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Need better ways to acquire needed doffs
mauiddeeb
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I've been gri ding for months to get my Engineering reputation up to 15 so I can craft the nifty Aegis impulse engines only to find out I do not have a required doff to make the things. And now it seems my only avenues for getting Professor Jefferson Hawk is to do the 48 hour request R&D personnel task and hope for a good roll every two days, or miraculously find him for sale on the exchange. It would be nice if there were some episodes or tasks that one could complete to get specific, required doffs.
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If you give up on waiting, Aegis and other R&D level 15 items are not bound so you can buy them on the exchange.
And even knowing the names they are rarely on the exchange, the few who are are probably from people who don't know about the special crafting doff requirement.
Aegis shield DO is probably the hardest one to find, but you can find the other R&D DO on the exchange... from common to very rare DOs.
And don't get me started on the rare mats needed for some reputation system construction. Only through hours of game play can you hope to get one of the several items you need. I know this is an old game, but why make it so difficult to make some of the cool things in the game? Eventually we all get bored with it and go off to other games. But maybe Arc doesn't really care about this old game or its players. It's just an old cash cow at this point. Barely put in any money for what they are getting out of it. Geez!
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.'
What you should remind yourself is that you only need to get him once, and from there you can make all the Aegis you want for this character and any future characters. You should know that in doing that you'll also be getting white DOFFs that allow you to craft a lot of the other unique equipment in the RnD crafting like conductive RCS and so on. You can of course buy better versions off the exchange, but have fun finding them.
much list, such R&D
My character Tsin'xing
A Very Rare Professor Jefferson Hawk (Bind on Acquire) can drop from a Reinforcement or Fleet Support Duty Officer Packs.
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.'
Sorry...I guess you like doing something over and over and over and over again and not getting what you want because of broken RNG. I call that a pain...
I could just buy the crafted items I want but I'd rather not have to spend money I'm saving for other things just because the RNG on the Doff system is borked. (And IT IS borked...I've failed things with a 100% chance of success)
Full Hierachical structure, properly categorised, no 400 item search limit, and by the time the game closed you could add attributes from an item to your search, with min/max values and value ranges (just imagine that with your doff searches)
10 years on and the STO Exchange has still not even got close to that level of functionality
My whole point was I've done the R&D thing tons of times and all I ever get is that Ferengi...not everyone has tons of EC sitting around
All stick and no carrot isn't a good system
Not everyone has a fleet or many fleet credits either...smaller fleets are stagnant because very few wants to give up their precious dilithium and larger fleets go through missions quick...can be hard to earn a lot fleet credits and there are so many other things than blowing a console's worth of fleet credits for a doff.
Not everything is so black and white...but naturally because it may be easy enough for you, it must be easy for everyone!
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Aegis_Technological_Research
I strongly wish they'd revise that, as the Professor should be an Academy reward! I also wish they offered a KDF Joined Trill Professor for Aegis as well for Klingons!
Seriously, I've long wished both Academies had 2-5 Prof or Prof Assist, from Rare to Very Rare you could earn. Possibly each offering a few special unique ground or space specializations; not to mention a new Adv Solanae or Adv Dyson Space Set, or could expand a few new projects in a particular Reputation, every MOD or update to offer something new.
Still hoping with Discovery Season 3, it may see a focus on new Episodes, and again might continue the story started in Future Proof where the signing of the future Temporal Accords didn't occur once thought.
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.'
Excellent information for this issue. Thanks you two & to others. It'll definitely be a sign of the end-times for me & STO when I begin crafting just because of ... shrug lol
lol Cryptic purposely making something scarce &/or difficult to get to then price-tag it at an insane rate, you're probably on to something there.