41 pages later and no announced patch. Brilliant. Should have been bug-hunted and hotfixed immediately.
I never really believed in coincidences but, coincidentally, this bug came about when the Anniversary Even was extended and the Temporal Ambassador mission was updated. That means that, in order to get their pound of flesh, the Devs will not even attempt to fix this bug until after the end of the Anniversary Event which, I notice by the time, should be a few minutes ago. However, today is a holiday so I very much doubt there is anyone working at Cryptic HQ. That means tomorrow at the earliest.
Now, I really hope they will prove me wrong by making an announcement that things are almost resolved -- and that things truly are resolved today. I also hope for a public apology about the way players have been treated this weekend but I know that is never going to happen.
Disclaimer: This post is in no way intended to be a troll or flame or slur of any other kind towards anyone or anything either directly or indirectly involved in or with, or not involved in or with, Star Trek Online and I proffer my sincerest apologies to anyone who believes it is directed to the aforementioned.
I...am sad. I wanted to spend today doing some Omega missions, but without any BOFFs, that's equivocal with suicide. Like others, I find it annoying since this happened to me when playing the Temporal Ambassador mission, and something that should have been awesome is now a major annoyance.
P.S. Tried everything on the thread that has been mentioned. Nothing works.
I dont know if this has been mentioned before but a sure fire fix i've found is to go to a different sector then transwarp to your fleet star base.
Has worked every time for me and its happened to me about 7 or 8 times so far. MAJOR annoyance though, at least the devs have put out a notice telling everyone its being looked in to.
I am in the same boat. I am not able to use any bridge officers. I hope the get this fixed fast.
In the mean time, I have been playing pretending my ship has a skeleton crew and all officers on my ship are suffering from a crippling desease. lol It make is more easy to accept.
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Klingons should Beware of Maverick.
Maverick loves a fight and tends to be victorious even as the underdog.
He has an aptitude for tactics,guerrilla warfare and security.
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Not on Current Assignment.-On Retirement leave at Leach Lake in Minnesota
It worked well for me: go to your shuttle bridge and then you can set everything back again.
tried it to no successs. it states i have no bride officers
Retired Rear Admiral-Jay Maverick-
Known simply as -Maverick-
Klingons should Beware of Maverick.
Maverick loves a fight and tends to be victorious even as the underdog.
He has an aptitude for tactics,guerrilla warfare and security.
"United Federation of Planets"
12th Fleet - Intelligence Division "Khalija" - Alpha Group
Not on Current Assignment.-On Retirement leave at Leach Lake in Minnesota
I dont know if this has been mentioned before but a sure fire fix i've found is to go to a different sector then transwarp to your fleet star base.
Has worked every time for me and its happened to me about 7 or 8 times so far. MAJOR annoyance though, at least the devs have put out a notice telling everyone its being looked in to.
That is no help at all for people who are not in a Fleet so it is not a sure fire fix, just a possible fix for members of Fleets and, perhaps, their invited friends.
And can you tell me where this Dev notice is, please? I certainly haven't seen one but then, I may be looking in all the wrong places.
Disclaimer: This post is in no way intended to be a troll or flame or slur of any other kind towards anyone or anything either directly or indirectly involved in or with, or not involved in or with, Star Trek Online and I proffer my sincerest apologies to anyone who believes it is directed to the aforementioned.
Here to add my angst to this discussion. I just hit level 40, got my new ship... cant slot my boff's. I have tried changing ships, moving to new areas, visiting the bridge, warping, trans warping, screaming at my computer, cursing the Gods... Nothing works. I don't even get a message when i try to put an officer in the appropriate station. It will not do jack squat.
Looking back, it seems this issue started around last November. Sad that it hasn't been resolved yet.:mad:
Had this bug too. I'm an ex subscriber testing how things have changed (must say not being able to use Boffs is not a good indication). Got this on all my characters including my brand new ones, the very first officer I received during training would not go to her station. I managed to get it to work on two characters through two methods:
On my old klingon character I sorted it by going to an exploration planet, one I had partially completed before going inactive.
On my new federation toon I tried pretty much everything, finally got it to work by transferring to a instance of the Sol System where there were 0 other players.
Seems in general the things that work involve ending up in low population areas: exploration planets, fleet starbases, bridges, shuttles. Whatever it is this needs to be a priority issue, there is no guaranteed workaround and it makes for one hell of a bad first impression. An MMO where you can't use your abilities? If I were trialing for the first time I'd have given up there and then.
Buy a shuttle or small ship if you don't already have one. Assigned a boff to that small ship. That will free up the boff to be able to assign it to the large ships. Rinse, repeat for any large ship boff station that doesn't work. If it still doesn't work, enter small ship bridge interior and do as above. Although the former seems to work every time now for me.
Yesterday I made a new Alt, and after the Tutorial I went to the ESD Shipyard to switch into my C-Store Light Escort NX Replica ship and that's when I encounted the BOff bug. I can not assign my Amazon Borg, Referral PhotoBO, nor my Vet Android to my ship. Tried the Light Cuiser Connie, but can't do it there either. Tried different Zones and relogging, no help. I gave up and stopped playing.
Today I'm seeing this thread in the forums and will try some of the recommended workarounds. Here's hoping one of them works. I'll post back with my results. Thanks.
You can find/contact me in game as @PatricianVetinari. Playing STO since Feb 2010.
Buy a shuttle or small ship if you don't already have one. Assigned a boff to that small ship. That will free up the boff to be able to assign it to the large ships. Rinse, repeat for any large ship boff station that doesn't work. If it still doesn't work, enter small ship bridge interior and do as above. Although the former seems to work every time now for me.
Not everyone can afford to buy a small ship/shuttle and nor should they. There should be no need to pay money to assign BOff's. This is another way for Cryptic to line their coffers with our cash. The longer they leave the bug in place the more people will buy unnecessary ships to help assign their BOff's.
Disclaimer: This post is in no way intended to be a troll or flame or slur of any other kind towards anyone or anything either directly or indirectly involved in or with, or not involved in or with, Star Trek Online and I proffer my sincerest apologies to anyone who believes it is directed to the aforementioned.
My Delta class shuttle with two BOff slots doesn't work, either. So the shuttle trick isn't a guarantee. Tried it with a Runabout, too, but it didn't make any difference.
All my BOff slots are "None" on every ship and shuttle I own on one of my characters, and I can't slot them. Was going to buy the Vesta pack for my Science captain, but he's the one unable to slot any bridge officers ... so I guess not.
I'm quite certain no one is even looking at this since it's a holiday weekend. Maybe we'll hear something Tuesday ... haha, right. Friday more like.
Got this bug to after the Temporal Ambassador Mission. Solved it by transwarping to Fleetstarbase, there i could reasign my BO?s. Worked on every Char.
Not everyone can afford to buy a small ship/shuttle and nor should they. There should be no need to pay money to assign BOff's. This is another way for Cryptic to line their coffers with our cash. The longer they leave the bug in place the more people will buy unnecessary ships to help assign their BOff's.
Would you please complain somewhere else. I mentioned a fix that worked for me. Cost is 34k for a shuttle.
We obviously should not have to buy anything to try to work around a bug. Stating the obvious is kinda pointless. As is your disclaimer.
I got this as well, tried the zone to every new map I could find, didn't work. Even tried logging out and back in, didn't work.
What did work was to commission a new bridge officer, one for each slot I had. The new officer went into the BO slot, and then I could change it out for the BOFFs that I had there, but I had to do this for every slot. I couldn't get one Eng BOFF for all the Eng slots.
Would you please complain somewhere else. I mentioned a fix that worked for me. Cost is 34k for a shuttle.
We obviously should not have to buy anything to try to work around a bug. Stating the obvious is kinda pointless. As is your disclaimer.
Umm, where else would you like me to complain? Incidentally, the fix that worked for you has already been posted in this thread so repeating it is, in your words, kinda pointless.
As for the 'disclaimer' -- well, that is a signature. It is an attempt at humor. You do understand humor, I trust?
Whether you do or not, I can't be bothered arguing with you so let me just wish you a pleasant and safe visit to Star Trek Online.
Disclaimer: This post is in no way intended to be a troll or flame or slur of any other kind towards anyone or anything either directly or indirectly involved in or with, or not involved in or with, Star Trek Online and I proffer my sincerest apologies to anyone who believes it is directed to the aforementioned.
Lost slotting of Boffs on all my toons after Temporal Ambasador mission. I tried several of the solutions posted in haphard manor (angry mode). What worked for me was starting with the primary toon and going to the bridge to reslot while in sector space (Tau Dewa sector block). I then tried other toons in ESD and other sectors, but they did not slot. ESD, Sirius sector, and Alpha Centauri didn't reslot on the bridge. (other sectors -DK) Resloted all the remaining toons in Regulus or Tau Dewa while on the Bridge. PS - may be key starting with primary toon.
I had this problem, with my ship from ambassador mission as KDF, other ships had no problembs.
In the Galdara-station.
After chosing the new ship with the problem, i went to my ships interior, received an update(patch) than I set on my captains seat, and tried to put my bridge officers on their places, and this time it worked.
So perhaps they patched it, i will try it now with my Fed. toon.
After trying every suggestion I had come across in this thread to no avail, this fix worked for me. For those without access to a starbase [like me], I'd suggest visiting your starship bridge and trying it from there.
Yes, this is VERY annoying. Please fix ASAP. Can't change Boffs, AND/OR can't fill EMPTY slots! Cryptic you sure do find new and interesting ways to TRIBBLE things up! :mad:
Sometimes I think I play STO just to have something to complain about on the forums.
After trying everything under the stars, I finally found a fix that worked for me. Hopefully this will help those who have tried everything else with no success.
In the top right hand corner, at the top of the minimap is the name of your current map with a # next to it. Click on it and change your instance. Simple as that. Give it a shot, hope this helps someone.
After trying everything under the stars, I finally found a fix that worked for me. Hopefully this will help those who have tried everything else with no success.
In the top right hand corner, at the top of the minimap is the name of your current map with a # next to it. Click on it and change your instance. Simple as that. Give it a shot, hope this helps someone.
Live long and prosper!:cool:
Good grief ... please don't make it this simple!!
I mean, I hope its this simple :P
I'll try to post here what works for me ... when I get to my gaming comp later.
After the Temporal Ambassador mission, behind I get the Support Cruiser Retrofit, I did a "cleanner" in my Ships slots, discarding my first and second ships.
Then, I get the Cruiser, and try assign BOFF to stations, but it?s fail. After, I changed for the old ship, and it?s fail too.
Now, I don?t assign any BOFF to any stations, in all ships.
Is anyone having issues with assigning bridge officers? I got a new ship and when I try to assign the bridge positions, the tag continues to read none. I tried to go back to my old ship with the same results. I'm not going to play until I can assign these positions or I'll get my butt handed to me. Thanks.
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This bug is bad, and you should feel bad.
Tried to reassign my bridge officer and of course the stupid program wouldn't let me.
Changing the map instance did not work.
I visited my bridge, and then went back to tactical. Now I can reassign them
Dumbest bug ever
I never really believed in coincidences but, coincidentally, this bug came about when the Anniversary Even was extended and the Temporal Ambassador mission was updated. That means that, in order to get their pound of flesh, the Devs will not even attempt to fix this bug until after the end of the Anniversary Event which, I notice by the time, should be a few minutes ago. However, today is a holiday so I very much doubt there is anyone working at Cryptic HQ. That means tomorrow at the earliest.
Now, I really hope they will prove me wrong by making an announcement that things are almost resolved -- and that things truly are resolved today. I also hope for a public apology about the way players have been treated this weekend but I know that is never going to happen.
P.S. Tried everything on the thread that has been mentioned. Nothing works.
Hope it will be fixed by the next patch because nothing works till then
Has worked every time for me and its happened to me about 7 or 8 times so far. MAJOR annoyance though, at least the devs have put out a notice telling everyone its being looked in to.
In the mean time, I have been playing pretending my ship has a skeleton crew and all officers on my ship are suffering from a crippling desease. lol It make is more easy to accept.
Known simply as -Maverick-
Klingons should Beware of Maverick.
Maverick loves a fight and tends to be victorious even as the underdog.
He has an aptitude for tactics,guerrilla warfare and security.
"United Federation of Planets"
12th Fleet - Intelligence Division "Khalija" - Alpha Group
Not on Current Assignment.-On Retirement leave at Leach Lake in Minnesota
tried it to no successs. it states i have no bride officers
Known simply as -Maverick-
Klingons should Beware of Maverick.
Maverick loves a fight and tends to be victorious even as the underdog.
He has an aptitude for tactics,guerrilla warfare and security.
"United Federation of Planets"
12th Fleet - Intelligence Division "Khalija" - Alpha Group
Not on Current Assignment.-On Retirement leave at Leach Lake in Minnesota
That is no help at all for people who are not in a Fleet so it is not a sure fire fix, just a possible fix for members of Fleets and, perhaps, their invited friends.
And can you tell me where this Dev notice is, please? I certainly haven't seen one but then, I may be looking in all the wrong places.
Looking back, it seems this issue started around last November. Sad that it hasn't been resolved yet.:mad:
On my old klingon character I sorted it by going to an exploration planet, one I had partially completed before going inactive.
On my new federation toon I tried pretty much everything, finally got it to work by transferring to a instance of the Sol System where there were 0 other players.
Seems in general the things that work involve ending up in low population areas: exploration planets, fleet starbases, bridges, shuttles. Whatever it is this needs to be a priority issue, there is no guaranteed workaround and it makes for one hell of a bad first impression. An MMO where you can't use your abilities? If I were trialing for the first time I'd have given up there and then.
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The ship camera is still NOT behaving the way it did before the problem.
It's not tracking targets.
RIP KDF and PvP 2014-07-17 Season 9.5 - Death by Dev
Today I'm seeing this thread in the forums and will try some of the recommended workarounds. Here's hoping one of them works. I'll post back with my results. Thanks.
You can find/contact me in game as @PatricianVetinari. Playing STO since Feb 2010.
Not everyone can afford to buy a small ship/shuttle and nor should they. There should be no need to pay money to assign BOff's. This is another way for Cryptic to line their coffers with our cash. The longer they leave the bug in place the more people will buy unnecessary ships to help assign their BOff's.
All my BOff slots are "None" on every ship and shuttle I own on one of my characters, and I can't slot them. Was going to buy the Vesta pack for my Science captain, but he's the one unable to slot any bridge officers ... so I guess not.
I'm quite certain no one is even looking at this since it's a holiday weekend. Maybe we'll hear something Tuesday ... haha, right. Friday more like.
Would you please complain somewhere else. I mentioned a fix that worked for me. Cost is 34k for a shuttle.
We obviously should not have to buy anything to try to work around a bug. Stating the obvious is kinda pointless. As is your disclaimer.
What did work was to commission a new bridge officer, one for each slot I had. The new officer went into the BO slot, and then I could change it out for the BOFFs that I had there, but I had to do this for every slot. I couldn't get one Eng BOFF for all the Eng slots.
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Umm, where else would you like me to complain? Incidentally, the fix that worked for you has already been posted in this thread so repeating it is, in your words, kinda pointless.
As for the 'disclaimer' -- well, that is a signature. It is an attempt at humor. You do understand humor, I trust?
Whether you do or not, I can't be bothered arguing with you so let me just wish you a pleasant and safe visit to Star Trek Online.
After trying every suggestion I had come across in this thread to no avail, this fix worked for me. For those without access to a starbase [like me], I'd suggest visiting your starship bridge and trying it from there.
In the top right hand corner, at the top of the minimap is the name of your current map with a # next to it. Click on it and change your instance. Simple as that. Give it a shot, hope this helps someone.
Live long and prosper!:cool:
Good grief ... please don't make it this simple!!
I mean, I hope its this simple :P
I'll try to post here what works for me ... when I get to my gaming comp later.
Then, I get the Cruiser, and try assign BOFF to stations, but it?s fail. After, I changed for the old ship, and it?s fail too.
Now, I don?t assign any BOFF to any stations, in all ships.
Does anyone know the fix for it?
jim