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Saving button layouts

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited May 2014 in The Academy
Every time I change ship... I have to reorganise EVERYTHING. All my "poweres" and weapons are mixed up and it does my head in. In EVE it saves the layout so you dont worry about it but in STO there seems to be no method of doing this. Seems like a daft oversight so I'm asking if someone knows how I can save button layouts so I dont have to faff about constantly.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    There should be a way to save it, however STO does have a not-so-perfect auto-saving feature.

    Lets say your main ship is a cruiser and you decide to switch to a shuttle. You finish a mission now you want to go back to the cruiser. If you just put the same BOs in the exact BO stations that they were before, your skills will appear in their correct position on the shortcut tray. I've done this many times so I know it works.

    Unfortunately it seems that if you stay in one ship for too long you'll lose the original set up. As I said, this isn't prefect but it does work.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    it's
    /bind_save_file NAMEOFPROFILE
    with there being a space between the end of the command and the name you wish to give it.
    i try to save back 1 for every tier.
    to switch, it's
    /bind_load_file NAMEOFPROFILE
    to view your keybind files, right-click on the launcher shortcut, click on 'open file location'
    _Star Trek Online
    _live
    and you should see the name of your keybind files there. keep in mind if you modify them from here, they will be modded in game.

    EDITED well this is how you do it for keybinds, sorry, i misread. idk bout the Tray itself.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    Bran_Mak_Morrn wrote: »
    it's
    /bind_save_file NAMEOFPROFILE
    with there being a space between the end of the command and the name you wish to give it.
    i try to save back 1 for every tier.
    to switch, it's
    /bind_load_file NAMEOFPROFILE
    to view your keybind files, right-click on the launcher shortcut, click on 'open file location'
    _Star Trek Online
    _live
    and you should see the name of your keybind files there. keep in mind if you modify them from here, they will be modded in game.

    That's only for keybinds. He is talking about the shortcut tray. I don't think saving/loading keybinds will change your short cut tray.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    attilio wrote: »
    Unfortunately it seems that if you stay in one ship for too long you'll lose the original set up. As I said, this isn't prefect but it does work.

    It's not that you 'stay in one ship too long', but the tray layouts are saved depending on your layout, and the position of your ship in your ship list. What this means is that if you discharge or get new ships (or possibly rename since the list is alphabetical order - I haven't tested that yet), the game will suddenly be using the layout for a different ship. ie: Your current ship is the 3rd one on your list, but you get another ship that becomes 2nd on your list, so now you're using what the game has saved for your 4th ship down on the list.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    ainu wrote:
    It's not that you 'stay in one ship too long', but the tray layouts are saved depending on your layout, and the position of your ship in your ship list. What this means is that if you discharge or get new ships (or possibly rename since the list is alphabetical order - I haven't tested that yet), the game will suddenly be using the layout for a different ship. ie: Your current ship is the 3rd one on your list, but you get another ship that becomes 2nd on your list, so now you're using what the game has saved for your 4th ship down on the list.

    All I know is that I normally fly a Fleet Escort. I switched to my shuttle for the Vault when it was first released then switched back to my Fleet Escort after the mission was over. My shortcut tray was perfectly fine once I put my BOffs in their correct stations.

    Later on I switched to my shuttle because all I was doing was diplomatic/exploration missions and didn't need a combat vessel. A few weeks later I went back to my Fleet Escort and everything was messed up, even after I put my BOffs in their correct stations. I know I didn't discharge/rename any ships in between that time because I haven't discharged or renamed a ship on that char for about a year.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    You've got me then. Maybe there was some other behind-the-scenes change during that time, or there's another reason we don't know.

    I do know that when I get new ships, I can see the shift in my tray abilities. Like when I got the MVAE, it pushed my science vessel down a slot which used to be occupied by my Defiant-R, and when I got in my science vessel, if I had any of the same BOs assigned that I used in my Defiant-R, those abilities that the science vessel supported would show up in the same tray locations that I had setup for my Defiant-R.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    There's definately some glitches in it. One of the things I have found is that if I switch BOs on a ship, say I replace my Sci Officer with Tractor Beam with the one with Jam Sensors, I have to apply those abilities to two DIFFERENT slots in the tray. For instance, I can put on in the slot for key 1 and then other in the slot for key 2. If I try to map both to key 1, though, so if I switch out I get the relevant power in key 1, when I switch the "new" power gets put in the first empty slot instead of in slot 1.

    I suspect this is what happens when you switch ships and forget to put the "right" BOs back. You get random BOs that take over the empty slots for that layout, and then when you try to "fix" it, those slots are all scrambled up and end up getting replaced again. And your layout is lost.

    Honestly, all the devs really need to do is save the BO layout along with the ship, so when you switch to it, the BOs are switched as well, without having to go to the Assignment Screen.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2011
    There has been many requests for this feature. I could bump threads going back almost a year and we still don't have it.
  • belalbelal Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Archived Post wrote: »
    There has been many requests for this feature. I could bump threads going back almost a year and we still don't have it.



    Well apparently they have never decided to fix this, I would guess this to be one of the biggest reasons shuttle instances take longer when trying to get some Romuluns marks. Bump the thread once more and hope someone cares

    :confused:
  • dahminusdahminus Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Bro, this is from 3 years ago...

    Not sure if serious...
    Chive on and prosper, eh?

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  • maxvitormaxvitor Member Posts: 2,213 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Could a mod please put a stake in the heart of this necro.

    Hey hey now!

    BAD ZOMBIE BAD GO BACK TO THE GROUND!

    Seriously folks, if a thread hasn't been responded to in 30 days please don't bring it back up :( If you feel you need to continue the thread by all means make a new one! :)

    /Closed ~Askray
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