TRIBBLE F2P Maintenance and Release Notes

[Jason32]

Features:
Silver Account Details
At this phase of the Beta everyone will be starting as a fresh account. No character transfers will be allowed in the first few weeks, there will be no Beta Currency C-Store Stipend this week.
Silver account details
Character slots – silver accounts will receive the following character slots
1 slot that is limited to Starfleet characters
1 slot that is limited to Klingon characters (note that in this build the Klingon faction is not available at this phase of the beta)
1 slot that is for Foundry content creation
Additional character slots may be purchased from the c-store
Bridge officer slots
4 free bridge officer slots
Additional slots may be purchased from the c-store
No slots awarded when rank is gained
Energy Credit limit
Silver characters are limited to 100 Million energy credits. As long as a character is at this limit, they may not gain additional energy credits.
The limit may be increased to 1 Billion energy credits (same as gold players) via a c-store purchase
Inventory Slots
42 starting inventory slots
Up to 18 additional inventory slots may be purchased from the C-store
No slots awarded when rank is gained
Bank slots
48 starting bank slots
Up to 36 additional bank slots may be purchased from the C-store
No slots awarded when rank is gained
Captain retrain tokens
Retrain tokens may be purchased from the C-store
No retrain tokens are awarded when rank is gained
Foundry creation access – players may access the Foundry for content creation if they have purchased foundry project slots
Foundry project slots may be purchased with Dilithium – Note: not available in the first beta build
Silver players do not receive any free Foundry project slots
Silver players will hear advertisements when using Vivox voice chat
Silver players will have the following restrictions until they have played for 20 hours, previously had a subscription, purchase c-points, or ever purchased anything in the c-store:
Not allowed to create a fleet
Chat restrictions:
Rate limited
Broadcast chat restricted
Private messages to friends only
Mail restrictions:
Rate limited
Can only send mail to friends

Gold account Details:
Character slots – silver accounts will receive the following character slots
1 Unrestricted character slot
1 slot that is limited to Starfleet characters
1 slot that is limited to Klingon characters (note that in this build the Klingon faction is not available)
1 slot that is for Foundry content creation
Additional character slots may be purchased from the c-store
Bridge officer slots
4 starting bridge officer slots
Additional bridge officer slots awarded at some ranks
Additional slots may be purchased from the c-store
Energy Credit limit
Gold characters are limited to 1 Billion energy credits. As long as a character is at this limit, they may not gain additional energy credits.
Inventory slots
42 starting inventory slots
Additional inventory slots awarded at some ranks
Up to 18 additional inventory slots may be purchased from the C-store
Bank slots
48 starting bank slots
Additional bank slots awarded at some ranks
Up to 36 additional bank slots may be purchased from the C-store
Captain retrain tokens
A retrain token is awarded at each rank
Additional retrain tokens may be purchased from the c-store
Foundry access
Gold players start with 8 project slots for the foundry.
Additional Foundry project slots may be purchased for Dilithium.
No advertisements in Vivox voice chat
No chat or email restrictions
Allowed to create fleets

Duty Officer System
The Duty Officer and Assignment system has been added to the game! This system is an optional mini-game themed around the logistics of managing the full crew complement of your ship that opens up when you reach the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
Upon first initiating the system, characters will be granted a number of starting duty officers to staff their ship. Additional duty officers of various qualities, rarities, specializations and species may be gained by means of certain assignments as well as via purchase of random packs of duty officers on the C-Store.
The HUD has been updated to add a button allowing access to the duty officer system from any sector map, the interior of your ship or an ally’s, and most social maps.
Every character has two active rosters, one for space and one for ground. Duty officers may be slotted into both of these to grant you various conditional and passive effects.
Duty officers may also be sent on assignments granting a wide array of rewards including skill points, bridge officer points, energy credits, Dilithium, commodities, additional duty officers, bridge officers, items, and commendation experience.
Assignments require a certain amount of time to elapse ranging from five minutes to seven days. Time continues to count down even when a player is not logged into the game.
Commendation experience allows a character to advance independently in twelve different categories; one of these, Diplomacy, co-opts the existing Diplomacy system by allowing characters to gain DXP via the assignment system in addition to existing methods. Another, Marauding, is only available to Klingons. Each commendation category has four tiers of advancement. Advancing in a commendation category opens up new assignments and offers special rewards.

Stance Animation Updates:
The following stance animations have been updated
Standard
Brawler
Stern
Creature
Gruff
Relaxed
Swagger
Thoughtful
Feminine
Seductive
Stance animations have received new foot placements to make them blend better with existing emotes.
Small idle poses and animations have also been added per stance to give more variety to players that are standing around.
Females stances have also been fixed up to reduce hand/arm issues that occur w/ “crossed-arms” poses.
Suggestion for you Klingon characters – Try out Brawler, Stern, and Gruff stances!

Tutorial Update
Shooter Mode is now the default configuration for new characters, and the tutorial has been updated to teach people how to use it. Along with that, you can skip the tutorial as long as you’ve completed it at least once before.
If you’ve played the tutorial all the way through before, when starting a new character you’ll be asked if you want to skip it or not. THIS IS THE ONLY PLACE THE SKIP OPTION IS OFFERED. Should you agree to play the tutorial, you will need to play it all the way through to the end.

Currency Update
The currency system has changed! There are now only three forms of major currency in the game:
Energy Credits – Use this to purchase consumables and standard (common) gear.
Gold-Pressed Latinum – Earn this from playing Dabo, and use it to purchase novelty items.
Dilithium – Earn this by completing daily missions, exploration, PVP, and special events. Purchase rare or very rare gear and new ships.
All of the old medals, marks, badges, merits, and emblems will be going away. In the final release, they will be converted over to dilithium. Thus, your old currency will be useful at any level to purchase appropriate gear or ships.
Coming soon: You will receive dilithium ore for your daily missions, and you will need to refine it into dilithium crystals to make purchases. This is an in-progress conversion.

Special Task Force Updates
At Level 45 you can access Normal Versions of all existing Borg STFs.
Invasion
This is the only STF available for this initial launch. (the others will be released as the Beta continues)
The Cure
Khitomer Accords
Each STF has been broken into two 30 minute segments, one space segment and one ground segment per STF.
At 51 you can access Elite Versions of the existing STFs.
These versions are not available in this build
Playing the STFs now requires the use of the public queues or private queues to play.
The public queue requires 5 players
The private queue requires 1 player
This also means you can join an STF from any map that allows queue access.
STF Loot has been updated
There are now many new Space and ground weapons designed to help combat the Borg threat.
Special Vendors have been added to Earth Space Dock and Qo’Nos for collecting the new STF loot.
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[VADM pRett]

Rather than create a separate thread, I think I'll simply post in this one regarding any information I feel is useful. In this case, it's concerning the new Fleet Action, "FED Mirror," as well as means of earning dilithium.

FED Mirror

For those that haven't done it, it's a fairly straightforward FA, defending a starbase against a Mirror Universe (MU) incursion. There are four strike groups (SGs) (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta), and four satellites, which are friendly and marked as "Ally" at a distance. I don't know at this point if it's possible to engage each SG separately. Each SG has a few frigates, cruisers and a battleship.

1) After initial spawn, designate one person to fly to each of the four satellites and start the virus upload. I'm not 100% sure on their function, but it has something to do with reinforcements during the boss battle.
2) During the initial SG engagement, all folks should use a Defensive (or high shield power setting) pre-set.
3) Enagage and eliminate small to large - frigates, cruisers then the battleship
4) As enemies are eliminated, it should be ok to switch fromm Defensive to Attack power configuration
5) During final boss fight, it tends to focus and stay on one target; that target needs to do the following:
5a) use Defensive power allocation
5b) have some means of breaking tractor beam (Polarize Hull, Attack Pattern Omega, etc)
5c) keep Evasive Maneuvers, Engine Batteries and/or Deuterium Surplus ready to get the [BLEEP] out of the Gravity Well it likes to drop (it will often Tractor Beam then Grav Well)
5d) everyone else keep heals and support type abilities for use on the focus, and be in Attack power configuration

Dilithium
For those that haven't heard yet, you will now need refined dilithium (RD) to acquire your next tier ship. You are awarded a decent chunk for your promotion; the only tier that it's sufficient to purchase the next ship is your Tier 2 ship as it currently stands. The devs have talked about addressing the issue, though it's my understanding they do not plan on having you get enough solely by reach the next rank tier (aside from promotion to LC). All of the sources for earning RD are not currently in the build on Tribble. The devs are also looking at how much various sources will give.

The sources I can think of, and know about, aside from promotion are"
Eta Eridani dailies:
Traelus
Sh'mar
(Alhena still gives Deuterium Surplus)