Consoles not equipping

krisxr400 · February 24

I have submitted tickets for this but was wondering if anyone else is having this trouble. A couple of weeks ago i could equip an advanced hangar console on a tos atlas, as of last week, i can't. There are no other advanced consoles equipped on the ship, i drag it over to an engineering slot, it says it will bind and cant be traded, i click to equip, aaaand nothing. Other ships i have, zen store ships, it will.

I had made a gamma jem'hadar last summer and had a t5x jem'hadar dreadnought carrier waiting in the bank for him, been wanting to finish the 20hr playtime and get some fleet gear for it. I really like that old ship. I could put on a rcs turn/dmg res and a neutronium/turn console on. Went to the spire for some tac consoles, got 4 vulnerability locators, aaaand they won't equip. I also can't change the appearance of that ship at all, although my saved appearance does appear on the start screen. I could change the bridge though, and the alliance vanity shield does work.

Been waiting since summer to play that toon and get the 20hrs complete, get the bonus marks, fleet dil, and fleet credits, spread them across the armada, aaaand no critical chance for you! lol I was bummed last night.

Side note- I really like the full jem'hadar ship interior (not just the old bridge), really adds to the experience, a vorta here and there would be a nice touch.

eazzie · February 24

You would of been better off of posting in support - gameplay issues for higher visibility. The mods should be able to move this thread for you.

inferiority · February 24

krisxr400 wrote: »

A couple of weeks ago i could equip an advanced hangar console on a tos atlas, as of last week, i can't.

Went to the spire for some tac consoles, got 4 vulnerability locators, aaaand they won't equip.

If you can't equip Advanced Engineering consoles nor Advanced Tactical consoles, you've likely got an Advanced Science console equipped.

If not, get a screenshot of your consoles and post here so we can see what you see.

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I also can't change the appearance of that ship at all, although my saved appearance does appear on the start screen.

Sounds like you have a shields with Visuals on it. Right-Click it and "Disable Visuals", or check the "Visuals" tab in your ship interface.

rattler2 · February 24

If asked, I can move this to PC Bug Reports.

davefenestrator · February 25

Try this: unequip all consoles. Equip the advanced engineering console. Equip your other consoles until one of them won't equip. Look carefully and see if it is a vulnerability locator or other advanced console.

krisxr400 · February 25

@inferiority I don't have any advanced consoles on the ship, a cple rep consoles, some fleet consoles, and the alliance weaponry set, secondary shield, point defense torp, disruption pulse, and dynamic power redistribution.

@rattler Sure you can move it if you want, i was wondering if anyone else had the problem. I did hear from support today, they want a video of it sent to youtube so they can review it. I wish they could go into my toon, ready the ship, and try to equip it from my inventory. They must be related between the two ships, one wont accept the fleet locators and the other wont accept a crafted console.

Thanks for the help

davefenestrator · February 25

some fleet consoles,

Vulnerability locators and exploiters are advanced consoles.

rattler2 · February 25

They did change the classification of the Locators and Exploiters to be Advanced Consoles even though they are still fleet consoles.

jameswillie · February 25

I recently ran into this problem and was informed that the tactical consoles that you can acquire in your fleet spire are advanced consoles. If any of those are equipped on a ship than u cannot equip any of the engineering and science consoles. We cannot mix them. They can be all tac or eng or sci. Drove me up a wall when I couldn't figure out why mine wouldn't equip. Never realized the spire consoles were advanced also.

krisxr400 · February 25

I submitted a video to the ticket.

I have other ships with spire tac consoles that also have the adv hangar console equipped. On the jem hadar toon, and the dreadnought t5x ship, there are none of the new crafted advanced consoles on it, and i can't equip fleet tac consoles. Everything on that toon/ship is vanilla except for the dil mine rcs and neutronium consoles. Another clue is that two weeks ago i could equip the atlas with a hangar and spire consoles. Switch ships to fleet akira heavy strike wing escort t6x and the console pops right on, with the spire consoles.

I don't recall hearing that about spire and crafted advanced consoles. I do remember reading that you could only have one of the new advanced engineering crafted consoles equipped at a time.

krisxr400 · February 25

@jameswillie You are correct. @davefenestrator It was your method I discovered it. @rattler2 I stand corrected, spire consoles and the hangar consoles don't jive.

So this has turned into a question for me, are thew adv crafted consoles capable of amplifying weapon damage to the same level as the spire tac crit chance or crit damage consoles? I'm either missing something or these consoles are not what they're hyped up to be.

leemwatson · February 25

krisxr400 wrote: »

@jameswillie You are correct. @davefenestrator It was your method I discovered it. @rattler2 I stand corrected, spire consoles and the hangar consoles don't jive.

So this has turned into a question for me, are thew adv crafted consoles capable of amplifying weapon damage to the same level as the spire tac crit chance or crit damage consoles? I'm either missing something or these consoles are not what they're hyped up to be.

The new advanced consoles vary in what they improve, and are intended to provide more damage to ships that are not flush with Tac slots. The variations also allow for improved damage for Sci and Hangar based play.

As with most things in STO, the value of something is subjective to you and how you play. What is 'bad' for someone else maybe a boon for you.

krisxr400 · February 25

Thanks for the advice @leemwatson

I closed those tickets out and apologized for the inconvenience. I really feel like a tool sometimes. Anyone wanna buy polaron, disruptor, and plasma hangar consoles? lol

rattler2 · February 25

Post 'em on the exchange if they aren't bound.

Anyways glad we could figure out what the problem is.

protoneous · February 25

krisxr400 wrote: »

So this has turned into a question for me, are thew adv crafted consoles capable of amplifying weapon damage to the same level as the spire tac crit chance or crit damage consoles? I'm either missing something or these consoles are not what they're hyped up to be.

It seems to depend upon a ship's console layout and other things such as what firing mode is used. The isomags can be a decent improvement over spire tac consoles in some cases. A cruiser with lots of engineering consoles should do well with them while an escort with cannons and a lot of tactical console slots might be about the same as using the Spire tac consoles.

Further reading with test results.

My personal STO resource and reading list.

davefenestrator · February 25

Hangar consoles are useful for 2-hangar carriers and dreadnought carriers where you want to buff your pets. At the same time the mod can add weapon or aux power (buffs launch rate + space magic), turn rate (to replace an RCS console), weapon damage, whatever you need. If you don't have 2 hangars the spire consoles or other rep, universal. crafted consoles may be better.

You lose the +CrtH from the spire consoles, but you can use Lorca's console (Disco rep) to get some back along with the +Weapon power and massive shield pen (knock 6% off the default 90% blocking) - https://sto.fandom.com/wiki/Lorca's_Ambition

krisxr400 · February 26

All good advice, thanks. I lol'd at your comment @davefenestrator (buffs launch rate + space magic) *loads gandolf into forward torp launcher and harry potter into the aft.

I had messed around with lorcas console when it came out, i was pretty meh about it, ended up putting the spire tac console back on.

I thought spire tac consoles add damage to your pets as long as they use the same energy type as your tac consoles. I know, a long time ago, I had tested this out by sending pets into battle while i stayed out of combat. Took the consoles off, then on and read the combat log.

leemwatson · February 27

krisxr400 wrote: »

All good advice, thanks. I lol'd at your comment @davefenestrator (buffs launch rate + space magic) *loads gandolf into forward torp launcher and harry potter into the aft. I had messed around with lorcas console when it came out, i was pretty meh about it, ended up putting the spire tac console back on.

I thought spire tac consoles add damage to your pets as long as they use the same energy type as your tac consoles. I know, a long time ago, I had tested this out by sending pets into battle while i stayed out of combat. Took the consoles off, then on and read the combat log.

The Adv Hangar consoles are waaaaaay better. Stackable weapons power and bonus damage for torps on Hangar pets, in addition to re-engineerable Attribute boost. Add in Swarmer Matrix, the MVAM Console from the newest Prommy and it's Mastery and you've got midgets of death!

tom61sto · February 28

krisxr400 wrote: »

All good advice, thanks. I lol'd at your comment @davefenestrator (buffs launch rate + space magic) *loads gandolf into forward torp launcher and harry potter into the aft. I had messed around with lorcas console when it came out, i was pretty meh about it, ended up putting the spire tac console back on.

I thought spire tac consoles add damage to your pets as long as they use the same energy type as your tac consoles. I know, a long time ago, I had tested this out by sending pets into battle while i stayed out of combat. Took the consoles off, then on and read the combat log.

Lorca's console + another piece of the set is where it becomes really good.

Which pets were these? Hangar pets typically don't use the carrier's stats (some newer one was coded to change Accuracy to damage), but things like console pets and wingmen sometimes do.

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