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My home system is being invaded, and I’ve been busy (with friends and allies) dominating the conflict zones. In the four days of fighting so far the game stopped awarding combat bonds, and now the progress bars in the zones have disappeared. Our faction has dominated the fighting every day, and...

So when objects are activated by a trigger, you can not set the duration of the object. However, if you set them to activate every X seconds, you can set the duration. Why can't you set the duration of the object when it's triggered? I feel like this is a feature that's been requested before...