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The BO abilities you may have on a second (upper) row of the BO tray in your HUD are at this time considered part of the area where "click unselects target" (if active in your options) and causing you to detarget, i.e. like clicking empty space. Would only affect you if you use a 2 row BO tray and have this option active.
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I have tested this, remove "click unselects target" from your options and the problem will be virtually gone. There may be something else afoot but it's minor compared to this.
For example, I can click and click and click away at the innate Target Subsystem: Shields/Weapons on my Scis, and nothing happens. And my UI is still in it's stock default configuration.
Try moving the tray over. I think that there are some things like the power tray and inventory that extend farther than they appear to and overlap other UI stuff.
Aha, hopefully it's just this then. I'll give it a shot, thanks.
I hope so.
From the beginning of Season 4 I pay for Criptic's indolence. I don't like to complain but now this game is really unplayable for me - for example:
1. during combat (red alert) I can't use target subs on my SCI Intrepid
2. during combat "assist target on attack", on all of my toons isn't working anymore. When I'm pushing F2....F5 to select my team mates, I have only 1-2 sec to heal them. It's just ridiculous.
3. after using any of my SCI or ENG powers like for example: HE, PSW, TSS, ET, ST, PH, TB,....or even shields / engines / aux batteries or deuterium - I'm losing mark on my target - A L W A Y S ! ! !
4. the last one is the most funny - yesterday after logging on, all my FED toons were muted. I couldn't use chat (read or even write), I couldn't see my list of my friends, I couldn't hear any single sound....nothing.
Numbers Disappearing on Tray
Therefore i hope next patch will be fixed. I hope.
When this happens to me ,the thought that first cross my mind is " Who has reported me again and i m "silenced" due to improper attitude??" " damn it ,i havent done anything !":p
Back to the OP : Yes happens to me many times ....as Alastor describes it...fully buffed i suddenly fire everything i ve got on to a ....Chroniton mine !:eek:
BTW,i m not sure if this is related to the subject and i dont know if it happens to you guys too:
While struggling with clicking on various skills suddenly my CAMERA TARGETING MODE changes...e.g from "Free Camera" to "Follow Target"...Many times it forces me to disengage mid battle ,get into options and change the setting back the way it was ...only to see it happen again the minute i m back in the fight
Hell yeah, that TRIBBLE was happening on my Engie. I had to change the camera mode to Chase, hit Ok, re-open the window then change it to Free, hit Ok. The setting stayed that time.
In the meantime: ANYTHING AT ALL that you notce (where your cursor is; playing Fed/Klings; Abilities used; etc) would be a great help.
Thanks so much!
Im having this problem as well
1. seems to work on both Fed and Klink
2. First noticed on my Gal-X the cloak would not respond to a mouse click, i had to use the keyboard.
when i activated the power i lost lock on my target
3. Noticed it recently on my BoP, when activating one of my captain abilities or the cloak i loose my target
4. This does not happen every time, or on a particular power more than others
(but i use the cloak alot so i noticed it first)
5. My curser generally hangs out over the last power I activated, so for example i activate cloak, loose target, but do not move my curser off of cloak
6. Seems to have started happening around the same time i noticed that i could not "mouse click" some of my
abilities, and instead had to use the keyboard to activate them- this problem is intermittent as well. (not all the time and not any particular power more than others)
7. Does not seem to effect Boff powers for me
hope this helps
So when ever I fire abilities where the base key is the same as the group memebr target it will switch.
This only happens with RPG ground controles. My workaroudn was to unmap the traget group member keys.
Would this also be a help: http://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=3680797&postcount=20
His description seems to make sense to me - and he's even a Dev!
Basically, it seems the behavior of the Bridge Officer Tray has changed to no longer "capture" the mouse. This means a click on the BO tray is still like a click on free space, and thus "Click deselects target". Obviously we as players can't set the BO tray mouse capture behavior, that's what mkenneally has to do.
It might also be not the only issue TRIBBLE up, but maybe fixing this would help identifying the others better.
Now if just someone could figure out what happened with $target in team chat.
Wishstone.
I noticed that this happened after the patch in which the default BOFF panel size was changed. The deselect occured only on the top row of the boff panel and not on the bottom. I was able to stop mine from this behavior by going into the UI and changing the size of the BOFF panel to be wide enough to drop to one row. Perhaps the UI size change didn't correctly affect the sizing and the area in which the clicks are "absorbed" by the UI is not correctly in line with the size of the BOFF panel, so by clicking on said upper row UI, it both activates the ability AND has the click go through to the scene which takes it as a click to deslect the currently target
To all others: go to the ui config, resize your BOFF panel. See if that fixes it. I know if you make it down to one row it fixes the issue. At least it did for me.
edit: http://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=3680797&postcount=20 that pretty much confirms what i was saying.
A note to everyone. It's most likely that this doesn't have anything to do with specific abilities, it has to do with regions of the UI. Like I said, resizing my boff panel fixed it, but that may be because i dropped it down to one row.