General
Fixed a minor audio issue with an existing featured episode
Open Jacket uniforms no longer have a missing texture when worn by trill or caitian officers

Final Updates for Romulan Featured Episode 4: Coliseum

Release Notes – March 5, 2011

General

Final touch up for Featured Series 3, Episode 5, “Cutting the Cord”.

Federation players may now craft Vulcan Lirpa melee weapons at Memory Alpha.
Fix the timer on the ground tray to go away when it’s done counting down.
Boff passive powers now correctly display in the status screen instead of click powers.
Fix for power icons showing up as squares or stars.
Fixed the occlusion issues in the cave on Risa.
Added appropriate ambient audio to Starbase 39.
Disabled the Entity Context Menu ‘Info’ button in the social UI for players that are not on your map.

Powers
The following items have been made unique:
Pattern Enhancer
Crm 200
The Scimitar is now allowed to claok while tractor beamed.
Added a 15 second Global Cooldown to the Transphasic Clustor Torpedo.
Added a 30 second Global Cooldown to the Subspace Field Modulator.
The reward tables for Devidian Episodes 4 and 5 have been be updated to use tiered rewards instead of level-less rewards.
Cannon: Scatter Volley
Ability was incorrectly draining weapon power per target ship within the cone AoE, rather than a one-time drain per pulse.
This would cause severe drain when firing at multiple ships, which was not intended. This has now been fixed to only drain per pulse, regardless of the number of ship targets.

The character art team has been improving the textures and customization options on many existing uniforms in their spare time, and unfortunately an update went live in .6 which had several issues that needed to be adjusted (and players had reported). This build includes the proper files and customization options that the character art team wanted to be in the previous update. The fix should address issues where some additional outlining colors could not be changed which led to odd default black outlines on costume collars and striping. Note that some textures have changed, so if you do notice a difference, it has been deliberately done to help match the texture to more accurate reference. If you login and notice the black outline on your character, you can go to the tailor to adjust it.
Fixed an issue where Bat’leths were not appearing on characters in combat.

Fixed a bug that was causing some traits to not work in space. This addresses the following traits: Leadership, Joined Symbiote, Pirate, Covert, Efficient, Accurate, Elusive, Tactician, Warp Theorist (Player only), Techie (Player only), and Astrophysicist (Player only).

Known Issue introduced in this build
The TNG Movie Badge is layered improperly with the stripe atop the badge instead of behind it. This will be fixed in an upcoming update.

General
The Excelsior has been added to the ship vendor for marks.
Fixed the issue where players thought they were being charged for free bridges.
The fonts have been tuned further to address areas where the lettering was too dark, too light, or difficult to read.
Enemy Mine now gives appropriate numeric rewards for completing the mission
TNG and DS9 uniforms have been updated in anticipation of the release of open jacket uniforms

Powers:
Added Rarity colors to tribbles.
Added Rarity colors to foods.
Cryo and Triolic Tribbles can now be created from any tribble as long as you use the appropriate food
Greatly reduced recharge time on Gorn Bite Trait
Greatly reduced recharge time on Vulcan Nerve Pinch Trait
Increased Range on Borg Neural Blast Trait
Reman Fighter Changes:
Now able to launch two sets of 5 fighters for a total of 10 Reman Scorpions.
The Scorpions will no longer die when the user exits combat.
The total charges on the Reman Fighter Launch Device has been Increased to 50 from 20.
Gravity Well:
Added skill modifier to pull effect.
Gravity Well I (unskilled) – Slow speed is snared, ave speed might escape, fast speed generally escapes
Gravity Well I (skilled) – Slow speed is snared, ave speed rarely escapes, fast speed might escape
Gravity Well II (unskilled) – Slow speed is snared, ave speed rarely escapes, fast speed might escape
Gravity Well II (skilled) – Slow speed is snared, ave speed snared, fast speed unlikely to escape
Gravity Well III (unskilled) – Slow speed is snared, ave speed snared, fast speed unlikely to escape
Gravity Well III (skilled) – Slow speed is snared, ave speed snared, fast speed rarely escapes
Improved pull slightly, with each version getting stronger from I to II to III
Improved damage slightly for each version
Increased variance of pull for lower versions, allowing for greater odds of fast ships escaping
These changes largely affect PvE ships and pets. Players still have their direct counters that allow for escaping a well and would generally employ them to reliably escape a Gravity Well II or higher.
Beam Fire at Will:
Corrected error that had the damage improvement for beam array scaling differently from dual beam bank. Both now improve DPS by 25%, 32%, and 40% for versions I, II, III respectively.
Corrected error that had 360 degree weapons have a 250 degree arc when using Fire at Will. They now have a full 360 degree arc when using Fire at Will.
Romulan Critter Changes:
Commander and Sub Commander Engineer now have immunity to Thalaron Device.
Lowered The Health of the Thalaron Device
Bridge officers will work harder to avoid thalaron devices

General

Final preparation for Saturday’s release of Romulan Featured Episode 1.

Release Notes – February 8, 2011

General
Fix for empty xp boost items being stuck in your inventory. Empty XP boost items will automatically be removed from your inventory when this build goes live.

Release Notes – February 10, 2011

General

Adjusted the how frequently certain PA announcements play in Earth Space Dock.
The faction icon has been updated for Plasma Ball torpedoes.
The music in club 47 has been tuned.
Fixed issue with photon grenades not exploding.
The UI for reporting a UGC mission has been updated to inform players that you only report missions that violate the terms of service, not because you don’t like them or they’re non-functional.
Added a confirm dialog when reporting a UGC mission.
Jiro Sugihara will no longer offer a blank mission.
Players will no longer see the original ESD blink in for a moment when they map transfer to the Sol system.
Character Creation, Traits list – corrected font bug where selected trait was using the wrong font.
Stability Updates have been added to address the issues that resulted in last weekend’s instability.

Powers

Fixed TOS Type 2 phaser tooltip – The secondary setting was listed first and the primary attack listed second.
Updated the Cryo Grenade description to better explain what it does.
Reworked the Bio-Thermal Dampener effect to last longer but use a new effect that removes players’ ability to grief.

Ships

Gorn Varanus Science Ship:
Increased Vessel HP.
The size of the ship has been reduced.
Increased base Turn rate on Varanus Science Vessel to 11.
Increased Healing of Gorn Varanus Healing Drones.
Increased Deep Space Science Vessel base Turn Rate from 9 to 11.
Increased Vo’Quv Carrier base Turn Rate from 4 to 5.
Galaxy Retrofit can now launch its saucer while full impulse is active (still stops your ship temporarily while launching), and the saucer can remain launched if you enter full impulse.
Prometheus style escort ships will see some slight art changes around key junction points. These model changes were made to compensate for upcoming Multi-Vector Assault Mode so all customized variants will integrate properly with the IP version of the Prometheus.
Increased base Turn Rate of the Nebula Science Vessel both (Tiers) to 9. Increased the Tier 3 Nebula HP to 21000 Increased the Tier 3 Nebula HP to 31500

Missions

Fixed an issue where the Klingon replay contact for the Romulan featured series would send you to the fed mission if you hit the back button.
The Vault Updates
Changed text that refers to “access tunnel above us” to “across from us.”
Fixed mission replay rewards for Vice Admirals.
Added a mission step for first-timers that requires them to go to shuttle requisitions; this step auto-completes for players who are replaying the mission.
Fixed a bug that was causing KDF players who left and came back to finish the end of the Vault later to have a Federation ship spawned in for “reinforcements.”
Players entering part 3 (“Continue: Static”) should now spawn at the correct point on the map.