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whitewinged7
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I cant seem to make the search function work properly at all.
So I will ask here I recently became a lifer and am happy with that choice especially the instant vet rewards.
Can someone tell me a little about the android boffs and what they are like etc.
I have an old 50 from years ago but am uninterested in continuing his career so Im a fresh LT. Fed Engineer with a focus on survive ability.
Thanks for any info on androids and what you think of them feel free to tell me anything about lifetime stuff you guys like alot that I may not be participating in.
So I will ask here I recently became a lifer and am happy with that choice especially the instant vet rewards.
Can someone tell me a little about the android boffs and what they are like etc.
I have an old 50 from years ago but am uninterested in continuing his career so Im a fresh LT. Fed Engineer with a focus on survive ability.
Thanks for any info on androids and what you think of them feel free to tell me anything about lifetime stuff you guys like alot that I may not be participating in.
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I have had my Android respawn and then come and rez me after a team wipe.
One thing I've always found odd is that they have no space traits. Why wouldn't an android come with the "Efficient" trait?
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As already said, androids make excellent ground party members. i tend to make mine the healer.
Other stuff, make sure to pick up the fireworks emote and the Ev suit, if you don't already have one from the new FE.
You can pick up as many of the EV suits as you want, making it easy to outfit your party.
The fireworks emote is a nice pretty, with virtually no practical use whatsoever. Although I have seen it used in Azure to signal a newly emerged 5-pointer.
Check out both the vet destroyers and the captains yacht.
The shuttle is very decent, nice hull and shields. Comes with EptS as standard.
The destroyers are not bad at all, and can work perfectly well as endgame ships.
Just a few of the vet rewards off the top of my head. There are plenty more, but imo its worth it.
I've never considered trying to use it as a flare in Azure before, though in a PUG people would probably assume you're just trolling. I generally just use it to celebrate the end of a successful STF run.
dont forget, the fleet vet drestroyers for only 1 module as well with a properly leveled spire if i recall.
Very true.
And a ten console ship, of any stripe, for a single module is not to be sneezed at.
Saw someone else do it a few months ago, we were all split up chasing ones and twos in Azure and they managed to get our attention.
I do it myself nowadays, if we're split up and a 5 turns up.
Dunno if its helpful, but it is a pretty cool effect anyway...lol
Actually, for a near useless toy, it does get a fair bit of work on my ships.
It's a genuinely fun thing, imo, and always reminds me of the last episode of Voyager.
android as others have said are great ground boffs. due to not being able to trade for training it might be worth picking say an eng android if your an engineer for example then you can train them yourself.
the fleet vet romulan ship is awesome in looks and to play. for 1 fleet module it's not a ship to skip imo.
Also do they not start out with good skills or should I as an engineer train him/her because otherwise they will be uselsess?
Sorry can we elaborate on the skills of the android etc.
Thanks for all the info im loving the fireworks probably considered spam but ill try to tone it down
Keep it coming guys I didnt know their were vet ships to!
His Skills are fairly generic for his Class; IIRC, nothing at level 3.
I don't remember what skills the android comes with, but you cant give them to another player to train.
You can still use the skill trainer at ESD and, if they're in the same profession as you, you can train them yourself.
They'll have their four space boff skills, as normal, but don't get any space traits.
If you mouse over any non assigned bridge officers in your lists, you'll see ground and space traits in addition to four each of space and ground skills.
Some of these are highly prized. Human boffs, for instance, improve your hull heal rate. Thats a space trait.
However, our androids dont have any space traits, instead getting a bunch of useful ground traits.
I was referring to ground and space traits, not skills. The Android boff comes with 4 ground traits, but no space traits. That means he's useful on your away team for ground missions but sort of meh for manning one of your ship's bridge slots because none of his special abilities are going to contribute to your ship's performance.
More details here, this is slightly out of date because you can now choose an android in any profession, not just engineering:
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Starfleet_Android_Engineering_Officer_Candidate
The vet ship is probably one of the best perks we get. Very versatile. Here's a full list of all vet rewards in case you weren't aware of some others:
http://sto.perfectworld.com/community/veteran-rewards
of course they can have space skills. it's just that they have a unique ground trait. where as some boffs have traits that effect space, the android sadly don't. it has reboot so when it's dead it self rezz himself in ground combat.
it might be best for you to train the skills you want to him to get the best out of him that suits you. you can only train the eng android tho.