Engineering reports/20100716

=July 16, 2010= Greetings!

Season 2 is shaping up and preparing to ship July 27th. The first Season 2 build went up to the TRIBBLE test shard a little over a week ago and we've had several updates since then. We expect to have several more updates before our final Season 2 release build.

As we've been discussing in the Engineering Report - many of the features previously in development are now in internal testing and some are even on the TRIBBLE test shard. However, as with past releases, some features are not ready for release and some we didn't expect to be ready are.

This report will keep you up to date on where we are at for the Season 2 release and what will be wokring on for minor updates shortly after the release.

Here's the latest report!

In Testing

 * 200 Day Veteran Rewards
 * Season 2!
 * Rank up to 51 (Vice Admiral/Lieutenant General)
 * - New Captain Power
 * - Level 51 Ship Rewards
 * - Mark XI Gear
 * Player Ship Interiors (FED and KLG)
 * - Select between 3 layouts
 * - Trophy Case and Trophy Accolades (earned via missions)
 * - New Ship Interior Designs
 * - Sliding Doors
 * Anomaly Scanning Mini-Game
 * - chance for additional anomalies
 * Dabo MiniGame
 * - Gold Pressed Latinum Item Store w/Ship Holoemitters
 * - Holo Leeta Dabo Girl (VO still a possibility)
 * Klingon PVE
 * - 8 New Klingon Episodes
 * - Fek'ihri Enemy Group
 * Level 46-51 Sector (FED and KLG)
 * - 5 New Episodes
 * - New Level 53 "Undine" Fleet Action
 * - New Daily Fleet Actions for Level 51
 * - Run STFs at Level 51
 * - New Mark XI Stores for Level 51 content
 * - New Sector Design
 * Federation Diplomatic Corps
 * - Social zone non-combat missions
 * - New First Contact Missions in Exploration Sectors
 * - Earn progress towards FDC Rank Accolades
 * - Accolades with Rewards at each rank
 * Klingon Costume Customization Updates (Gorn still being worked on)
 * Trade Commissioned Officers (manual person to person trades only)
 * Fleet Logos
 * Fleet Action Level Banding Changes
 * New Exploration Enemy Ship Designs
 * Gamepad/Controller Support
 * New Wildlife Creatures
 * Older Science Consoles Turn in Option
 * Weekly Episodes - Series 1 - The Deferi
 * - Weekly Story Advancement Mission
 * - Scales to all levels
 * - Episodes available to FED and KLG
 * - New Enemy Group Faction to be revealed

Under Investigation

 * Season 2 ships - balance, powers and descriptions
 * C-Store: Costume Slots not granting to account
 * Total cost for ship customization not displaying appropriate amounts
 * Interact bars not displaying properly
 * UI sliders displaying out of bounds
 * Lighting too dark on ESD when set to low end video settings
 * PVP Rewards not displaying proper numerics
 * Help channel/Global Chat changes
 * Anomaly data granted at your level and not level of sector
 * Fleet Logo placement
 * Fed Diplmacy mission rewards and progression
 * Global Cooldown timers not displaying
 * Healing displayed in negative numbers
 * Sniper Rifle special attacks cancelling FX
 * Help Channel spamming other zones

Season 2.X

 * The following features may or may not make it into Season 2.0 and if not would be added to a later update.
 * More Weekly Series
 * Gorn Customization Options
 * More Ship / KDF & FED
 * Stores that allow you to obtain "random" Bridge Officers
 * Sitting in Chairs Tech
 * New Memory Alpha Items
 * Poker MiniGame
 * Daily Mission Re-Scoping
 * Make Consumables Mini-Game
 * Global Help Chat Channel

Season 3+

 * Secret Project (to be announced)
 * More Weekly Series
 * More Ship / KDF & FED
 * More Costume Options
 * More Playable Species
 * Episode Replay
 * STF - Into the Hive

Upcoming C-Store Releases
We are working on plan for what new items will be available in the C-Store during Season 2. Here is a list of the items that are already in development and on the schedule. More to follow in future engineering reports.

Season 2 C-Store Items

 * New Off-Duty Costumes Types
 * - Merc Outfits
 * - Formal Wear
 * New Ships
 * - Excelsior
 * - Nebula
 * New Species
 * - Aenar
 * - Kzinti
 * - Talaxian