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mithrosnomore
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The first is with the Risian corvette... I can not get it to take a new number. I can change the name, but whenever I try to change the number I get the following:
"[UNTRANSLATED]NameFormatShipReg_NoLetterAfterDash"
I have no idea what is going on. I wasn't putting a dash into the number, and when I was playing around, trying to figure it out, I discovered that I can not put a dash into the field anyway.
And I also tried with different prefixes or no prefix at all. It was all just money down the drain as it would accept the name/registry changes but not any number change that I put in.
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And speaking of money down the drain...
Whenever I go to the 'ship tailor' to make some changes, I can not make any changes to the color of 'normal' ships (the corvette I can work with, but nothing else in my private fleet is cooperative) unless I first randomize the appearance, and then I end up with phantom charges appearing even if all I do is reset everything back the way it was.
For example, I am using the veteran hull material on a ship. If I hit randomize and it goes to hull material 3, when I go back to the veteran material the cost of the 'changes' actually increases by more than a thousand credits.
Just to un-do a change that I had to make in order to get other changes to actually happen.
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And finally, I have issues with a bridge.
I changed the bridge on my Chimera... Great and all, but those tiny little pictures aren't always telling me what I will see when I board the ship, so I switched to one, liked the layout, but not the colors.
So I went back into the customization screen, bought a different variation of that basic pattern and... Nothing.
I was switching between the various 'escort' bridges for my Chimera, and I am stuck on either 'strategic' or 'victory' (I do not recall which I think it is at the moment).
Doesn't matter that the game is telling me that I have the defiant bridge, or that after spending a thousand more EC to switch to the vivid bridge that the game is now telling me that I have, when I go to the bridge it is the same old thing that I was supposed to have been spending those thousands to change.
And when we are talking about a thousand here and a thousand there, it really does start to add up.
This ain't a thousand ECs that were misplaced somewhere and everything is fine now. This is an ongoing thousand or more ECs a pop for absolutely nothing.
I want to try to change the number again? 3K ECs just to see if it will work.
Bridge? Another thousand.
Color change? A little tweaking? An extra thousand is almost certain. Could be quite a bit more than that, and I am not talking about paying for the changes; I just mean what I end up having to pay extra in order to be able to pay for any actual changes that I make.
"[UNTRANSLATED]NameFormatShipReg_NoLetterAfterDash"
I have no idea what is going on. I wasn't putting a dash into the number, and when I was playing around, trying to figure it out, I discovered that I can not put a dash into the field anyway.
And I also tried with different prefixes or no prefix at all. It was all just money down the drain as it would accept the name/registry changes but not any number change that I put in.
============================================================
And speaking of money down the drain...
Whenever I go to the 'ship tailor' to make some changes, I can not make any changes to the color of 'normal' ships (the corvette I can work with, but nothing else in my private fleet is cooperative) unless I first randomize the appearance, and then I end up with phantom charges appearing even if all I do is reset everything back the way it was.
For example, I am using the veteran hull material on a ship. If I hit randomize and it goes to hull material 3, when I go back to the veteran material the cost of the 'changes' actually increases by more than a thousand credits.
Just to un-do a change that I had to make in order to get other changes to actually happen.
============================================================
And finally, I have issues with a bridge.
I changed the bridge on my Chimera... Great and all, but those tiny little pictures aren't always telling me what I will see when I board the ship, so I switched to one, liked the layout, but not the colors.
So I went back into the customization screen, bought a different variation of that basic pattern and... Nothing.
I was switching between the various 'escort' bridges for my Chimera, and I am stuck on either 'strategic' or 'victory' (I do not recall which I think it is at the moment).
Doesn't matter that the game is telling me that I have the defiant bridge, or that after spending a thousand more EC to switch to the vivid bridge that the game is now telling me that I have, when I go to the bridge it is the same old thing that I was supposed to have been spending those thousands to change.
And when we are talking about a thousand here and a thousand there, it really does start to add up.
This ain't a thousand ECs that were misplaced somewhere and everything is fine now. This is an ongoing thousand or more ECs a pop for absolutely nothing.
I want to try to change the number again? 3K ECs just to see if it will work.
Bridge? Another thousand.
Color change? A little tweaking? An extra thousand is almost certain. Could be quite a bit more than that, and I am not talking about paying for the changes; I just mean what I end up having to pay extra in order to be able to pay for any actual changes that I make.
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1. select new patterns - you can change the colors (and see them take effect) only after you've changed all patterns
2. remember to always save the new configuration before you exit
3. sometimes it is best to log out then back in, after you've purchased
4. if by chance the colors are still not showing up, load the saved outfit and it should work
"The quest for the Book of Ignum"
"I have seen your future. I have seen your end"
I very much doubt that anyone at Cryptic has even begun to try and figure out what they did wrong to break this because they've got so many other, more serious, bugs to work on.
Playing Neverwinter since July 2014
Yeah, this is where I am.
The Zen fees can be avoided by clicking randomize some more, until a 0 Zen design shows up, but those phantom charges on the regular changes are really annoying.
At least I know that I am not alone, but I also see that no one from Cryptic has weighed in with a "We are aware of this problem" or a "We'll look into it" or even a "Could you provide more information" post since I made the OP.
Obviously this isn't a problem with new ships because the first customization is free, but for ships that you've already customized at least once it's an expensive workaround just to get the colour pickers to work!
Another workaround for this is to use the randomize button so that the colour pickers become active, make all your choices and then Save the design. You can then just cancel everything, all the way back until you've cancelled out of the customization window. Now you just start the ship customization process again but instead of making any changes just select the Load option to load your saved design. Note that the first time you load a design your ship may not display the correct options, if that happens just cancel out again and then try again, I've found that the second attempt will work and your saved design loads correctly. Also note that this does incur a small EC charge, but it's a good bit lower than the one you get by using the Randomize workaround.
Playing Neverwinter since July 2014