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Adapted MACO 2pc hull regeneration passive STILL broken after 2 years.

wrathofachilleswrathofachilles Member Posts: 937 Arc User
This matter has been reported but unaddressed since at least October 2017 according to a forum search that shows a thread by Wutang:

https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/discussion/1235551/adapted-maco-set

And again by yours truly at the beginning of this year:

https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/discussion/1246151/adapted-maco-space-2pc-malfunction

Oh well, here here we go again:

The Adapted MACO 2pc set bonus called "Tactical Readiness" is supposed to provide +25% torpedo damage, regenerate 3.5% of max hull every 6 seconds, and +9.5 auxiliary power.

When equipped, I assume the +25% torpedo damage is being applied properly as the formulas that go into that don't translate to a direct 25% boost, and the power level appears to apply correctly as well, but the hull regeneration is clearly not.

The hull regeneration promised should be equivalent to 35% per minute (3.5% per 6 seconds=10 applications within a 60 second time period so 3.5*10=35% regeneration per minute), but the per minute regeneration rate on the ship status screen goes up by just 3.5% when equipped.

One might think that the text is simply misleading or that the regeneration is some how happening correctly, but I do not believe so. The Assimilated Borg Technology Set 2pc ability, "Autonomous Regeneration Sequencer" Claims to provide a regeneration of 1% of hull every 2 seconds. This translates to 30% hull regeneration per minute. It also provides 10 damage control. That combined with the 10.6 damage control from the deflector explains why a deflector+engine equipped from the set provides: +40.3 hull regeneration- sort of. I believe it is technically supposed to provide 50.3% out of combat as damage control is supposed to provide equivalent percentage out of combat and 1/5th percentage in combat but... whatever. The point is, the Borg 2 piece is dramatically outperforming on the hull regeneration promised according to the ship status screen compared to the Adapted MACO 2 piece.

If this is a text/tool tip glitch only and it is in fact *somehow* performing correctly behind the scenes, no one has ever bothered to respond to one of my tickets or to one of these threads to tell me, and clearly hasn't bothered correcting the text glitch if that is all it is... for over 2 years. When I recently submitted a ticket for the Mycelial crisis event not properly paying out my last dilithium prize, I promptly received a response from a GM saying they have received several complaints and forwarded them to the appropriate parties, but that I should post on the forums because:

"Even though the developers and QA team may not reply, they will see it there and hopefully look into the issue. This will allow other players to discuss the issue, give feedback, provide reproduction steps and possible resolutions, and bring the issue to the developer's attention. Please note that these kinds of issues need development time in order for the fixes to be made and applied in-game, so be sure to check our website or forums for any official updates about the fixes."

Apparently emphasis on "hopefully." Well this issue was reported 2 years ago, and at the beginning of this year, and because developers/QA don't bother replying, we don't even know if it's actually been seen. And surely it does not take 2 years to fix the problem or even the months since my first report of this year.
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