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Choosing BOffs when in a group

kastruskastrus Member Posts: 1 Arc User
edited May 2014 in The Academy
Hi everyone, been playing for quite some time but didn't do group missions (aside from STFs) until recently. I found a problem when grouping with other players when it comes to choose wich additional Boffs are you beaming down on ground missions. I can see the captain select dropdown menu and my own boffs if the selected captain was already me but i can change either of those options.

I searched the forums but didn't find any help, can someone tell me if this is the way it is or there is a way to choose all Boffs from the same captain?

Tried swapping leadership but it's the same for the others, can't change the initial boff/captains assigns.

Thanks in advance.
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  • tenkaritenkari Member Posts: 2,906 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    it seems ot be bugged, but it'll pick your BO's based on the order you select them in your "default away team" section in the stations area.
  • kastruskastrus Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    OK, thanks i hope that will be fixed soon.

    But then if it's a 2 man team, who will get 2 boffs selected? Leader or the other? and if we're 3 how can you know who won't get an officer?
  • tenkaritenkari Member Posts: 2,906 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    if i recall correctly, the elader by default gets the 2 in a two man team, , and 1 in a three or 4 man.
  • breadandcircusesbreadandcircuses Member Posts: 2,355 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    If you are the leader, you can select on a dropdown who gets to pick how many officers. It usually defaults at 2/1 for the leader/follower(s), or 1/1/0 in a group of 3, etc. If you don't have any dropdowns for selecting bridge officers, it's possible that either the team leader took all the boffs themself or there weren't enough blank spaces to go around.

    If you are referring to Defera, though, the extra boffs only appear when someone clicks the "Request Reinforcements" (or something like that) button under the party status section of the UI. This can only be done once you enter the Power Plant area on the map. The person that clicks it first is generally the one that gets the boff. By contrast, at times Starbase Incursion will just randomly lob a couple of everybody's boffs, some folks' boffs, or just whatever... that one can have a mind of its own, lol.

    Of course... that Accept button at the bottom when you are beaming down? If there's only two of you it's perfectly reasonable to ask the leader for a boff before clicking it.
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  • kastruskastrus Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Thanks for the info, but it looks bugged indeed.

    Being the leader i see the dropdown but if i try to change any values (change captains) nothing happens, only i can change officers when i'm assigned but i can't change the captain on that menu, if i try, nothing happens :)

    We'll try to plan ahead by looking closely to our default away team officers until it's fixed.

    Safe journeys pals!
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