Tribbliations

Some of the new up and coming stuff is hitting tribble already. The big things on tribble so far are the new trait system and the new warp cores system (so far the only the fed and klingon dil/anti-matter cores, we still have to wait for the romulan artificial singularities). Plus some other minor changes. There's a lot of new variations, so you may want to give tribble a go to test so of the new changes out.

Here's a link to the new stuff on tribble: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=8988361#post8988361

New UI, that's the default fed color scheme. There's several to choose from. About half of them seem to be green. I don't know why all the names of other people are green now, and I couldn't find a way to change it.

So far you just choose between the schemes, several of which seem much the same. There's no editor or color palette to play with to create your own, at least not yet.

There's a tab in your character screen for traits, you can go and pick and choose. There's a way to respec traits, too. They changed several traits, and added some class specific ones.

The new warp cores have a lot of variation on them. I looked at the ones in the dil store, there's a bunch and they affect several different things. The singularity cores are already in the dil store, too. I don't know if you can put a singularity core on a fed or klingon ship, though.

The new tholian reputation is on tribble too. Same as the existing reps, it's got five levels with a power tree as you advance. They also go tholian fighters, and a ground and space set, unlockable via reputation. I'm kinda hoping the new reputation goodies turn out to be garbage, cause I detest the reputation system.

Yay or not being able to tell friend from foe at a distance now!


What do the warp cores do? I've not heard anything about that new mechanic.

Stunshock wrote:Yay or not being able to tell friend from foe at a distance now!


What do the warp cores do? I've not heard anything about that new mechanic.

Right now, your max speed in sector space is determined by your rank (up to warp 10), once warp cores come out the mark level of your core will determine your max speed instead. They're also upping the speeds, so in the future when it says you're going warp 7, for example, you'll be traveling across the map faster than when it says warp 7 now.

In addition to that, the cores have various bonuses. All cores provide +5 to one of your subsystems' energy level. The uncommonm cores will provide +15 bonus to one of six engineering skills. The rare cores provide a synergy bonus, for example you might get a bonus to your engine power based on what percentage you have your shield power set on and so on. The very rare cores get a capacitor power, which is basically like using a battery but rechargeable and not as effective, there's one capacitor/battery power for each subsystem. You get the power for your level of rarity plus all that come before, so the purple ones will have all those abilities.

Finally, mk XI and XII warp cores will all have a bonus to either slipstream or transwarp abilities.