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Flagship Distress Frequency Transponder - spawning flagships everywhere for no reason.
sgtfloydpepper
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There appears to be a bug with "Flagship Distress Frequency Transponder" causing it to auto spawn flagships.
Sol system is flooded with NPC odyssey ships everywhere and few jem hadar NPC dreadnoughts as well.
Sol system is flooded with NPC odyssey ships everywhere and few jem hadar NPC dreadnoughts as well.
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Seriously, I can't go a single day without seeing at least one person in one of those things. lol
Anyway, I'm about two days away from winning this item myself; if I don't see a bunch of random Odysseys automatically warping in during my questing, or even any tied to me during a trip to ESD, I think inferiority's explanation is more likely.
(One of my characters now flies the "U.S.S. InvalidEntityName".)
Nimbus Pirates, last I checked, must be equipped also.
Fair enough on the others, though.
You don't need to slot the new transponder into a device slot. I read on another thread it can be activated from your inventory. Although I can not confirm if this is true or not.
> Nimbus Pirates, last I checked, must be equipped also.
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> Fair enough on the others, though.
You don't need to equip the Nimbus Pirate Beacon. Just have it in your inventory.
Are you sure? A "use" command does not become available to me when it is in the inventory, unlike the other beacons. I did find that I could do so with the Nimbus Pirates after all, testing it just now. The new beacon, not so much... In fact, "More Details" claims directly that it must be equipped. But it never appears on the hotbar either way.
Trying it in a patrol right now however, the "use" command that appears when the new beacon is equipped ultimately seems to have no input whatsoever, and what I got from Fleet Support was an Inquiry without it equipped, not an Odyssey, let alone the Enterprise itself, like what I got this morning before the patch. Maybe the beacon was patched; I'll have to check the notes for today. But I think it really is required to be equipped to have any effect at all; with it equipped, I get whatever ship I rolled in addition to the Enterprise when I use Fleet Support. Which is probably exactly how it worked the first time when I got it.
I was, however, wrong about it working from the Inventory - it does need equipped.
(I'd used it in a TFO and the arrival of the Bortasqu' was likely due to someone else and not me. When I activated it during a Patrol, no flagship showed up.)
In that case, how are so many Odysseys appearing at ESD? There's nothing to threaten you there, so somehow people must be putting themselves into Red Alert to make Fleet Support able to be used...
I guess it's actually pretty easy to do that. Science/Engineering/Tactical Fleet inexplicably sends you into Red Alert on use. I know this because I've had it happen consistently. But is this really how people are summoning so many Odysseys in an otherwise perfectly safe area? lol
Additionally, it is possible to put yourself into Red Alert even in Earth Orbit. Then, you can trigger Fleet Support.
I'm a bit lost, though. For Starfleet players, the beacon summons the Enterprise. Not just any old Odyssey variant like the mastery trait from the Titan science destroyer, but the Enterprise itself, which is a Yorktown. So where are all these U.S.S. Odyssey clones coming from? Do they just not appear as the Enterprise to anyone who didn't summon them? On top of that, the Enterprise is a Dreadnought-rank mob; these Odysseys are all Battleship-rank.
It doesn't make any sense, arrrgh!
EDIT: Okay, hang on. I see some of the problem. The Enterprise is not leaving. It just doesn't leave. It's supposed to leave after 45 seconds, but it doesn't, and neither do these Odysseys. The first summon on a given space map is always Enterprise (at least to those who summon it), but later summons are regular Odysseys, at least as long as this bug is in effect. Further more, to the summoner at least, these Odyssey clones are indeed Dreadnought-rank mobs like the Enterprise. But when you leave the map and come back, it becomes a Battleship-rank mob instead, and no longer tied to you. The Enterprise itself does seem to disappear when you do, though, even though whatever Odysseys you summon remain.
Very curious.
I kinda wish the enhances part was highlighted better because been searching for "how it works" because I am on a character that just hit captain.
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The downside of the enhanced Fleet Support is losing a Device slot.
Needs a nerf so it can't be used in social zones.
Hopefully a fix will be coming soon.
> Btw, does any else have an issue where the summon fleet support (normal or with flagship) since this update is now kinda broken? Instead of becoming available at 50% like it should for my characters, it sometimes becomes available at 25% and sometimes never activates at all and remains greyed out. Only my Jem'Hadar with the trait that lets you use it regardless of health can actually summon a ship when its supposed to.
Yep. Have a similar problem on my KDF-aligned Romulan: equipping the transponder in a Romulan ship completely disables Fleet Support so that it is always greyed out and never able to activate.
If anyone not using the Command Frequency trait can confirm the bugs regarding the low-hull requirement when the transponder is equipped are still happening, maybe we can close the book on this.