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pwlaughingtrendy
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Hey everyone,
So the team is aware of an issue that Captains are having with their skill points and specialization points. Right now, some players are getting a bug where it states that their skills are invalid and they cannot respec. We're looking into it and will update you as soon as we have more information. I'll keep ya posted.
~LaughingTrendy
So the team is aware of an issue that Captains are having with their skill points and specialization points. Right now, some players are getting a bug where it states that their skills are invalid and they cannot respec. We're looking into it and will update you as soon as we have more information. I'll keep ya posted.
~LaughingTrendy
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Does that mean it will be patched/fixed today even so? We're basically all having this.
I suspect the bug is related to our lack of ability to replicate bacon. Should probably get someone on that.
But on two different characters (Drake@turbomagnus and R'mel@turbomagnus), the second number has been much higher - over 700,000 for Drake and 1,498,620 for R'mel... and I might be wrong, but isn't this number supposed to be the minimum necessary Skill Points to unlock Admiral-rank skills... if it's registering a much higher minimum than a player has skill points to fill, despite the fact that they already have points in those skills, that would cause a glitch in the code, wouldn't it?
The thing is... Drake is level 55, R'mel level 60... I'm not sure, but I'm thinking the amount of skill points the game is trying to claim is their minimum necessary might be related to that somehow as well...
^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
This information should have been posted here. I don't care if these forums aren't 'friendly' enough, these are the official forums and so information like this should be posted here for the players to see. We should not have to dig through half a dozen unrelated websites to find this stuff out.
I absolutly agree, as that is some serious HS BS going on there. I just havent said anything myself about it, but yeah, you never see bortesque make comments here, but he is all over Reddit.
I hope the devs are aware that makes them right there, seem affiliated with the troll fleets in the game..... or that their actual members, who give a TRIBBLE about the game, are left out of the loop, because of the amount of commentary there, and zero here.... Even the twitter/facebook stuff.... i mean come on.
SHOW PRIDE IN YOUR OWN COMMUNITY!
EDIT: Trendy is always all over everything though, but i mean, yeah she is the only one you ever see here, and over at reddit, you have like 5 people that are staff anyway commenting on everything almost immediatly.
Here's an explanation of the issue:
When the system flags you as "Skills Invalid" it prevents adding/removing any powers to/from your Captain. This includes Skills, Traits, and Specs. It's all related to the one issue that's invalidating your skills. In the case of this particular bug, it's directly related to the Delta T4 Reputation Trait, "Enhanced Rending Shots."
The change we checked in that improved this power's performance on the server, required a small re-structure to the PowerTree related to the Delta Reputation, where when you earned T4 you are actually being given 3 powers instead of 2. One (the new one we had to add) is automatic, and doesn't require Slotting, but also does not activate on your character unless Enhanced Rending Shots is slotted. However, it the PowerTree itself was still flagged to only purchase 2 nodes within that Tier, and so when given 3 options it didn't know what to do with itself and continuously failed to meet Skill Validation.
We fixed that. Enhanced Rending Shots still has its performance improved, and the Reputation System no longer seizes up when more than 2 nodes exist within a PowerTree Tier.
Stay tuned for more information from the team on how and when this fix will be rolled out to Holodeck
Cryptic - Lead Systems Designer
"Play smart!"
I don't believe you. This is clearly just the first of the many unintended consequences of that blasted timeship! Skill point paradox where in this new timeline you didn't train those skills, but you are temporally shielded so you remember training those skills.
Hey good job, now show priority over your own forums, and not reddit.com. People are here to help you get the word out, that do not want to partake in that particular trollfest. 1 is enough :P
ORLY!? post above yours borticus just thoroughly explained it was rep related.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
Thank you for a full explanation of the issue, some of us really appreciates it. Hoping for a reboot soon, so we can start enjoying this evening. I got a four hour window, so keeping my fingers crossed that it will be fixed before then.
Based on what Bort said, the system is trying to slot three powers into two slots, regardless of whether or not the power is equipped. The system can't do that so it freezes up and give an error which prevents slotting of new abilities. Oddly, I can still change my equipped character and starship traits.
It doesn't matter if you're using it or not. Once you reach T4 Delta, you "have" the Trait. It only becomes active when slotted, but the system still had to attempt to add the power (in an inactive state) to your character.
Cryptic - Lead Systems Designer
"Play smart!"
Ideally this information would be posted here before reddit. I have nothing against reddit, it's simply that is the official forum for the game and so it should be the first and only required stop for people looking for this information.
Glad to hear that there will be an emergency patch for it and we won't have to wait for next week. I figured that would be the case anyway but confirmation is nice.