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tilarta
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I'm getting sick of this bug.
The Doff system keeps reassigning my Department Heads at random, often making the same BOFF head of every department!
The worst it got was when my tactical officer was in every slot!
Cryptic needs to fix this!
And preferably, they need to add a LOCK function, so that if you want to, the BOFF cannot be changed unless you unlock them.
The Doff system keeps reassigning my Department Heads at random, often making the same BOFF head of every department!
The worst it got was when my tactical officer was in every slot!
Cryptic needs to fix this!
And preferably, they need to add a LOCK function, so that if you want to, the BOFF cannot be changed unless you unlock them.
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Yup.. this + the station BOFFs (incl. char selection screen) and Tray mess ups and the not deletable mail messages are bothering me most at the moment.
Please fix it!
On average, once every 15 minutes, I had to keep putting my BOFFs back where they were meant to be!
Bees like honey, they don't like vinegar.
Everytime someone makes a character that is an copy of an existing superhuman, Creativity is sad
I think it has something to do with loading. I may sound crazy and/or stupid, since I probably don't have the knowledge to accurately describe what I'm seeing, but... it seems the game "loads in" your Bridge Officers slower in some areas, and this can result in it reassigning where your Boffs are placed in the Department Head window. If it loads in who your department heads are a split second before it loads in your Boffs, then those slots are going to come up empty.
That's just my guess though. In such a case, however, I don't think a "lock" feature would work, since it's technically already supposed to be locking in Boffs anyway. If the system thinks those boffs don't exist, even when they do, a lock feature wouldn't help.
No idea why.
But sometimes it will happen when I'm just standing around, so the map move can't be all of it.
And that happened just now, I've been on the same map for a while now and the boffs just got reassigned again!
Bees like honey, they don't like vinegar.
Everytime someone makes a character that is an copy of an existing superhuman, Creativity is sad
No other BOFF on my roster resets when placed as a department head, including my Purple Female Orion BOFF obtained from Diplomatic CXP.
Reference ticket ID #1,697,477.
With the amount of new BOFFs cryptic keeps adding, I had to expand my roster beyond it's normal limits to get spaces for the new crewmembers.
Bees like honey, they don't like vinegar.
Everytime someone makes a character that is an copy of an existing superhuman, Creativity is sad
*Edit* Ignore that. Still happening on one of my KDF toons. May be it is on toons created before a certain point? My main and this Klingon are very old. My main since launch.
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/7885/30hn.jpg
Since some of your boffs fail to load on map change and then they don't "exist" when you open the doff window. That causes the game to replace the missing boffs in the department head tab with the ones that actually loaded. The bug is solved by clicking on a missing boff slot, at least until the next map change when it happens again (sometimes).
To explain, whenever I visit my bridge, around half of the NPCs are the nameless generic BOFFs that appear when you don't actually have a full complement of BOFFs.
I actually have more then the required number, so I was used to seeing all my specifically designed BOFFs and none of the generic ones.
I hope they fix this before the Department Head Passive update rolls around.
To explain, that update gives your department head BOFFs passive upgrades.
But well, if they're randomly removed, they aren't getting their passives are they?
So wait, this bug was fixed, then broken again?
I wish I could say I was surprised, but I'm not. :cool:
Bees like honey, they don't like vinegar.
Everytime someone makes a character that is an copy of an existing superhuman, Creativity is sad
No. Your fun makes everyone else's fun wrong by default.
As you can see from the screenshot I posted, it is happening on my bridge and only one BOFF was loaded, the rest were the "generic" boffs you get if you don't have the correct type to display them.
It is the same bug affecting the department heads, the missing boffs on the bridge map, the "my boffs have been replaced by ships" bug and it is what occasionally causes all boffs from un-equipping themselves. On some foundry missions it even prevented my away team from beaming over, leaving me alone or with a reduced team to finish the ground mission.
I like that locking function for the department heads mentioned above. also wish they would fix the bridge area so that you can select a chair/station and select yourself which Bridge Officer goes where. Especially since unless your First officer is default Tactical and has no communication with the department head selection screen.
Its been around since LOR came out
Yet the horrifying problem of tints being off on some romulan uniforms is being resolved. Priorities FAIL.
I don't mind having a reformed Borg as the medical head officer because I trust him, but I doubt sick crew members enjoy waking up and being welcome by a Borg who has one bionic eye and the other black with implants looking like they're plugged into it.
Also, there is this weird UI bug where zoning and pressing U causes the game to list a few of your BOFFs as ships with their name written in CAPS.
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Please fix it.