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Now where did I leave my captain powers?
foxrockssocks
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This is a major annoyance and always has been. It strikes me as odd though, that for something that is a constant, the game can't remember where I slotted my captain powers. Any time I switch ships for trait training, a new ship, or those missions where you get a specific ship to fly, they all clear out your hotbars.
Now I don't know about anyone else, but my hotbars are primarily my captain powers. I use the BOFF bar for the boff powers and never slot weapons in hotbars. So it is nearly always identical from ship to ship, barring ship specific differences like cloaking and of course any console differences, and I don't mind having to reset those places in a hotbar.
But, shouldn't it be possible for the game to actually remember where you slot captain powers since those never change across any build, they are always with you? It seems to me the game should be able to memorize captain powers and when moving to a new ship it slots them first in the old positions, then it can spam all the other stuff in your hotbars after that.
Now I don't know about anyone else, but my hotbars are primarily my captain powers. I use the BOFF bar for the boff powers and never slot weapons in hotbars. So it is nearly always identical from ship to ship, barring ship specific differences like cloaking and of course any console differences, and I don't mind having to reset those places in a hotbar.
But, shouldn't it be possible for the game to actually remember where you slot captain powers since those never change across any build, they are always with you? It seems to me the game should be able to memorize captain powers and when moving to a new ship it slots them first in the old positions, then it can spam all the other stuff in your hotbars after that.
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I too use the BOFF bar for Boff powers and I don't need weapons on the hotbar either. Can't the game remember that my captain powers are always slotted on the first row? That other things are slotted in the same spaces across all ships?
Sure, some of them will be missing but it could put back as much as you have with the new ship's boff power assignments.
ingame: @Felisean
After 7 years I can do it in my sleep it's just annoying. Especially if I forget and queue for a TFO or start a patrol with a new ship
I'd feel bad about it, if the game wasn't so easy.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
They also don't get added while levelling either which is just daft when pretty much every game that gives abilities in the same way will make sure to add them in a way to encourage you to maybe try them out. On PC anyway, PS4 has the opposite where the power wheel populates with anything the game wants so you find unusable trait powers appearing as you rep up that can't get removed.
I don't have a problem remembering what goes where. After 10 years and over a dozen characters, my layout is entirely standardized. That *should* make it pretty easy for the game to remember too. However when I have to go through the powers list, it never fails, I scroll through, slotting the powers one by one and often miss a few and have to scroll back through.
I've done that too. I have since made it a habit to just run Argala first. I put power to weapons, kill the initial ships, then set up the powers while the Benthans stare at me blankly, waiting for a response. Nothing else spawns till I say so. Ninth rule is a good choice too since nothing happens till you get near Madran.
No matter how often, I set them, or on how many toons...
Jump into a mission, wonder why the power is missing or greyed out, and on checking, the traits are all unloaded. And of course, can't be put back without dropping the mission.
For me, it's the Traits too. They really need to become part of the loadouts.
The result? I go into an STF and bam... "oh, but didn't I have kemocite on this thing? WHY is it not activating when it's supposed to?"
A quick glance tells me the reason: I forgot to switch the quickbars... again.
I mean, we can save the HUD on one toon and import it with another. I don't think it will be to hard to have the system remember that no, for god's sake, no I don't have quickbar 3, I have quickbar 10!
Ci sono tre tipi di giocatori:
- quelli a cui non va mai bene niente... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che sono talmente imbesuiti da credere a qualunque cosa i dev dicano, perfino che la luna è fatta di formaggio... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che credono a quello a cui è giusto credere, sono d'accordo con quello con cui è giusto essere d'accordo e sono critici con quello che non va;
Ai giocatori dei primi due tipi, gratis in omaggio un bello specchio lucente su cui arrampicarsi. E una mazzata in testa per la loro poca intelligenza e compassione verso gli altri giocatori che non la pensano come loro.
Agli appartenenti al terzo tipo, invece, dico grazie. Anche se non sempre si riesce a mantenere la calma, siete quelli per cui vale la pena incazzarsi.