BOFFs or Skittles, can't tell

commodoreshrvk

Alright I have not seen this posted yet. Forgive me if I missed it but the recent UI Update that signals us what quality our BOFFs are needs some adjustment. It seems to be heading the way of the burning consoles. I have not problem with seeing the BOFF text in purple for very rares when I get the BOFF paper doll. However on the left of the UI, the outer glow around the Comm Insignia is quite obtrusive. It completely obscures the insignia and the branch coloration and for very rares it appears as pink. I think it makes them look like skittles and is just terrible looking. I am not sure what it really adds so please revert it.

nicha0

It is pretty ugly, and not sure why it is needed, does anyone really care the rarity of their Boff? You have them set up for what they can do, a couple of slightly improved ground traits are meaningless.

azurianstar

^ Actually some people do care. Especially if you end up replacing them.



The BOFF UI Changes, this is something I been waiting for, for a long time. Though not too crazy about the colors on the tabs. Seems enough just to have different colors on the character page.


BTW, surprised some BOFFs are lower in quality. Like the Veteran BOFFs were regarded as Green and some Purple Efficient Saurians were Blue in Quality.

timelord79

A Saurian may be efficient but his other traits may not be of superior qualty, thus no purple.

atatassault

azurianstar wrote: »

some Purple Efficient Saurians were Blue in Quality.

The system is almost assuredly looking at the traits to determine what Rarity a commissioned boff should be (since rarity is tied to the container for the boff [that is, the commissioned boff icon], and is not in the data of the actual boff). So, If the Purple Saurian had one of its traits that would have been Superior as its efficient trait, the system sees a standard trait. So having only 1 superior trait causes the system to classify the Saurian as Blue instead of Purple.

azurianstar

timelord79 wrote: »

A Saurian may be efficient but his other traits may not be of superior qualty, thus no purple.

But if you know you had a Purple Saurian and it's not showing as a Purple Saurian, then it's misleading.

gpgtx

maybe they re-did some boff rarity?

atatassault

azurianstar wrote: »

But if you know you had a Purple Saurian and it's not showing as a Purple Saurian, then it's misleading.

I know, I'm just pointing out how it probably determines rarity, since before this update, it was unnecessary to tag a rarity to commissioned Boffs; it still is unnecessary, mechanics-wise.

markhawkman

azurianstar wrote: »

^ Actually some people do care. Especially if you end up replacing them.



The BOFF UI Changes, this is something I been waiting for, for a long time. Though not too crazy about the colors on the tabs. Seems enough just to have different colors on the character page.


BTW, surprised some BOFFs are lower in quality. Like the Veteran BOFFs were regarded as Green and some Purple Efficient Saurians were Blue in Quality.

um.... it is possible to find efficient saurians that are blue quality. I own a few tactical saurians that are blue and efficient.

I'm not really sure if anything has changed with rarities. As far as I know, the game DOES keep an internal record of boff rarities already. You can see it when you trade boffs for training.

canis36

I've never had a blue or purple efficient Saurian. All the one's I've ever had were green quality.

nynik

I agree. The quality glow around the division icon detracts greatly from the information that division color is supposed to show. Having the quality color the text once selected on an active BOFF is perfectly sufficient.

nynik

The quality glow has been reduced in the latest tribble build, thankfully. Although I'm still not sure that information needs to be shown on those icons at all when its being shown when you click into a BO.

Thanks all the same for reducing it a lot.