Just waiting on any word from a dev who works on this. It's bugged either way - either it shouldn't have the option to upgrade, or it's not upgrading when it should.
This character is level 65, and has been for a number of years. This was exactly my thought, and why I submitted the initial in-game bug report, but when GM Ovric told me that their records indicated that these weapons specifically should be upgradeable, things became more interesting.
So yeah, I just double-checked. It does indeed now have a shared 2 minute cooldown with other similar devices. Nothing in the patch notes, and no change in the tooltip for Kobayashi Maru Resupply or the More Details window for the Transponder (which still says it has a cooldown of 1 minute 30 seconds). Either this was an…
Having reread this thread, I think a lot of people are operating under a very mistaken idea. The position is NOT Community Representative, it's Community Manager. I don't know about y'all, but I've worked a LOT of jobs over my years, and never have I ever referred to any of my managers as a representative: they're my boss.…
Censor does not mean what you think it means, my friend. That being said, this whole situation is absolutely beyond ridiculous, but knowing what I know about human nature and fandom, I'm really not all that surprised at the ludicrous behavior some in the community have demonstrated.