Originally Posted by Dewar

I, like other engineers, can't use any of my abilities.

Originally Posted by P.R.O.P.H.E.T.

A bunch of my ground powers would not work. No drones, med turrets, shield turrets, or phaser turrets but strangely, quantum mortars worked.

Originally Posted by DogsBody

Embarrassing! Thats the one word that springs to mind having tried to play this mission, embarrassing.

Tried this two days running now with a friend who is a newly joined F2P player that I've been walking through the early levels. Had built up some excitement for the new FE, having explained how good they were in the past and how we've been waiting a year for this one. Having now played this mission, I don't see how it can have received any play testing before being released - it simply doesn't work in far too many ways to list here. (It may very well work in single player - I'll try tonight but this is an MMO, if a mission doesn't work with a team, it has no right being in the game.)

Just briefly, some of the bugs we encountered while trying to do this mission:

* NPCs for the initial diplomatic optionals do not talk to you and then one of the team can get a completion response from them that doesn't update the quest for the rest of the team.
* Quests appear to complete without you doing the required actions - the stem bolts one completed before we'd even found the guy that wanted to get rid of them (we purposely went round together on the second run through, only talking to one NPC at a time).
* Can't get some of the NPCs to talk to you once you get into the conference room.
* Get stuck in the conference room and can't get out after the Jem Hadar attack.
* Whole team getting kicked back to the login screen with some bad map transfer message.
* Complete the mission and arrive at Bajor but only one of the party gets their mission completed, it just resets to the start for the others.

I'm sure there are more but I honestly didn't bother noting them all down - I was trying to have fun, not beta test someone's work.

This has been publicized to the F2P players as a highpoint of what STO can offer, I seriously believe in its current state it will be driving this new players away because if this is supposedly the best the game has to offer, the game should still be a long way away from completing its beta testing and is no way ready for release to the general public!

Cryptic, you simply can't release stuff in this state if you expect STO to survive.

Originally Posted by Liath

Any chance of providing a schedule/calendar somewhere on the site of these "scheduled" maintenances? I know f2p and such is probably requiring these more frequent updates, but if that is so perhaps maintaining a calendar showing the coming week's downtime would assist the playerbase in planning their gaming and also cut down the number of "server down!!!" posts etc which spring up as soon as maintenance starts.