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Some BOFF skills not showing up when assigned to a station
edrickvellorin
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When assigned to a station, some BOFFs skills don't show up properly in the user interface. One of the affected BOFFs is the hologram Bashir that was given out earlier this year, so I checked that BOFF on two other characters and didn't have any issues. Other BOFFs in the same stations on the same ship don't have any issues. For the affected BOFFs the skill boxes initially start off completely blank (like when None is selected) and I can only select the Ensign ability, the higher tier abilities aren't even selectable. The BOFFs are Commander level, and even if they weren't, the ability icons should still show up rather then black boxes or empty spaces the way they are in the image below. The skills don't show up on the stations UI or on the BOFF list in the main HUD either. Even if the character had invalid specialization skills as default, the icons would still show up so you can click on them and change to a valid skill. In this case for the higher tier skills nothing shows up and clicking where the icon should be does nothing. This doesn't seem to affect ground abilities, so I wonder if it's somehow related to the loadout system changes?
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I thought it was just a glitch and shelved the ship and picked up another from the zen store, only to find myself in the same predicament, i checked other engineer characters and my main tac and theirs worked fine..
Then i picked up the titan and she had the same problems with that, funnily though if i revert her back to any previous ships that she owns, they all work fine..
I figured maybe the data for the BOFFs in question on the server got damaged so I tried buying new BOFFs from the vendor at ESD. The new BOFFs work when assigned to a station, but when you bring up the list their name and skills don't show up, only their icon and the radio button. (Screenshot below.) Not sure if it's related or a separate bug. This happened with 3 BOFFs I tried on one char and 1 BOFF I tried on another char. (I didn't buy any more then those four, but suspect it'll happen to any I buy.)
So the BOFFs are functional, this is more of a UI display issue, but it could be related.
* Navigate to a BOFF whose skills are showing properly.
* Navigate to the required rank (e.g. ens seat).
* Now navigate back to the "broken" station.
* You'll see the list of options for that rank and can select them.
* Rinse and repeat for each rank.
Of course that doesn't help much if it's the Commander BOFF that's broken. It also doesn't seem to be BOFF-specific, in that swapping other BOFFs into the same seat causes the same problem, but on the other hand swapping a "broken" BOFF to another station causes THAT station to start experiencing the problem when it wasn't before. So it's propagating somehow.
I've raised a bug for this one in-game.
The second problem, yeah, that list has a LOT of problems. I usually just close and reopen the list and it displays OK.
https://imgur.com/a/S3Xdjbx
So it seems i am still experiencing this issue with my female science officer each time i load a new ship.
As its now a touch over 6 months since we last heard any more on this, is anyone else still having the same problem with their alts ?
The only way i personally seem to be able to correct this is by swapping back to a previously used ship, going to the ranked stations clicking, then swapping back to the new ship adjusting, then swapping back n forth in that order.
Even swapping maps does not seem to help, unless i switch back n forth between old and new ship..
Its extremely time consuming and my girl has quite a few ships to get mastery on as i had been holding off on her due to this bug....
I have added a video to show exactly my predicament as this was taken just before the summer festival began.
Any suggestions on how this could be done quicker or a permanent fix would be much appreciated..
Just as a note, its only my fed science girl that is affected, as my male alts have had no problems with gaining new starships and setting boff stations..
..TIME..
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On a new ship, the slots are empty and I can't fill them in.
You guys are charging $200 for ship packs they should at least work!
I've tried that it didn't work - i reset all the boffs gave them the abilities i wanted to use on the ships but even the "restore to defaults" button does nothing.