Next major nerfs incoming

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Tribble is being brought down for maintenance to update it to build ST.47.20150112a.6.

New Feature:

Foundry Top 3

• The Foundry Top 3 System is a new way for players to access Foundry missions in sector space.
• When at a point in Sector Space, up to 3 Foundry missions can be started from an interact, such as a system, if Foundry missions were created for that particular system.
  
  
  • Players will not see any missions not qualified for.
  • Missions that need review will also not be available.

  
  

• Currently, only Foundry missions that start at an interact in Sector Space will be used in the Top 3 System, not missions which start on a ground map.
• For more details, please visit the Foundry Top 3 blog at: Foundry Top Three System | Star Trek Online

General:

• Resolved an issue where Bridge Officers would be missing slotted powers just after being created.
• No Win Scenario is no longer available.
• The Cure Applied:
  
  
  • Decreased IKS Kang’s HP and Damage in Advanced mode.
  • Decreased mark rewards for meeting Normal optional objective from 25 to 15.
  • Changed the normal optional objective to completing the queue in 4 minutes.
  • Changes the Advanced required objective to completing the queue in 9 minutes.
  • Updated optional information contact to reflect these changes.

  
  

• Crystalline Catastrophe:
  
  
  • Decreased base mark rewards on Normal from 40 to 30.
  • Decreased base mark rewards on Advanced from 70 to 60.
  • Increased fail mark rewards on Advanced from 5 to 10.
  • Decreased Advanced optional timer from 10.5 minutes to 5 minutes.
  • Decreased maximum allowed defeated players for Normal optional from 5 to 3.
  • Decreased maximum allowed defeated players for Advanced required from 5 to 3.
  • Crystalline Entity:
    
    
    • There is no longer a safe inner distance on the Entity’s AOE shockwave.
    • The AOE shockwave no longer damages/destroys Crystalline Fragments large or small.

    
    

  
  

• Colony Invasion: No longer gives rewards for mandatory mission objectives.
• Fleet Alert:
  
  
  • Decreased mark rewards earned from waves 1 and 2 from 10 to 5.
  • Decreased mark rewards earned from wave 5 from 18 to 15.

  
  

• Bug Hunt
  
  
  • Normal rewards have been increased by 25%
  • Advanced rewards have been increased by 50%.
  • Elite rewards have been increased by 75%.

  
  

Systems:

• Concentrate Firepower:
  
  
  • Increased chance of free High Yield proc on Ranks I and II.
  • Added a buff icon when player receives a free High Yield mode.
  • Altered stacking behavior: Gaining a second free High Yield while the first is still active will now refresh the duration instead of being discarded.

  
  

• Command Bridge Officer Powers:
  
  
  • "Call Emergency Artillery"
    
    
    • May no longer be used while Cloaked.

    
    

  • "Phalanx Formation"
    
    
    • May no longer be used while Cloaked, or in a Social Zone.
    • Phalanx Formation's Rings can no longer be targeted by hostile NPCs.
    • Phalanx Formation cannot be activated while Engines are offline, but will no longer be cancelled if your Engines are knocked offline after it is activated.

    
    

  
  

• Reduced the time and Dilithium cost for making PADDs in the R&D Officer Training School.
  
  
  • Dilthium cost has been reduced to 200.
  • Creation time has been reduced to 30 minutes.

  
  

• Resolved an AI issue with all versions of Palm Strike that was sometimes causing AI to use this power at long range, or when there was no valid target to hit with it.
• Resolved an issue that was causing Crafted Space Shields to sometimes have Engine mods instead of Shield mods.
• Combat Hyper-Impulse Engines can be upgraded.

Content:

• “Empress Sela”
  
  
  • Updated the rewards to now include the Overcharged Plasma Sniper Rifle and Personal Covariant Shields as choices.
  • The Overcharged Plasma Sniper Rifle can be upgraded.
  • Personal Covariant Shields can be upgraded.

  
  

• "Desperate Measures"
  
  
  • Updated the rewards to now include the Prototype Gravitic Modulation Impulse Engine as a choice.
  • The Prototype Gravitic Modulation Impulse Engine can be upgraded.

  
  

• "Taris"
  
  
  • Updated the rewards to now include the Numiri Regenerative Shield Array as a choice.
  • The Numiri Regenerative Shield Array can be upgraded.

  
  

UI:

• Added the option to shut off Simple Ship Transition.
  
  
  • This option is found under Options>Basic >“Move equipped items to newly readied ships”.

  
  

• Bridge Officer Training Manuals now have search filters in the Exchange.

Known Issues:

• New systems are currently a work in progress including:
  
  
  • Captain Specialization Tree: Command Officer
  • Bridge Officer Specialization: Command Officer
  • Bridge Officer Training Revamp
  • New Research and Development School: Officer Training
    
    
    • All 3 classes are available to craft.

    
    

  
  

• VO in the new revamped Romulan episodes is not in its final state.

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that will kill whats left of the PVE

yep, giving it a last try is not the worst idea

this new nerf is pissing me off
they will once more reduce the rewards of PVEs and at the same time increase the difficulty for the very few PVEs that are still played
after this change most ppl wont be able to get neural processors anymore

these changes show that the devs totally lost every sense of reality
just alone that they announce to decrease the hp and damage of the IKS Kang.... a ship which never in the history of the STF caused any damage
and that they announce this adjustment for "Cure applied" which actually is a ground mission where this ship does not even exists proves thats the devs are totally loco

while the rewards for bug hunt will be increased they also said on another thread that the spawnmother at the end of the mission will be much harder to kill then