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LT Ferra, how to get more blue officers?

m311m311 Member Posts: 92 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I notice that I can purchase the green with dilith. I got diplomacy to 3 and got a blue officer. But, I can't purchse them with Dilithium. Is there a way to claim all the blue officers?

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  • jslynjslyn Member Posts: 1,788 Arc User
    They unlock when you get your Blue Freebee. Some times you have to change maps and return to get the store to unlock the rest.
  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    Yep, do what jslyn said.. leave the area and come back. If you have achieved T3 then they will be available for Dilithium.

    I'm pretty sure this problem occurs if you're actually in the Starfleet Academy zone when you achieve T3. It won't unlock until you leave and come back.
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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,661 Arc User
    You might want to save your dil until you can get VR boffs instead.

    Keep doing the free recruitment from the personnel officer and the cultural exchanges (vulcan, andorian, tellarite). Do the refuge mission in Earth orbit. Maybe do the colonization chains in all of the clusters. You'll get free blues now and then from all of these.
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  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    Yeah, Blue quality DoFFs are pretty cheap on the exchange. You would probably be better off buying them for EC then using Dilithium on Blues.

    Up to you, but you might want to check there first.. you can save yourself some resources.
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  • peterconnorfirstpeterconnorfirst Member Posts: 6,225 Arc User
    edited March 2017

    Wow, I already found something usefull in second result
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  • tacticalrooktacticalrook Member Posts: 810 Arc User
    Spending dil and 5 green DOFFs in exchange for a blue DOFF is not advised.
    /channel_join grind
  • peterconnorfirstpeterconnorfirst Member Posts: 6,225 Arc User
    tacticalrook wrote: »
    Spending dil and 5 green DOFFs in exchange for a blue DOFF is not advised.

    I know that advice is given by a lot. However I always did that the past4 years and have not regretted it. Roughly once per toon every 2 weeks. I estimate to get an average of 2k-3k Dil /day/toon out of the doff system. I would not get that without my hundreds of purple and blue quality doffs and the upgrading investments are not that big of a deal.
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  • tacticalrooktacticalrook Member Posts: 810 Arc User
    The game offers a lot of little ways to waste space cash, yes.
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  • peterconnorfirstpeterconnorfirst Member Posts: 6,225 Arc User
    edited March 2017
    tacticalrook wrote: »
    The game offers a lot of little ways to waste space cash, yes.

    I guess so but having 10 toons with 3-4 mil unrefined Dil each took quite some Doff time management in direct competition to the benefits of more actively spend gaming time. I won’t be able to put my Dil to good use anyway but my gaming time is so precious that I’m grateful for this quick and instant way to keep my doff rosters from exploding.

    The only day I’m really afraid of is when my toons sit on 500 purple Doffs each and I do need to tend to the exchange for further roster management. :)
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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,661 Arc User
    peterconnorfirst wrote: »
    tacticalrook wrote: »
    Spending dil and 5 green DOFFs in exchange for a blue DOFF is not advised.

    I know that advice is given by a lot. However I always did that the past4 years and have not regretted it. Roughly once per toon every 2 weeks. I estimate to get an average of 2k-3k Dil /day/toon out of the doff system. I would not get that without my hundreds of purple and blue quality doffs and the upgrading investments are not that big of a deal.

    Something else you can do with 5 green doffs is grind them into 15 white doffs and sell those 15 on the exchange. On PC you'll get 300,000 - 500,000 EC that you can use to buy a blue doff without spending dil. You also get to pick the doff instead of taking what the RNG hands you.

    I still remember exchanging a set of blues for a VR and getting ... a VR refugee. Sigh.
  • tacticalrooktacticalrook Member Posts: 810 Arc User
    davefenestrator wrote: »
    peterconnorfirst wrote: »
    tacticalrook wrote: »
    Spending dil and 5 green DOFFs in exchange for a blue DOFF is not advised.

    I know that advice is given by a lot. However I always did that the past4 years and have not regretted it. Roughly once per toon every 2 weeks. I estimate to get an average of 2k-3k Dil /day/toon out of the doff system. I would not get that without my hundreds of purple and blue quality doffs and the upgrading investments are not that big of a deal.

    Something else you can do with 5 green doffs is grind them into 15 white doffs and sell those 15 on the exchange. On PC you'll get 300,000 - 500,000 EC that you can use to buy a blue doff without spending dil. You also get to pick the doff instead of taking what the RNG hands you.

    I still remember exchanging a set of blues for a VR and getting ... a VR refugee. Sigh.

    Yeah, purple refugees are one of those head-shaking DOFFs.

    The simple method of chucking things onto the exchange, when room is needed in rosters on the quick, is pretty painless. While degrinding certainly yields much more space cash per unit, casuals may simply not have that kind of time. Also, the cheap and plentiful greens, combined with a near constant demand for starbase food, fuels the economic demand for the degrinding service industry - allowing enterprising folks the opportunity to convert as much or as little of their grind time as they want into EC simply by clicking the same 5 buttons over and over (green, select doff, begin, completed, collect).
    peterconnorfirst wrote: »
    tacticalrook wrote: »
    The game offers a lot of little ways to waste space cash, yes.

    I guess so but having 10 toons with 3-4 mil unrefined Dil each took quite some Doff time management in direct competition to the benefits of more actively spend gaming time. I won’t be able to put my Dil to good use anyway but my gaming time is so precious that I’m grateful for this quick and instant way to keep my doff rosters from exploding.

    The only day I’m really afraid of is when my toons sit on 500 purple Doffs each and I do need to tend to the exchange for further roster management. :)

    Millions of ore on many characters generally means someone either intentionally went out of their way to painstakingly create large numbers they can't do anything about, or they simply forgot about those additional pylons and what they must do about them. Either way, it has nothing to do with being short on time since it's incredibly time-consuming to accumulate millions of ore on many characters.

    Having a quick and reliable way of receiving 8k of refined dil, per character, per day, doesn't make spending dil and 5 greens for blues any less silly. It's just as silly for the spacerich to do it as it is for the spacepoor.
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  • swamarianswamarian Member Posts: 1,506 Arc User
    The best way to get new (nonwhite) doffs is to do the nebula colonization missions and the then do "support colonization..." missions to get refugees. Then turn in the refugees for new officers.

    You can also do the officer exchange missions in the alpha quadrant to swap your existing officers for (hopefully) better ones.

    I've been using those methods and all my ships have all blue, purple and gold doffs.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    davefenestrator wrote: »
    I still remember exchanging a set of blues for a VR and getting ... a VR refugee. Sigh.
    I have a few I've gotten from officer exchanges and random recruitment. They're useful occasionally so I like to keep one around. I actually managed to find a Ferasan and Vorta refugee too!
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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    I've kept a number of Common Doffs that I received from Gamma Quadrant Cadres as they all have the Resolve Trait which comes in handy for a number of Missions to supplement Rare or Very Rare that may be on some other duty.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    oh yeah, also, telekinetics. Those come in handy even if common.
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  • kiralynkiralyn Member Posts: 1,576 Arc User
    swamarian wrote: »
    The best way to get new (nonwhite) doffs is to do the nebula colonization missions and the then do "support colonization..." missions to get refugees. Then turn in the refugees for new officers.

    You can also do the officer exchange missions in the alpha quadrant to swap your existing officers for (hopefully) better ones.

    And "Support Colonization Efforts" also gives a specific purple doff (one per nebula) when you crit it. Of course this can get out of control.... I do Support whenever I run across it, but rarely pay attention to the results. Until the other day when I went to do an Officer Exchange on a KDF alt, and discovered I had like 7 of the one Tractor Beam or Transporter officer. Don't think I need quite that many.... :D
  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    peterconnorfirst wrote: »
    tacticalrook wrote: »
    The game offers a lot of little ways to waste space cash, yes.

    I guess so but having 10 toons with 3-4 mil unrefined Dil each took quite some Doff time management in direct competition to the benefits of more actively spend gaming time. I won’t be able to put my Dil to good use anyway but my gaming time is so precious that I’m grateful for this quick and instant way to keep my doff rosters from exploding.
    I can understand that. Getting rid of low-grade doffs the proper way (downgrind to white and sell or put in fleet project) is hellishly tedious if your roster is full, since there is no extra work space to unload.

    However, I would dismiss doffs before using the upgrinder. That's how bad a deal it is with the dil cost.
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