Release notes/20200409c

First Contact Day Celebration!

 * Join us for the First Contact Day Celebration starting on PC on April 2nd, 2020 and continuing until April 23rd, 2020.
 * The First Contact Day Event can be accessed through Star Trek Online’s recently released Events Tab.
 * Two ways to earn Event Progress! Compete with four other players to build and launch your very own Phoenix Rocket, or join Seven-of-Nine and travel back to April 4th, 2063, and participate in a brand new patrol surrounding the titular event.
 * Captains that earn 14 or more Daily Progress may then claim Event Grand Prize – a Temporal Vortex Probe (Universal Console).
 * For more information, please visit the “Defend First Contact Day!” blog at:

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/xbox/star-trek-online/news/detail/11386403-defend-first-contact-day%21


 * New Event Patrol: One Night in Bozeman
 * Included with the traditional model rocket building First Contact Day TFO, Captains will be able to participate in a brand-new patrol, “One Night in Bozeman”.
 * Access this limited-time content through the Event UI, or the Patrols Tab of the PvE UI.
 * The Borg have altered the timeline to ensure that they succeed in their previously-foiled plan to stop First Contact between Earth and Vulcan.
 * Team up with Seven-of-Nine and discover what The Borg have done to alter the timeline, and then do everything you can to correct it.
 * First Contact Day Event Rewards:
 * First Contact Day Badge Box:
 * Completing either of the participating activities once per day, per account, will earn you a First Contact Day Badge Box.
 * Opening this box will grant players the opportunity to choose between 17 never-before-released Comm Badges as account-wide unlocks.
 * First Contact Day Event Grand Prize:
 * Upon reaching 14 days of Progress, you will become eligible to claim the Grand Prize! This includes the following items:
 * Console – Universal – Temporal Vortex Probe (Account Unlock)
 * Inspired by Borg technology, this probe is capable of opening a dangerously unstable Temporal Vortex that can travel through local space to damage and debilitate enemy vessels in the area.
 * The drone will travel toward the targeted foe's current location, dragging the anomaly with it while emitting chroniton radiation in a large cone facing away from its trajectory.
 * This console also provides a passive boost to Exotic Damage and Cooldown Reduction for Temporal Operative Bridge Officer Abilities, as well as a scaling bonus to Turn Speed that scales with Auxiliary Power.
 * This Console can be equipped in any console slot on any starship.
 * First Contact Day Bundle – contains all of the following:
 * 1x Captain Specialization Point (cannot reclaim)
 * 25,000 Dilithium Ore (cannot reclaim)
 * “Launch Toy Rocket” Social Device (Account Unlock)
 * Holo-Emitter – Phoenix Shuttle (Account Unlock)
 * Bonus Rewards:
 * After claiming the Grand Prize, you will unlock the option of earning additional Dilithium Ore each day, beginning at 8,000 Dilithium Ore for the first day’s completion.
 * Zen Buyout Option:
 * For players interested in instantly completing the First Contact Day Event, we will be offering an updated method for buying out.
 * Within the new Event UI, an option will be presented that allows you to purchase the remaining progress that you need, for a scaling amount of Zen.

General

 * Improved stability of various aspects of the game that could sometimes result in the game closing.
 * Inventories and Bank UI performance improvements when items are not visible.
 * Improved performance of various HUD elements throughout the game.
 * Removed the EC cost associated with altering the Name and Registry of player starships.
 * Resolved an issue during the mission, "Sleepers” that prevented Tactical officers from being able to proceed through the mission while aboard the derelict vessel in the T'liss System.
 * There is now a listed expiration date on the "Winter (Ended)" Event display of 4/2/20.
 * After that date, players will not be able to use any partial progress to purchase the ship at a discount.
 * Added “Combed Back 2” as a hair option for Male Characters:
 * This hair is only available to characters with a traditional “Humanoid” head type
 * The “Combed Back” Hair option has been renamed to “Combed Back 1”
 * Added the following additional Hair options for Female Characters:
 * Short 04 – Version 2
 * Short 06 – Version 2
 * Short 07 – Version 2
 * The “Short Classic” hair style been renamed to “Short 05”
 * Adjusted the Emancipator Upper so that it fits more Pants and Skirts outfit pieces.
 * Talaxian Eyebrows once appear as an option if the Top Hat uniform option is selected.
 * Pillars in Facility 4028 have had their gravity re-enabled.

Systems

 * Reduced the price of existing T1-T5 Starships that cost Dilithium:
 * Tier 1: Reduced from 5,000 to 1,000
 * Tier 2: Reduced from 10,000 to 2,500
 * Tier 3: Reduced from 20,000 to 5,000
 * Tier 4: Reduced from 40,000 to 10,000
 * Tier 5: Reduced from 80,000 to 20,000
 * Removed most Tier 1 thru Tier 4 Starships from the Zen Store.
 * Ships previously purchased with Zen will remain available Account-Wide for Reclaim via Ship Requisition Stores.
 * The following T1-T4 ships are not being altered with these changes:
 * Walker-class Prototype Light Exploration Cruiser (Scaling)
 * The following items can now be stacked up to 9999 in a single stack, up from previous values:
 * Lobi Crystals
 * R&D Materials
 * R&D Catalysts
 * R&D Components
 * Tech Upgrades
 * Tech Accelerators
 * Omega Particle Components
 * Lock Boxes
 * Injury Kits (Regenerators and Components)
 * The per character cap on Fleet Dilithium Vouchers has been increased from 10 million to 100 million.
 * Dilithium Store Updates:
 * Reduced prices on Environmental Suits available in the Dilithium Store.
 * Consumable Devices on the Dilithium Store have had their prices reduced to 1/10th of their previous price.
 * Admiralty Updates:
 * The rewards received for completing the 10th step of the Tour of Duty for the Klingon Empire Admiralty Campaign have been changed from 30,000 Dilithium Ore, to 40,000 Fleet Dilithium Vouchers.
 * This is essentially Refined Dilithium, but may only be used as an input in Fleet Projects.
 * The rewards received for completing the 10th step of the Tour of Duty for the Ferengi Alliance Admiralty Campaign have been changed from 30,000 Dilithium Ore, to 30,000 Dilithium Ore Bonus Pool.
 * This will grant a 50% bonus to most sources of Dilithium Ore received, until the Pool is depleted.
 * Resolved an issue on "Impossibility of Reason" that could cause some of the Klingon NPCs to spawn in as the wrong type of Klingon (wrong era, wrong faction).
 * Doubled the Warp Core Potential boosts on the Warp Theorist trait.