INT boff in a non INT ship? I don't think so...

prierin

So I saw that I had an extra BOFF slot on my ship and thought – cool! Went to the bridge officer requisitions officer and saw intelligence officer boffs… awesome! Found on, an engineer, that had some skills that I was already using and a few others that looked pretty sweet, so I dropped some dil and got him, named him, clothed him, gave him a comfy sat on my ship… what more could he want? Hell, my ENTIRE senior staff is women… it should be a dream come true for this guy.

Only, he didn’t want to use his special skills because I am not in an Intelligence Ship… okay, fine. I get it. It’s not like I dropped a lot of dil on him anyway (about 450 I think) so really no complaints there. I just think he’d show a little more gratitude for basically being allowed to serve on what would equate to the Love Boat of space…

Granted, I thought this would be the case. What would be the point in an INT ship if the INT officers could use their skills in any boat, so again, no real complaints. Also, I am sure this was written somewhere in some blog or post or update that I have failed to read, so the onus is entirely on me.

Just a forewarning to others who get entranced by these officers – if you don’t have an INT ship, don’t hire these BOFFS. They’re lazy, stuck up and refuse to share their toys.

sorceror01

Haha, yeah, this was perfectly explained to us in a dev blog quite some time ago.
Thankfully, though, if you want him to still be useful in that BOff seat, he can still train in his basic career abilities. It's just, in a non-Intel seat, you can't slot in any Intel abilities.

coupaholic

You can still use their intel ground abilities can't you?

rebnai

Not entirely true, the other T6 non-intel ships also have some hybrid seats where intel/whatever officers can use intel abilities.

drasym

coupaholic wrote: »

You can still use their intel ground abilities can't you?

yes, you can use the intel ground skills and, if desired retrain the intel officer's space skills to ones they will use on a non-intel ship.. _ (IE . for example an eng/intel officer can use any of the base engineer skills on any ship.. intel on non.. just need an intel ship with the boff in an intel slot to use the intel space skills)

gavinruneblade

Another thing to be careful of: universal does not include Intel powers, just TAC/sci/eng.

I know a few people who didn't catch that in the blog are were upset about it.

warmaker001b

gavinruneblade wrote: »

Another thing to be careful of: universal does not include Intel powers, just TAC/sci/eng.

I know a few people who didn't catch that in the blog are were upset about it.

LOL, imagine what you can do with a BOP with boatloads of Intel BOFFs