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So, where is our auxiliary to X subsystem?

shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I am not talking about aux2batt, I am talking about actual aux2xsubsystem just like ep2xsubsystem.

It was shown on the bigscreen (TV, movies), and is used in many ways similar to emergency power, so why are we not able to use it as such?

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    tunebreakertunebreaker Member Posts: 1,222 Arc User
    Because it would be useless as we already have ep2something which doesn't drain any other power levels.
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    nostalgiamannostalgiaman Member Posts: 43 Arc User
    Because that's what Aux2Batt is. They just didn't make you use 3 different abilities to accomplish the same thing. Just yell "Auxiliary power to Weapons, Mr. Worf!" every time you use it.
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    captainoblivouscaptainoblivous Member Posts: 2,284 Arc User
    nostalgiaman wrote: »
    Because that's what Aux2Batt is. They just didn't make you use 3 different abilities to accomplish the same thing. Just yell "Auxiliary power to Weapons, Mr. Worf!" every time you use it.

    Funny, I don't remember hearing Picard shout "divert auxiliary power to everything!"...
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    leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,344 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    If I remember, Aux power was the power from the fusion reactors powering the Impulse engines and reserve was from power stored in the batteries. Seems short-sighted that in STO your Warp Core powers everything including the engines, especially when considering that in the TV series, ships got by on Impulse when the warp-core was off-line!
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    sirmaydaysirmayday Member Posts: 535 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    In-game, 'emergency power' basically is what was called 'auxiliary power' in-show. The TV series treated auxiliary power like a reserve to be routed to suit the current situation, but in-game it's basically 'your power level for science-y stuff.' Instead, the game calls your otherwise-unused reserve 'emergency power.'
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    shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    sirmayday wrote: »
    In-game, 'emergency power' basically is what was called 'auxiliary power' in-show. The TV series treated auxiliary power like a reserve to be routed to suit the current situation, but in-game it's basically 'your power level for science-y stuff.' Instead, the game calls your otherwise-unused reserve 'emergency power.'

    Actually, they had auxiliary power, emergency power, main power, and battery power!
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    shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    tunebreaker wrote: »
    Because it would be useless as we already have ep2something which doesn't drain any other power levels.

    Technically, just because they used auxiliary power for something, doesn't mean it literally drained auxiliary power to nothing!
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    brian334brian334 Member Posts: 2,214 Arc User
    A rose by any other name would still power your systems...
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