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Patch Notes for December 1st, 2016

ambassadorkael#6946 ambassadorkael
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edited December 2016 in Galactic News Network [PC]
Greetings Captains!

We will be having a maintenance tomorrow 12/1 at 6AM Pacific for 3.5 hours. You can find our patch notes here.
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  • primar13primar13 Member Posts: 1,896 Bug Hunter
    edited December 2016
    FYI to All Players regarding an item in the known issues section.
    • There is a dos window which appears when the Star Trek Online client is running.

    Closing this Window will also close out the Game Client, You can minimize it so that it is out of the way, but don't actually Exit out of the window.
  • dkeith2011dkeith2011 Member Posts: 595 Arc User
    Exchange Officers:
    Diplomacy/Marauding exchange Bridge Officers are now set to limit 1.
    This means that the player can dismiss one and then get a free replacement from Ambassador Sugihara or Marauder Kazzgur, should the player desire a different officer.
    Upon reaching commendation rank 4 in Diplomacy or Marauding, the player will be granted a mission to go and get an exchange/renegade officer, which now appears in the mission log.
    This does not change the legacy white/common quality exchange officers, only the current purple/very rare quality ones.

    Does this mean if we have the old white quality BOff we can't trade up to the new purple one?
  • jheinigjheinig Member Posts: 364 Cryptic Developer
    dkeith2011 wrote: »
    Exchange Officers:
    Diplomacy/Marauding exchange Bridge Officers are now set to limit 1.
    This means that the player can dismiss one and then get a free replacement from Ambassador Sugihara or Marauder Kazzgur, should the player desire a different officer.
    Upon reaching commendation rank 4 in Diplomacy or Marauding, the player will be granted a mission to go and get an exchange/renegade officer, which now appears in the mission log.
    This does not change the legacy white/common quality exchange officers, only the current purple/very rare quality ones.

    Does this mean if we have the old white quality BOff we can't trade up to the new purple one?

    Essentially, the very rare/purple and common/white ones do not interact in any way. If you have Dipomacy/Marauding 4, you can have one very rare/purple exchange/renegade BOFF. You can replace that BOFF. If you never claimed one, you can claim one. Whether you have old common/white ones is immaterial and has no effect on them.
  • dkeith2011dkeith2011 Member Posts: 595 Arc User
    jheinig wrote: »
    dkeith2011 wrote: »
    Exchange Officers:
    Diplomacy/Marauding exchange Bridge Officers are now set to limit 1.
    This means that the player can dismiss one and then get a free replacement from Ambassador Sugihara or Marauder Kazzgur, should the player desire a different officer.
    Upon reaching commendation rank 4 in Diplomacy or Marauding, the player will be granted a mission to go and get an exchange/renegade officer, which now appears in the mission log.
    This does not change the legacy white/common quality exchange officers, only the current purple/very rare quality ones.

    Does this mean if we have the old white quality BOff we can't trade up to the new purple one?

    Essentially, the very rare/purple and common/white ones do not interact in any way. If you have Dipomacy/Marauding 4, you can have one very rare/purple exchange/renegade BOFF. You can replace that BOFF. If you never claimed one, you can claim one. Whether you have old common/white ones is immaterial and has no effect on them.

    Excellent!
  • nebfabnebfab Member Posts: 672 Arc User
    Any word on most boffs not being able to sprint? ("Most," because one of my alts has a 0718 who sprints just fine...)
  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    Nothing on the Kit Frames that are still locked out after "Artifacts" and taking up space, nothing on the Kit Modules that still won't slot their abilities in the power tray... But hey, who cares about actual powers and equipment that can't be used when we're getting sweaters for Winter Wonderland, huh?

    Bah, humbug, I say! Bah, humbug!
    "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
    ^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
  • eazzieeazzie Member Posts: 4,253 Arc User
    UTC time on the launcher is wrong YET AGAIN. Week in week out the time displayed for UTC is WRONG. 6am - 9am Pacific is 14.00 - 17.00 UTC. NOT 13.00 - 16.00 UTC as displayed on the launcher. Why is this always being got wrong? It is simple enough UTC is 8 hours ahead not 7.
  • markb1975markb1975 Member Posts: 10 Arc User
    jheinig wrote: »
    dkeith2011 wrote: »
    Exchange Officers:
    Diplomacy/Marauding exchange Bridge Officers are now set to limit 1.
    This means that the player can dismiss one and then get a free replacement from Ambassador Sugihara or Marauder Kazzgur, should the player desire a different officer.
    Upon reaching commendation rank 4 in Diplomacy or Marauding, the player will be granted a mission to go and get an exchange/renegade officer, which now appears in the mission log.
    This does not change the legacy white/common quality exchange officers, only the current purple/very rare quality ones.

    Does this mean if we have the old white quality BOff we can't trade up to the new purple one?

    Essentially, the very rare/purple and common/white ones do not interact in any way. If you have Dipomacy/Marauding 4, you can have one very rare/purple exchange/renegade BOFF. You can replace that BOFF. If you never claimed one, you can claim one. Whether you have old common/white ones is immaterial and has no effect on them.

    What about us old-timers who purchased extras? My main has three I don't intend to discharge. Are they safe?
  • vorwodavorwoda Member Posts: 699 Arc User
    Still no mention of the TOS Gorn outfit not being unlocked. Was listed as a "known issue" previously - still not fixed, and no explanation given. Come on, Ambassador, you're our intercessor now, can you please get us at least some COMMENT on the issue?
  • talientalien Member Posts: 712 Arc User
    jheinig wrote: »
    dkeith2011 wrote: »
    Exchange Officers:
    Diplomacy/Marauding exchange Bridge Officers are now set to limit 1.
    This means that the player can dismiss one and then get a free replacement from Ambassador Sugihara or Marauder Kazzgur, should the player desire a different officer.
    Upon reaching commendation rank 4 in Diplomacy or Marauding, the player will be granted a mission to go and get an exchange/renegade officer, which now appears in the mission log.
    This does not change the legacy white/common quality exchange officers, only the current purple/very rare quality ones.

    Does this mean if we have the old white quality BOff we can't trade up to the new purple one?

    Essentially, the very rare/purple and common/white ones do not interact in any way. If you have Dipomacy/Marauding 4, you can have one very rare/purple exchange/renegade BOFF. You can replace that BOFF. If you never claimed one, you can claim one. Whether you have old common/white ones is immaterial and has no effect on them.

    What about people who have more than one from back when they were tradeable? I know several people (myself included) who grinded to T4 diplo/marauding on alts and traded the boff to their main, and a lot of people who bought them off the exchange or got them through trades.
  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    The number of changes in this Maintenance makes sense for what was happening over the past few days when I shut down the Game Client. There was close to 4 GB of pre-patching going on.

    You wouldn't need that pre-patching if this was going to be a normal Maintenance.
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    l don't know.
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    That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
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  • eazzieeazzie Member Posts: 4,253 Arc User
    Usually you ar4e able to patch around 15 - 20 minutes after servers go down on patch days, but I am getting that the account server can not authenticate. Is this down for patch too?
  • tigerariestigeraries Member Posts: 3,492 Arc User
    eazzie wrote: »
    Usually you ar4e able to patch around 15 - 20 minutes after servers go down on patch days, but I am getting that the account server can not authenticate. Is this down for patch too?

    Yes I am try to patch before I go to work... guess not playing tonight
  • salvation4salvation4 Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    FYI currently patched 4600MB +/-
    Adrian-Uss Sovereign NCC-73811 (LVL 65 FED ENG) UR/E MKXV Fleet Intel Assault Cruiser (April 2012) (Main)
    Adu-Uss Firefox NCC-93425-F (LVL 65 FED AoY ENG) UR/VR MKXV Fleet Intel Assault Cruiser (July 2016)
    Jean-Uss Seratoga Ravenna (LVL 60 FED Delta ENG) UC/R MKVI Bajoran Escort (April 2018)
    Dubsa-RRW Mnaudh (LVL 50 FED allied ROM Delta ENG) Warbird (May 2018)
    Marop-IKS Orunthi (LVL 50 KNG Delta ENG) BoP (May 2018)
    Kanak'lan-TRIBBLE (LVL 65 DOM Gamma ENG) TRIBBLE (June 2018)
  • bejaymacbejaymac Member Posts: 448 Arc User
    Think there might be something screwy going on with the patch server, I haven't played in 5 days, I never prepatch, yet I just logged in and got the Engage button without patching.
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  • arrmateysarrmateys Member Posts: 466 Arc User
    i wonder how hard would it be for the launcher's maintenance timers to adjust based on system clock.

    as in, use utc, compare with system date to calculate offset, then apply the offset to display utc date and show that end result in the window. that way it couldn't get it wrong anymore, and it'd always show the right time for everyone without any need to re-calculate it.​​
    Now clowns, that's another story. They scare the cr​ap out of me.
    We fight them too. Entire armies spilling out of Volkswagens.
    We do our best to fight them off, but they keep sending them in.
  • zorander6zorander6 Member Posts: 130 Arc User
    edited December 2016
    arrmateys wrote: »
    i wonder how hard would it be for the launcher's maintenance timers to adjust based on system clock.

    as in, use utc, compare with system date to calculate offset, then apply the offset to display utc date and show that end result in the window. that way it couldn't get it wrong anymore, and it'd always show the right time for everyone without any need to re-calculate it.​​

    Programatically it is possible to do, in fact they have it set up in the game. The problem is this crew doesn't write the ARC client code so it'd have to go up the chain to the development team for the client. The game itself does time checks which is why the clock in the game works. The trick is most of their announcements are just plain text and don't have a time entry that can directly be evaluated. So they'd have to re-write a good portion of the interface to allow it to work.
  • salvation4salvation4 Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    edited December 2016
    Just an update..the launcher hit 4705MB of the patch, the engage button appeared, then greyed out and the patch restarted so cancelled it..Whats going on?? Going to wait till maintenance is complete..Also ever since the servers went down the games been a bit screwy connectivity wise..
    Adrian-Uss Sovereign NCC-73811 (LVL 65 FED ENG) UR/E MKXV Fleet Intel Assault Cruiser (April 2012) (Main)
    Adu-Uss Firefox NCC-93425-F (LVL 65 FED AoY ENG) UR/VR MKXV Fleet Intel Assault Cruiser (July 2016)
    Jean-Uss Seratoga Ravenna (LVL 60 FED Delta ENG) UC/R MKVI Bajoran Escort (April 2018)
    Dubsa-RRW Mnaudh (LVL 50 FED allied ROM Delta ENG) Warbird (May 2018)
    Marop-IKS Orunthi (LVL 50 KNG Delta ENG) BoP (May 2018)
    Kanak'lan-TRIBBLE (LVL 65 DOM Gamma ENG) TRIBBLE (June 2018)
  • bioixibioixi Member Posts: 764 Arc User
    arrmateys wrote: »
    i wonder how hard would it be for the launcher's maintenance timers to adjust based on system clock.

    as in, use utc, compare with system date to calculate offset, then apply the offset to display utc date and show that end result in the window. that way it couldn't get it wrong anymore, and it'd always show the right time for everyone without any need to re-calculate it.​​

    Window's clock can be configured to show UTC and pacific time as well.

  • arrmateysarrmateys Member Posts: 466 Arc User
    edited December 2016
    bioixi wrote: »
    Window's clock can be configured to show UTC and pacific time as well.
    doesn't matter. this is about the sto launcher and its red box announcements, not windows.​​
    Now clowns, that's another story. They scare the cr​ap out of me.
    We fight them too. Entire armies spilling out of Volkswagens.
    We do our best to fight them off, but they keep sending them in.
  • chelly#7549 chelly
    chelly#7549
         Member Posts: 33 Arc User
    The problem is the launcher didn't match what was said in the post. They said 3.5 hrs but the launcher shows 3 hrs. That has nothing to do with the computer, it has to do with the launcher not knowing math.
  • valusolusvalusolus Member Posts: 19 Arc User
    Was the issue with some characters not being able to equip kit frames \ activate 23c modules fixed?

    Because that was the biggest one....I see no mention of it in the Patch Notes.
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  • pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
    We're tentatively extending our maintenance window to 10:30 AM.
  • wnxwolfman4432wnxwolfman4432 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    i can't equip kits on my science charater
  • salvation4salvation4 Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    edited December 2016
    :(:( huh?! There goes my play time!!!!
    Adrian-Uss Sovereign NCC-73811 (LVL 65 FED ENG) UR/E MKXV Fleet Intel Assault Cruiser (April 2012) (Main)
    Adu-Uss Firefox NCC-93425-F (LVL 65 FED AoY ENG) UR/VR MKXV Fleet Intel Assault Cruiser (July 2016)
    Jean-Uss Seratoga Ravenna (LVL 60 FED Delta ENG) UC/R MKVI Bajoran Escort (April 2018)
    Dubsa-RRW Mnaudh (LVL 50 FED allied ROM Delta ENG) Warbird (May 2018)
    Marop-IKS Orunthi (LVL 50 KNG Delta ENG) BoP (May 2018)
    Kanak'lan-TRIBBLE (LVL 65 DOM Gamma ENG) TRIBBLE (June 2018)
  • salvation4salvation4 Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    YAY Trendy informed us!!!
    Adrian-Uss Sovereign NCC-73811 (LVL 65 FED ENG) UR/E MKXV Fleet Intel Assault Cruiser (April 2012) (Main)
    Adu-Uss Firefox NCC-93425-F (LVL 65 FED AoY ENG) UR/VR MKXV Fleet Intel Assault Cruiser (July 2016)
    Jean-Uss Seratoga Ravenna (LVL 60 FED Delta ENG) UC/R MKVI Bajoran Escort (April 2018)
    Dubsa-RRW Mnaudh (LVL 50 FED allied ROM Delta ENG) Warbird (May 2018)
    Marop-IKS Orunthi (LVL 50 KNG Delta ENG) BoP (May 2018)
    Kanak'lan-TRIBBLE (LVL 65 DOM Gamma ENG) TRIBBLE (June 2018)
  • chelly#7549 chelly
    chelly#7549
         Member Posts: 33 Arc User
    Ah I guess I can wait to throw snowballs or ice fish. :)
  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    We're tentatively extending our maintenance window to 10:30 AM.

    Extending maintenance to fix the issues with certain kit frames and modules caused by "Artifacts"?
    "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
    ^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
  • jcswwjcsww Member Posts: 6,831 Arc User
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    We're tentatively extending our maintenance window to 10:30 AM.

    You guys are making waiting around for UPS less entertaining with this extended maintenance. :P
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  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,502 Arc User
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    We're tentatively extending our maintenance window to 10:30 AM.

    Was about to comment on that. Guess i have to wait for a bit.
    This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
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