Release notes/20130214

General

 * Updated Gorn Minefield:
 * Addressed an issue that may have caused ships to become invisible and untargetable but still able to attack.
 * Resolved an issue that caused the mission given by Admiral Yanishev to not complete.
 * Updated the text for Romulan History Volume 5, Chapter 8.
 * Updated the text for the Accolade "History of New Romulus, Volume 1 Chapter 3".
 * Items that cannot have more than one equipped at a time now display their equip limit in the item tooltip.
 * Players who are dead while an Optional objective completes in a STF will now correctly receive the bonus marks.
 * The Antares 2 Upper uniform and Vice Admiral Coat now correctly allow Fleet Emblems.
 * Resolved an issue that caused the setting for Double-Tap to Roll to be toggled incorrectly.
 * Previously it would occasionally toggle itself without changing the setting.
 * Players with either tier Steamrunner will now have an additional variant to choose from in the tailor.
 * Padded Boots are now available in the character creator for male characters.
 * The Winter 2012 Fleet Project can now be cancelled.
 * Only a Fleet Leader will be able to cancel this project.
 * This permission cannot be delegated to members of lower ranks.
 * Any items donated toward the completion of the project will be lost and not refunded.
 * Any Fleet Credit earned by donating to this project is kept.
 * Updated Temporal Ambassador:
 * The episode is now level 25.
 * In the Federation mission Journal, the episode falls between Preemptive Strike and Hunting the Hunters.
 * In the KDF mission Journal, the episode falls between Keep Your Enemies Closer and Skirmish.
 * The Tier 5 promotional ship is no longer available after 10am PST on 2/14/13.
 * Being on a team will no longer create multiple interacts for mission critical sections.

Fleet

 * Updated the New Romulus Reputation Store:
 * Added more Romulan Plasma ground weapon types:
 * Stun Pistols
 * Compression Bolt Pistols
 * Sniper Rifles
 * Split-Beam Rifles
 * Pulsewave Assault
 * If you have already run your Store Unlock projects, these items will be available without further unlocks required.
 * Federation and Klingon Starbases: The Winter 2012 Base Ornament will now start off as hidden after it is unlocked.
 * Players will have to manually unhide it in order to see it.
 * Embassy: Federation players who have unlocked a tailor in their embassy should now be able to purchase the Romulan Senate Robes.
 * The full description for the Starbase T5 Engineering Unlock should now display in the UI.

Foundry

 * Foundry: Updated the display name and description for the Cheer animations to more accurately describe them.
 * Resolved an issue that prevented music from playing in Foundry missions until combat was initiated.
 * The Foundry daily missions have been replaced.
 * The existing daily missions have been removed.
 * Now, all qualifying Foundry missions will automatically reward a scaling amount of Dilithium and skill points/expertise.
 * Dilithium will be rewarded based on the average playtime of the mission.
 * All spotlight missions will reward the same as a qualifying mission, with two exceptions:
 * Once every 24 hours, the first spotlight mission completed in that time frame will get a bonus 1440 Dilithium.
 * Once every 24 hours, the first spotlight mission completed in that time frame will get a scaling amount of Energy Credits, based on the player's level.

Systems

 * Romulan Research Lab Scientist Duty Officers should now function as intended.
 * Updated Romulan Traits:
 * Renamed the Covert Operative traits to Romulan Operative to avoid it being confused with the "Covert" trait.
 * The Basic Romulan Operative, Romulan Operative, and Superior Romulan Operative traits now can stack with themselves if the player has multiple Bridge Officers with the same trait.
 * For example, having two officers with Romulan Operative will now provide the combined bonuses from both officers.
 * Decreased the critical hit chance provided by the Basic Romulan Operative, Romulan Operative, and Superior Romulan Operative traits to 1%, 1.5%, and 2%, respectively.
 * The Basic Romulan Operative, Romulan Operative, and Superior Romulan Operative traits now also provide a slight increase to critical severity.
 * The increases are 2.5%, 3.75%, and 5% Critical Severity, respectively.
 * Tachyon Mines no longer share a cooldown with Tachyon Beam.
 * Increased the Shield HP of several ships, including the following:
 * Aquarius Destroyer
 * Fleet Aquarius Destroyer
 * K't'inga Battle Cruiser Retrofit
 * Fleet K't'inga Battle Cruiser Retrofit
 * Heavy Cruiser Retrofit
 * Fleet Heavy Cruiser Retrofit
 * Escort Retrofit
 * Fleet Escort Retrofit
 * Scourge Destroyer Retrofit
 * Fleet Scourge Destroyer Retrofit
 * Fleet Norgh Bird-of-Prey Retrofit
 * Somraw Raptor Retrofit
 * Fleet Somraw Raptor Retrofit
 * Science Vessel Retrofit
 * Fleet Science Vessel Retrofit
 * Research Science Vessel Retrofit
 * Fleet Research Science Vessel Retrofit
 * Reman and Romulan Mk XII Space Sets:
 * Slightly increased Capacity and Regen Rate on both shields.
 * Doubled the Stealth and Detection bonuses on both deflectors.
 * Polaron Dual Cannons Mk XI [CrtH] will no longer display as a Mk VII Disruptor weapon.
 * Expose Attacks now display accurate Chance % and Duration, based on a player or Bridge Officer's Traits.
 * Exploit Attacks now display accurate Damage Enhancement figures, based on a player or Bridge Officer's Traits.
 * Resolved a typo in the power description for Technician Duty Officers.
 * Decreased the duration of Romulan Distress Call items.
 * Replaced the Viral Matrix II ability from the Romulan Distress Call - D'deridex Battleship and Operational Asset - D'deridex Battleship with Hazard Emitters II.
 * Omega Reputation:
 * There are two new Store Unlock Projects available, at T1 and T3, that will grant access to the Liberated Borg Duty Officers previously available in the STF store.
 * Clarified the power description in the tooltip for the Assimilated Tractor Beam.
 * This is a text change only.
 * Klingon Honor Guard and Adapted MACO Pulsewave Rifles' secondary fire no longer triggers the category cooldown on all Grenade abilities.
 * Engineering Team will now completely cleanse all effects caused by Viral Matrix.
 * Relativity Pistol: The Hold and Damage Immunity should now always last the same duration, regardless of the user and targets' innate resistances and buffs.
 * Flight Deck Officer: "Recall" variant now applies its Defense buff properly.
 * It applies a single time, consistently, of the same amount as listed on its tooltip.
 * Jem'Hadar Attack Ship Pets now have a higher engine speed and turn rate.
 * Jem'Hadar Attack Ship Pets' Antiproton Sweep power now properly obey targeting arc restrictions.
 * All carrier pets will be more intelligent about favoring their forward firing arc, if they are fitted with cannons.
 * Tricobalt Shockwave Torpedoes should no longer fire in a Spread pattern.
 * Updated Tricobalt Mines & Triciobalt Torpedoes:
 * Reduced the cooldown of both of these weapon types from 60sec to 30sec.
 * Their damage has been halved as a result of this cooldown reduction, keeping their Damage-per-Second constant.
 * The shared Cooldown on multiple Tricobalt Mines has been reduced from 30sec to 15sec.
 * The shared Cooldown on multiple Tricobalt Torpedoes has been reduced from 30sec to 15sec.
 * The global Cooldown for all Tricobalt devices has been reduced from 15sec to 5sec.

UI

 * Tweaked the New Federation character and New Klingon character buttons to improve the appearance for the German localization.
 * Updated the Fleet event UI:
 * Fixed a bug where the event editor in the fleet events window would display February 1st as a Thursday instead of Friday.
 * Made all the input fields in the fleet event editor work with the mouse wheel.
 * A fleet event can be set repeat to at most 10,000 times.
 * Which if the event occurs every day until then, will put the ending time sometime mid 2040.
 * Removed the non-functional Custom option from the Foundry search.
 * Resolved the inability to admin custom chat channels with a large number of subscribers.
 * Resolved an issue that caused all Impulse Engines to appear to have the same values when viewed in stores.
 * This is a display change only.
 * The Fleet Level display will no longer be cut off for fleets with really long names.
 * Resolved an issue that could cause the Dilithium mining minigame to display incorrectly.

Known Issues

 * The Romulan Robes are not yet available for KDF characters.
 * The Foundry Spotlight mission cooldown does not currently display in the UI.
 * Foundry missions that do not qualify for rewards still reference Investigate Officer Reports Daily.
 * Some players may experience difficulty changing their graphics settings.