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How can you swap your away team with security officers on XBOX?

I've noticed that PC users can swap out their bridge officers on away teams with security officers while Console users cannot? Is there something I am missing?

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  • wendysue53wendysue53 Member Posts: 1,569 Arc User
    edited November 2016
    I think you're confused.

    Here's the thing:

    If you slot your BOFFs (Bridge Officers) into your active ship, then those are going to be the people used in the away team that you can choose from. There is a bug in a couple of places (which I shall not name) that can - under the right circumstances - let you have your away team on the planet when you should be running that area solo or in a team with other players.

    As for Security Teams. These are strictly a Kit Skill offered ONLY to Tactical Captains. I'm not sure, since I haven't looked in that area in a while, but I don't 'think' you can get it as a skill on your Tactical BOFFs, but you may be able to. Someone who wants to put the effort into looking this up again can verify this.

    Only your Away Team is customizable. Security Teams are randomly generated and based on your Faction. They are not based on anything you own, including Duty Officers (DOFFs). They have a limited life-span, vanishing when they die or their spawning-time runs out. You have to click the skill button for them to appear.

    Medical and some Sciences/Engineering Teams also can be generated on away missions this way. Catch 22 - these are often the result of a skill built into one of your 'ACTIVE' ground Doffs. You actually have to assign them to Ground-Active duty for the skill to function, which means you won't be able to use them for Duty assignments until you remove them from Active status. The Medical/Science/Engineering/etc teams have a % chance of randomly spawning when you do the listed activity on the Doff's skill. It'll say on the Doff card.

    There may be some Kit skills that summon these guys too, but again, I'm not bothering to look it up. This is off the top of my head.

    Keep in mind that if you have a Tactical Captain + Security Team (I, II, and/or III) that you can increase this number from 1 or 2 summoned security officers to an infinite number if done correctly. I DON'T suggest trying this or you'll crash your comp. All you need are those two things + as many Active ground Doffs with high bonus 'Summon Security' skills + at least one skill to reduce the cooldown time on your Tactical skills (there are a couple of these and using different ones MIGHT let you repeat this effect while one of the skills cools down, unless they've fixed this issue) = nearly endless supply of Security Officers.

    NOTE: when you get up to 20 or more of these guys on the screen in an event with lots of enemy spawning and lots of other players, you're going to end up with lag - lots of lag. More than that and your screen will freeze up and you'll get dumped from the server due to 'inactivity'.

    Don't do it.

    So far, I've not found a limit to the number of support personnel spawned at one time. Got up to around 30 once and wish I could have done a screenshot, but as said, it'll mess up your comp. This was during the Miner event when the endless Rom spawn was happening. So... Nuff said.

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  • nixie50nixie50 Member Posts: 1,396 Arc User
    actually I think he means the security officers that are the default on PC. you have to slot the BOFFS to replace them in the beginning.. at least, that was the way it use to be
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  • wendysue53wendysue53 Member Posts: 1,569 Arc User
    Oh yeah. Forgot about those. Just leave the BOFFs slots empty on your ship if you don't want your Boffs to be on the away team (and don't want any skills or bonuses). The Default guys will pop. Or they should. Although I don't know why you'd bother.

    It's been a LONG time since I had to deal with the Defaults. They slipped my mind. (The last time I dealt with them was... um.. )
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    one of the pages of stuff for your ship stats has the default away team list. On PC this is the same page where you setup which boffs man your ship in space combat.
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