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Mark Unread · 1 reply
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Heretic seems to have a habit of popping into the DOFFJOBS channel on Friday nights to chat and answer questions.

Not as much as last time; excerpts below.

Anyone know what he's talking about re: Vulcan entertainers? I still want an emergency holographic entertainer named Jem. She's truly, truly, truly outrageous!
Heretic wrote:
[9:50] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Narad@Heretic: The colonial assignments are going to be a lot more frequent once my next set of changes gets through the pipeline, to compensate for closing down the Dabo bridges and alternate instances.

[9:50] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Narad@Heretic: The new commodity assignments will be showing up a lot less frequently in about a week .

[9:52] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Narad@Heretic: No strict ETA on the colonial changes...late next week at the earliest, but could be later depending on how the build goes.

[9:53] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Narad@Heretic: Fortify Military is getting dropped from Rare to Uncommon, and the number of colonial chain assignments that show up will be increasing in starclusters.

[9:53] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Narad@Heretic: Story assignment chain does have yellow text. We also are working on better UI for all chains.

[9:53] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Narad@Heretic: Can't talk about mobile yet, but it's being seriously looked at.

[9:54] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Narad@Heretic: Setting Renown to always up assignment would make it way too good...it's not the intention of the chains to give an undending supply of purples, actually. ;-)

[9:54] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Narad@Heretic: For the new story chain, I'll give this as a hunt: Starclusters off the Cardassian region sector maps would be a good place to start.

[9:55] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Narad@Heretic: They have yellow text, yes.

[9:55] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Narad@Heretic: We're working on more ways to access doff assignments, but it may be a while. Lot of hurdles.

[10:07] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Narad@Heretic: (1) Yes, there are Vulcan entertainers, pretty sure. (2) Anyone who knows my Facebook account can see a spoiler about Vulcan entertainers...

[10:30] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Moros@Heretic: Cooldown on the Haggles are bugged. Fix is in the pipeline to take them down to a few hours

TL;DR:
-- Colonial chain assignments will become more available, as already stated in forums. Some steps like the Military Base will become more common.
-- New DS9 "haggle" commodity missions have cooldowns that will be reduced. They will become rarer soon (presumably because they will become available in the C-Store.)
-- Should be some sort of story-related chain mission in the sectors near DS9
-- Something mysterious upcoming about Vulcan entertainers.
-- They are continuing to look at off-line access to Doffing.

Anyone have a link to Heretic's page on "the" Facebook?
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Posted Feb 11, 12 · OP
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Some moar interesting excerpts from tonight, particularly about starbases again. No Soon-type androids for j00!
Heretic wrote:
[9:21][DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Gruagach@Heretic: CBS nixed Data-style androids. Lesser types of androids are negotiable.

[9:21] [DOFFJOBS] Zephyri@Zethyrius: Heretic, out of curiosity, does "Data-type androids" means hyper-real humanistic features and/or positronic functionality, or just looking like Brent Spiner?

[9:21] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Gruagach@Heretic: Means Soong-type androids.

[9:34] [DOFFJOBS] Strix@Frenchy277: Will the new unique doffs from the bundle be available any other way, Heretic?

[9:35] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Gruagach@Heretic: New uniques will not be available elsewhere, though similar ones may.

[9:37] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Gruagach@Heretic: My current primary focus after the doff expansion coming up is fleet advancement and starbases.

[9:39] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Gruagach@Heretic: Starbases owned by fleets is the working idea, yes. Possibly even multiple starbases per fleet.

[9:39] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Gruagach@Heretic: The doff system is planned to integrate into starbases and fleets, yes.

[9:40] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Gruagach@Heretic: If we go down that route, it'd be up to the Fleet if you wanted to build secondary ones or not. Certainly nothing forcing a fleet.

[9:41] [DOFFJOBS] Sydney Bristow@Sekrit_Agent: ^ Yes, go the EVE route. Starbases are public and the fleet has HQ or an Office there.

[9:41] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Gruagach@Heretic: There are a lot of ideas, and we're still early in the design process. I am sure there will be many iterations and many discussions before we get even to Tribble.

[9:41] [DOFFJOBS] <Dev> Gruagach@Heretic: Starbases are only part of some longterm ideas about territorial control. I am definitely not ignorant of EVE.

He also hinted something about having higher Tier commendation levels being related to fleet advancement/starbases, but that scrolled off, hehe.
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Posted Feb 16, 12 · OP
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