Damage keeps going to 1 in coliseum

yeah a guildie on tier 3 has had barris' stacks reset once from 999 and is back up to 900 again. 

I have been on auto, on tier 2, for about 20 minutes now doing one single point of damage per hit.
The event unique modifiers do not seem to be working.  Some of the robots icon counts do not reduce or increase as I expect when reading the kit. i feel like I should have a battle unique button like on Zeffo to trigger something based on the icons on the top right. The exposes are only rewarding one point of damage too (or whatever that icon that goes up to five and then resets means)

edited here: I stayed on full auto for about an hour then switched to basic auto hoping to just end it so I could play fleet arena. 
later I went in to full auto again and just it run and it crashed showing no new high score but a turn used.