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Suggestion: Granting Command To BOFFs
bnuts
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Admiral Quinn once told us that Starfleet needs every capable, available command officer possible.
I think he's right.
So what if, as Fleet Admirals (or the equivalents), we had the ability to promote BOFFs, particularly those who had been Executive/First Officers, Chief Medical/Science Officers, and/or Chief Engineering/Operations Officers to the rank of captain? What if we could also assign them as Command/Fleet Officers to ships in our fleets?
Naturally, since we only have so many ship slots, these ships would still exist even if we Discharged them, as long as we had completed full mastery with them.
But what if a player is not sure about promoting a reliable BOFF to captain and granting them a separate command? In this case, we could use an additional option of a conditional/provisional command, which would be limited to a certain mission or amount of time, then the BOFF could be assigned back to a Chief or XO posting on the player's ship.
I think this would help the game, story-wise, to have BOFFs who could help the player. This would be particularly useful on the large-scale single-player missions. Plus, it would give the player an awesome feeling to have reinforcements take the form of a former chief officer commanding a familiar ship.
I think he's right.
So what if, as Fleet Admirals (or the equivalents), we had the ability to promote BOFFs, particularly those who had been Executive/First Officers, Chief Medical/Science Officers, and/or Chief Engineering/Operations Officers to the rank of captain? What if we could also assign them as Command/Fleet Officers to ships in our fleets?
Naturally, since we only have so many ship slots, these ships would still exist even if we Discharged them, as long as we had completed full mastery with them.
But what if a player is not sure about promoting a reliable BOFF to captain and granting them a separate command? In this case, we could use an additional option of a conditional/provisional command, which would be limited to a certain mission or amount of time, then the BOFF could be assigned back to a Chief or XO posting on the player's ship.
I think this would help the game, story-wise, to have BOFFs who could help the player. This would be particularly useful on the large-scale single-player missions. Plus, it would give the player an awesome feeling to have reinforcements take the form of a former chief officer commanding a familiar ship.
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Seconds, they'd still be on your ship, they wouldn't take command of another ship and join you in episodes and such. The Strength in Numbers thing has been reserved for Jem'Hadar only.
So, they could do it, but you'd just end up with 5 extra Boff abilities for the ship you're currently flying. Well, this would most likely be one extra ability. Given only one Boff could be in the Captain's seat at a time.