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Ferengi admiralty campaign EXP gain Bug

purvee1purvee1 Member Posts: 360 Arc User
in PC Gameplay Bug Reports
While using the Ferengi Admiralty campaign I have noticed a bug with EXP gain. It has caused an odd de-sync in the mission tracker.

Expected behaviour:
When collecting EXP from an admiralty mission the listed amount of campaign is added to the total campaign EXP. Then when certain totals are hit the appropriate level Tour of Duty mission triggers.

What is happening:
A mission complete display shows an abnormally large amount of campaign experience, typically 5-7000 per mission. When collected the mission either awards the base success value or no value. For example the mission displays it is awarding 5000 campaign EXP, and yet only awards 174.

Proof:
The insert is what was awarded:
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As you can see the 6000 odd EXP is missing. In fact, in this screen shot, all campaign EXP is missing.

This has resulted in two knock on effects:
1:The campaign tier and tour of duty missions have been de-synced:
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Here we see I am Lvl 9 on the campaign, yet have tour of duty (4) mission. I have completed Tour of Duty (a0) and this is technically my second run though according to the tour of duty.

2: I have completed the tour of duty (10) mission, however no specialist end of campaign award seems to have been given. EG: The ship cards for KDF and Starfleet missions, tech upgrades for Romulan. Although I have no idea if such a specialist award is supposed to be given for this campaign.

Further evidence:
If need be, I have a full selection of screen shots (about 20 in all) that detailed all my activities in the Admiralty campaign window for this one day.

Comments

  • pottsey5gpottsey5g Member Posts: 4,254 Arc User
    edited August 2017
    Part of the problem is there is a hidden Admiralty XP cap in I assume a 24 hour timeframe. As far as I am aware the cap is not listed anywhere in game. I believe but am not 100% sure there is also a hidden cap that means you can only have 1 Tour of Duty going at once. Has anyone every managed to get two Tour of Dutys?
  • captainkoltarcaptainkoltar Member Posts: 941 Arc User
    The cap is 10000 xp per period (either 20 or 24 hours). There should be a piece of green text above the tour of duty progress bar within each admiralty window (top right of the window ) which says when the limit has been reached.
  • neiragerlin78neiragerlin78 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    The Admiralty XP cap is 10.000 XP per day. When you have reached the cap, you can earn no more XP for that Admiralty until next day.
    Completing the Tour of Duty Campaign for the Ferengi Alliance rewards 30.000 Dilithium Ore, same as for the Klingon Empire Admiralty. You can see the progress and rewards for each Admiralty under "Overview" tab "Admiralty".
  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    edited August 2017
    10,000 XP per campaign a day. There is a notice in green text on the top of each of the campaign screen when you have hit your cap for the day.

    I was under the impression, only one Tour of Duty mission runs per campaign at a time. And once slotted, nothing counts toward the next, until it is over.

    So, once I "trigger" a Tour of Duty mission and slot it...I move over to a different one...to keep the Tour of Duty assignments moving.

    I will go see if details are in the Wiki.

    OK Wiki confirmed the 10,000 Campaign XP per character per campaign a day.

    It also states:
    The ToD-Assignments are not tied to the Campaign progress, other than that they reward significant CXP and Skill Points.

    Nothing about Tour of Duty assignments even having to show up after a certain number of points are accrued in a campaign, so it must be random.

    Nothing about a Tour of Duty assignment having a "cool down" effect on the next assignment at all...so not sure where I got the idea there was one. Other than never having seen two of them at once from the same campaign run at the same time.

    https://sto.gamepedia.com/Admiralty_System
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  • anodynesanodynes Member Posts: 1,999 Arc User
    I'm almost positive that I saw a Dev post or note or something about not being able to have 2 Tour of Duty assignments for the same campaign at the same time, which would make sense. There has been speculation that assignments slotted after the Tour of Duty on the same day have no effect on when the next Tour of Duty assignment will show, but I've never seen any testing to either prove or disprove it.

    On to the issues in the OP:

    Tour of Duty progress and progress through levels are not linked at all. If you happened to get Tour of Duty 1/10 your first day, you would probably be at campaign level 2 or even 3 after claiming it, so you would be way behind. Conversely, at campaign level 9, you could only get Tour of Duty 9/10 once, meaning that you would go at least 6 days without a Tour of Duty in that campaign, given the 10,000 campaign xp limit per day and the 70,000+ campaign xp that it takes to get from campaign level 9 to campaign level 10.

    As mentioned above, the special reward for completing the Ferengi Tour of Duty is 30,000 dilithium, just like the Klingon campaign. There is no inventory item that comes with it. Related to this, the Epic Admiralty card comes when you complete the campaign, not the Tour of Duty, so you won't have that until you reach level 10 in the campaign. An unadvertised bonus is that you will also receive 20,000 dilithium for reaching level 10 in the campaign, so look out for that reward, too.

    In summary, everything that was posted in the OP is expected behavior. I even have a couple of characters who still have a shot at getting through the Tour of Duty twice during the process of getting the campaign level to 10. That is more than a bit better than the few characters who finished some of the other campaigns before finishing the Tour of Duty even once, so the fix that they put in for bashful Tour of Duty assignments sometime after the Romulan campaign was added has obviously had some effect.
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  • lopequillopequil Member Posts: 1,226 Arc User
    This is fixed now. Previously the "Daily XP Reached" indicator did not appear on Ferengi TRIBBLE, but that has been added now. The only thing wrong is that the XP rewards shown by the missions on the In Progress tab does not necessarily match what you will get if the cap has been reached or is about to be reached.

    The XP rewards shown for completed missions do not change if the cap is reached, or when it resets. This isn't necessarily a bug, but could use some attention.
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  • anodynesanodynes Member Posts: 1,999 Arc User
    I bet that if you logged out and back on, the campaign xp rewards for any remaining assignments would disappear after you hit the cap.

    A related issue is the daily bonus for your first assignment completed in a day tends to stay for the campaign xp, at least, after you claim that first assignment of the day. This will lead you to think that you should be getting more campaign xp than you actually will. Both of these are cases of the UI not updating after certain criteria are met.
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  • purvee1purvee1 Member Posts: 360 Arc User
    Something still feels off.

    On yesterdays haul I had the following.

    first four missions gave 5000, 6000, 6000 and 6000 campaign EXP.
    First mission gave the full amount.
    Second mission awarded 756
    Third awarded 864.
    No record of #4.

    So where'd these abnormally large EXP numbers come from?
    If after mission 1 claim I'm still under the cap (10000-5000=5000), why wasn't 5000 awarded from the second mission, and none there after?
  • dareaudareau Member Posts: 2,390 Arc User
    purvee1 wrote: »
    Something still feels off.

    On yesterdays haul I had the following.

    first four missions gave 5000, 6000, 6000 and 6000 campaign EXP.
    First mission gave the full amount.
    Second mission awarded 756
    Third awarded 864.
    No record of #4.

    So where'd these abnormally large EXP numbers come from?
    If after mission 1 claim I'm still under the cap (10000-5000=5000), why wasn't 5000 awarded from the second mission, and none there after?

    There is an issue in that the UI will show the daily "Bonus XP" award for the completed missions in all 8 slots, even though it will only actually give the award once...
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