Vesta Aux Phaser Dual Heavy Cannons: improperly depleting aux power bug

vladtheinstaller

Firing the Aux DHC on my Aventine Multi-Mission Recon Explorer causes auxiliary power depletion when fired with Weapon Power based weapons despite the tooltip on the Aux DHCs reading "to self: -12 Auxiliary Power when firing other Auxiliary weapons". I have no other auxiliary weapons installed, just the single Aux DHC.

When fired on its own there is no visible draw from any system, but even if I fire a single turret or beam in addition to it, there is a draw on Auxiliary power. No active abilities were used while I was testing this apparent bug.

According to the tooltip, this appears to be unintended behaviour.

monkeybone13

Hmm. From what I gather you can equip more than 1 of the auxiliary phaser cannons that come with the vesta ships. The tooltip implies it only drains auxiliary power if you have more than 1 equipped.

I don't own the vesta ships, but it seems this exact issue has been reported at least twice a rather long time ago, but didn't seem to go anywhere.

http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1096358/vesta-aux-cannons-power-drain-bugged
http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1125029/vesta-aux-phaser-dual-heavy-cannon-drain-bug-drain-bug

lindaleff

You can have them in all of your forward slots. And with my own Vesta, even having the full set of them, they do not drain any more Auxiliary power then a standard DHC would drain from Weapons. So what you are seeing is either unique to you, or it is a text error. I certainly have no problems from them. The entire point of those weapons is to (FINALLY) give you the ability to eliminate ALL Weapons power, and go with a full power to Auxiliary build, which is what a Science ship should have been doing from the beginning.

At this point, with so many T6 ships, your chances of a fix are near none. But you do have one very simply way of making your bug report a priority. The trick is to make it sound like it impacts PvP in some way, or better yet, a nerf thread. THEN, it will be fixed in the next patch.

vladtheinstaller

Lindaleff: What I'm talking about is not excessive drain from several Aux DHC, but rather a single Aux DHC firing in conjunction with any Weapon Power weapon creates a drain on both systems even though the tooltip from the Aux DHC clearly states that there shouldn't be a draw from Auxiliary power if one Aux DHC is firing, no matter what else is being fired from the Weapons Power pool.