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unable to customise fleet scourge without it asking for 1500 zen
iifriit
Member Posts: 7 Arc User
I finally bought enough fleet modules to get a fleet scourge for my character, but after purchasing it, I'm unable to perform even the most rudimentary customisation without it asking for 1500 zen. I can't even change the colours or window types, or the interior layout.
I don't own the mid-level scourge, but i shouldn't have to purchase it for 1500 zen to get basic customisation options on a ship i have already paid more than the value of that for.
I don't own the mid-level scourge, but i shouldn't have to purchase it for 1500 zen to get basic customisation options on a ship i have already paid more than the value of that for.
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It's not a bug, it's just you don't buy the Zen store version, if now you buy the zen store version, you're enable to customize this with the specification of Zen version.
Buy 1500 Zen version in Zen store reduce the price of ship of fleet version (numbers of modules). So in the future, buy first the zen version (for example, you buy avenger for 2.5K Zen, the fleet version only count 1 Module, for all characters in your account...) You will get a better return over the long term.
Even for some stupid changes like interior styles (that some of em are just changes on color) u need to pay 500z. Its stupid.
I think the only changes you can do without the need to pay extra zen are applied to ships that u can buy without spending zen. Like the ships you can adquire leveling to 50. But more than that... :mad:
the only KDF ships to get a fleet discount are the Varanus, Kar'fi and B'rel
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Fleet_Ship_Module
i'd understand if the scourge had unique parts,but all you could theoretically change on the ships exterior is its markings, and like i stated in the previous post, i can't change anything about this ship without it asking for zen, that include trying to change the KDF interior bridge and layout
#2 Only tier 5 c-store ships give discounts for the fleet version (tier 5 ships require you to be level 40 or 50). There is no tier 5 Scourge ship in the c-store. The Scourge Destroyer is a tier 4 ship.
#3 This was a problem a long time ago, around the time season 7 launched if I remember. It was a bug where the ship tailor was asking mainly KDF players for zen to make changes to a ship. Customizing a ship should only cost energy credits unless you are trying to use parts in the advanced options of a c-store ship that you don't own.
As can be seen here on the right in the advanced options, there are no ship parts that can be changed. Only a pattern can be added to the ship.
Try clicking the ship template on the left and/or the randomize button. If that don't work then you have to wait for Cryptic to fix it again. This has been a problem on and off for a long time.
Edit: There is another tier 5 version of the Scourge. It's not classified as a fleet ship but requires you to be in a fleet with a tier 1 shipyard. This version costs only 200,000 fleet credits. It doesn't cost zen or fleet ship modules so I doubt owning that would solve the problem.
When this bug cropped up around the launch of season 7, it affected both KDF and Fed players but not all of them, and took Cryptic a while to fix it. So all I can say is to be patient.
IIRC you cant change hardly anything anyway. There's no pattern texture map (no "Andromeda" or whatever), and so there's no texture to recolor. I also dont think there's more than one window type available but I may be wrong about that.
The model is pretty awful. The shape is interesting and a good basis for a model, but there is no finish work on it at all, and some of the design elements breaking immersion.
Problem is that ships that get hit by this bug cannot change the bridge and interior size.
as you can see from my image, there are no other templates there, only draguas.
there are 3 different hull materials available, which i'd like to be able to use
i've tried changing every option in the customiser, nothing will change it from asking for 1500 zen
i own the Vandal, and it too has the name of a gorn ship as the template, no customisation issues with that though
I had the original C-store scourge and it has never ever been able to customize.
I also see the Draguas as only available model, I also see the 1500 zen charge, and I also want to change the surface paint as well as bridge I have purchased for C and interior size...
8 bug reports or so I have sent in over the past year or so about this issue alone, not a single reply from neither Cryptic or PWI.
This game was so much better before they got owned by Perfect World and went Free to Play. Since then, I have not recieved any assistance what so ever with any of the numerous bugs I have reported.
Sadly, this kind of things happen when same owner (PWI) have way to many game titles and not enough staff (or care for players) to deal with it all.
They have more than enough staff, the problem is not the quantity, im afraid the problem is the quality and the focused efforts of cryptic to keep releasing new content, to keep their pockets filled, instead of fixing all the bugs, or at least the ones that are present since years ago... This is making this game less atractive day by day. I only hope this changes, or im afraid STO will not last more than this year.
Dont blame PWE... not in this matter. Things change, but a vital part of a mmorpg is to keep the bugs fixed... if any company avoids that.. it doesnt matter pwe, pwa, pdf, pefdasadsf,
Except if they did do that, everyone would be complaining that Cryptic weren't making new content! Anybody remember the content drought of 2011/12?
Trials of Blood and Fire
Moving On Parts 1-3 - Part 4
In Cold Blood
I reported it way back then and it was actually escalated up a tier and I had a pleasant back and forth conversation with the customer service officer. 120721-000853 if any PWE person wants to check it.
There is no bug fix and there never will be. All that was established was a customer support process to explain the issue to concerned players. It was a couple years ago so the people involved may have moved onto new positions by now, hence the lack of current information regarding this.
Anyway, the end result is you can't customise the ship at all unless you buy the zen store version. It's just how its coded and that isn't going to change for ~reasons~.
Still a nice ship though! The radiation gas console is pretty good so you know, its not all bad if you DO buy the 1500 zen lower tier ship