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Shields From K7 Vendor Cost Wrong Medals

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited March 2010 in The Academy
I submitted multiple bugs about this in the open beta and it still has not been fixed.

When you go to the equipment vendor at Deepspace K7 for captain and higher level equipment, every single shield part (and only those [ship] shields) at that vendor (to the immediate left of the room) from resilient to covariant, etc, costs MEDALS OF COMMENDATION, the commander level PvP medal, instead of MEDALS OF DISTINCTION, the captain level medal.

So it brings me 2 questions, well 3 actually:
1. Are we intentionally supposed to earn the commendation medals at commander level and pre-purchase captain level shields before even reaching captain?
2. Is this just a mismatch/error on Cryptic's part, when the shields are actually supposed to cost distinction?
3. Why has this not been fixed yet? I'm assuming multiple people besides myself have discovered this in beta and up to now.

I hope to hear others' thoughts on this issue and pray for a patch for this in the near future.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Well another patch has been put out and the medals have STILL NOT been fixed!!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    In Sol station you can buy Captain level shields with Commander level exploration badges, the other way around. There are so many bugs and issues that needs to be fixed in this game, I submit at least 2-3 bug reports every day. So don't hold your breath ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Not a bug. This is defiantly intentional. The idea would be that once you're captain, you have done enough commander missions to buy captain equipment and start competing as a captain. Rather would you want to be a captain with sub par equipment until halfway to admiral?


    You say it needs to be fixed so insistently, but what is broken about it? By the time you rank to captain, you have a nice set of captain shields to do the captain missions with. This has nothing to do with a programming bug. It is a design decision. Bugs are unexpected behavior.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    flowover wrote: »
    Not a bug. This is defiantly intentional. The idea would be that once you're captain, you have done enough commander missions to buy captain equipment and start competing as a captain. Rather would you want to be a captain with sub par equipment until halfway to admiral?


    You say it needs to be fixed so insistently, but what is broken about it? By the time you rank to captain, you have a nice set of captain shields to do the captain missions with. This has nothing to do with a programming bug. It is a design decision. Bugs are unexpected behavior.

    If it was consistent with the other ranks, I would agree with you. But you can't by Admiral shields with Captain badges, or Commander shields with Lt. Commander badges. And a bug is something that is not working as intended when they programmed it. Alas, when you think something is wrong you report it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    This is a universal bug, Klingons suffer from it as well. On the bright side, since there are no Admiral shields you can always farm up dailies until you've enough for a honor shield. It's only 10 more levels away in a tier nobody really plays anyways.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    This with out question a bug and this should have been fixed some time ago where people get the logic that this was intended baffles me. I have issued a bug reports for it and when you search tickets it doesn't come up as some thing people have reported before. HHMMM are they ignoring this issue intentionally? i
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    I have this exact same problem, I submitted a bug ticket but I see that other people have as well and they still have not fixed this. I actually spent time farming up the captain badges just to get a new shield and got a rude surprise when I went to the K7 vendor.

    honestly, the number of little easily fixable bugs like this all throughout this game makes me not want to pay to play this. :mad:
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