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Preorder Borg BO has no Traits?

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Yeah... just got my sexy Two of Five and had to notice that she has no traits at all :(.

I mean, come on.. even the white common BOs you get during the tutorial at level 1 have traits, why not my unique Borg BO?

Or is it just another bug in the UI and the traits are simply not shown?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    they were noted as having traits efficient and nanites....so i'd assume its a bug.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    >> traits efficient and nanites

    Those are the character traits, not the BO traits.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Where did you get it? I entered my key on the page, but it doesn't turn up in the store or anywhere else in the game.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    i entered the key and after that was able to "buy" the BO in the C-Store for free (as well as the Ambasador title).

    but like i said in my first post, the traits doesnt show up under the status tab of the Borg BO.
    all my other BOs have their 4 traits listed there so i guess the bo has NO traits at all OR the display is bugged... now i like to know what of the both cases is true because a bo without traits will always be weaker than a bo with traits because they all can have the same 4 active skills...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    i entered the key and after that was able to "buy" the BO in the C-Store for free (as well as the Ambasador title).

    but like i said in my first post, the traits doesnt show up under the status tab of the Borg BO.
    all my other BOs have their 4 traits listed there so i guess the bo has NO traits at all OR the display is bugged... no i like to know what of the both cases is true because a bo without traits will always be weaker than a bo with traits because they all can have the same 4 active skills...

    This. I'm curious about this as well. Is it just a display bug?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I remember when I first added the Brog BO from the C Store to my inventory that it showed 3 ground and 5 space abilities. So something definitely was screwy here. After having the officer join the crew, it showed 4 skills for ground and space. At neither time did it show any traits.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I remember when I first added the Brog BO from the C Store to my inventory that it showed 3 ground and 5 space abilities. So something definitely was screwy here. After having the officer join the crew, it showed 4 skills for ground and space. At neither time did it show any traits.

    mouse over the borg bo in the c store (even if you already purchased it) and you will see it again...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    no informations about this?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I remember when I first added the Brog BO from the C Store to my inventory that it showed 3 ground and 5 space abilities. So something definitely was screwy here. After having the officer join the crew, it showed 4 skills for ground and space. At neither time did it show any traits.

    It was a typo, the 4th space ability showed up as a ground ability. The abilites are listed at http://www.startrekonline.com/exclusives and here is what they say for the Boff:
    Ground Abilities
    * Ensign: Shield Recharge 1
    * Lieutenant: Weapons Malfunction II
    * Lt. Commander: Shield Generator Malfunction II
    * Commander: Reroute Power to Shields III


    Space Abilities
    * Ensign: Emergency Power to Shields I
    * Lieutenant: Engineering Team II
    * Lt. Commander: Directed Energy Modulation II
    * Commander: Aceton Field III

    The say "The Borg Bridge Officer possesses unique abilities not otherwise available to players." but most of those abilities are regular engineering powers so I was kind of confused on that. I sat down with the list of available Boff powers though and figured out what they meant. The Commander level abilities are normally only available as "II" level, not "III" for those powers. So that's where the bonus is; we get them as III instead of II like usual.

    The Aceton III though shows up in the ground list in game by accident in the popup.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Naevius wrote:
    >> traits efficient and nanites

    Those are the character traits, not the BO traits.

    there the same it was in the pre order *** sadly that pag is gone now thou
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    ambience wrote: »
    It was a typo, the 4th space ability showed up as a ground ability. The abilites are listed at http://www.startrekonline.com/exclusives and here is what they say for the Boff:


    The say "The Borg Bridge Officer possesses unique abilities not otherwise available to players." but most of those abilities are regular engineering powers so I was kind of confused on that. I sat down with the list of available Boff powers though and figured out what they meant. The Commander level abilities are normally only available as "II" level, not "III" for those powers. So that's where the bonus is; we get them as III instead of II like usual.

    The Aceton III though shows up in the ground list in game by accident in the popup.




    eh... traits != skills... BOs have traits as well... this is what this thread is about because it seems like the borg BO does not have traits.
    even the "white" tutorial starting BOs have traits.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I noticed this as well; it seems the Borg BO is a bit bugged. They don't have their "species" traits listed (unknown if it is a listing error or an actual error), the ground vs. space skill list is messed up, and I noticed that under their summary listing they have a Martial Arts package, as if they had a kit or some Tactical officer skill. I suspect that last element is either what we get instead of their species traits, or that a bug has the martial arts instead of them.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    eh... traits != skills... BOs have traits as well... this is what this thread is about because it seems like the borg BO does not have traits.
    even the "white" tutorial starting BOs have traits.

    Yeah, I know. I was replying specifically to someone who commented on how the skills were listed for ground/space (quoted section in my post). I hadn't noticed the missing traits though tbh, so was unaware of that issue.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Bump, when are the Borg Bridge officers going to get the traits they were sold to having?? Why did I waste money on buying something that you guys didn't provide? I would have never ordered through Amazon if I knew you guys were going to nerf the Borg Bridge officer into only an average Bridge Officer.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    bump again in the hope of some informations...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    All quest reward BOs had the exact same problem in the Open Beta.

    They only listed Skills at Ranks instead of Traits... most of us dropped those BOs in favor of the "normal" NPC sold ones to fix it

    I have no doubt they will fix them eventually... i just wonder if they will refund skill points spent on them when they replace the faulty BOs?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I also wish to know what the problem is with the Borg BO not showing any traits whatsoever...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    ok devs responded to this:

    http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?p=1945597#post1945597
    Hey guys! We wanted to all let you know that we've made a great discovery in researching the missing traits on the Borg Bridge Officers.

    They actually are not even missing their skills. There is a bug involved here, but fortunately the bug is that those skills are not displaying on the character. The skills should be there, and should even be getting used by the bridge officer in fact.

    We made a mention of this earlier in another thread, but we want to make absolutely sure to get the message out to everyone.

    Thanks guys for your patience!
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