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lordmerc22
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Just a heads up, check your skills page if it has "skills invalid" next to retrain button - most people I know had that problem after last patch. You just got to set your skills again, which is a bit of a pain if you got to do it on more than 5 toons
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I lost 3 of my 28 chars, so check for your chars that there is no one missing
Thanks all accounted and present thank god
Ouch.
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I have some other reports on Reddit, it seems that they are also old chars, from circa 2012, so please check your chars and make sure nothing is missing.
To add to this in case some people are newer to the game and never had "skills invalid"(I last remember it on ViL launch), after clicking "retrain", you not only have to set your skills again(ground and space) but you also have to set your traits again - so if you had some nice build you may want to write skills AND traits down before retrain unless you got it memorized like I do
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This is known, and we intended to list it in the patch notes.
Please accept the free respec by pressing the provided reset button. If you do not, your skill/trait/spec trees will be locked and stuck, preventing your character from functioning correctly in many regards, including (but not limited to):
Unlocking new Traits (of any kind - Personal, Starship, Reputation, etc.)
Changing Boff Specs
Purchasing new Spec Tree Talents
This respec is required due to a re-optimization that was performed to re-write some poorly optimized and error-prone code. There are no player-facing functionality changes.
So, if I am reading this correctly, 1) They knew about the issue 2) 'Forgot' to put it in the patch notes 3) Appear to expect everyone to click on 'Respec' and do the work for them, redoing their setup on every single character they own.
I am not sure whether I want to laugh or cry, its so ridiculous and sad at the same time
Standard incompetence that we have to come to expect from this Dev Team
What happens if we just ignore it? My skills are still allocated, it didn't clear them it just has a skills invalid message at the bottom of my character box.
Am I missing something or can't we just ignore it and leave things as they are?
[EDIT] - I found the answer on Reddit.. here it is.
Per Borticus:
Source.
I also wondered the same thing you did - I looked at my stats on the character I checked, and they seemed unaffected, and performance in an advanced TFO appeared normal. And, to be blunt, there is absolutely zero chance of my performing a respec on the approximately 100 characters I have.
I am afraid that this patch, with its many apparent issues and the way the the new TFO and mission play (when they work), may be the final straw for some people without some serious efforts to not only fix the problems but to apologise for putting it live in this state.
There are other issues that might pop up down the road as well, it's probably best to respec if you can. I 'only' have 10 characters so it's a minor issue for me, but if I had 30, 40, 50+ I would be far more annoyed.
Now I know why I couldn't spend a spec point on a toon this morning.
Seems I have a fair number of characters to respec. To look on the bright side at least some of them needed it and also am not missing any thank goodness.
So, even after re-spec'ing all my characters.. I still can't change BoFF specializations.
This is yet another bug from this patch.. this is really getting old.
Ouch, if your situation is everyone's situation then this is even worse than previously thought.
No, everything from the ship upgrade has worked quite well for me, it's everything else that appears borked.
Does the trait slot show as locked?
Honestly I mark the day in the calendar when they bring new stuff out and don't TRIBBLE something up. I doubt it will ever happen though.
Extremely annoyed here. Respec'ing every alt I have will probably take weeks, especially considering how little time I already have to play. As long as there is no time limit on doing this, as phoenixc mentioned, then I suppose it'll be alright. But in a week or a month when I've forgotten and I switch to an alt who hasn't respec'd, it'll bring a whole new level of misery.
It's a shame they don't have a test server where they could present new content to the players and have it gone over by those outside their little circle to see if there's anything they might have missed.
Losing faith in humanity, one person at a time.
they spend money (and since this one probably doesn't affect new toons made from scratch...)
What, they CAN'T edit their patch notes once they're posted? yeah right, whenever they there's an error they don't catch in other blogs (IE - They promise somethin g because they too often just cut and paste from previous blogs without EVER actually PROOFREADING what they copied...<--- That posted blog gets changed/fixed/updated in SHORT ORDER. But yeah, 'known issues'? Not at Cryptic.
TLDR: Cryptic to old/existing players..."f**k you!"
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It happened when they released ViL too, the first day back then all in the same Armada I asked had skills invalid. Its probably an old problem returning at times from copy-paste parts of older code
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> Honestly I mark the day in the calendar when they bring new stuff out and don't TRIBBLE something up. I doubt it will ever happen though.
They got rid of the Calendar so you can't do that.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'