The Engineering Report

[Laylyn]

Engineering Report

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=132130

In Testing

1. Respec options

2. Ground anomalies are not consistently giving the correct level resources

3. PVP Queue updates

4. Fleet Actions will be level banded so that players in the map are within range of each other to make scoring fairer.

5. Renaming your account @name

6. AI pathing and mission fixes for Cage of Fire (Bajoran Fire Caves)

7. Unique items should not be allowed to be equipped multiple times on the same character.

8. Klingon stores selling items for the wrong currency

9. Leveling up and Promotion bugs

10. Klingon skill tree review to remove reference to Fed skills

11. Additional Federation and Klingon Bridges

12. Klingon Star Cluster missions

13. Additional Star Cluster mission types

14. Klingon ship customization for T0 and T5 ships

15. New Fleet Actions and Fleet Action updates for both Fed/Klingon (DS9 Invasion, Gorn Minefield, Breaking the Planet, Romulan Temple, Crystalline Entity)

16. Borg Special Task Forces (For Fed and Klingon players)

17. Klingon access to Borg Sector

18. Multi-faction Borg Deepspace encounters (Fed+Klg players vs Borg)

19. More emotes

20. More Fed and Klingon ship variants at top tiers

21. New Klingon Cruiser

22. Race specific transporter FX

23. Off Duty Outfits

24. Updates to the ship selection rooms

25. Removing the bug where missions would sometimes get stuck in partial complete progress

26. Rereleasing iPVP maps

27. Players getting trapped in geometry in the mission TRAPPED



Under Investigation

1. Loading screens freezing the client

2. Players will sometimes encounter mobs much higher than expected in Deep space encounters

3. Skill descriptions that are confusing or incorrect (on a per case basis)

4. Latency when moving around inventory

5. Long load times when entering Sol System or Earth Space Dock

6. /Stuck command not working in all cases

7. Objective griefing on the Borg Hunt PVP maps

8. Klingon stores not selling expected items

9. Weapon beam FX do not stop and attach to the player as they move around the map

10. Admiral Zelle issues on the Divide et Impera mission

11. Temple Offerings mission is not completing properly

12. Updating the timers on Klingon repeatable missions

13. Faction settings are not being applied properly and powers like "Seduce" can be misused

14. Stealth powers allow interactions that bypass content

15. Problems when applying pips to costumes



In Development

1. Death Penalty Options

2. Memory Alpha/Crafting

3. Cross level teaming

4. Multi-Faction "Neutral" social areas

5. Improvements to Repeatable Mission UI

6. Updating player status windows to show the proper ship silhouettes

7. Better notification when players are at the skill cap and skill points are converted to BOFF points

8. More non-combat mission varieties

9. Options to make missions more difficult

10. More replayable mission types

11. Ability to trade bridge officers

12. Revamp of commodity missions

[Laylyn]

New ground pvp map



New tier two Klingon Cruiser




The good news is that Cryptic is extremely responsive to the player base.   The bad news is the same thing.  We'll need to keep an eye on things to make sure they make the game better, not worse.

[Notic Dathir]

Engineering Report








Under Investigation



7. Objective griefing on the Borg Hunt PVP maps

Heh coincidence I commented on a thread about someone killing feds on this map as its not in the pvp Q system and so many PVE feds will be doing this unaware they consented to be ganked.   I tend to leave feds alone on this map unless of course they um shoot first.. in which case.. I shoot back..

I actually consider it griefing because its not clearly a pvp zone its a mixed zone we share and the goal is not to kill other players but to complete a mission faster then the other side.  In fact taking time to kill other players means you usually loose and most people are just load zone spawn ganking.   

So call me carebear, but my end thinking is

a) STO is supposed to be all consentual PVP and my fed PVE mission I just completed did not specify there would be PVP in there. (did it today in fact.... cause well there was no pvp to speak of .. for me fed.. )

b) I dont want to um scare away any player population if I can help it.  And ganking pve feds while doing their pVE mission is not in my opinion PVP its just P for me.myself and I getting my fun at the expense of another

Yes I know.. I am very" politicaly correct", but if people are gonna whine about me kiling them I at least want them to have volunteered for it.. then they can whine all they want it will get them knowhere but put on ignore..

[Laylyn]

Engineering Report








Under Investigation



7. Objective griefing on the Borg Hunt PVP maps

Heh coincidence I commented on a thread about someone killing feds on this map as its not in the pvp Q system and so many PVE feds will be doing this unaware they consented to be ganked.   I tend to leave feds alone on this map unless of course they um shoot first.. in which case.. I shoot back..

I actually consider it griefing because its not clearly a pvp zone its a mixed zone we share and the goal is not to kill other players but to complete a mission faster then the other side.  In fact taking time to kill other players means you usually loose and most people are just load zone spawn ganking.   

So call me carebear, but my end thinking is

a) STO is supposed to be all consentual PVP and my fed PVE mission I just completed did not specify there would be PVP in there. (did it today in fact.... cause well there was no pvp to speak of .. for me fed.. )

b) I dont want to um scare away any player population if I can help it.  And ganking pve feds while doing their pVE mission is not in my opinion PVP its just P for me.myself and I getting my fun at the expense of another

Yes I know.. I am very" politicaly correct", but if people are gonna whine about me kiling them I at least want them to have volunteered for it.. then they can whine all they want it will get them knowhere but put on ignore..

Those areas have enhanced rewards.  Most people who say they didn't know it was a pvp zone are in a pvp sector, pretending not to know.  The common term for that is exploiting a system, otherwise known as a bannable offense for the Fed purple whoring carebear.

Just so you know...

[Laylyn]

From test center:  http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=134008


Greetings!

Welcome to the weekend sneak peek of Tribble! We have posted a test build of the 45 day update that the team has been excited to get in your hands. Since this build is an early release - we don't have proper release notes yet - but I wanted to share some of the awesome features you will find if you load up this weekend.

The earlier you can give us feedback on this stuff the better for everyone!

Here's a quick run down of what is turned on and what's hidden for this build
(please don't hold me to these - I could be wrong about what's turned on/off at the moment)

Power and Skill Tuning (see details below)
•T0 Klingon Cruiser
•Ship selection rooms in ESD/Qonos have new ship info
•Multi-Faction Neutral Zone Bar
•Level Banded Fleet Actions (ie these now scale in level bands so similar level players play together)
•Gorn Minefield (Fed and Klg)
•Breaking the Planet (Fed and Klg)
•Klingon Scout Force (Fed)
•Starbase 24 (Fed)
•Crystalline Entity (Fed and Klg)
•Romulan Temple (Fed and Klg)
•Some new unexplored system planets
•Faction specific Transporter beam in FX
•Fed and Klg bridges
•Fed Ship Variants

Some things that are turned off at the moment pending internal QA approval
•iPvP Objective Maps
•Klingon Ship Customization
•New Stances
•Klingon Star Cluster PVE Exploration
•DS9 Fleet Action
•New species, and costume updates
•Off Duty Outfits (and extra costume slot)
•Respec options
... plus other stuff listed on the In Testing pages of the latest Engineering Report

Enjoy!

[Laylyn]

Changed traits:   http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=134163

FBP   http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=134457

Klingon Tier two cruiser: http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=134400

Wholesale Klingon PVE content with the typical someone bitching: http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=134609

Fed vs Fed pvp  http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=133941

Efficient changed: http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=133997

New hair:  http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=134101

[Notic Dathir]

Engineering Report








Under Investigation



7. Objective griefing on the Borg Hunt PVP maps

Heh coincidence I commented on a thread about someone killing feds on this map as its not in the pvp Q system and so many PVE feds will be doing this unaware they consented to be ganked.   I tend to leave feds alone on this map unless of course they um shoot first.. in which case.. I shoot back..

I actually consider it griefing because its not clearly a pvp zone its a mixed zone we share and the goal is not to kill other players but to complete a mission faster then the other side.  In fact taking time to kill other players means you usually loose and most people are just load zone spawn ganking.   

So call me carebear, but my end thinking is

a) STO is supposed to be all consentual PVP and my fed PVE mission I just completed did not specify there would be PVP in there. (did it today in fact.... cause well there was no pvp to speak of .. for me fed.. )

b) I dont want to um scare away any player population if I can help it.  And ganking pve feds while doing their pVE mission is not in my opinion PVP its just P for me.myself and I getting my fun at the expense of another

Yes I know.. I am very" politicaly correct", but if people are gonna whine about me kiling them I at least want them to have volunteered for it.. then they can whine all they want it will get them knowhere but put on ignore..

Those areas have enhanced rewards.  Most people who say they didn't know it was a pvp zone are in a pvp sector, pretending not to know.  The common term for that is exploiting a system, otherwise known as a bannable offense for the Fed purple whoring carebear.

Just so you know...

lol not sure i understand its objective based pvp a race to the end spawn camping so you can't field a team seems well .. a bit off. In any resort I dont think keeping an apposing teamout of the competition so they can compete is the objective of the zone and to be honest I didnt know it was a pvp zone.. i considered it a shared war zone where the race to the end was pve based and two sides did that not sat at a door blowing up everyone who showed up cause your borred.

[Laylyn]

The Borg are lootable and at least in Beta, had a chance to drop green/blue/purple MK IX and X ship gear.