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TRIBBLE Maintenance and Release Notes - June 18, 2013
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We will be bringing the Tribble server down for maintenance to apply a new update.
ST.31.20130609a.10
General:
ST.31.20130609a.10
General:
- Dilithium Mine
- The beam down location for the ground map has been moved to the mine interior.
- The ground map is now properly gated as a tier 1 unlock.
- The tier 3 description text now mentions that unlocking this tier grants access to the second floor of the interior map.
- Duty Officer Contacts and the Warp Core Vendor now unlock via their described track
- The Rich Mining Node is now working.
- Faction specific bank contacts have been added once they are unlocked.
- The waypoints for the daily mining missions have been updated
- The mine transwarp should now be available from your starbase.
- The ships that are being rescued in the Azure Nebula queued event are now Romulan Republic ships.
- Large and small hyposprays may now be purchased 100 at a time.
- They still stack in groups of 20.
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For the love of all that is holy and sacred, why on earth would you not increase the stack size? It is ridiculous that you require amounts of these consumables >20, and won't raise the stack size. A stack size of 50 is more than reasonable.
2) Great quality of life improvement on the Hyposprays! Can we get that extended to all ground devices purchasable at vendors?
EDIT: 3) Agreed with the poster above...can we get a stack size increase since they are project inputs and not solely devices?
can you update this so it stops spawning 8 bops, 4 mogais, and 1 d'deridex? the last 4 runs its been exactly this every time, giving TRIBBLE for marks.
republic ships huh? does that mean ha'apax instead of scimitar maybe? and dhealn in there too?
tvaro-1 point
dhealn-2 point
mogai-3 points
d'deridex-4 points
ha'apax-5 points
scimitar- 6 points
that would be cool if it was a bit more like that
I can't agree with this enough. I bought everything I'd need except for the Nukara Marks to get my Rep up, and I had to basically EMPTY my bank to store all the devices. PLEASE, for the love of GOD, make the stack sizes bigger. Same goes for Deuterium Surplus, having them stack to five (and getting them four at a time) is a HUGE pain in the butt. >.>
Nice. Now if this could be done for those darn Level I Photon Torps... 250 at a time is a PAIN!
Please tell me this includes Power Cell and Shield Charges too. It's got to be one of the most annoying things about the reputation system.
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Truth - and it's not like it'll affect the combat utility. Currenly if you have a single Hypo in your device slot and 50 in your inventory it'll pull from the 50 in your inventory before it ever even touchs what's in the device slots, so just increase the stack size already.
And while you're at it why not add the ability to purchase multiple weapons from the shipyard vendors. It'd make filling in the torpedo requirements for the starbase a whole lot easier.
Just adding my support to this quote, as those above me have. Honestly I understand why cryptic wont allow us to buy more inventory space, the more each player has the faster the server hard drives need to be. I get that. Its a huge technical nightmare. But stack sizes could be increased up to 255 with no need to upgrade hardware.
Do it cryptic, go on, do it. Increase the stack sizes cryptic, you know you want to cryptic. All the cool developers are doing it cryptic. Why don't you listen to us and just do it cryptic. Then latter find some stuff and burn it cryptic, that's right burn it, listen to the voices cryptic.
The Dominion and Tal Shiar lockboxes could give out something called a mining claim which is used for access to a Rich Dilithium Vein which gives 2500 to 5000 dilithium ore for one minute of work. The names might not be completely accurate. If the Rich Mining Node is anywhere close to what is given in lockboxes, then it would mean more people reaching the dilithium cap when their fleet reaches Tier 3 Dilithium Mine.
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But when are the bug fixes that were posted on 6/11 going to hit holodeck?
That patch had a ton of fixes in it, as well as the mining outpost.
Second I would like to know, when are Romulans going to get Romulan Republic DOffs?
Yes, we can do the recruitment for them form the console at RR Command. But when are we going to see Rom DOff from the Centurion for completing commendation levels?
How about adding a third species, like Suliban or one of the other races form Tau Dewa?
Third, why were Fleet Marks removed from Tholian Incursion missions on Nukara? When are we going to get those back?
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thats why the stacks arent any larger then they are, and its silly if you think about it
For the record, iirc their response on why not increase the stack size is they said it would be overpowered if you gave a stack of 100 to your boffs on ground maps.
Yeah I don't understand it either.
Add regenerators to this list too. And as I've requested many times, please change the photon torpedo requirement for the 1000 military XP projects.
edit: how is this supposed to help small fleets ?
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Why are you storing them in the first place? You can buy them at every station. Complete waste keeping them in the bank when you can just fill up projects straight from a vendor.
Right, because in the 'real world' - oil rigs that extract world don't use petroleum products to lubricate machinery or use electricity and other fossil fuels as their crews work and live in the area and extract oil...oh, wait...:D;)
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but this is a game that is supposed to be fun to play and not like a full time job is it not ?
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Its easier to have get in all in one trip than to have to go back 36 time as you work your way through the rep system especially if your doing this on multiple toons. If I had to go back to port for all of my 3 toons every day it would take me at least 20 min just to start new projects.
IMO its totally worth it to get them ahead of time and if I wanna get this stuff while I'm already there i should be able to do so without filling my bank like a bunch of tribbles attacking a stack of banana splits.
Either stack limits need to increase or the devs need to use stuff that already stacks a lot more EC into one inventory spot. But using literally 60 inventory spots to store 384,000 EC worth of rep inputs is just plain ridiculous. It was bad enough for the 1st two reps but now its even worse cause the devs had a chance to see how bad it was the 1st time and they did it again with the Nukara rep.
I've read a possible reason why they won't do that is "because you could store a bunch of extras on bridge officers". If that's the case, then what is the big deal? It's not like carrying a bunch of extra consumables gives us some sort of advantage to exploit the game.
For crying out loud, bridge officers go through shield charges and power cells like they were candy and it's annoying needing to restock them when I don't have the EC anymore but did have it when I stocked them up the first time.
Give us one good reason you can't increase the stack size on these consumables.
How will this break the game?
Since when does anyone at Cryptic have logic? Spending DIL to get a DIL discount makes total sense.
While it won't break the game, one reason I see is that if people can stack more of those, they'll probably be less likely to buy inventory space from the Z-store.
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You are not spending Dilithum to upgrade the Mine portion. That is the Development facility portion. The Mine track itself does not require Dilithum.
On the Hyposprays, change Hyposprays, Energy cells, shield batteries and regenerators to stack up to 500 in your inventory but only stack to 20 in the device slot. This was already done with snowballs during the QWW event. The snowballs stacked to 100 or so in the device slot and 999 in the inventory. This fixs the problem of players and BOFFs having too many in their device slots but cuts down on the main inventory clutter issue.
And as someone else said, Its a pain to fly to a station and zone twice just to fill up the projects. I normally buy enough for a couple days at a time and on the ones I don't use much I buy as much as I can fit in my inventory. 2 of my less used alts currently have banks of nothing but major regenerators and large hypos. 1200 hypos and 600 regenerators left to use up.
EDIT: Think of the Development and Trade projects as a trading post and tavern for the Mine. To grow the mine you need to pay to increase the size of the trading post (where you buy digging gear) and the tavern (where you sleep and relax). This lets more people move in and the mine gets bigger as a result. You don't pay (Dilithum) to increase the size of the mine but you are paying to increase the size of the supporting facilities.