Today's Notes 11/12/20

Good Afternoon Everyone....

Turns out this is gonna be a tough week as work as slowed down to barely a crawl, and I can't tell if certain people involved with setting assignments are 'playing favorites'... they say it's not a thing, but c'mon, when I see 'production chart' and see people are getting work that have a much lower production rate than me, I have to suspect something is up.

Anyway, last night I wasn't really sure on what to stream so we just continued Mass Effect, knocking out more side-quests and things, in particular the Dr. Heart quest for Garrus and  the Family Armor quest for Wrex, basically ensuring their loyalty of sorts to Shepard. It's not so much an issue with Garrus but for Wrex it's a big deal considering the impossible decision that comes up on Virmire later in the game. 

As anyone whose followed the brief Animal Crossing New Horizons notes I've posted on Twitter knows, Cube became one of my favorites, but by accident I learned of a featured where if someone is visiting your island and if you don't have room for them they can ask to trade spots with one of your residents... and well I lost Cube. Which makes me wonder can residents eventually move back to the island? Cause sucka gots to know.

Today's Fitness Boxing session was a Strength and Cardio set, at the 'recommended' time length of 35 minutes. Pretty solid for the most part, and once again, moving back and forth and trying to stay in rhythm has led to less pain from my left knee. 

   

 Tonight's stream over on twitch.tv/fredcasden is going to be Star Trek Online, as we continue the journey of my Cardassian in the Klingon Empire, we'll be tackling 3 episodes for sure, maybe even 4 since it's the second half of the Gamma Quadrant story arc. The Best Served Cold event also starts up this week and there are a bunch of patch notes which I'll post below.

Event:  

• Best Served Cold Event:   
  • Best Served Cold is a Featured Task Force Operation New to Star Trek Online! 
    • Earn Daily Progress toward a new grand prize reward by working together with four other Alliance Captains to accomplish battle objectives and ultimately force Aakar from the region. 
  • Participating in this Event will give all players the opportunity to win the Nanopulse Targ Combat Pet 
  • This TFO can be accessed via the new Event UI, accessible within your Mission Journal by pressing on the “Events” Tab. 
• Rewards:  
  • Accruing a total of 14 days’ worth of Daily Progress will allow you to  claim all of these rewards: 
    • Nanopulse Targ (Combat Pet) 
    • 25,000 Dilithium Ore (once only). 
    • 3x Featured TFO Reward Boxes (once only). 
      • This box gives your choice of an Enhanced Universal Tech Upgrade or a Captain Specialization Point Box. 
  • Bonus Rewards: 
    • After claiming the Grand Prize, you will unlock the option of earning additional Dilithium Ore each day, beginning at 8,000 Dilithium Ore for the first day’s completion, and increasing for subsequent days. 
  • Zen Buyout Option:  
    • For Captains interested in instantly completing the Best Served Cold Event, we will be offering the option to purchase the remaining progress of this event at a scaling amount of Zen, as with other recent events. 
  • A Second Chance:  
    • Progress after the Event has ended will remain in an all new Second Chance interface, allowing the option to buyout rewards long after the Event has expired.  

For more information, please visit the “It Is Very Cold...in Space” blog at: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11480683-it-is-very-cold...in-space 

General:  

• The Loadout system has undergone several improvements:  
  • Space Traits are now included in loadouts. 
  • Ship Visuals settings now included in loadouts.  
  • Active Reputation Traits have been separated into Active Reputation Ground Traits and Active Reputation Space Traits. 
    • If Captains have unlocked the fifth trait slot, this will be unlocked for both categories.  
• Improved Auto Hail system to offer next available missions more efficiently.  
• Resolved an issue in the episode, “Khitomer Discord”, that was preventing credit from being given when rescuing all 15 civilians.  
• The title earned by reaching Tier 5 in the Iconian Resistance Reputation has been changed from "Iconian Resistance Elite" to "Iconian Resistance Veteran" so that it is different from the one earned by completing this Reputation's 3-piece ground set. 

 

Systems:  

• The Mirror Escort Carrier [T6] now uses the same scaling methods as other T6 ships: 
  • It can now be upgraded to T6X. 
  • Captains below level 40 will lose access to one or two console slots while leveling up. 
    • For those Captains, all currently slotted consoles will continue to function, and can additionally be unequipped from their current slot 
• All Ground Combat Pets last 5 minutes (down from a max of 10 minutes). 
• All Ground Combat Pets will remain alive and active for their full duration regardless of combat status, unless they are defeated by enemies. 
• Elachi Turret and Drone Devices found on the Lobi Store no longer share a cooldown with Ground Combat Pets. 
• Bio-Engineered Furiadon may no longer be summoned in regions marked as "Vacuum" areas. 
• Holographic Combat Drone (Exocomp) may no longer be summoned while Cloaked.
  

And with that hope you all have a great day!