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RRW bridge officer recruitment DOFF assinment since 9.5?
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I used to see a Recruitment Assignment (I forget the name) both in the personal list and one other place both on and above New Romulus that allowed my Rom captain to train bridge officers.
I haven't seen it since 9.5 - am I just unlucky?
(Doff experts will know instantly which assignment I'm talking about)
I haven't seen it since 9.5 - am I just unlucky?
(Doff experts will know instantly which assignment I'm talking about)
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but rom boff recruitment is uber rare anyway so maybe its just luck?
whats the guess it "slipped through the cracks" ?
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
Just for clarity - its about a Duty Officer Assignment that allows you to recruit Bridge Officers of varying races.
And although not "common", it showed up frequently enough before 9.5 that I'm fairly sure it's either not there or extraordinarly rare...I'm betting its missing. I think I'll bug report it.
Recruit exactly what boffs?
I just completed 2 non-romulan species boff assignments, if they are looking to do the romulan/reman recruitment missions, well they are very rare, and if not on at the right time, than you can completely miss them.
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
Only in addition to the evaluate romulan boff which I haven't seen a single one of yet, I also see very few regular faction specific ones standing in the command center.
Just pay attention to exchange price - we will get answer there
They're saying the Romulan boff recruitment doff assignment is missing. Frankly, I thought they were only messing with the doff assignment UI (garbage now) and tweaking assignments that give materials and cluster ones. They must have broken code elsewhere with all these doff assignment bugs popping up.
My guess is, the timegates are just broken, and the cooldown its maybe really messed up. Must be another sideeffect of the "great" work cryptic put in this season.
With my romulan characters, not even single one since 9.5, so 1 whole week.
That, as far as i can remember, never happened to me since LOR launched 14 months ago.
I keep track of those...
You can call them rare, these are not rare.
They are restrict per character.
I know exactly how much to expect of them at the end of the week (+ - 20%), depends of my available time.
But heaving 0 at the end of the week, never ever ever happened to me so far
Has anyone actually had a Romulan/Reman Boff assessment assignment since 9.5?
I've been checking every few hours and I would say I usually get at least 1 a week (only have 2 Romulan characters) but since 9.5, nothing... Plenty of Allied Boff assignments, sometimes 2 at a time, however, not a single Romulan/Reman assessment in recent weeks...
No on my part since 9.5 launched, and I am on everyday for 4-8hrs each day.
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
Rumor has it they're going to make doff assignments accessible through gateway, so they're probably cleaning up the backend, and making everything more robust in preparation for that.
I personally haven't seen any of these assignments as well.
There was a UI bug with the 9.5 revamp, that was allowing unavailable DoFF missions to show up, even though they apparently had a "secret" level requirement which Cryptic never told us about before.
It's possible I guess, that there is some sort of "hidden" requirement for Romulan/Reman BoFF recruitment missions (must be T4 in Recruitment or some such) and they just haven't bothered telling us or ... It's just plain BORKED! and needs fixing!
<tin foil hat on>
Maybe they are trying to lower the desire for SRO's but making them scarce? Giving extra Crit on weapons and new consoles (with X2 maybe?) ... In preparation for the swinging of the Nerf Bat, when they remove stacking of SRO's ...
<tin foil hat off>
My bet is that it's all part of their plan to kill the exchange.
People were able to make decent EC with unwanted romulan BO's and they can't have that.
They don't want people to make EC, they might be able to buy stuff on the exchange and get some toys to have fun with.
It's like a feeding frenzy round here recently. There's going to come a time when there aren't any fish left for these greedy sharks to eat.
Your tinfoil budget must be pretty crazy.
You do know how supply and demand work don't you? You don't kill the value of an item by removing the supply as all that does is raise the cost...
Since Romulan Bridge Officers are not available through a means which makes Cryptic money, nor in fact is the vast, vast majority of the items on the exchange, what benefit would Cryptic have by destroying the exchange?
I really must agree with this statement... This is unfounded paranoia...
For exactly that reason. Players are buying stuff that Cryptic aren't making money on.
I'm betting they will gradually phase this out so EVERYTHING must be bought with Zen, Dilithium or Lobi Store/Random lock box drops.
Phase 1 has been to severely curtail the amount of EC players are making.
This has been successful, vendor trash is worth a third of what it was and there are no more loot items of any value dropping. When was the last time anyone dropped a purple MK XI Antiproton Mag? Phaser Relay? Plasma Infuser? Neutronium? Before 9.5 is when, they have been removed just like the Romulan Doffs.
Cryptic HATE the exchange because they don't get a slice of the action.
It's not unfounded, it fits the facts and I'm a great believer that if something looks like a fish and smells like a fish it's probably piscine in nature.
First off, I've had a Mk XI purple beam array drop, within the last fortnight... Can't remember exactly what, disruptor I think...
As for the rest, this is still just paranoia and conspiracy theorism at it's finest... There have been no indications thus far that Cryptic have any plans to disrupt the exchange... If anything, the recent R&D changes are actually going to promote greater exchange use as people will turn to the exchange for materials and to sell their crafted items...
Have you considered that the rebalancing of item values was in fact an attempt to shift people into using the exchange more, rather than just farming vendor trash - not to mention a way of deterring people from farming a few specific Foundry missions designed merely to milk EC?
So you're saying you haven't had an antiproton mag, phaser relay, plasma infuser or neutronium drop, and actually you've had one beam drop in a fortnight. You consider this a decent return for your time and energy?
I agree that crafting materials are buoyant at the moment but nothing else is, the exchange has slowed down dramatically for everything else. Crafting materials and crafted items will be the only things left to buy and sell soon enough.
The price of a lock box key is dropping daily, lock box ships are falling through the floor, the Narcine carrier is 60 Million EC less than it was 2 weeks ago - a full 25% reduction in price!
Demand has dropped and will continue to do so because players have less EC to buy this stuff with and the only way to shift something is to re-list it MUCH cheaper.
Any EC people do have is going on crafting supplies because they perceive that route to be the only thing that's worthwhile at the moment.
The exchange is being squeezed from both ends simultaneously. People have less EC to buy stuff with and the stuff they want to buy isn't dropping anymore so it can't be listed for sale.
And that's exactly what Cryptic want.
If you don't have the EC to buy that shiny and there aren't any on the exchange then you'll have to play the lock box lottery or buy it with Zen. Either way it's real money going to Cryptic.
Do you know there are only 25*MK XI purple neutronium consoles left on the exchange? A month ago there were hundreds (there's only ONE MK XII purple left incidentally).
The exchange is in its death throes, make the most of it now because sooner than you think I suspect it's going to be renamed the "Crafting Exchange".
Dude, I'm not gonna even try and argue with such nonsense... You believe what ever you want... Your arguments are flawed and can be explained by countless mundane and common reasons, all of which I just can't be stuffed repeating here on barely 4 hours sleep...
To get this back on topic... Has anyone actually had a Romulan Boff assessment assignment or can this be considered bugged?
You can't tell me I'm talking nonsense and then not come up with one single cogent argument in refutation.
I'm all for reasoned debate and I'll even concede I am wrong if you can offer me an intelligent and well thought out perspective.
Telling me my opinion is flawed while being singularly unable to counter it is weak my friend.
They used to crop up from time to time, now they don't.
If you look on the exchange, the same purple SRO Boffs are still there, presumably nobody wants them for 17M EC. Every so often you'd see one for a decent price and snap it up, that's no longer the case so I assume nobody is getting the assignment.
Uh, no.
Cryptic LOVE the exchange because it drives lockbox/key sales. People buy keys and lockboxes and lobi store trash specifically to sell on the Exchange to make credits. It's a driving factor. People buy stuff they don't need with real money, to trade to people who want it for virtual money to buy the trash other people put on the Exchange. And of course these people are generally selling to folks who would never pay real money for those virtual products, so no (or few) sales are lost by Cryptic, only gained. It's not unlike the Dilithium Exchange in that way.
It all makes Cryptic money. And Cryptic ALWAYS gets their money, the Dilithium Exchange guarantees that. Everything Cryptic bothers to sell is paid for by someone.
As far as prices and items on the Exchange goes, in case you missed it they did just announce a T6 and Mk XIV equipment, and most of the player base is, shall we say, feeling rather dubious about how everything will stack up after next season. What you're seeing could be some type of reaction to that.
The Exchange is Cryptic's friend, and they aren't stupid enough to not realize that. All of those keys you see on it? That's real money put into the game that, without the exchange, would never happen. And key sales are what Cryptic loves best. Think they're going to toss out something that leads to so many extra sales? I sure don't.
It used to be the faction ones would spawn daily so yeah they are both nerfed.
Just like colonization chains took a huge hit aswell...
Is it a random coincidence and they didn't think about the "double tab missions" or do they have a 2 year history of removing anything that generates ec for the players?
Foundry, upgrinding doffs, tour the galaxy, console fabrication, even vendor trash and now boffs and doff farming?
That seems like pretty much everything to me.
There you go, could not have explained it better... As I said, common, mundane reasons...
The very fact R&D has since been introduced has also very likely had an impact on the availability of items on the exchange as alot of the items you are attributing to drops, were probably being crafted and either those people are still leveling their R&D or have moved onto newer, more profitable items such as the Omni-Beam Arrays etc...
Additionally, have you stopped to consider you've just had a run of bad RNG? I am yet to notice a change in drops myself, nor does anyone I know seem to have experienced a reduced drop rate...
Hysterical non-sensical conspiracy theorism is not a 'cogent argument'... It is just that, hysterical nonsensical conspiracy theorism and the very reason I was not going to waste my time explaining in detail why your conspiracy theories are farcical...