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bluemeanie251
Member Posts: 12 Arc User
Tried to contact customer support... the response was hilarious at best, Ill post the response below this post as the images here will make it a long post I believe. Basically two different ships one T6 and the other T5U work fine in Missions/Episodes, but if you join an STF you get Zero or Extremely low shield values... out of combat just sitting idle. You remove the shield and put it in the inventory and it hovers fine, put it back on the ship and back to zero. This is simply outside of ESD, and the first one is in Infected, and the second one is in Crystalline Entity. I am over 40km away from nearest enemy. No flight, combat, or power level adjustments. Same character, two ships, one shield and a bunch of messed up values. You try doing Advanced STF's with 0 to 3k shields and see how much fun you have.
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Hello,
Thank you for getting back to us.
We would like to inform you that your shield rating would vary when you're on combat mode. Kindly note that it would also depend on the shield's component and stats. Here are some resources that you have at your disposal:
Our Star Trek Online forums: http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline
Our Unofficial Star Trek Online Wiki: http://sto.gamepedia.com/Ship_Shield
Please be aware that actual in-game strategies, NPC locations, item uses, etc. are things that we leave up to the players to figure out themselves, so that they can enjoy the experience of discovery and become more capable players in the process.
Let us know if you have any further question or concern.
Regards,
Ichirou
Game Master
Perfect World Entertainment
http://support.arcgames.com/
Personal: Accurate, Covert, Creative, Elusive, Lucky, Physical Strength, Pounce, Strike Team Spec
Space: Precision, Adv Targeting Sys, Aux Power Config Offense, Omega Kinetic Shearing
Active Rep: Defiance, Medical Nanite Cloud, Refracting Tetryon Console
This bug was not happening in Feb/March when I was last playing. I came back this Oct, and it has been in place the entire time I've been back. I have played with everything that I know how to play with, from different ships, power levels, and the very limited items this character has access to, but those shields will not give me correct values ever. This character was setup to run a "canon" defiant as close to the show as possible. I do not sink millions of ec or dilithium into the character for set pieces. I was trying to make a character as successful as possible while staying within the confounds of craftable/free loot items running on the defiant. Character even uses the Jem'Hadar Ground Set... I like playing this character like this, and for the challenge.... but 0 to 3k shields is, i gotta tell ya, frustrating when 6 tholian, already invisible torps hit you with 0 shields.
This is a bug, of some sort, either character, account, or more likely the shields themselves. I am willing to screenshot, stream, or screen share and speak with anyone official, or mod/bug hunter so the information can be tracked down and passed to Cryptic, so I can get back to playing what i seem to have the most fun on... When the upgrade system hit, things like this took weeks to fix, im hoping I dont have to go through Nov/Dec not being able to play the game with what I got, or how I want to... Especially since I cannot seem to get any "Official" help or even acknowledgement that something is wrong, and I just dont know what im doing so I must really have 0 or 3k shields...