So for three years now I've had the same great Bridge Crew. Due to promotions over the years, my Bridge Crew is now top heavy in rank with a Captain XO, and a lot of CMDR's rounding out the staff.
So my question would be do you ever retire reliable Bridge Officers to keep the Junior Officers advancing? And if so, why?
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On very rare occasions do I ever send a Boff to the Solyent Green tanks. Usually to make room for another.
After the Boff Skills update you don't need anywhere near the numbers of Boffs as in the past. My active six to eight will normally have all four Specializations trained. Some of my main ones heads will explode with all the Skills Trained.
I will vary around Boffs usually on the Away Team more than in Space Seating. Basically to get some variation where you can actually see them. As there are not many Space Traits available to Boffs in comparison to Ground Traits there are not as many races to assign there. Ground is where you can mix it up as far as Traits are concerned.
While my original Characters may have dozens of Boffs on Active Duty, newer ones have far less. Even though I might have never even used an Active Duty Boff, I still hsitate to send them to those 'tanks'. Sentimentality I guess.
I don't RP either so that would color my response.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
So how many Boff's do you think you've sent to the Solyent Green tanks to make room for another? And what was your rational on selecting which bridge officer would be the unlucky one?
I'm personally very attached to my crew. I *have* replaced boffs, but only with upgraded versions of them. Like my Rom Engineer, Vehil. I replaced her with an SRO, at some point, but kept her exact appearance. (Basically I consider that just a makeshift boff Trait system: if I can't bring Traits to my boffs, I just get new boffs with the Traits wanted)
After the boff revamp, I only keep like 5-6 boffs active, and they have been taught all abilities available to them, and all Specializations. The rest I still have (mostly male SRO's), but will ditch one now when I need room for a new one, like the K-13 Android, or Leeta. But my regular, loyal crew, I am very fond of, and will never dismiss.
As all my captains' skills are balanced to switch between flying different type of ships, most of my boffs have been promoted high enough to use abilities for seats they are assigned since they have been in escorts, cruisers and science ships which requires promotion for them at some point.
Everything gets wiped out except for SRO, Krenim, and other valuable boffs. The rest is vendor trash.
'Bream'?!? You mean 'Breen'? Didn't even know they had a boff.
I've essentially had the same boffs since STO launched. I have a ship crew (aka have space traits) and an Away team (aka all ground traits). My Veteran traited boff does double duty. And then there are some hold-over boffs I have from when they could only know 4 skills at a time that just sit around and hold my extra gear. I think I have 12-13 boffs right now.
Only boff I retired was an inefficient Saurian when I got an efficient one. Used the same name and toon build, so essentially just a clone. Not sure if that counts as actually retiring a boff.
Yes to make room for purples and make an all female crew. I wish I could retire Toven! I so hate that BOFF worst move ever by the Devs making him locked and undeletable.
Yeah, that dweep is still on my crew too. And worse, he always appears on my bridge!
No, he'd still find himself on the wrong end of an airlock.
Seeing as you can train anyone in anything now there's n reason to hoard lots of boffs and you can easily just recreate the same look of favs if you want to keep a consistent look.
Only thing I hate is not being able to customise my Voth and Mr Potato Head boffs, or they'd get more prominent roles.
Mr Potato Head is a great boff but he isn't allowed out in public looking like that....he gets locked up in his cabin when there's an away mission.
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Examples:
The top row is JUST the preorder borg boff.
Here we have the entire crew of 7 of 13's ship.
My character Tsin'xing
Aside from this, i rarely ever retire BOFFs. My Captain has been through highs and lows with many of them, and i have gone as far as writing down a personal biography for most of them. They are all part of my personal Star Trek saga, and I just love those guys too much to even think about dumping them.
If we could give boffs multiple costumes I wouldn't have had to ditch any of my old ones, but oh well.
The TOS Boff T'Met has two incarnations on my TOS Captain. The original Uncommon that had dozens of Space Skills trained before a suitable VR substitute could be found, retains Science Bridge duties in ship seating, while her VR clone is assigned to the Away Team.
I have also gotten rid of a few of the Uncommon Bridge Officers that were awarded early on in the Leveling of the Character.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Other than that, I don't really remove Boffs although I stop using some of them after a while. Only when I need more space because new boffs with interesting traits come available or when I decide I want a new Boff modelled after another character or one of his boffs, do I remove some of these retired officers.
Thank you!
Actually, you can give your BOFF several costumes by saving various appearances for them in the tailor. Naturally, you will have to go through the tailor screen each time you want to go on a particular mission, and load the costumes, but that is still a workaround of sorts.