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Boffs still broken? or is it just me?
hsm2k4
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Anyone else still having problems with boffs vanishing? Or is my crew just scared to report for duty? Dev's any eta on the fix??
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Really they just need to remove the entire loadout system, refund anyone who bought extra loadout slots, and publicly apologize for the debacle. The thing has never worked right.
indeed; sad because the idea is good
The best workaround for now is to remember that boff stations and skill choices are included in the loadouts. So set them up and save to your loadout. When they vanish, load your saved loadout.
Just remember to save after every gear change too. Otherwise loading that save will revert to old gear from the last save.
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The implementation is still a WIP. Let's not confuse a rough WIP with the idea itself being a problem.
Which reminds me, when we save a load out within a mission it should save. Right now those changes are forgotten. Which is particularly annoying when I was recovering from a failed load out to begin with.
^This.
But in response to the OP, I actually had a new permutation of the problem happen twice today. I queued into the Crystalline event, experienced the empty-trays bug, (sighed inwardly,) attempted to re-load my loadout and promptly lost the ability to manipulate or access the trays altogether. The loadout radio button greyed itself out and I had to leave the instance in order to restore proper functionality to my ship. No amount of waiting or mucking about could fix the problem within the instance.
It's pretty bad when the generic workaround to a major glitch itself becomes glitched.
Loadout system is working fine, though, so it's easily resolved.
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It's true what someone else said, you have to save the loadout after every single change. I even save it when I refill my consumables. I normally save once in a space zone like ESD, Undine, etc and do another save in sector space.
It's not perfect, but it usually works.
I'd like to play, but I'm of the firm belief I shouldn't have to be always looking for that next workaround for something as basic as using my own abilities.
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It happened to me in CE as well. Had to spend a couple of minutes placing everything as the workaround...didnt work :rolleyes:
I'd have to say it was worse this weekend, as every character I played had the issue at one stage or another.
Has this actually been acknowledged by Cryptic?
Either the boffs left their stations or the ground boffs have completely random skills.
The boff skill/loadout system is a pure mess... and unless that is fixed i dont even want the devs to mess around with trait loadouts.
That is what the latest comment from the developers on this also suggested. It isn't the loadout system that's the cause. And currently, it also seems the best work-around for it, because you can normally re-gain all BOFFs by activating a loadout again.
Unfortunately it requires "discipline" in regularly saving your loadouts. (Maybe the loadout feature needs a checkbox for "Only Boffs" and "Only Gear"?)
After that it's back to normal, i.e. AWOL BOFFs now and then and I have to reload my loadout (which almost always, but not always fixes things for a while).
If Cryptic had a sense of humor, they'd add a Duty Mission: "Retrieve AWOL BOFFs" that would reward a random Bridge Officer. If they can't fix it, they should at least make fun of it.
This can have multiple outcomes, it's not JUST boffs unseating that it causes.
It can also do this. normally there would be 4 NPCs based on my Boffs there, but there's 2 boffs(the Tellarite engineer and the Borg), and two random NPCs who have no names, and a generic outfit.
Also you'll see it when choosing boffs to seat on your ship. Sometimes when you click the down arrow the game has to think about it for a while before it can make a list of boffs that are available.
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- ground powers resetting at random (and no loadout system will help with THAT)
- Dyson Destroyer commander seat bug
:: shakes head ::
It's just not fair to the other players expecting all ship to push forward on the CE as one and my ship just sits there while I get them back to stations.
I'd court martial the whole lot of them, but I know that it is these alien entities that possessed them and made them walk off their jobs. :rolleyes: