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Non Tradable Bridge Officers, headache...

grayfrethgrayfreth Member Posts: 36 Arc User
edited June 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Any chance that in the near future there can be a way to train the non tradable bridge officers like the liberated borgs, jemhadar, breen etc with useful skills. For instance if you want to train one of them in beam fire at will 3, or science team 3 its impossible unless your that class to train it. Cant find other bridge officers to use as training and you cant trade them to some one else to train them. Id love to use these bridge officers but sinse I cant get them trained in what would be useful to me, they aren't usefull...
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  • sosolidshoesosolidshoe Member Posts: 174 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    sopwithsnipe wrote: »
    No, partially. The account unlocked boffs gotten as part of LTS's or special promotions should never be tradeable.

    The ones gotten as part of mission rewards should be tradeable.

    The solution is to add a process by which people can train other players' boffs without actually having to transfer ownership.
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  • tc10btc10b Member Posts: 1,549 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    sosolidshoe wrote: »
    The solution is to add a process by which people can train other players' boffs without actually having to transfer ownership.
    Agreed, this makes a lot more sense in general.

    I let my officer attend a course you run, he's still my officer he just took your course.
  • sparhawksparhawk Member Posts: 796 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    The two main suggestions I've seen to resolve this (I'm fine with either option) are:

    1) Add training PADDs to the game. You "train" the skill you want to the PADD. The training PADDs would be items you could sell/mail/trade to yourself or others.

    2) Add all the missing BOFF skills to the existing BOFF trainers (probably the simplest option).

    Players have been asking Cryptic for years to change/improve this system.
  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    current system is a pile of TRIBBLE, not sure why i bothered stating that, but there it is. with all respect but i dont trust anyone in real life and even less so in game, so when i trade my very rare boff out and that player logs out before putting me on ignore list, yeah.. anything is possible. i dont want to have to rely on another player to get training for one of my boffs. it should just be a simple matter of spending some credits getting the skill from the trainer.
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  • grayfrethgrayfreth Member Posts: 36 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    I like the Padd idea!
  • flash525flash525 Member Posts: 5,441 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    FE Boff Rewards and Diplomacy Boff Rewards should be tradable.
    Reputation Rewarded Boffs should be 'mail-able' to other characters on your account (account bound?). This enables various training.
    Others should remain locked.
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  • longasclongasc Member Posts: 490
    edited June 2013
    sosolidshoe wrote: »
    The solution is to add a process by which people can train other players' boffs without actually having to transfer ownership.

    Exactly! 10 Characters.
  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    My solution is to have players train sacrificial boffs to a player with a non-tradeable bridge officer which can be sacrificed to train the right skill. We would need to be able to move bridge officers from the active roster to inventory.
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  • grayfrethgrayfreth Member Posts: 36 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    I think the padd idea is the best so far. They could be traded, mailed, put on the exchange. If they don't make them stackable this would be a win for Cryptic cause it would use inventory you would maybe need to buy more of. Ok Cryptic give us our SFA Lecture Padds!
  • aarons9aarons9 Member Posts: 961
    edited June 2013
    the whole boff training thing is stupid..

    your boff trainer from the SB should train any and every skill possible..
    the more rare ones should maybe cost more.. but thats it.
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  • zerobangzerobang Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    grayfreth wrote: »
    I think the padd idea is the best so far. They could be traded, mailed, put on the exchange.

    ...in the C-Store, in the Lobi Store, in Lockboxes.

    what? they did it with traits already, so why not BOff skills?
    And apparently we are all ok with the level of Pay 2 Win this game has reached by now.

    We could need a few new ones anyway, did they even add one new BOff Skill since launch? ....don't think so.
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  • makburemakbure Member Posts: 422 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    sosolidshoe wrote: »
    The solution is to add a process by which people can train other players' boffs without actually having to transfer ownership.

    Agreed, something like a "these items will not be traded" window.
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  • makburemakbure Member Posts: 422 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    aarons9 wrote: »
    the whole boff training thing is stupid..

    your boff trainer from the SB should train any and every skill possible..
    the more rare ones should maybe cost more.. but thats it.

    This has been going around my head as well. My take is rather, you know how our captain skill tree has skills that give the ability to train a Boff in something, if it's our discipline? Well instead of "tactical captains who take X ranks of this can train...", it should just be "CAPTAINS who take X ranks of this can train...". Remove the class discipline requirement and just let us train if we take max ranks.
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  • nadiezjanadiezja Member Posts: 629 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    zerobang wrote: »
    ...in the C-Store, in the Lobi Store, in Lockboxes.

    what? they did it with traits already, so why not BOff skills?
    And apparently we are all ok with the level of Pay 2 Win this game has reached by now.

    We could need a few new ones anyway, did they even add one new BOff Skill since launch? ....don't think so.
    Given the prices they're running on the exchange, it seems like the traits aren't terribly desirable.
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