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A Use for Blue Bridge Officers?
hfmudd
Member Posts: 881 Arc User
My request for the new year - can we please get something to do with all of our blue-quality Bridge Officer Candidates? (Not duty officers, note, bridge officers.) Anyone who's been playing for any length of time collects far more than they have any use for. We can't use them in starbase projects, grind them down for dilithium, or anything else. They're piling up like tribbles!
The price on the exchange for blue BOFFs of all sorts has been trending steadily down, particularly over the last year; we're almost at the point where it's not worth the bother of putting them up. Indeed, I imagine many players are already outright discarding them.
If that is the devs' intent - that we start trashing them - could you let us know, and/or put out some bins? But I would really like to see some alternative sink.
The price on the exchange for blue BOFFs of all sorts has been trending steadily down, particularly over the last year; we're almost at the point where it's not worth the bother of putting them up. Indeed, I imagine many players are already outright discarding them.
If that is the devs' intent - that we start trashing them - could you let us know, and/or put out some bins? But I would really like to see some alternative sink.
Join Date: January 2011
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The one thing they could do is something like is done with doffs. You could take 5 blues and turn them into a single purple for a small dil fee.
That's why I dump them, unless they have SRO or are Orion female, then I sell them.
Perhaps Cryptic could offer a mission to create a Soylent consumable for away team use.
Skill-Filter for Boffs on exchange is on my wishlist for STO since launch.
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EDIT: Just found their colours, I use two whites, a green and a blue. That's it. Oh, I have another few in the roster that were more-or-less forced on me, but they're my crew. They've been with me through thick and thin, I can't replace them.
In my head cannon, they were never changed.
Certain abilities are only found on the purple ones though.
And don't under-estimate what you can sell certain boffs for and certain abilities.
I made my coming up EC back in the day partially buying saurian with efficient for 20 EC then selling for over a million at the time.
Those are cheaper now but there are still ones you can make a decent chunk off of
Mainly because the majority of the uninformed players tend to post Boffs with some really valuable skills for cheap if you're just willing to spend a little time searching.
Of course, it also helps to have a separate account dedicated solely to Boff training.
It would also be nice if Cryptic made the Mission Reward Boffs at least have one normally Player-trained Boff skill though; would go a long way towards helping new players or alts get decent skill options.
I'm fairly certain the difference is trivial simply because its a difference of trait quality, superior versus standard, which you can even find among different purple quality officers. Equipment and skills have a much, much greater impact on usefulness, followed of course by trait selection. I've been using a few white quality intel officers on ground and they certainly don't perform any worse than my purple intel talaxian (perhaps better because I've selected boffs with more and more relevant ground traits.)
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Nope. Its the airlock for the lot of em. No sub optimal Boffs allowed on my bridge.
The only one I had to remove and dreaded to. Was that one Fed guy from the story line. Since my character was a Sci and he was using a slot to get my ship fully seated. But I found a nice replacement and they are doing just fine.
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yeah, then he cocoons himself on the hull have to send spmeone to clean it up. never see that team again. he ends up in the ship again somehow... I'm beginning to think he is not romulan at all. probably my rom sci captain's fault shouldn't have tested all those strange plants on him. :P
if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
I dont know how much time I spent writing background story to my Fed boffs. They cant be replaced.
And BTW, that old tutorial Andorian fenale tac officer is responsible for nearly every kill Ive made since I play this game.
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"Rare" bridge officers are (at this point) not only anything but, but on the edge of being completely worthless - not worth the time to click on the assignment or the Exchange. As "rewards" go, they're neck and neck with those 10 EC cups of coffee (and you can't even sell them directly to vendors). Again, if this is not the devs' intent, I'd like them to do something about it.
I copied her, and converted to captain recently, is nice to promote your first officer to captain, ad erased her from my crew.. i'm thinking to assign one of my other bridge officers as her number one
You can always throwing blue-quality BOF out a spaceship or space station's airlock without a suit, or as some universes call it, "spacing," or simply "airlocking," is a common method of killing someone in sci-fi works involving space travel.
Ops, sry wrong MMO.:D
The operative word is "some", as in "very few." Most are worth no more than a cup of coffee or a croissant, and may yet go lower. There comes a point when the alleged reward is no longer worth even the trivial effort... when having to deal with them at all is too much of a bother. IMO, the market for blues is rapidly approaching that point.