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Advanced Escort Saucer Nacelle Won't Go Away
drreverend
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On my Advanced Escort the upper saucer nacelle that normally appears when you activate the MVAS console won't go away. Since the update two weeks ago, even while in normal mode the ship's little nacelle behind the bridge appears to stick out. Going to MVAS and back won't make it leave.
This extra nacelle appears whenever I am in space, sector, or even the ship customizer. It appears on all four saucers. It is rather silly looking and I hope it is resolved soon.
This extra nacelle appears whenever I am in space, sector, or even the ship customizer. It appears on all four saucers. It is rather silly looking and I hope it is resolved soon.
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My best advice, find a different ship. Cryptic isn't good at fixing something unless it's brand new and they're still cash cow milking it. Galaxy X, Soveregn decals, Avenger Windows, Nebula no impulse engines, Intrepid having a strange orange spot in it's back, the Venture windows, the missing windows all along half of one of the Gorn ships.
Experience, however, says that this is how the Prometheus and her sisters will look for the next two years.
2 years are a lot of years..... it will be really awesome news if STO is alive by then. It will mean that cryptic at some point decided to start doing things right. Lets hope so.
I've been unable to reproduce this.
Have you tried transferring the character to the Tribble Test Server and seeing if this still happens for you there? I ask because that's the build on which I checked this.
If you have and this still happens, have you tried just reclaiming the ship? Yeah, it's a bit of a pain, but if a glitch is affecting the ship, discharging it and claiming a new one is probably the best, and definitely the fastest way to get it fixed.
If you've claimed a new one and still have the issue, get me the name@handle for the affected character and I'll send the issue on.
It probably won't get fixed soon as this would be something that would require a programmer to fix. It's not an issue with the ship costume as that would affect every ship the game. Since I couldn't reproduce the issue, that's not the case. So it'll need a programmer to dig into the character data and see what's wrong. That takes a lot of time, and our programmers have a lot of stuff on their plates.
Not trying to be snarky, but it's a pretty big investment to throw away and buy again on a 'just in case'.
Good point, I was thinking just of the C-Store version.
If someone with the Fleet version in this state gives me the name@handle of the affected character, I'll get it written up and sent on for a fix. I still expect it will take a while, but I'll do what I can.
i look forward to this getting fixed . the ship looks like it has a STIFFY .
Jessie Corvus@dr_reverend has the fleet version of the ship.
A thought with the Fleet/Lockbox versions of ships is that once a character gets them, maybe it should unlock the ability to claim it at will on that character? Sort of like how you can reclaim special consoles in the dilithium store for zero D? That would make solving this issue a lot easier, as then I could just reclaim the ship on that character.
I can send you a screenshot if you like.
Tonyx@TonyEx for the fleet version as well. I have a vestigial nacelle on my FAE.
Note, there is a way to hide the saucer nacelle in the ship tailor. There's four options on the list, each with the nacelle in different degrees of deployment it seems, and one of those hides it completely. Downside is that it doesn't deploy fully when you use the multi-vector console power.
Only if you're using the Prometheus or Phoenix saucers. I use Cerberus, so at the most depressed, it sticks out just above my bridge like a goofy looking mission pod.
Just visited the ship tailor with my fleet MVAE and now the issue affects me as well, no extra nacelle before I visited the tailor today but it's clearly there in the tailor and system space now.
I have noticed that at the bottom of the 'advanced' section of ship customisation there is now a set of model options for the saucer nacelle in addition to the paint options. Each of the 4 options is labelled 'Prometheus' but puts a Prometheus style nacelle in a different position, each of which appears to correspond with the different saucer options. Each is clearly visible using the Cerberus saucer, but the Phoenix option hides most.
Option 2 appears to correspond to the Cerberus saucer, option 3 for the Hephaestus, option 1 for the Phoenix and option 4 for the Prometheus. This appears to place the nacelle in the most natural looking position for those saucers, particularly for the Prometheus/option 4 combination, which puts the nacelle neatly in its docking section.
Hoping that these glitches are all stuff introduced as part of plans to introduce Galaxy/Odyssey style separation onto the Advanced Escorts soon.
It's interesting that with the fourth option in 'Saucer Nacelle' - for Prometheus and one of the other designs, the nacelle will be properly hidden. Though it still sticks out a bit on Maelstrom and Cerberus.
You certainly don't need to 're-create' it. Take a look at any Advanced Escort now on Holodeck. We're all running with it on the saucer section.
Same as me. There is just no way to hide that nacelle using the Cerberus saucer.
The images of the prometheus on memory alpha seem to show the small nacelle recessed into a small slot on top of the saucer while the ship is joined together.
If you take a look at the screenshots of the advanced escort variants on stowiki here, which are older images, you can see that the prometheus had the slot on top of the saucer, but no nacelle. The other three did not even have a place for the nacelle to retract into.
If you compare those screenshots to the current models in-game, you'll find that there are slots for the nacelle on top of all 4 saucer options, and one of the four options in the tailor for the nacelle fit neatly into the slots on each saucer option. All four of the options are labelled "Prometheus" presumably because the prometheus nacelle is the only art asset they have, and the only difference is the location.
I think what happened is they stealth-patched in a model update to put those nacelles on the model where they are supposed to be, but because they implemented it in such a way that we have to select the correct location for the nacelle, in 3/4 of cases the default selection is incorrect and puts the nacelle in a strange location for the saucer.
Interesting theory and looking at my ship model now, I see what you mean.
Seeing as I just switched back to my Fleet Advanced Escort and noticed this bug last night, two months on, I'll put my name on here: Equuleus@ChakatSilver
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