also a durable fix. If some future change makes medical officers equally common to science, changing 90/90 to 90/30 would stop being a fix, now there'd be a huge overabundance in medical. This setup would allow most frequency changes to equalize through the system without future adjustment.
It also makes a more unififed force, with all six departments contributing to any single project, even if one division is taking the lead they still require support from others.
Also: Any word on a fix for some dilithium-purchased weapons firing from the ground instead of the muzzle?
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