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What are ways to get DOFFs via recruitment?

I want to be able to get extra DOFFs without spending any zen.

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  • officerbatman81officerbatman81 Member Posts: 2,761 Arc User
    edited December 2016
    What about spending dilithium?

    Spending zen isn't a great way to get them anyway, only the large expansion bundles Delta Rising and LoR have three each, then the DS9 bundle has three also.
  • boachevboachev Member Posts: 131 Arc User
    edited December 2016
    As in by performing recruitment DOFF missions? There's a couple options there:

    1. At Starfleet Academy (and somewhere on Qo'Nos), there's people you can talk to that will offer DOFF recruitment assignments. Academy has Vulcan, Andorian, and Tellarite culture exchange officers that will grant you a few DOFFs of those races, and there's also a guy in the northernmost building that will offer various assignments based on DOFF type (tactical, science, ops, ect). All of these missions take more than a day to complete if memory serves, but you can load up on em' and feel up your DOFF roster with whites, greens, and the rare blues. They're not the greatest DOFFs around, but they're free and still do the job.
    2. Completing the assignment chains in the colonization clusters (the old exploration clusters) will grant you a single blue DOFF upon completion and unlock a potential, repeatable mission. The repeatable mission will always give you a refugee and, if it crits, you'll also get a snazzy purple quality DOFF. The refugee is mostly useless on its own, but keep an eye out for "Asylum on X" missions. All they require is a refugee (which you lose after this), and it rewards you with likely blue (though could be green or purple) duty officer in exchange for the refugee. You can also get refugees from other sources, though I can't recall. Probably other DOFF/Admiralty assignments? Maybe the basic recruitment missions?
    3. Other assignment chains and rare DOFF missions can also sometimes give you a free DOFF. It's not super-common nor a reliable way to get large amounts of DOFFs, but it still feels pretty good when you get a crit on that "Liberate Borg Drones" mission and find yourself with a new ex-Borg security officer.
    4. Increasing your rank in each DOFF commendation category will give you your choice of one free DOFF from that tier, and the ones you don't choose become available to purchase for Dilithium (in pretty small amounts to start, too!).
    5. For fleet credits, a well-developed fleet will have holdings that sell some DOFFs. Romulans at the Embassy and Voth at the Spire if memory serves. And a bunch at the mine? I forget, my fleet sucks so I can't do any of this yet.
    6. For good ol' energy credits you can by DOFFs from people off of the exchange! On PC I see the cheapest whites and green usually start at 40-60k depending on their specialty, but if you need a specific skill set in a pinch it's not a bad option.
    7. There's probably other ways I've forgetting about. But there's plenty of ways to get DOFFs and in ample supplies. I'm hoping for a flat C-Store sale soon so I can boost my mains roster size on the cheap soon, I love managing my little merry crew.
  • stee1maxstee1max Member Posts: 227 Arc User
    edited December 2016
    You would ONLY consider spending zen for the deltard pack, as it has some nice APB heal doffs and such, but still not a game-breaker. @boachev just explained what you should do in this case. Plus, you can always refer to STOWiki to cherry-pick the desired doffs or at least have a general idea what kind of doffs are present in the game. Then, hit the exchange/other sources and obtain it.
  • tiberious#6095 tiberious Member Posts: 183 Arc User
    edited December 2016
    trekbrony wrote: »
    I want to be able to get extra DOFFs without spending any zen.

    Just do the basic doff missions for starts. My secondary main, who I thought I might retire, I sent all the doffs I could to my main. I was down to about 30 doffs I couldn't transfer. Currently at 78 doffs just by doing doff mission with the 30 doffs I had remaining.

    boachev provide the other ways that I have gotten doffs. The Academy culture exchange officers are 'repeatable' with a two day turn around time each time you make the request. Not sure what the cool down time is in between requests but I have done this two or three times now on various characters.

    Oh talk to the personnel officer in the enclose center area in the small building at the Academy. There are 5 doff request missions that repeatable for specific type of doff officers.
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