Purple boffs turning blue? o.o

jamieblanchard

So, here recently, I've been noticing something mighty odd on my KDF toons. For some reason, whenever I recruit a boff through a doff mission, or get one from exchange, purple quality officers wind up turning to blue upon commissioning. This is especially notorious with Gorn boffs.

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Saurians have similar issues on fed side.

sqwished

First of all what do expect when you shove them out of an airlock without an EVA suit? Joking aside I raised this the O.S.T. back in september 2015. I can't say anymore than that sorry.

This is the link to the original thread I found concerning this issue​​

jamboxdotcom

Are their stats changing in any way, or is it more a display bug? I.e. they're being tagged as the wrong rarity? Because from what I've seen, rarity of boffs is a TRIBBLE shoot to begin with. I.e. you can get greens/blues with all the best traits and abilities, and purples with TRIBBLE traits and abilities (mostly traits, purple boffs do tend to have better abilities...but since those can mostly be changed, they're less of an issue).

sqwished

They do lose an ability if memory serves.​​

tarastheslayer

sqwished wrote: »

They do lose an ability if memory serves.​​

They do yes, trait wise anyway as it looses a superior level trait.

mcgrizzled86

jamboxdotcom wrote: »

Are their stats changing in any way, or is it more a display bug? I.e. they're being tagged as the wrong rarity? Because from what I've seen, rarity of boffs is a TRIBBLE shoot to begin with. I.e. you can get greens/blues with all the best traits and abilities, and purples with TRIBBLE traits and abilities (mostly traits, purple boffs do tend to have better abilities...but since those can mostly be changed, they're less of an issue).

Nothing is actually changing between before and after being commissioned. So in that essence, it is only a display bug. What happens is the uncommissioned boff is being marked Very Rare completely by its Trait slot values. Purple has 2 Superior slots and 2 Regular slots. There are still several racial traits from the olden days that do not have Superior versions, but will take up a Superior slot. The commissioned officer itself is looking at the actual rarity of the traits in those slots. Since they aren't technically marked as Superior, these racial traits cause the commissioned office to then "lose" rarity value.

IIRC, this affects all boffs of that race equally when they have the racial trait (there aren't some boffs where the racial trait takes a Sup slot but on others it only takes a Reg slot), so if you are using that boff for the racial trait then that is still the best boff you can get. If you don't care about the racial trait; then yes, you could possibly be missing out on an actual Sup trait that a boff without the racial trait or a boff of another race would be able to put in that slot.

jamieblanchard

So, in other words, because of a trait thingy, these "blue" Gorn are still the best I can get if the "started life" being purple?

tarastheslayer

jamieblanchard wrote: »

So, in other words, because of a trait thingy, these "blue" Gorn are still the best I can get if the "started life" being purple?

They're actually blue, and always have been essentially.

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lagharto

This happens to Lethean boffs too. Just bought 3 purple to my new alt and when I comissioned them, all 3 changed to blue.