Engineering Report - April 20, 2010

[dstahl]

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Greetings!

First off wanted to thank everyone who is taking time to test out the upcoming Season 1.1 changes on Tribble. Your feedback is being read and reviewed and there have been several meetings that were spawned specifically from your threads and comments. We are working on some additional features and updates to get into the 1.1 build so look for another Tribble update sometime before this weekend. Once you have a chance to test out the additional tweaks and feature, we'll review your feedback and make the call on when to post the build to Holodeck.

Progress continues on multiple fronts as the team is split into two groups. One team is working on Season 1 updates (we still have the 1.2 and 1.3 update to go!) while the other half focuses on the Season 2 release. You may've noticed we've started running polls and asking for more feedback on the forums, and I can reassure you that we take these polls and your comments in them seriously. So please participate! We've even added a new "Polls" subforum so you can easily find them.

As always - this isn't everything the team has in the cooker, and certainly doesn't represent all the bugs we have on our personal fix it lists. If you have questions or comments about issues - respond to this thread and I'll do what I can to track down an answer.

Now on to the report!

In Testing
(these items are included in the Season 1.1. update)

• STF – “Undine: Terra Dome”
• Difficulty Slider
• Injury System
• Exchange Expirations (1 week)
• Exchange Result Sorting
• Commodity Mission Improvements
• Full Space Auto-Fire
• Joined Trill – Klingon Faction
• TOS Uniform Updates
• Playable “Pakled” Fed species
• Fed Cruiser Tier 5 – Emissary Variant “Nomad”
• Klingon Bridge Pack “Carrier”
• Fix for Breaking the Planet getting stuck on 4 of 5 objectives
• Fix for Pre-emptive Strike getting stuck on 4 of 5 objectives
• Fix for Temple Offerings not updating properly
• Fix for Big Dig mission completion issue
• Fix for mission loop during Badlands Episode
• Fix for in-game mail issues
• Potential fix for take-all loot bug

Under Investigation

• Ground combat on Elite Difficulty
• Injury System on Normal (default) Difficulty
• Maximum injuries possible
• Difficulty Slider Reward Scales
• Players unable to turn in missions
• Allowing items to be purchased in bulk
• Increasing stack counts of certain items
• Players unable to see Bridge Officer Powers
• Older Science Consoles
• Weapons Locking up in space
• Displaying player class in friends, fleet, and other windows
• Away team issue with forcefield during Hunting the Hunters episode
• Chat and other UI usability improvements
• PVP Queue Teaming Bugs
• PVP Match and Balance Bugs
• Players ending up in improper ships during DS9 Fleet Action
• Ability to set a private instance for Fleet Actions (so Fleets can do Fleet Actions)
• Global Help Chat Channel
• Power levels not resetting after map transfer
• Reroute power to shields bug
• Player ship interior tech

In Development
Season 1.1 - April (remaining items)

• Memory Alpha Update (1.1 or 1.2 - depends on feedback)
• Mirror Universe Female Costume Update (1.1)

Season 1.2 - May

• Social System Improvements (1.2)
• Accolade System (1.2)
• Fleet Feature Improvements(1.2)
• Squad System (Sidekicking) (1.2)
• Episode Replay (1.2)
• Bridge Officer Trading (1.2)
• Team mission journal updates (1.2)
• Random Bridge Officer Requisition (1.2 or 1.3)
• Sitting in Chairs tech (1.2)
• Playable “Caitian” Fed species (1.2)
• Fed Bridge Pack “Prometheus” (1.2)
• Fed Escort Tier 5 – Dervish Variant “Maelstrom” (1.2)
• Fed Science Tier 4 – Luna Variant “Comet” (1.2)

Season 1.3 - June

• STF – “Into the Hive” (1.3)
• Klingon Bridge Pack “Raptor” (1.3)
• New Emotes (1.3)
• Dabo MiniGame (1.3)
• Random BOFF Stores (1.3)

Season 2 - July
As a special addition - Here's a sneak preview of updates we are already working on for Season 2

• New Skillpoint Level Cap
• High End Episode Sector
• Multi-Faction Episode Sector
• Klingon Episodes
• Federation Diplomatic Corps
• Player Ship Interiors
• New Enemy Ship Designs
• Ambient Wildlife Creatures
• New Off-Duty Costumes

Tribble Test Server
Many updates and fixes in the "in testing" section are available for you to check out for yourself on the Tribble Test Server. For a full list of fixes in testing - please refer to the latest Tribble Release Notes.

See something you're curious about not listed? Check the Calendar first.

Otherwise respond below so we can investigate.

[Red.Line]

This post has been edited to remove content which violates the Cryptic Studios Forum Usage Guidelines ~ Phoxe

[SquidheadJax]

Aww, not first

Anyway, it's good to see that ground combat on Elite is under investigation. I think space might need to be, too - torpedo HYTs, especially plasma, seem to be doing damage out-of-scale with the NPCs standard-shot capabilities.

[Askray]

Loving whats coming up great informative post like always stahl

[RogueEnterprise]

Many exciting things happening in July, woot!

[Flato]

I noticed that u are looking into older science consoles. What exactly are u planning on doing with them?

[Dekath]

It looks like some awsome stuff on the way

[dstahl]

Originally Posted by Flato

I noticed that u are looking into older science consoles. What exactly are u planning on doing with them?

The design team is reviewing players comments and feedback about the decision to grandfather the old consoles and discussing a possible change. Nothing determined yet. Its under investigation.

[Aaron-Michael]

Can there be some kind of auto forfiet if all members of one side beam or warp out in pvp. There are too many rage quitters doing pvp hampering completion. Both sides are guilty but this would at least reward the players willing to stick through it.

[Flato]

The design team is reviewing players comments and feedback about the decision to grandfather the old consoles and discussing a possible change. Nothing determined yet. Its under investigation.

Ok i just assumed a decision as large as that would be standing firm as a lot of thought must have already went in to it. Grant it i am somewhat bias since i spent 50mil stocking up on old ones for future characters..........