Reusing boff templates

silverlobes

Does anyone else do this? Create a character on one crew, then re-use the template (and or the whole character name as well) on another crew?

I've done this with a couple of templates, and wondered if anyone else had too?

One instance, was a combination of laziness on my part, combined with a bit of self back-slapping, over what I believe to be a nice piece of boff tailoring: Started off on my Orion dilithium miner/slaver alt as their tactical officer, and, inspired by Dr Blight in Captain planet, I put a scar across the right temple/eye/cheek area, and combined it with the asymmetric swooped over hairstyle. The combination looks like someone trying, and not quite succeding, at concealing a disfiguring injury. Given how Orions are supposed to be beautiful, I figure that to be thus disfigured, would be a massive social stigma to them, and that someone who is literally 'damaged goods' (I'm headcanoning an attack by an abusive Gorn) would be massively devalued in their culture of ownership.

That lead to a further thought, so I deleted the character from the slaver, and recreated her name and all, as an Aliengen ground tactical boff, on the notion of a self-freed, and escaped former slave who makes it to the Federation. I liked the design so much, that when I created another alt, I used the same template (lazy, I know) as their chief engineer, but with a whole new name, and of course, as they're one of the rostered senior staff, they appear in on screen notifications, in a way which the other instwnces never did

Anyone else do this with their Space Barbies?

markhawkman

Only once, and I wrote a backstory on why.

Luth is a being who infects others and turns them into slightly imperfect duplicates.

silverlobes

I like that reasoning

smokebailey

I used Elisa's current look, and altered it slightly, as in slimmed her a little bit to more of her 2014 look, and used her current face, which is more softer than 2014's, and gave her blue hair to make her Mariko, my AoY tac, who is from the Kelvin verse.

silverlobes

Awesome

cbrjwrr

Never actually got around to it, but after playing the Fed tutorial once I thought it would be good to create an Elisa Flores captain and give her the Vesta she wanted to captain one day... Never did though, as while she did make a head-canoned captain under my Fed main Admiral, I never actually did make her.

As someone who tends to create way too many characters, whenever I get around to deleting older ones, I tend to remake them as boffs on other characters - figuring I could save them as outifts and reloading them would have saved so much effort.

baddmoonrizin

I do this sometimes with specific BOFFs, head canoning that it IS the same officer/character making a "guest appearance" with another crew. Examples) I've head canoned that Tovan Khev is on all of my Romulan crews, because he's a liasion officer for the Romulan Republic, so he's constantly visiting ships in the fleet and the ships of Republic allies. Also, using the Engineering Photonic BOFF reward from Delta Rising, I recreated Gein from "What Lies Beneath" and use him on all my crews with that BOFF.

admiralnat

I often used existing boffs as a base for new ones, or even for captains; moreso for aliens, since I usually prefer to maintain the same typical proportions of other species. In the end, the result in so different you'd never even know.​​

smokebailey

Here's my AoY Tac, Mariko, who is from the Kelvin-verse.

silverlobes

baddmoonrizin wrote: »

I do this sometimes with specific BOFFs, head canoning that it IS the same officer/character making a "guest appearance" with another crew. Examples) I've head canoned that Tovan Khev is on all of my Romulan crews, because he's a liasion officer for the Romulan Republic, so he's constantly visiting ships in the fleet and the ships of Republic allies. Also, using the Engineering Photonic BOFF reward from Delta Rising, I recreated Gein from "What Lies Beneath" and use him on all my crews with that BOFF.

That is a Very Cool idea Were you able to get him close to the original (or even given the correct slider settings?)

As for my friend and yours, Tovan Khev, I recently decided to create a new Romulan engineer to use as an Exchange Mule, and decided to go with the notion of her being the granddaughter of my first Romulan, so I altered Tovan's stock appearance to look aged. He's still Tovan Khev, and the same Tovan Khev who my first ran with 'back in the day', but this is 'Cool Uncle T' going through the holo-scrapbook of shenanigans with a family friend

silverlobes

smokebailey wrote: »

Here's my AoY Tac, Mariko, who is from the Kelvin-verse.

Definitely looks like Elisa Flores