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Tholian puzzlement

colonelmarikcolonelmarik Member Posts: 2,220 Arc User
edited June 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Lately, I've been having an inexplicably hard time in the Azure Nebula Rescue mission. Very often, my skills and sometimes my equipment will stop recycling.

For example, I go in, hit my cannon rapid fire, my torpedo spread, my tac team and I open fire. The tholians return fire, and my shields (all of them at once) vanish, and all my skills go on cooldown for at least several minutes.

What the heck is that? I mean, it's kind of hard to fight back if you can't fire weapons, and you can't use any offensive or defensive skills. My cruisers sometimes survive long enough for other team members to clear the tholians out, but if I'm flying my escort (which I can't do anymore because of the silly tiny engine sticking out of the saucer/arrowhead), it's basically dead.

I don't recall it being this way, have the tholians been given some kind of special "I win" button I don't know about?
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  • jenkaljenkal Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    colonelmarik wrote: »
    Lately, I've been having an inexplicably hard time in the Azure Nebula Rescue mission. Very often, my skills and sometimes my equipment will stop recycling.

    For example, I go in, hit my cannon rapid fire, my torpedo spread, my tac team and I open fire. The tholians return fire, and my shields (all of them at once) vanish, and all my skills go on cooldown for at least several minutes.

    What the heck is that? I mean, it's kind of hard to fight back if you can't fire weapons, and you can't use any offensive or defensive skills. My cruisers sometimes survive long enough for other team members to clear the tholians out, but if I'm flying my escort (which I can't do anymore because of the silly tiny engine sticking out of the saucer/arrowhead), it's basically dead.

    I don't recall it being this way, have the tholians been given some kind of special "I win" button I don't know about?

    No it has to be a bug... I've never, ever heard of that before, but I might be mistaken.
  • policestate76policestate76 Member Posts: 1,424 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Hmm i experienced something similar the past days, not so critical, but something similar.. sometimes i just cant fire at all. I dont know why. For several seconds. I keep looking at my weapons power and i see it fully operational but it doesnt matter how many times i smash my fire button, my ship will not fire.

    You would think, maybe i dont have a target selected. Wrong. I have the automatic targeting selection activated, so even if i dont have a target selected, in the very moment i press fire it automatically selects a target. But well, thats not the case, since it happens even if i have a target selected.

    I never did a big deal about this.. i just thought.. well, it must be another bug to add to the list. I have so many of em when i fight in space, that i dont bother anymore.. :(
  • jenkaljenkal Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Police, that's a tholian power, what the OP might be experiencing is a bug caused by that power.
  • grylakgrylak Member Posts: 1,594 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    the tholians keep dropping your weapon power so you cant fire. It comes back evenetually, or do what I took quite some time to figure out: Use engineering team when your weapon power drops restores it instantly.


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  • daan2006daan2006 Member Posts: 5,346 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    dont all tholian ships have Subsystem targeting and i mean them all not just select few? my tholian recluse has all subsystem targeting because it a science

    so would not NPC have all of them to?
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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    colonelmarik wrote: »
    Lately, I've been having an inexplicably hard time in the Azure Nebula Rescue mission. Very often, my skills and sometimes my equipment will stop recycling.

    For example, I go in, hit my cannon rapid fire, my torpedo spread, my tac team and I open fire. The tholians return fire, and my shields (all of them at once) vanish, and all my skills go on cooldown for at least several minutes.

    What the heck is that? I mean, it's kind of hard to fight back if you can't fire weapons, and you can't use any offensive or defensive skills. My cruisers sometimes survive long enough for other team members to clear the tholians out, but if I'm flying my escort (which I can't do anymore because of the silly tiny engine sticking out of the saucer/arrowhead), it's basically dead.

    I don't recall it being this way, have the tholians been given some kind of special "I win" button I don't know about?

    i tend to forget tholians, and stay away because their torpedoes mess around with ship systems with such a success rate each time thats its not worth fighting them.
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  • shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Considering they use tetryon weapons, and tetryon lattice it is no wonder your shields are gone in seconds, outside of them knocking out my weapons, and tractoring me, the only other thing that annoys me is their ability at times to fire beyond the 10km range.
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  • jenkaljenkal Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    OP this is obviously a bug, post your combat log or document yourself, because nobody is experiencing this issue with the severity you have found.
  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    It sounds a bit like Subnucleonic Beam and maybe Beam Target Shields at once (do the shields come back after a w hile, or are they realy damaged). But I didn't know the Tholians could do that, so it seems weird. It may be a bug. A combat log may be helpful...
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  • isvarnaisvarna Member Posts: 108 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Thermionic Torpedoes have a 15% drain proc and will absolutely shred your engine and weapon power. Recluses have tractor beam and Tarantulas have Subspace Fold which leaves you dead in the the water for several seconds right in front of its main guns.
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