STO Guidelines

General

Deep space encounters with the Hirogen in the Psi Velorum sector block were leading to encounters with the Terran Empire instead. This should now be fixed. (The Terran Empire is no longer sending disguised ambushes into Romulan space.)
Groups of Undine no longer tend to stand in a straight line.
The Synchronic Proton Distortion Rifle now has a more appropriate icon.
Fixed a bug that caused mouselook to get stuck on forever when leaving/entering the gameplay state with both mouse buttons held.
The sprint animation has been updated.

Ships

Blinking navigation lights have been added to Sovereign class ships.
Blinking navigation lights have been added to the Nebula.
The floating node issues have been fixed on the vorcha C-store variant.
Typos have been fixed in customization for the Vor’cha.
The size of the Vor’cha’s shields has been fixed.
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General
Warp in / warp out cutscene audio has been improved.
The more cheerful NPCs will no longer twitch when hailed.
A rare issue that allowed players to get stuck alone in Challenge PvP maps has been fixed. The workaround of logging out or onto an alt for 7-10 minutes is still valid if any similar issues happen in the future.
Hull Strength now shows properly on the Advanced Heavy Cruiser Retrofit in the Ship Database.
Weapons on low-end video cards should now look as intended.
Various stability and performance improvements have been made.
A text error has been fixed on the Qo’noS Ship Requisitions contact.

Ships
The Vor’cha ship has been added to Klingon ship requisitions at Tier 5!
The Polaris model of Luna class ships has been improved. The saucer is no longer too high.
Fleet emblems have been fixed on Tier 5 Birds of Prey.
The windows on the Noble class starship’s saucer section no longer flicker.
The registry number on the U.S.S. T’Kumbra is now displaying correctly.
The hull integrity of the Deep Space Science Vessel has been increased.
The hull integrity of the Negh’var battlecruiser has been increased.
Blinking lights have been added to Tier 3 Federation cruisers.
The Federation emblem now displays correctly on consoles inside Galaxy class bridges.
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General:

Tooltips have been returned to items in the exchange.
Exchange prices will now show up on german and french clients.
The tier 3 nebula now has 2 Sci, 2 Eng, and 1 tac, as was advertised before launch.
The K’tinga firing node offset issue has been addressed.

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Missions

The Needs of the Many: This mission will no longer break if the player’s inventory is full.
Forging Bonds: Cardassian ships properly warp in at the end.
The Cure: There is now a mini-map.
Assimilation: The “Destroy Research Stations” objective has been changed to “Examine Research Consoles”. This is a text fix only, the functionality has not changed.
“Multicellular” is no longer misspelled when patrolling the Aihai system.
The ground portion of Saturday’s Child no longer has “Rom” in the map name.
The Other Side now directs the player to turn in the mission once it is complete.
Several typos of the name “Minos Korva” have been corrected.
A crafting tutorial has been added to Memory Alpha. The mission is now available from Commander Romaine after finishing the mission, Scientific Mandate. This mission cannot be shared.
Deep Space Patrols are now properly categorized in the Mission Journal.
A waypoint now directs players back to the General R&D station in the mission Research and Development.
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General

The Breen Bridge officer reward has been removed from the final breen mission.
Crew placement in the following bridges has been adjusted.
Brotherhood
San Francisco
Fellowship
Peace
Qempa’
Kri’stak
Kirom
Ily
No’mat
G’boj
Reclaw
The Luna class starship has received a graphical overhaul.
The K’Tinga ship has received a couple visual tweaks.
Fleet emblems on the Sovereign class starship have been fixed.
Minor fixes have been made to the Defiant and Hope class starship art.
Damage has been increased for items with [DAM] modifiers.
The wing alignment on the Norgh class Bird of Prey has been adjusted.
The mission pod on the Nebula Retrofit has been improved.
Several Klingon starships, including all Raiders, have been rigged for wing animations. You will see the wing position change when entering and exiting glorious battle, as well as warping in and out of a system.
NOTE: If you purchased a ship that has these wing animations, you will need to re-save your ship in the Ship Editor to get the new animated wings.
Ambient stars now have a maximum visible size when passing by them in Sector Space.
The Kar’Fi Carrier has been studied enough to be added to the ship hologram cycle in Qo’noS. It will display after the Vo’quv Carrier.
The U.S.S. Phlox in Romulan Sector Space is now a Galaxy class starship.
The exit arrow in the T’Ong Nebula Map now faces the correct direction.
An exit arrow to the Gamma Orionis sector is now properly in the B’Tran Nebula map.
Commander Xindok in Battle Group Omega now explains how to get Marks of Exploration.
In Battle Group Omega, players can now exchange Emblems for any type of Marks.
They can only be converted one way – From Emblems to Marks.
You can do this at the USS TKumbra or the IKS Jorn.
Anomalies scanned in Sector maps, such as B’Tran Nebula, should now yield all kinds of data, not just tech.
A new skin is available for all Klingon ships!
The Drozana station in the Neutral Zone has a brand new look!
Leaving the Boreth system no longer takes you to Rura Penthe in Sector Space.
The Luna ship class now displays decals, names, and IDs correctly.
The Cochrane stanchions for the Intrepid ship class now have more than one material available.
Fleet Escorts and Advanced Escorts no longer have the wrong class shown in the Ship Selector.
General improvements have been made to game stability and performance.
Several “windowed mode” crashes were fixed related to adjusting the size of your window while contacts screens were being generated.
The star chart trophy should be available as a floor trophy to any player that has completed all of the Breen weekly episodes. This is now a permanent additional reward for completing the story arc.
The trophy for taking first place in the Undine fleet action is now in. It should be retroactive for anyone that has taken first place in it since it’s gone live.
Akira Ship Updates
Changed Saucer Impulse Engines to wrap around angle.
Fixed texture streching on nacelles.
Changed Phaser strip textures and made them less raised.
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