It is possible to rotate your bridge officers in order to cause your Bridge Officer Powers to drop their cooldown.
Normally, when you have a bridge officer power, it has a cooldown associated with it. The idea is that you put ranks into your bridge officers so that you can lessen the cooldown, thus allowing you to use it more often.
This bug effectively allows you to circumvent this intended logic.
How to repeat:
1) Use a bridge officer power. Preferably one with a long cooldown - the situation which this bug most benefits.
2) While out of combat, go to your assignments tab and switch any bridge officer for another. This can be either the officer with the power on cooldown, or another.
3) If you switched the officer with the ability on cooldown, switch it back. The power is now removed from cooldown, and instead has a much shorter global cooldown applied to it (and all your other bridge officers).
While this can only be done while out of combat, it allows an otherwise very damaged ship to juggle around abilities and power themselves back up to full power in a very short period of time. This could be very bad in PVP, as it allows players to run away and heal themselves up to full and swing around to attack again before someone else, unaware of this bug, can be repaired.
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