Most of the probes have several possible locations where they can appear. Typically they are near, but not always directly on, your mission path. They will only appear if you have a Temporal Agent on the mission (with a Temporal Transponder).
Systems such as Reputations, Admiralty, and Duty Officers are built by Systems Designers. (They also build powers, items, and critters.) Content such as missions, queues, or seasonal events is built by Content Designers. (They also build calendar bonuses, shard-wide events, patrols, and tutorialization.) (These are simply…
Ok, technical time. When we first implemented carrier commands, they were set up so that they would re-send the current command every second -- essentially, the carrier would keep refreshing the message of "this is what you should be doing" every second, so that if a fighter went out of range, had just been spawned and…
Submitted a patch for testing that should improve responsiveness of carrier small craft; there was a change a while back to underlying UI that was causing a disconnect in how the craft received orders.
Borticus and I are discussing some possible improvements that might catch cases of unresponsive or improperly behaving pets, especially certain ones that have complicated behaviors. This is in its early phases.
Actually, as I've mentioned in interviews, I play the various systems of the game just like any other player. I just purchased another ship by grinding dilithium and trading it for Zen on the exchange, and I've upgraded my Borg space and ground sets (gained from maxing the Rep and getting the dilithium, marks, and BNPs) to…
I set up the Delta Recruit perks to work with the new missions. If you have completed one of the Cardassian-mission Delta Recruit pickups but not the other one, you will find one while going through the new missions. If you haven't done any of them, you'll find two. If you already did the Cardassian arc with a Delta…
There were some special pictures made by our character art team, I'm getting them set up so that they can be attached to the blog. (Apparently there was some trouble with the pictures getting transferred due to a file problem.)
The tools of literacy are available to most everyone in the information age, but this has the paradoxical effect of devaluing them -- that is, people assume that because anyone can write, that anyone can write well. The latter is a skill that takes work, of course. This is why skilled writers are important in game…
You can only knock down sand castles in the two following conditions (both of which must be fulfilled): 1. You have the accolade for building varieties of castles. 2. The castle or structure has been finished for at least a minute. #1 is so that you spend a little time making a variety of castles. #2 is so that if someone…
As Spock says to Saavik in ST2, nobody's perfect. Though Roddenberry was "only human," he had a vision for a future in which people were better than that. Like many visionaries he probably wouldn't fit in the future that he wanted to create. He was, essentially, pointing the way toward what he thought was a better world,…
Trek Nation is essentially a story of a son trying to connect with his late father, and doing so by learning to appreciate and participate in his father's legacy.
Basically we changed a bunch of powers that were implemented in a way that forced the server to run refresh updates on player power data structures really frequently, by building new code that allowed us to apply them in a way that did not do so. Bort is going through and updating the affected powers in a way that will…