Release Notes: January 31, 2013

By PWE_BranFlakes @ January 30, 2013 at 5:52pm

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• elvnswords @ Feb 7th, 2013 2:22AM

  Please change the foundry back! Easy Money was hardly gamebreaking in the amount you could pull out... and it wasn't doing anything other then making the market more affordable for everyone! All farming does in any game is make things better all around...

• galensix @ Feb 6th, 2013 3:42PM

  Given the changes you have already made DEVs which make the exchange a money sink, removing a viable way to earn EC is unacceptable. if you wanted to make missions like this not qualify for the investigate daily then fine do that, dont just nerf it away

• pmadden @ Feb 6th, 2013 1:39PM

  i like all the changes with the exception of the timid creatures foundry 'fix' everybody loves the EC grind missions, so do us a favor and put it back how it was.

• nemestarshadow @ Feb 6th, 2013 12:15PM

  WHy have you ruined easy money and by extention the entire foundry? Most of the players hate the changes. Is this someone's idea of a fix? And by fix I mean the veterinarian use of the term. Not the helpful and beneficial kind. Remove the foundry nerfs nobody wants them.

• saifaldin @ Feb 4th, 2013 9:29PM

  I'am with all of those that want the Foundry missions changed back. I went once (before change) and completed easy money. Since the change I cannot complete even one level, it's no longer easy money now it's easy suicide. I won't be doing foundry missions until you change them back. My opinion, it was a dumb and useless change.

• slmanning @ Feb 4th, 2013 5:41PM

  I get the need for some changes now and again...but enough is enough. You've gone too far with the tweaks! Change the FOUNDRY BACK please! I get what you were hoping to accomplish with these changes and I think you missed the mark. Instead all you have done is jade us, your loyal customers further away from your product. No, we are not going to play more, if anything, since the change I have played less. Much like some of the other changes in the past I have found myself walking away from the game. I realize I am only one person. However I know many like me, who can find other games to play, other uses for our time and just as importantly, other places for our currency. so consider carefully something as simple as the foundry. it was meant for the players to build things for other players to enjoy. If you want to keep adding more options, great...however don't remove or redefine the ones you've already established without a good reason. It's getting old.

• admiralhacket117

  thumbs up to you good sir, i havnt put almost $500 into this game just for the devs to piss it all away, ive got a lovely guild wars 2 disc i can dust off and enjoy. so far the most recent tweaks the devs have made make switching games all the more tempting... and as an example of other tweaks how about the rediculous cost of upgrading doffs and recruiting them at the acadamy....

• cwspence @ Feb 4th, 2013 11:50AM

  Please change back the foundry. Take away the xp if you want to limit it but don't take away our loot!

• es0archer @ Feb 3rd, 2013 3:54PM

  Leave it to craptic to fix stuff that DONT NEED FIXING...and dont fix what actually needs fixing! Good job again CRAPTIC!

• admiralhacket117

  i dont think they understand the saying: If it ain't broke, dont fix it

• khanreborn @ Feb 3rd, 2013 1:45PM

  i dispise the changes to the foundry, please change it back

• poetpw @ Feb 3rd, 2013 9:40AM

  Started day 1; Lifer

• poetpw @ Feb 3rd, 2013 9:38AM

  Normally I'd not make 2 comments; but if the Devs need to fix something that is broken and badly instead of breaking the foundry which didn't need fixing here are some real broken areas of game many have been waiting for fix forever on these: Check this thread Devs if you havent already on the problem! http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=499621 Started day 1; Lifer

• poetpw @ Feb 3rd, 2013 8:07AM

  iVE PAID YOU OVER $200.00 FOR, YOU TO SCREW ME ON THE FOUNDRY MISSIONS? Not your fault on qwarks and Easy Money farming foundry missions the Devs have totally screwed this up royal!! So I gave you 5 stars but the devs get a big FAT ZERO for really screwed up the foundry; Star Trek online is now the worst MMO for farming of any kind; Took my Lt. an hour and got blown up 4 times Its like so totally a waste of my time as a player and to no good purpose; We are the players and some of us have paid 100's of dollars into this game and they screw us like this; pisses me off! Leveling up a few alts or merely some farming; THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT IN AN MMO game PERIOD; WE NEED some of theswe MISSIONS BACK THE WAY THEYN WERE ASAP!

• geodomus @ Feb 3rd, 2013 4:43AM

  Definitley not liking the Changes on the Foundry, everything else is ok.

• lambert1234 @ Feb 3rd, 2013 3:58AM

  CHANGE THE FOUNDRY BACK NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• boomer450 @ Feb 3rd, 2013 2:17AM

  not liking the changes to the foundry please change it back

• admiralhacket117 @ Feb 3rd, 2013 12:15AM

  not pleased with the new update to the foundry, timid creatures fight back? first off, ec runs are now impossible, second, since when does a "timid" creature fight back? they run...that kind of fracks with certain legitimate scenarios in the foundry among other scenarios that cryptic may view as illegitamte. i.e. using that function to get large amounts of drops in a short period of time making pleanty of ec. however i dont think changing the timid creature behaviour was warranted. whats the big deal with players makin ec that way anyway? i'd make about a million a day between my two toons. when i could go and buy 25 million ec with real money and save a bunch of time.

• belal @ Feb 2nd, 2013 11:58PM

  Foundry change was unwarranted, please change it back.

• xariama @ Feb 2nd, 2013 5:57PM

  Way to break something that wasn't needed to be broken, Cryptic. Foundry is all but useless now. Change it back, please.

• screwloose53184 @ Feb 2nd, 2013 12:25PM

  I don't like the foundry update where NPCs are turned to timid. It doesn't make sence where you have just your ship going against multiple groups of NPCs and as soon as you start firing they destroy you. Please change the foundry back. It worked better that way.

• newjim20 @ Feb 2nd, 2013 10:54AM

  The changes to the foundry are horrible. Please leave things alone. I still buy zen for main items and spend money to purchase large items but use the EC for many smaller things. Now the missions take to long and can't be completed. Also I lost 5 security officers back in December because they were left on the exchange to long and never got them back. I sent several messages but got the run around and never had it fixed. Things are starting to get troublesome.

• puykonig @ Feb 2nd, 2013 8:35AM

  Why is there a change to the Foundry? Arew you forcing me not to play STO anymore? Please un do the change in Foundry please. if this is not happen then it look like time to play other game. As much as i love STO. you keep making change to the game that is taking much of my time now. With this change i now only get like 4 hrs sleep.

• kirksplat @ Feb 2nd, 2013 8:24AM

  Great changes. I hope that we can get timid back in some form that doesn't lead to rampant exploits.

• eljun1 @ Feb 2nd, 2013 7:55AM

  the recent changes to the foundry have been unwarranted...this change came with no warning but a post on the blog, which many of us do not read. also the attacking that happens often is overwhelming for many of the weapons some of us use. i use the entire bog set including the torpedo launcher...this is an area effect weapon...also i use the heavy escort carrier and much of my damage comes from my fighters which i have little control over what they attack. in many of the missions i will be attacking one enemy and then i will have 5-6 of them attacking me because my pets attacked them. CHANGE IT BACK please.

• binaryoutlaw7c3 @ Feb 2nd, 2013 7:18AM

  Why was timid creature nerfed?! This is a travesty!

• gantoris007 @ Feb 2nd, 2013 12:06AM

  Regarding timid creatures: Yes, this was a method for players to collect more energy credits. However, I would argue that preventing players from managing their own economies is not a good move. Dilithium and Zen can be managed, as it's directly related to real world money. But EC is in many ways its own separate economy. What's the harm in letting us be creative in generating it. :/ This move frustrates me, as it seems like the game is designed to to consume as much of my time as possible. Moves like these seem reactionary, and designed to thwart captains attempts to be efficient and creative in the generation of resources.