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[Patch Notes] - 20 SEP 2022

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    We will be performing shard maintenance on September 20 from 5-10:30 AM Pacific (12:00-17:30 UTC).

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    General:
    • Resolved an issue that can sometimes cause Captains to appear stuck walking forward during the TFO “Storm Chasers” and Episode “Eye of the Storm”.
    • Resolved an issue that was causing Test Dummies to appear in the Captains Table area.
    • Resolved an issue that would sometime require multiple selection inputs when interacting with contacts while playing in a team during the episode, “Eye of the Storm”.
    • Resolved an issue where the infiltrator Bridge Officer traits of different ranks stacked with each other.
    • Updated the Starship Trait: Temporal Surge so that the Untargetability duration should now properly be reduced against other players.
    • Resolved an issue that was causing the "Deadly Appearances" Starship Trait to not have its intended lockout period.
    ○ Reduced lockout period from 60sec to 40sec.
    • Resolved an issue that was causing the episode, “Eye of the Storm”, to display an incorrect destination location in the mission journal.
    • Added a 4th color choice for Terran Emperor Outfit: Wristguard 2 for Female and Male Captains.
    • We've added new destinations to Alpha, Delta, and Gamma Quadrant in the Tour of Galaxy.
    You can gain even more rewards... if you can go fast enough!

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    Taken directly from this STO News page.
    STO: Ascension Patch Notes Index
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    • We've added new destinations to Alpha, Delta, and Gamma Quadrant in the Tour of Galaxy.
    Sounds interesting,something new. I'll give it a try later.
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    • Resolved an issue where the infiltrator Bridge Officer traits of different ranks stacked with each other.
    There goes my cloak build down the drain.
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    #4
    There goes my cloak build down the drain.
    Too advanced for me. I'm still boggling over my recent dumping of BFAW/CSV/CRF and TS for the more civilized BO.
    "And when I saw the breadth of my domain, I wept, for there were no more worlds left to conquer."
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    #5
    There goes my cloak build down the drain.
    And the nerfhammer strikes again. I'm going to guess the market for the Reman superior infiltrator boff I've been trying to unload is about to go into freefall. Wonder what is next to get nerfed since it seems to be the season for it?
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    And the nerfhammer strikes again. I'm going to guess the market for the Reman superior infiltrator boff I've been trying to unload is about to go into freefall. Wonder what is next to get nerfed since it seems to be the season for it?
    Rumour is that the Admiralty system might be next in line, but we'll see. Borticus recently asked a question about it on Twitter and everyone thinks he's got it in his sights for something, most likely a dilithium nerf is the conclusion being drawn.
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    #7
    Honestly i'm tempted to not even bother finishing this event or playing anymore.
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    Rumour is that the Admiralty system might be next in line, but we'll see. Borticus recently asked a question about it on Twitter and everyone thinks he's got it in his sights for something, most likely a dilithium nerf is the conclusion being drawn.
    I've seen the same tweet and subsequent speculation. I've never been very aggressive about doing doff and admiralty missions, but at least that would only impact the admiralty side game and not the core game.

    In fairness, the host of alts that some people keep for no other purpose than to farm dilithium from running nothing but admiralty likely is the main culprit behind the huge dilex imbalance. On the other hand the last nerf of the KDF and Ferengi grand prizes was pretty soft, so they may fear the number of players that will be angered by changes, so I wouldn't be surprised if they apply another light nerf to the system like reducing the odds of a dilithium-dropping mission appearing to slow the flow rather than nerfing it into the ground, but then again subtlety is not something Cryptic does very well, so there's that.
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    #9
    The dilex is knackered because of a number of reasons I suspect.

    1) There's way too much supply of the pink stuff. It's rewarded literally EVERYWHERE in the game and in huge volumes. Plus, like you said, some players have mountains of alts farming the stuff because it's so easy to get. Very easy to stock up a massive pile of the stuff in a small amount of time.

    2) Once you have your main build upgraded and are in a maxed fleet...there's nothing to spend dilithium on! You're still acquiring it at a ridiculous rate but have nothing to spend it on that's worth it. Likely the only thing people have to do with dilithium once they reach endgame is sticking it on the exchange to turn to Zen.

    3) Even those who are in possession of Zen have no reason to sell it for dilithium anymore, because again they don't need the stuff! So, the supply of Zen available is not increasing equal to the volume of dil being fed in from the other side.

    It's all a massive mess and it's just compounded by constant events and systems rewarding more dil, constant release to ultra-expensive store items, and no real value or use for dilithium other than swapping for Zen.

    They could have added in boff upgrade tokens to the dil store but no.
    They could have added boff upgrades that add space traits and would be desirable in large numbers but no.
    They could move all the old T5 lockbox ships to the dil store...
    They could move all the old event rewards to the dil store....

    They really don't seem to want to actually do ANYTHING to fix the problem.
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    #10
    Honestly i'm tempted to not even bother finishing this event or playing anymore.
    The annoying thing here is they've waited years on this stuff to balance it in most cases. That leaves time for the meta chasers to build hype around stuff that is overpowered and drives a lot of anger when it finally does get nerfed. Of the consoles that got nerfed last week, only Agony Redistributor really got killed. They've nerfed it multiple times before this and never found a reasonable fix to the idea, so they made it useless.

    Of the rest, the neutronic eddies console now performs about the same as a host of other clicky consoles, and if they were to go back and finally fix it so that you got the 50% bonus damage to held targets like it says, the Tholian Webspinner Array would be perfectly viable but probably still in line with the rest of the options too. Similarly, hull image refractors is still an ok console, but you won't be able to give an escort a hull value way beyond a dreadnought now with it. If there wasn't the months and years of hype saying "thou shalt own this for your build", nobody would care. Unfortunately balance passes are so few and far between that too many people have bought into the hype with time and money that people feel like they've wasted once it becomes "good" or "ok" instead of making one "insta-great", and because this happens only once in several years in this game, people are shocked that it happens at all.

    I personally will still play, but definitely waiting for the dust to settle before I'll be looking to invest in something big for a while. In a way, it is kind of refreshing to play the game just for the sake of playing and having fun than feeling obligated to chase a grind to the next build tweak.
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    #11

    They really don't seem to want to actually do ANYTHING to fix the problem.
    I think it's coming down to this - right now, it takes about a month for an exchange offer to go through, fluctuates a little but that's where we are at the moment. We've sales and events coming out of our ears, people want to buy stuff, so what are many of them going to do if they're either impatient or simply haven't got the time to scratch the means up by other routes? They're going straight to the buy Zen option, that's what. So not only have you got those folks that buy & dump zen into the market, you've now got those who wouldn't normally empty their pockets filling the coffers at Cryptic too. It's their bottom line to bring home the bacon and I suspect the marketing/finance folks aren't exactly screaming at them to do something, anything, that could hurt that. Especially after the Magic disaster which I suspect hurt them a lot more than they've let on.

    Meanwhile, the players get paid lip service about how changes are coming and ways are being looked at to fix the problem, but so far that's all it seems to amount to, with the odd thing tossed out every now and then like the vanity shield offer to make it look like something's happening. They knew this was coming years before it hit, it happened in Neverwinter, it was on the cards for STO and they did nothing to try and stem the tide.
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    #12
    My guess is Admiralty, Unconventional Systems and Concentrate Firepower that way all Builds get nerfed.
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    The dilex is knackered because of a number of reasons I suspect.

    1) There's way too much supply of the pink stuff. It's rewarded literally EVERYWHERE in the game and in huge volumes. Plus, like you said, some players have mountains of alts farming the stuff because it's so easy to get. Very easy to stock up a massive pile of the stuff in a small amount of time.

    2) Once you have your main build upgraded and are in a maxed fleet...there's nothing to spend dilithium on! You're still acquiring it at a ridiculous rate but have nothing to spend it on that's worth it. Likely the only thing people have to do with dilithium once they reach endgame is sticking it on the exchange to turn to Zen.

    3) Even those who are in possession of Zen have no reason to sell it for dilithium anymore, because again they don't need the stuff! So, the supply of Zen available is not increasing equal to the volume of dil being fed in from the other side.

    It's all a massive mess and it's just compounded by constant events and systems rewarding more dil, constant release to ultra-expensive store items, and no real value or use for dilithium other than swapping for Zen.

    They could have added in boff upgrade tokens to the dil store but no.
    They could have added boff upgrades that add space traits and would be desirable in large numbers but no.
    They could move all the old T5 lockbox ships to the dil store...
    They could move all the old event rewards to the dil store....

    They really don't seem to want to actually do ANYTHING to fix the problem.
    I think it is interesting to note the part of the economic supply and demand puzzle nobody talks about. Everyone is hyper-focused on dilithium sinks to make dilithium itself more desirable, and Cryptic teases us with talk about wanting something that will be a bottomless pit to shovel dilithium into. What people don't talk as much about is the supply side of the equation, which Cryptic can and does also control. On that side, we've seen very few sales over the past few years to increase supply and endless streams of ship bundles and gamble boxes to pour more and more gasoline (or petrol if you prefer) onto the massive fire of demand for zen.

    I think looking at the overall picture, Cryptic knows they live and die by zen sales and lifetime subs since they don't have ad revenue or anything else from these games, and dilithium has no real world value to them. I think they know they can't go indefinitely without doing something more to bring the markets back towards balance, but I also suspect they are trying to show their new Embracer overlords that they can still turn a profit too, so they are dragging their feet as much as they can to make the bottom line of their financial statements as big as possible.

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    My guess is Admiralty, Unconventional Systems and Concentrate Firepower that way all Builds get nerfed.
    I'd suspect that the Immolating Phaser Lance, Universal Designs, and Subspatial Warheads probably have targets painted on them too.
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    from sto reddit, the updated tour of the galaxy map:

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    Rumour is that the Admiralty system might be next in line, but we'll see. Borticus recently asked a question about it on Twitter and everyone thinks he's got it in his sights for something, most likely a dilithium nerf is the conclusion being drawn.
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    Be interesting to see what they say tonight
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