I seem to be running into this issue with nearly every romulan episode. I had boffs assigned to my ship, but then they aren't. none assigned no skills to use and combat begins. its annoying. I work around it by battle cloaking, waiting for red alert to end, then assigning them again. In my most recent episode memory lane, only my tac officer was unassigned when space combat began, but he's like the most important one. anyways not sure how this happens but I thought you should know, that could be frustrating for new and veteran players alike
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And, possibly related, when I had a new bridge officer join while the stations were all blank, it gave me double the available stations. And they all worked until I changed maps again.
So far opening the stations window and selecting one of the drop downs as if going to assign a boff seems to reset all the previously assigned boffs to the correct places and restore the ability tray.
Solution: go to Stations, look for position showing as blank, use pull-down and wait for system to reinstall Boff originally place at this station. The Boff powers will return to the ships table. This also prevented the Boffs from disappearing when going to ground mission.
Needs to be fixed.
This is what I'm doing too. I've noticed that BOff powers are being randomly placed in my tool tray again, even with it locked, when I assign them to a station.
Let us upgrade the Seleya Ceremonial Lirpa and Kri'stak Blade
As above every map change.
Unselecting my tac officer (change to none) and then reselecting him. Sometimes in sector space all BO skills gone even though they remain slotted, again redo tac and all skills return.
At one point when reruning an old mission to aquire enough skill points to progress (level 11 to 12) all were unslotted after map change.
Hope this helps.
It seems like the BOFFs are there . . . I see face portraits and names but no skills. I also discovered that by opening the stations tab I have a blank BOFF slot, but I do not have to click on that one. If I click on any BOFF station menu, the skills instantly re-appear.
Where this becomes the most annoying is when you warp into a map with combat and you go right into Red Alert, thus preventing you from accessing the stations pull-downs.
EDIT: Okay . . . so I did a force verify on my files and it actually made the issue worse. Now it is random . . . sometimes I get the issue I described above, and sometimes now the offers are indeed being completely unassigned from their slots so I have to reassign them one by one.
Instead they focus on creating crappy expansion ships, not fully developing ships (Kabali Samsar Cruiser only has bridge, no other decks.), or putting the really good ships into the lock boxes where everyone but me wins... over 200 dollars in keys and still no notable t6 ships...
So dont expect Craptic to fix this bug of Duty officers going AWOL anytime soon, if ever.. hell they still havent fixed the massive latency issues.