Department heads... AWOL, confused. (Bug reports)

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• anazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  Rule of thumb with F2P games:
  
  Q: Does it make money?
  
  A1: No? - It can wait
  
  A2: Yes? - HURRY UP... NEEDS TO BE DONE YESTERDAY.
  
  If they could make a dialouge where you could roll for withdraws on your CC without doing anything else, they would do it...
  
  (PS: now that someone has written it, you should expect to see the above idea within a month or two).

  Don't look silly... Don't call it the "Z-Store/Zen Store"...

  pwebranflakes wrote: »

  Let me put the rumors to rest: it's definitely still the C-Store (Cryptic Store) It just takes ZEN.

  Like Duty Officers? Support effords to gather ideas

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• haarvald Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  anazonda wrote: »

  Rule of thumb with F2P games:
  
  Q: Does it make money?
  
  A1: No? - It can wait
  
  A2: Yes? - HURRY UP... NEEDS TO BE DONE YESTERDAY.
  
  If they could make a dialouge where you could roll for withdraws on your CC without doing anything else, they would do it...
  
  (PS: now that someone has written it, you should expect to see the above idea within a month or two).

  
  yea... I came here from SWTOR... I HAD been considering LTS... with the ARC news and some of the other things I've run into... that will NOT be happening... nor will I be continuing to purchase Zen as I had been doing since my arrival.

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• shevet Member Posts: 1,667 Arc User

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  The department heads thing (and this bug annoys me, and has done for a long, long while) may be because you've recently been in a ground map - like New Romulus, for instance - where you're only allowed one boff.
  
  The way the bug seems to work, for me, is that it bases your department heads by querying your most recently used away team - not the guys listed in your "stations" tab as your standard away team, but the actual guys who beamed down with you on your last mission. Obviously, if you only had one boff with you, they won't be available for selection for two out of the three profession areas... so, you get those department head slots left empty, and no choices available.
  
  If you have a department or two which does have a department head (and I normally have three, in these cases - the first officer slot, and the two departments my single boff is qualified to run), then you might be able to click the drop-down on those, the system groans and heaves into life and rebuilds the correct lists, and you'll be able to pick one for the empty departments again.
  
  Really, this thing needs to be sorted out, because I have a horrible feeling it's just one symptom of an underlying problem - we all know that boffs can get arbitrarily dropped from their duty stations sometimes, and I've also seen a bug on New Rom where, when you're going into a ground instance, you get - not your standard away team - but your single boff that you had with you, plus three security guards. (And, once, the single boff, who was also on the away team, went missing once I was in the instance. I just had three boffs, and it didn't even seem to register that the team was under strength. Exiting and re-entering the instance fixed that, fortunately.)

  
  

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• haarvald Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  I can see that they moved it from where it was posted... but clearly whoever moved it didn't have the honesty or decency to speak to the problem(s) listed...

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• haarvald Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  shevet wrote: »

  The department heads thing (and this bug annoys me, and has done for a long, long while) may be because you've recently been in a ground map - like New Romulus, for instance - where you're only allowed one boff.
  
  The way the bug seems to work, for me, is that it bases your department heads by querying your most recently used away team - not the guys listed in your "stations" tab as your standard away team, but the actual guys who beamed down with you on your last mission. Obviously, if you only had one boff with you, they won't be available for selection for two out of the three profession areas... so, you get those department head slots left empty, and no choices available.
  
  If you have a department or two which does have a department head (and I normally have three, in these cases - the first officer slot, and the two departments my single boff is qualified to run), then you might be able to click the drop-down on those, the system groans and heaves into life and rebuilds the correct lists, and you'll be able to pick one for the empty departments again.
  
  Really, this thing needs to be sorted out, because I have a horrible feeling it's just one symptom of an underlying problem - we all know that boffs can get arbitrarily dropped from their duty stations sometimes, and I've also seen a bug on New Rom where, when you're going into a ground instance, you get - not your standard away team - but your single boff that you had with you, plus three security guards. (And, once, the single boff, who was also on the away team, went missing once I was in the instance. I just had three boffs, and it didn't even seem to register that the team was under strength. Exiting and re-entering the instance fixed that, fortunately.)

  
  
  No, I dont think you understand...
  
  GREYED out... unable to chose one to slot in the slot... not just where they take over despite your choices...
  
  GREYED OUT

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• shevet Member Posts: 1,667 Arc User

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  haarvald wrote: »

  No, I dont think you understand...
  
  GREYED out... unable to chose one to slot in the slot... not just where they take over despite your choices...
  
  GREYED OUT

  
  Yes, I understand. If they're all greyed out, that's not something I've come across before, and I can't suggest a workaround. If only some of them are greyed out, then clicking on one that isn't will un-grey the rest. At least, it has for me.

  
  

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