Active: Temporal Surge Trait BUG

spockonweed

Hi there.
I recently bought the new Bozeman Intel Heavy Frigate for its starship trait and have been dealing with a major bug. Whenever Temporal Surge is available on my power bar for use, it goes back to a 2 minute cooldown when I switch maps, beam to my bridge, beam to a hub, etc. I find this to be oddly annoying because it prevents me from being able to use the trait in the current Red Alerts because of how fast they go. I hope this issue is resolved soon. Thank you for your time.

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darkspeaker

I can bet it's on purpose to prevent use right away.

chrian

https://playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11521193

Starship Trait - Active: Temporal Surge

(Note: This is the first time we are offering a Starship Trait that is manually activated. It must be added to your hotbars in order to be used.)

Activating Temporal Surge briefly makes your ship untargetable, fly faster, handle better, and grants 100% Critical Chance for a short duration. This ability has a long recharge time and starts on cooldown. Activating an Intelligence Bridge Officer Ability or spending time in Cloaked or Dark Mode reduces the recharge time slightly. Temporal Surge has a minimum time before it can be used again.

On activation, for 10 sec:

Untargetable (2 seconds in PVP)
+100% Critical Chance
Large Bonus to Flight Speed and Turn Rate
Minimum recharge prevents reuse more than every 40 sec

Base recharge is 100 seconds, before reduced by power activations.

The cooldown is intentional as far as I know at this time.

spockonweed

That is strange. I can understand why there would be a 2 minute cooldown. But, it still does not explain why I get a 2 minute cooldown when I leave the map, enter a bridge, go to a hub, enter a patrol. What good is this trait if I am allowed to barely use it in PVE?

never mind, I had to reread what you said. I still don't agree with the decision, but thank you for the concrete information.

spockonweed

darkspeaker wrote: »

I can bet it's on purpose to prevent use right away.

This should be noted before people buy the Bozeman Intel Heavy Frigate. None of this was listed on the trait's information and if it was, the description was vague to put it lightly.

spockonweed

Thank you both for the update. LLAP.

phoenixc

From the description I suspect that part of the reason for it always starting out on cooldown is to get people to use Intel and stealth abilities more (a lot of people seem to dis Intel especially, ignore dark mode entirely, and only use cloak for SRO boosts rather than for stealth), since it shortens that cooldown.