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furiontassadar
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One of the items on my (long) list of stuff to buy when I eventually have the money includes getting a full set of Very Rare Romulan Bridge Officers from the Exchange, all with Superior Romulan Operative. However, something occurred to me the other day when I was thinking about how expensive this was going to be: Where did the ones on the Exchange even come from? Obviously, the players selling them on the Exchange had to get them from somewhere else first....
But where?
Is it solely from the recruitment duty officer assignments that pop up? I don't think I've ever even seen one that involves recruiting Romulan Boffs; the only ones I ever see are for recruiting Starfleet Boffs. Do people make alts and just level a character to the point where they start getting Purple Boffs as a reward for reaching certain ranks, and just trade the Boffs over to their mains somehow? Is there some other method I'm not aware of?
But where?
Is it solely from the recruitment duty officer assignments that pop up? I don't think I've ever even seen one that involves recruiting Romulan Boffs; the only ones I ever see are for recruiting Starfleet Boffs. Do people make alts and just level a character to the point where they start getting Purple Boffs as a reward for reaching certain ranks, and just trade the Boffs over to their mains somehow? Is there some other method I'm not aware of?
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When making my kdf contraband mules I made all of them romulan specifically so I would get 2-3 boffs with extremely valuable traits. Selling them on the exchange would compensate me for the doffs needed for contraband doffing, and then some.
Their rarity is the reason their traits are so expensive.
Yeah, again, I wondered if this was one of the methods. Too bad when I first leveled a Romulan, I was a complete noob and didn't have a clue. -_-
Ah well, food for though if/when I decide to roll another alt....
I noticed that the Embassy Romulan Boff with Superior Romulan Operative was blue, so yeah, I was vaguely aware that was possible, but I feel like any Romulan Boff with SRO is probably gonna be around the same price on the Exchange, regardless of rarity. Still, it's good to know for sure it's not just the Embassy Boff. I'll need to keep an eye out for it on blue Boffs as well...
And I was worried this was the case as well.
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Okay, so it sounds like I haven't missed anything. I just got to keep checking the duty officer assignments on New Romulus, possibly plan on making a Romulan-KDF mule myself at some point in the future, keeping checking the Exchange, and grab the Embassy Boff when I have the Fleet Credits.
Thanks all.
The Romulan/Reman Recruitment assignment will appear in the Personal list on New Romulus and in Sector space above New Romulus (probably all of Tau Dewa, but I'm usually above New Romulus when I remember to check). You can also get an Al-Aurian bartender from Investigate Temporal Anomoly (or somesuch) under the Science list, which I found amusing. Both appear to have an Assimilated Snowman's chance on Nukara Prime of showing up, but it does happen on occasion.
That's a DOff, not a BOff.
Leveling alts to get new officers works, however the price for most has dropped. I've picked up several superior operatives for less than 2m, remans, however, are still crazy expensive.
I got a full set of them just from leveling my toon. But that wont help you now...
Romulans arent that expensive anymore and with the new training you wont need as many as before. The Remans i watched for 3 or 4 weeks now. Most of the time 7m+, on friday i shot one for 2.7m.
Only sad thing about both of them, you never know beforehand whether they are FED or KDF aligned. (Only limits their costumes, but well...)
Ps. someone wants to exchange a FED SRO engi for a KDF one?^^
Hang out in Tau Dewa sector and you will get a shot at a rom officer every week or so, roughly. It helps to have alts --- with 5 roms, I have a pretty good supply of them.
It is absolutely critical to look over your offered officers when you level up and always choose the SRO if one is offered. My most recent rom had 1 of each type at level 40 with SRO just from these free officers over the leveling process. By 56 he had 2 of each (this includes using some I passed to him from my alts). Unfortunately, no one tells you this early on and usually people discover the tip ... at max level.
As for the rarity of the doff mission that awards the Rommie Boffs, it can be exceedingly rare. I always log both of my Roms out in Tau Dewa or on New Romulus and always check for that mission. Until last week I thought perhaps the mission had gone away again - it had probably been at least 3 months since I'd seen it. Then I got the mission for a Tac Boff last week, ran it (Purple Boff, but no SRO
Maybe I should've gone and bought a lottery ticket after that...
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I know, but it's rare enough (and for me amusing enough) that I check for the assignment while I'm looking for the Romulan/Reman boffs in Tau Dewa.
2 million still isn't pocket change (for me, at least), but yeah, that's a lot cheaper than what I thought. For some reason, I thought they ran about 10 million each. O_o
After seeing your post here, I did have a look at the Exchange myself. Male Romulan Tactical Officers with Superior Romulan Operative do indeed just cost only 2 million. It gets slightly more expensive for Science Officers and Engineers, and female Romulan Boffs with SRO tend to be closer to 5 million. At least, as of the time I went looking.
The supply at any given time is low so it fluctuates. In general lowest prices Friday to sat, raising again on Sunday and early week. But even then you get odd variances. You only need a few, so there's no reason not to just wait patiently and check often.
You will get there.
At 60, one inventory full of rubbish from combat is worth close to 400k. You can fill this pretty fast in some of the PVE -- I usually fill it twice just doing empire defense. Over a week, you are talking 3+ million for an active player that fills their hold at least once a night (space, not ground, ground junk is not worth much).
And that is just junk vendor trash money. If you get a few crafting materials from STFs and nodes and DO assignments, you get another million a week give or take --- many blue and purple materials are worth over 50k each (some quite a bit more than this).
So unfortunately or not, a couple mil actually is pocket change in the long term. There are many players with hundreds of millions.
Yes, you can trade them after commissioning, but only face to face with another player not via exchange. So just like the "old style" BOff training.
--Red Annorax