GM Eriyaa helped identify the issue - it seems that the Advanced Tactical Vulnerability Locator and Exploiter consoles prevent slotting the new advanced consoles. I confirmed this by removing all the consoles on my ship today and found out the adv. tactical consoles were causing the adv. engineering ones to not "slot" on…
Yes, thanks. It was in my email report but will include it here - it started with the Excelsior II Intel Heavy Cruiser. When I tried to replicate the issue, it was my Kelvin Vengeance Intel Dreadnaught Cruiser. It seems that whatever ship I am currently using, if I obtain an advanced console it will not work on THAT ship…