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Can it be a Tactical officer? That would be swell. Of course, the option to choose at the time it's claimed would be nice too.
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Choosing would be the best.
woah woah woah, what science borg boff?
The Liberated Borg BOFF you unlock when doing Khitomer Accords. It's been in game since Khitomer Accords were added nearly a year and a half ago.
And yes, its still there with the new F2P STF revamp.
NO MORE SCIENCE BO'S!
since the community wants it to be of variable class, that means it won't. since the community wants it to have hard to get skills, that means it won't. since the community wants it to be customizable, that means it won't.
unless all the rp'ers and pve'er's and pvp'ers get together with some massive writing input. but that will never happen because the rp'ers do thing to spite themselves, the pve'rs do thing to spite everyone else, and the pvp'ers do thing to spite other pvp'ers.
No sensible reason I can think of for not letting us choose.
We're talking about who again?
How do you let people have one per alt that can be dismissed and reclaimed if you offer a choice?
Cryptic sensible? Your hope of spotting a flying Porker in the sky just hit 100%
Choices such as what you've described have a better chance of winding up on the CStore rather than in our 700 day reward. They'll probably give it to us, only to have it removed at the last minute while mooning us in the process, lol.
It'd be best of they did it this way, including gender choice, or gender appearance in the case of an Android I suppose.
By letting you have multiple items to claim the Boff from a vendor, but making the actual Boff unique per char, like the Reman and Breen boffs. Once you've commissioned your Android boff, extra claim items would just use up inventory space until you dismiss it.
You can buy an Android BOff at any time for free after 700 days. However, you CANNOT buy one if you already have one. Dismiss the one you have and then you can claim another one. It shouldn't be that hard to code in.
For example, each of the diplo defector BOffs is unique but you can have one of each because having one kind doesn't block you from having another. (I have two Gorn tacs -- ground and space trait versions -- and a gorn engineer.)
They couldn't stop you from claiming the sci android if you had the tac with current tech.
Of course, given CBS' misgivings about evolved androids being too common, I still think the best solution might be for androids to:
- Be a single, classless BO usable in any slot.
- Have 4 ground ensign skills and 4 space ensign skills but have access to any class's skills.
- Have 4 superior ground strength and durability traits.
I think that sortof reinforces these androids as dumb but versatile, as powerful soldier but lacking in human ingenuity. The kind of android that can do a little of everything but which could be outsmarted by human opponent.
^ This. We should have a list of Tac, Sci, and Eng, and just choose one of them. :cool:
Im still waiting on a sensible reason why we can't modify the looks of our photonic officer.
Lets face it, this one is a freebie, they'll rush it out half done at best. Us getting a choice? Not unless we buy the C-store version.
Fully functional.
I was thinking more of preventing mass Data-clones (by have the choice for more diversity) but whatever floats your boat buddy :P
I belive that wont happen... CBS refused Data-Type androids in the game I belive.
This is interesting.
Of course, it would mimick the functionality of a universal ship slot if its abilities were all lower ranked.
The simplest approach I can see to automate this kind of downranking is to give the android a flat 40% effectiveness reduction in all abilities. This basically makes a Rank III ability perform as though it were a Rank II ability.
So you could use an android's tactical powers at a science station this way but they would perform as though they were a rank lower.
In turn, this might be compensated for both by the android's versatility and by the presence of four superior traits, 3 ground (to simulate physical durability as a core feature) and maybe a superior efficient trait to incentivize using the android in space.
Overall, this gives the impression of an android that is versatility but lacking in human nuance and ingenuity, the kind of android Kirk would short circuit by asking it what love is.
Maybe down the road, have an "Emotion Chip" upgrade that removes the 40% ability penalty but lengthens ability cooldowns slightly as well as higher than average susceptibility to seduce,placate and confuse.
If they really wanted to make it fun, instead of lengthening ability cooldowns, androids with an emotion chips would simply have the chance to misfire an ability and an instrumental version of the "Lifeforms" song from Generations would play.
Overall, I kinda like the idea of emotionless androids as versatile but somewhat deficient in terms of raw ability output with traits that make them highly durable and a form of efficient thrown in.
In turn, emotional androids would ditch the raw power drawback, retain the versatility, but be extremely susceptible to seduces, confuses, fear, and placate and have a chance at ability misfires.
Maybe you could have a means of activating or deactivating the emotion chip to toggle between the choice of penalties, eitherof which balance for the super-high durability and ability to multiclass.
This should have a little more customization options since it's almost a two year reward. They could at least throw us this bone. It could be seen as a olive branch and might even convince some to keep subscribing to collect it.
This. And if they let us choose, then everyone wont be running around with the exact same 2 or 3 boffs.
Visually, you will be able to chose gender, and you will get the full range of options that Aliens currently have, so you can have them look like whatever sort of Android you want. (Plus, we are working on a couple more bits to add on)
yes as they would never just announce their previous reward promises void, and simply remove them..oh wait
Sorry but empty promises become kind of stale around here lately. Instead of talking about the awesomsauce things you think about doing one day with something that you cannot really talk about. How about talking about things you are doing for the 250 emblems of the 500 days reward, that some players received and others were simply cheated out of...
Please Data First Contact-style exposed robot bits.Please First Contact style exposed robot bits. Also, a prototype Lal style head would rock.
That's really exciting, though, as it means we can get choices just like Lal did. I'm halfway tempted to go for the funky Andorian look that Lal contemplated:
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Lal_as_Andorian.jpg
So I'm presuming that the vet reward is really a very rare alien boff that's labeled as an Android, having one or more interesting traits?
Yay very rare alien BO