Legacy of Romulus TRIBBLE test weekend!

Star Trek Online is having a TRIBBLE test weekend from the test shard update at ~1pm Pacific Time today (5/10) to 10am Pacific Time on May 13. As with previous TRIBBLE test weekends, participate in this event for at least an hour, and a special reward item will be given to your accout after the update arrives.

This is a hefty patch, so make sure you allow time to update. The latest TRIBBLE test shard patch notes can be found here:

TRIBBLE Maintenance and Release Notes - May 10, 2013

TRIBBLE has been updated to a new build.
ST.30.20130510a.0 

General:

• Transferring characters from Holodeck has been temporarily disabled.
• Creating Romulan and Klingon characters is now available to all players.
• Updated the lighting throughout the game to be more like what's currently on Holodeck.
• Re-updated all the textures in the game, everywhere.
• This probably doesn't mean what you think it does; Tacofangs has the answers.
• This means another sizeable patch.
• Trills who wear the Cropped Winter Jacket will no longer have transparent torsos.
• Nimbus Adventure Zone:
• Several more costume variants for Nimbus Civilians have been added.
• You can call them Nimbosians. Let's make that a thing.
• Resolved an issue that caused teamed players to get booted from the game when playing missions built for single players.
• Contacts in dialog windows will now actually be seen to be speaking when viewed.
• Updated the levels at which Bridge Officers are awarded, for Romulans and KDF.
• Special Duty Officer assignments from contacts may now only be started once.
• Players using WINE will no longer have to use a workaround to play.
• Please let us know if this doesn't work for you!
• Updated many missions for all factions to remove instances of overlapping VO.
• Players who unlock the Reman playable species will now have access to Reman ship materials.

Foundry:

• The Foundry editor has been temporarily disabled.

KDF:

• Bringing Down the House:
• Updated the text to adhere to the overarching story.
• Added a bunch of smaller changes to make the whole thing make more sense and be more awesome.
• The farmers are no longer attired as warriors.
• Every mission got a text pass and some VO.
• This is still a work-in-progress.
• Gorns can once again change the size and scaling of their upper bodies.
• The command chair on the bridge in the mission Destiny no longer has the "Return to Tactical View" option on it.
• Removed the blue streak from the Boreth System.

Missions:

• Updated Saturday's Child to remove a rock that was blocking the path.
• Resolved an issue that prevented players in their Starship from re-entering The Vault after leaving partway through the mission.
• Updated Lost City of Paradise to improve Bridge Officer behavior near the sand worms.
• Boldly They Rode: Players will no longer be attacked during the cutscene when entering Ops.
• Updated Spin the Wheel to remove references to the pre-redesigned Drozana.
• Coliseum has been updated to remove the VO referencing a Sehlat opponent.
• Nimbus:
• Updated Blind Men Tell All Tales so more than one player at a time can contact Law.
• Federation players can once again complete Temporal Ambassador.
• Updated Everything Old is New to resolve an issue where Bones seemed to forget what he was doing.
• The Calibrate Cortical Stimulator step should no longer occasionally un-completeable.

Romulans:

• Every mission got a text pass and some VO.
• This is still a work-in-progress.
• Edited all the Civilian costumes so they would no longer clip into the player's body.
• Veteran Accolades now include information specific to Romulans.
• Duty Officer packs rewarded through leveling up will no longer have Federation icons.
• Frozen: The Set Transport Inhibitors objective will no longer automatically complete for Reman Captains.
• Also added waypoints that disappear as you set each inhibitor.
• Memory Lane mission rewards have been updated:
• Removed uncommon Bridge Officer.
• Added an additional bit of memorabilia in its place.
• Romulan players can no longer purchase the Captain's Yacht or the General's Chariot.
• Romulans can now edit their Starship's appearance on the Flotilla, even when they have a shuttle at the ready.
• Mission rewards for "Installation 18" have been updated:
• Players no longer receive a choice of Piercing Tetryon Weapons.
• They are now given both a Beam Array and Dual Cannons.
• Added a choice between a Singularity Warp Core, and a Matter/Anti-Matter Warp Core.
• Updated the Best Defense to make it easier and shorter.
• This is based on player feedback.
• Mind Game: Hakeev has a new ship.
• Aw yeah.
• The flotilla in Tradecraft is now made up of Romulan Colony ships, instead of Tal Shiar ships.
• Romulans can now claim their 300-day Veteran reward fireworks from New Romulus Command.
• Updated the text for An Inside Job to indicate that it is for single players only.
• Devil's Choice: Mission now properly completes once the players completes the Defense of New Romulus.

Systems:

• Plasma weapons will now drop at all level ranges.
• Updated all space shields so you can continue to gain some shield regeneration even if player shield power drops below 25.
• Shields will still go offline if the power drops to 0.
• Scorpion Fighters no longer claim to be Dhelan Warbirds.
• As if we wouldn't notice that level of self-aggrandizement.
• Significantly increased the damage of Tricobalt High Yield and Tricobalt Emission Seeking Torpedoes.
• Plasma Emission Seeking Torpedo is no longer targetable by foes.
• Dual Injection Singularity Core now has the correct item icon at all ranks
• Resolved an issue that allowed players outside the Romulan faction to sometimes acquire Romulan bridge officers.
• Adjusted the Bridge Officer seating for the D'deridex Retrofit and the Fleet D'deridex to the following: Ensign Tactical, Lt. Com Tactical, Commander Engineering, Lt. Com Science, Ensign Universal.
• Adjusted the console layout of the D'deridex Retrofit to 3 Tactical, 3 Engineering, 3 Science.
• Adjusted the console layout of the Fleet D'deridex Retrofit to 3 Tactical, 4 Engineering, 3 Science.
• Resolved an issue where it was possible for an NPC D'deridex to show up with a Kestrel Runabout model.
• LOL
• Resolved an issue where Fleet Orion Reinforcements were showing up twice in the Operational Assets store.
• The "muzzle flash" from Projected Singularity no longer emanates from the center of a player's ship.
• Updated the Lobi Store so that Romulans will no longer see costume items they cannot use.
• Updated Quantum Absorption so FX plays for the entire duration of the buff.

UI:

• Resolved an issue where the character name would not be displayed correctly in the Status window sidebar after renaming the character.
• The option Mute Voice After Dialog should now work as described.
• The Reinforcements button can no longer be used on maps that restrict the number of Bridge Officers players can bring.
• The deprecated option to Enable Shoulder Camera has been removed.
• Made it easier to tell which Bridge Officer slots in the Station UI are active powers and which aren't.

Release Notes: April 18, 2013

Crystalline Castastrophe

• Crystalline Entity's Matter Conversion Beam will now always deal damage to players when they are fired upon.
• Players will now receive mission completion credit if the Entity dies from a source other than a direct player kill.
• Updated the Crystalline Entity appearance and FX for extra sparkle and shine.
• Adjusted Crystalline shard collision so they are now of a more appropriate size.
• The fight with the Entity now takes player further from the planet.
• This way players won't inadvertently end up flying into the atmosphere and getting whited out.
• Updated the audio for the Entity's Absorption and Release phases.

December Super Update

Star Trek Online has a pretty regular update system. Almost all major updates happen on Tuesdays or Thursdays, in various cycles. Sometimes, those updates align all at once and drop on us like an avalanche. Today is one of those days! Q's Winter Wonderland Event, Featured Episode Reruns, Season 7 TRIBBLE test rewards, a new Fleet Embassy Special Project (as well as a Fleet Starbase special project related to the winter event) have all been released today, and this weekend there's going to be a community event too!

Q's Winter Wonderland event

First up for discussion is Q's Winter Wonderland. Q has returned, bringing his winter wonderland from last year back again! Only now there are more festivities to be had! In addition to the daily ice skating race from last year, we now have a new "Fast and the Flurrious" competitive ice-racing course to run, where you can race against other players! This race is available 4 times per hour, and completing this race gets you a pair of [Snow Epohh Tag] used for a Duty Officer Assignment to breed new special varieties of Epohh pets! Placing 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in this race will earn you additional tags!

Even with the old NPC-racing track there is something new: Completing this daily race will get you 40 [Autographed 8×10 Glossy Pictures of Q]  While pretty invaluable themselves, if you collect 1000 of these autographed photos before the end of Q's Winter Wonderland event (that's 25 out of 35+ days), there is a Ferengi that will take those off your hands in exchange for a Breen Chell Grett Warship! More info on this Breen Warship can be found here.

And that's not all! With the return of Q's Winter Wonderland, holiday-themed Duty Officer Assignments have returned too. These offer holiday themed items that can be used to get the same items offered last year, in addition to new costume pieces like new scarves and new Winter Jackets! These Jackets come in 3 lengths (long, short, midriff) and in 3 colors each (black, brown, and white), available for both Federation and KDF players!

Q's Winter Wonderland event will be running from today until Jan 14, 2013. For more information about this event, click here.

Community Winter Wonderland Holiday Party

PWEBranflakes is also going to be hosting a Community Holiday Party on Saturday, January 8 at noon PST (8pm GMT) and 5pm PST (1am GMT). More information about this community event can be found here.

Featured Episode Reruns

In addition to the winter holiday event, Star Trek Online is also having a Featured Episode Rerun event running at the same time (Dec. 6, 2012 - Jan. 14, 2013). This means you can run missions from the Featured Episode Series ("Spectres", "Cloaked Intentions", "The 2800", and "Cold War") and receive the special limited availability items as if the episodes were in current running! More information about this event and the rewards available can be found here.

Embassy Featured Project #2: "Belongs in a Museum"

We also have available starting today until Dec. 19th, a new Featured Project for Fleet Embassy Outposts: "Belongs in a Museum". Completion of this project will bring in some assorted relics and other artifacts from the people of New Romulus as well as artifacts found from exploring New Romulus. More information about this featured project can be found here.

TRIBBLE Season 7 Test Reward: Mol'Rihan Tribble

For those of you who spent time on the TRIBBLE test shard during the Season 7 TRIBBLE Test Weekend, the reward is now available! This [Mol'Rihan Tribble] will give you a Romulan Mark each time you pet it (once per hour) as well as provide plasma resistance! To claim your reward in-game, open the C-Store interface and look under the "Items" tab.

STO Season 7: New Romulus

Season 7: New Romulus is here! You can read the patch notes on the forums, but as you may infer from the title, it has a great deal to do with Romulans! There's a new sector block filled with new content to explore, a new Borg STF (The Hive), new reputation systems for Task Force Omega (Borg STFs) and the Romulan Star Empire, a new Fleet Embassy Outpost holding for your fleet(s), a new Adventure Zone on the planet Mol'Rihan (New Romulus), and several new PVE-queue events.

Additionally, there are some scheduling changes to be made to the hourly events, so the hourly calendar may be off a bit while we get more information on how the schedules are changing. I will update again when the changes to the calendar are complete.

Dancing and Dabo Social Party!

Hello STO fans!

Just a reminder that today, 8/15/2012, PWEBranflakes is hosting a "Dancing and Dabo" social party over at Quarks on DS9!

From PWEBranflakes on the STO forums:

Hi Captains!

I am organizing an in-game (Holodeck) Dancing and Dabo Social Party for this coming Wednesday.

The first timeslot will be at 8pm BST/ noon PDT/ 3pm EDT. (Click here to view in your timezone)

The second timeslot will be at 5pm PDT/ 8pm EDT/ 1am BST. (Click here to view in your timezone)

Make your way to Quark's Bar in Deep Space 9 then and get ready to dance and Dabo the night away! Please join the PartyTime chat channel to see any communication from myself. Type this command in your chat bar to join the channel: /channel_join PartyTime

If you can't make it Wednesday, I would like to try and do these often, and on different days/ times. Feel free to post constructive feedback in here with ideas, including if you would like to see this expanded to other types of events (STFs, PvP, PvE, Fleet Actions etc.).

I hope to see many of you on Wednesday!

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

In-game scheduling cycles discovered!

Good news everyone!

This past weekend we finally saw enough of a repeat of Star Trek Online's Season 6 in-game hourly events to determine that the daily schedule of events repeats every 2 weeks, resetting every other Monday (at 0000 Pacific Time).

As such, I've set the events to recycle at the appropriate times, so now the weekly calendar is completely filled out.

Another important note: As of the 7/27/2012 HOLODECK patch, the Defera Borg Ground Invasion is no longer a time-gated event, and is available 24/7 now. As such, this event has been removed from the STO Group Events calendar.

Season 6: Under Siege updates and schedule changes

Greeting SubSpace Agenda readers!

This week we've got some major updates with the Season 6: Under Siege launch yesterday. We've got Fleet Starbases, Invading Tholians, No-Win Scenarios and so much more!

Along with this, we also have some new scheduling to accomodate the new content. Existing events such as the Starfleet and Klingon Academy events and the Mirror Universe Incursions are now merged so that they occur at the same time for both factions. The Vault and Defera Invasion events seem to be available more often as well (with the Defera Invasion overlapping the more regularly scheduled events). Please excuse the irregularity of these calendars while we adjust to the new schedules.

In addition, I'm adding a new calendar to the list. The STO Fleet Events calendar will be used for any scheduled event where the primary benefit is a bonus amount of Fleet Marks (to be used with the new Fleet Projects system).

What are your thoughts on this? Too many calendars? Should the Fleet Events Calendar be merged with the STO Group Events calendar (since most of the events that gain the benefits of Fleet Marks also require a group)? Or is this a different enough type of event to warrant a new calendar? Post below!