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SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited January 2010 in PC Gameplay Bug Reports
during when we had the lag problem with people appearing as a ship or human at the wrong enviroments.
It seems my character data for my Andorian was exchanged for my recently bought escort ship. My skills are unaccesible as it says I have to select a officer, my equipment is all star ship equipment. Character protrait disappeared and when on the character log in screen it shows a ship instead of my character. Also my race is now Escort class. when ever I beam down to anywhere I appear as whatever ship is currently active as my ship. It's making ground missions impossible as I move so slowly and cannot attack at all while a ship on ground. (though at times I wish I could have fired a torpedo at a klingon swordmaster)

I put in a Ticket in game but its been almost 24 hours without so much as a update on it. I hate to have to start all over again it makes being able to test the higher ranks near impossible for me.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Wow. I hope they get that fixed for you really quick. I was just telling my roomie about the lag issue, and how I was afraid that it'd happen one time and just wouldn't stop happening. Apparently it did happen to someone. I really do hope that it's an easy fix for your account, since you've got to be at least a Lt Cmdr, and I just recently hit that landmark level last night. I know I wouldn't want to have to go through that again just to keep progressing with the Beta...

    Out of curiosity, though... Have you tried "holstering" your weapons while in ship form or any of the other standard hotkeys, including ship functions? I mean, if it's a bug anyway, you might as well find out just how much it breaks the game, so that the STO repairmen can get a more full picture of just how much code is affected by this glitch. It's what this whole Beta's for in the first place, right?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    i can't access the normal ground controls at all they are grayed out

    Also a friend suggested trying to change your uniform and that didn't work but came up something interesting


    my uniform is Female Fed Ship and is unchangeable even with randomize or reset options, i did spend a but load of merits to change the registry number...that didn't help...also I noticed that while in space my ship name is my character name even though the ship is named Arcadia and the character Imaru

    Since this seems to have happened when i bought my escort I tried to discharge myself and then escort...discharge is grayed out also for me.

    I probably would have been a commander by now If I could actually spend my skill points..ships have no skills.

    and I'm going on over 24 hours with no reply to my bug report and no contact here. I'm thinking I may just have to start over.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    *Sigh*

    Still nothing on this 36 hours now closer to 40 if you count the 3 hours I waited when I thought it might be lag still.

    on a lark I logged in at a friends house to see if it was my install, same problem on his computer with my characters.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Same problem here, only its been five days since I submitted my ticket. On the third day I got a form letter basically stating that cryptic does not guarantee the stability of your character during beta. I've pretty much given up hope at this point. I just really hope this bug doesn't make it into the final version.

    As a warning to whoever reads this, I believe this bug is caused when you purchase a new ship(or possibly when switching ships on the lower level of the shipyard) while you are still in ship form inside the starbase, as this is when it happened to me ansd it sounds like its what happened to the original poster here.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    yeah I think your right

    I finally could discharge my ships since I transferred all I could to my new character, So I got rid of the escort but that didn't help. pretty much I'll leave the character till they reset the game in case they want to check it out. But I'm not having anything to do with it anymore.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Have had the same problem a few times and its really annoying. Have had to log out and then back in.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    been tried many times. I've logged the character in and out 20-30 times since it happened and even played it for 6 hours straight to see if it would ever revert back.
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