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Branflakes,
I just want to state before I start writing that I am in no way bashing you or the Cryptic team for what seems like a lack of action on some of the most serious and annoying bugs in the game. I work for a company that develops a large website so I know how hard it can be to find and squash bugs.
That being said, I (and many others I have heard from) are a bit disturbed by the lack of acknowledgement on a majority of the issues that affect us every day. To that end, I am going to list the bugs affecting me and everyone else can put the ones that are affecting them, perhaps with more community involvement and having a full list of the bugs bothering people in 1 place, we can start to prioritize them by customer importance instead of cryptic importance
Those are the one's that make me want to scream daily and only 1 of them shows up in your "Known issues". I'm certain there are more people with different problems. Working together we can make this a better game.
Thanks for your time
====Sorted bugs====
===Gameplay/Build Breaking===
1) Deflector Duty officers which are meant to reduce the cool down on Tachyon beam and energy Syphon do not.
2) Power tray randomly reorganizes itself.
3) FAW doesn't crit
4) Energy Weapon Specialization doesn't seem to work on anything but kinetic cutting beam
5) Boff's sometime end up missing when switching maps
===Visual===
1) The Daeinos does not properly animate in sector space, the tail is stuck jumping up and down and the engines do no rotate properly.
2) Romulan Liberated Borg Captains do not have access to infected ears or Romulan face tattoos. Also in the information screen we are shown having Liberated Borg Human trait pool.
3) The Dhael warbird when flown as a single wing variant nosegrinds its way to warp. What I mean by that is the nose violently projects down as the engines fly up and you get warp trails that look like an erratic heartbeat in warp out animations.
4) Rename tokens do no work completely. It renames part of a character, but in the DOFF personal assignments page, the old name shows, if you use the shard to create clones, they have the old characters name, and you are addressed by some NPCs with your old name.
5) Romulan warp out animations are right 50% of the time. If the camera pans to the lower right of the ship, you get a Romulan warp animation, if the camera pans to the lower left side of the ship, you get your faction warp out animation.
6) Romulan beam out animations stop working once you choose a faction. It still looks right for Klingons, but Fed Allied Roms just stand like a statue.
7) Sector space transitions in these areas display your BOFF standing on a federation bridge as a Fed Rom and possibly for others
Sirius->Alpha Centauri, Delta Volanis, Beta Ursae, Alpha Trianguli
Regulus-> Alpha Centauri, Psi Velorum, Sirius, Pi Canis, Arucanis Arm
Pi Canis-> Hromi Cluster, Omega Leonis
8) Fleet somraw raptor hull strenght % shows a placeholder since the ship exists. Post LoR it is a blue constitution class...Old screenshot but the bug still exists : http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...somrawblue.jpg
9) Missing windows on some KDF ships (somraw, norgh, ...), type 2 windows not available on specific parts
on some KDF ships (mogh, k'maj) and probably more ship tailor bugs.
10)missing visuals from the dyson engines
===Possibly Intentional===
1) Romulans have no reward DOFFs for tier progression.
2) Romulans have no asylum missions rewarding romulan doffs.
3) Romulans don't have their own colonization chains or assignment to relocate colonists, they share their factions.
4) KDF frigate pets have twice the cooldown of other frigate pets.
5) Varanus support vessel and its fleet version have a lower shield mod than other sci ships (it's just a DSSV with 10% less shields).
6) Bortasqu' cruisers have less shields than other fleet cruisers and battlecruisers.
===Confusing/Annoying and needs enhancement/fix===
1) Romulan BOFFs allegiance is tied to whoever recruited the BOFF, not the captain's faction. This leads to millions being spent on BOFFs who cannot use the faction allied uniform.
2) Teams formed prior to joining queued events usually break when the events are left.
3) Team voice channels persist after queued events have broken the team (eventually crowding out the chat box)
4) Mail sometimes refuses to be deleted.
5) Saved outfits in the Tailor do not always load all of their components.
===Unknown what's being reported/need more info===
1) FBP crit chains and tact buffs affecting it are supposed patched. It's no longer the case.
I just want to state before I start writing that I am in no way bashing you or the Cryptic team for what seems like a lack of action on some of the most serious and annoying bugs in the game. I work for a company that develops a large website so I know how hard it can be to find and squash bugs.
That being said, I (and many others I have heard from) are a bit disturbed by the lack of acknowledgement on a majority of the issues that affect us every day. To that end, I am going to list the bugs affecting me and everyone else can put the ones that are affecting them, perhaps with more community involvement and having a full list of the bugs bothering people in 1 place, we can start to prioritize them by customer importance instead of cryptic importance
Those are the one's that make me want to scream daily and only 1 of them shows up in your "Known issues". I'm certain there are more people with different problems. Working together we can make this a better game.
Thanks for your time
====Sorted bugs====
===Gameplay/Build Breaking===
1) Deflector Duty officers which are meant to reduce the cool down on Tachyon beam and energy Syphon do not.
2) Power tray randomly reorganizes itself.
3) FAW doesn't crit
4) Energy Weapon Specialization doesn't seem to work on anything but kinetic cutting beam
5) Boff's sometime end up missing when switching maps
===Visual===
1) The Daeinos does not properly animate in sector space, the tail is stuck jumping up and down and the engines do no rotate properly.
2) Romulan Liberated Borg Captains do not have access to infected ears or Romulan face tattoos. Also in the information screen we are shown having Liberated Borg Human trait pool.
3) The Dhael warbird when flown as a single wing variant nosegrinds its way to warp. What I mean by that is the nose violently projects down as the engines fly up and you get warp trails that look like an erratic heartbeat in warp out animations.
4) Rename tokens do no work completely. It renames part of a character, but in the DOFF personal assignments page, the old name shows, if you use the shard to create clones, they have the old characters name, and you are addressed by some NPCs with your old name.
5) Romulan warp out animations are right 50% of the time. If the camera pans to the lower right of the ship, you get a Romulan warp animation, if the camera pans to the lower left side of the ship, you get your faction warp out animation.
6) Romulan beam out animations stop working once you choose a faction. It still looks right for Klingons, but Fed Allied Roms just stand like a statue.
7) Sector space transitions in these areas display your BOFF standing on a federation bridge as a Fed Rom and possibly for others
Sirius->Alpha Centauri, Delta Volanis, Beta Ursae, Alpha Trianguli
Regulus-> Alpha Centauri, Psi Velorum, Sirius, Pi Canis, Arucanis Arm
Pi Canis-> Hromi Cluster, Omega Leonis
8) Fleet somraw raptor hull strenght % shows a placeholder since the ship exists. Post LoR it is a blue constitution class...Old screenshot but the bug still exists : http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...somrawblue.jpg
9) Missing windows on some KDF ships (somraw, norgh, ...), type 2 windows not available on specific parts
on some KDF ships (mogh, k'maj) and probably more ship tailor bugs.
10)missing visuals from the dyson engines
===Possibly Intentional===
1) Romulans have no reward DOFFs for tier progression.
2) Romulans have no asylum missions rewarding romulan doffs.
3) Romulans don't have their own colonization chains or assignment to relocate colonists, they share their factions.
4) KDF frigate pets have twice the cooldown of other frigate pets.
5) Varanus support vessel and its fleet version have a lower shield mod than other sci ships (it's just a DSSV with 10% less shields).
6) Bortasqu' cruisers have less shields than other fleet cruisers and battlecruisers.
===Confusing/Annoying and needs enhancement/fix===
1) Romulan BOFFs allegiance is tied to whoever recruited the BOFF, not the captain's faction. This leads to millions being spent on BOFFs who cannot use the faction allied uniform.
2) Teams formed prior to joining queued events usually break when the events are left.
3) Team voice channels persist after queued events have broken the team (eventually crowding out the chat box)
4) Mail sometimes refuses to be deleted.
5) Saved outfits in the Tailor do not always load all of their components.
===Unknown what's being reported/need more info===
1) FBP crit chains and tact buffs affecting it are supposed patched. It's no longer the case.
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2) Deflector Duty officers which are meant to reduce the cool down on Tachyon beam and energy Syphon do not.
3) The duty officer Juel Ducane, does not proc as often as the description claims.
4) Bridge officers randomly un-assign themselves
5) Power tray randomly reorganizes itself.
6) Teams formed prior to joining queued events usually break when the events are left.
7) Team voice channels persist after queued events have broken the team (eventually crowding out the chat box)
8) Mail sometimes refuses to be deleted.
9) Saved outfits in the Tailor do not always load all of their components.
Im sure I could think of more. But I am bored now.
2) Romulan Liberated Borg Captains do not have access to infected ears or Romulan face tattoos. Also in the information screen we are shown having Liberated Borg Human trait pool.
3) The Dhael warbird when flown as a single wing variant nosegrinds its way to warp. What I mean by that is the nose violently projects down as the engines fly up and you get warp trails that look like an erratic heartbeat in warp out animations.
4) Romulan BOFFs allegiance is tied to whoever recruited the BOFF, not the captain's faction. This leads to millions being spent on BOFFs who cannot use the faction allied uniform.
5) Rename tokens do no work completely. It renames part of a character, but in the DOFF personal assignments page, the old name shows, if you use the shard to create clones, they have the old characters name, and you are addressed by some NPCs with your old name.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head, I agree with OP, if not being actively pursued right now, can we at least have some acknowledgement you know they exist.
1) Romulan warp out animations are right 50% of the time. If the camera pans to the lower right of the ship, you get a Romulan warp animation, if the camera pans to the lower left side of the ship, you get your faction warp out animation.
2) Romulan beam out animations stop working once you choose a faction. It still looks right for Klingons, but Fed Allied Roms just stand like a statue.
3) Sector space transitions in these areas display your BOFF standing on a federation bridge as a Fed Rom and possibly for others
Sirius->Alpha Centauri, Delta Volanis, Beta Ursae, Alpha Trianguli
Regulus-> Alpha Centauri, Psi Velorum, Sirius, Pi Canis, Arucanis Arm
Pi Canis-> Hromi Cluster, Omega Leonis
4) Romulans have no reward DOFFs for tier progression.
5) Romulans have no asylum missions rewarding romulan doffs.
6) Romulans don't have their own colonization chains or assignment to relocate colonists, they share their factions.
Bugs are not hard to fix / find. If the devs do their work, day by day, and i mean with this to fix the bugs, not to work on new content or other ways to gather more money, we should be talking about a game with a regular ammount of bugs. Like any other mmorpg. But STO is not the case, if u think cryptic is not aware of almost 90% of the bugs of the game, u are more naive than i thought. Cryptic has showed a completely lack of interest on solving bugs, because they dont have enough time. Anyways, good luck and i hope all the bugs you guys are listing will be solved soon
Old screenshot but the bug still exists : http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/689/somrawblue.jpg
IMO it's a major UI issue and i dont understand why it is still not fixed (i made multiple posts and bug reports about it).
2) Missing windows on some KDF ships (somraw, norgh, ...), type 2 windows not available on specific parts on some KDF ships (mogh, k'maj) and probably more ship tailor bugs.
3) Honor guard 3rd helmet option still not available.
3) KDF frigate pets have twice the cooldown of other frigate pets.
4) Varanus support vessel and its fleet version have a lower shield mod than other sci ships (it's just a DSSV with 10% less shields).
5) Bortasqu' cruisers have less shields than other fleet cruisers and battlecruisers.
6) FBP crit chains and tact buffs affecting it are supposed patched. It's no longer the case.
Some issues probably belong to the balance category but i think it's important they are known.
I respect your opinion, and for the most part agree with it. It might be a waste of time, but I'm sure their bug report database doesn't show the bugs that are affecting thousands of people. Face it, people are lazy, they don't know how to file intelligent bug reports so what happens is their database has 2 million entries with 30+% or more being the same bug with totally different wording. My intention here was not to give cryptic a list of bugs to fix. It was to make cryptic aware that we are players notice their lack of acknowledgment in the hopes they will change their operating procedure to make it better.
Actually... the fleet I'm in uses it quite a bit. And occasionally we run into someone else who is surprised to hear us if we go in without a full team and we PUG it.
Don't know if this is a bug or what, but I would like to add:
-Caitians are semi broken in Tailor. Have to spend MORE ECs to actually name outfits because even though you own parts you use, you get "Outfit uses invalid parts" or something along those lines.
If any other Caitian players can verify that its not just me, please say so.
normal text = me speaking as fellow formite
colored text = mod mode
1) On Tailor Screen after use Create or Modify button there are no any edit windows. Cannot change any body or costume details. Still can change between already created costume slots.
2) Private STF lobby window is missing. Still can participate in it.
3) Do not see minigame windows (both dilithium and romulus radiation minigames).
Windows and STO client reinstall have no effect on same machine.
For that matter, neither does the fleet uniform slot I earned when I joined a fleet.
Coffee, chocolate, bacon, and phasers. What more do I need?
I think you are too new to the game and to the world of cryptic in general. Cryptic is aware of almost every bug on the game, because people is posting and making tickets since ages ago. Other completely different thing is that cryptic just avoid any interaction with any ticket or the gameplay bugs report section of the forums. They JUST DONT WANT TO KNOW anything about bugs. Its that simple. Most of the bugs in those lists are posted eons ago, and again this is a waste of time. And any list will be a waste of time, until cryptic changes their way to maintain this game. Lack of acknowledgement??? hahahaha, seriously, u seem really really new. Cryptic knows perfectly how many bugs are in game and which are they. But again, we said this tons of times, some of you dont understand, the problem is not the lack of acknowledgement from cryptic, the problem is, they DONT WANT to fix bugs, not 3 months ago, not now, because that will be time that they dont have, and they need to put efforts on creating new content (as always) and dealing with PWE. Other causes must be as well that the team cryptic have is really a bad one, and most of the programmers there are non skillez enough to deal with all the present bugs. I dont think that cryptic has even a team focused on fixing bugs (something that will be natural an essential in this game , but as everybody knows, that is not true, unfortunately).
The behaviour of cryptic about the bugs of the game has no excuse anymore, since months ago. Saying that they dont even know about the bugs, is really nooby for your part xD. I am a pc programmer, and like many others in the forums, i just cant understand the problems cryptic are having fixing bugs. I just cant. Because is non sense, and the only explanation i told you above.
Sorry, but the line of code that FAW must have to control the mechanics of a beam using that skill should not be so hard to find / understand. As i said, the problem is other..
And again, come on!, the FAW bug is just one of the thousands out there that are not fixed since months ago. You people always refer to FAW, but there are tons of bugs out there, and some more importants than FAW, that are broken since ages ago.
So, you are telling me that they just cant find the code of any bug, or that they dont have the skills to fix any bug?? that is what you saying? then, i tell you, what the hell are they doing in cryptic?? taking coffee instead of their jobs?
You still dont realize that every month, we have 20 new bugs, added to the 300 that are already there?? or you are fooling yourself trying to justify your stupid sub?? because seriously, i dont get it. I never seen a case like cryptic and STO before, its just amazing. And if people dont wake up, this will never change.
I keep allucinating with you guys. Seriously.
I first noticed and started bugreporting it from memory in about August last year. 1/6th of the doffs on my main character are bugged in this manner.
2) Do not see minigame windows (both dilithium and scan anomaly minigames).
Windows 7, and Windows 8.1, with all actual updates - same problems on desktop and laptop both.
http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=1077151
Despite what the news release says, I cannot find the option available to trade in Epohhs in either DS9 or Drozona where they were prior to this patch (at least as of last week when I traded in all of mine on one of my toons). There was nothing in the patch notes about ending this early or its removal that I saw.
Because I was so sick of Winter event upon completion I've barely logged in since but made a point to log in prior to the 31st to turn in the 20 or so Elder Epohhs per name I have sitting in my bank. At this point my banks are full of useless pets.
I'd post my own thread, but apparently being a lifetime member for 2+ years and a member for even longer doesn't qualify for "enough time passed since registration"to create a bug report.
- Scotty, to La Forge
Has been fixed (at least for me). The UI now shows the correct symbol.
Mail stopped showing anything newer than august 2013, submitted ticket, then it got worse and now only shows till February 2013, ticket also says they replied out of game but have yet to see any cryptic/pwe mails related.
I can still see the mails getting received via the floater but dont show up in mailbox.
i havent seen this problem in forums yet (or i missed it).
Im sure ur only alould a 100 mails now u need to delete the old ones by the sound of it.
* The exchange does not allow filtering by quality (Common, Uncommon, Rare, Very Rare) except when searching the Bridge Officer category.
* My Tac KDF tried to change costume in Sphere of Influence, and now cannot change costume at all - she is stuck in the primary costume.
* My main (Tac Fed) cannot use the Heavy Escort Carrier Armitage skin without being asked to buy it again. Since I already have it, it is saying I already have it in my inventory and won't let me buy another copy, so if I want to make *any* modifications to that particular ship it I have to use a different skin.
* My main also has two copies of the Omega Force Operative accolade - one complete, one incomplete. The incomplete one shows all three parts ticked.
* In the ship tailor, all ships show their optional colours as black in the lower panel, even if they have different colours applied in the main graphic. The only way to change the colours (and have that change reflected in the main graphic) is to click on one of the presets on the left.
* The Mini Qs in Party Patrol are rarely (if ever) located in the middle of their activation area, making it very difficult to find the right place to stand in order to interact with them.
* When in the Tholian Widow fighter, using Beam: Fire at Will causes me to shoot myself, resulting in damage.
* When standing close to the tents & transporter pad at the Epohh Fields on New Romulus, after joining a team and changing zone to meet them, you materialise at the Altai River transporter pad.
* There is no graphic in the ship selector for the Kivra shuttle (the basic KDF small craft, equivalent to a Fed Type 8).
* When viewing your ship in the character profile window, the image for the NX class is offset to the right, so the front portion of the saucer is cut off.
* Two different early KDF missions give exactly the same Tac BOff, and they are both bound so you cannot sell them. They are given as mission rewards, and there is no option to select a BOff of a different type, which would be much more helpful for characters who want to fly anything other than a Raptor.
* The Panels & Pockets trousers only allow you to select one colour, when before Christmas there were four areas with selectable colours.
* The mission in Defera's Power Plant where you have to rescue trapped engineers does not allow you to rescue them, rendering the mission un-completable, and the Reclaimer of Defera accolade also unable to be completed.
* Repairing satellites at Deferi Outpost 32 no longer seem to count towards completion of the relevant accolade (Deferi Satellite Repairman).
* Despite completing Stranded in Space with teams from all professions on multiple toons, none of them have been awarded "Plays Well With Others".
* KDF characters are unable to claim their Borg Science Officer after walking through an IMR in Khitomer Accord - In Stasis.
* The dilithium mining minigame has lost the straight lines between the corners on the alignment sight (ie. the bit you move), making it more difficult to play.
I think that's everything...
Still not fixed, nearly two years later. Then again, from what I've been lead to understand, this is standard for Romulans. Apparently, not a single dev considered costuming for Romulans when they decided to make them available, and they STILL haven't fixed them.
Coffee, chocolate, bacon, and phasers. What more do I need?