Hi fellow captains,
as requested by Cryptic Support, I'm posting here on the bug concerning Very Rare Gorn Bridge Officer Candidates (the purple ones).
It doesn't matter whether you buy them of the Exchange or get them as reward from duty officer queues. The resulting Bridge officers are only of rare quality (blue)
Video proof:
https://youtu.be/pHnKFxXxSLg
As some players in the r/sto subreddit concluded, it must have something to do with the traits of the Bridge Officers. As "Bite" is only a normal trait, it ruins the mix for the rarity calculation - which is why a Gorn Brigde Officer can never be very rare.
Comments
I too wish they would fix this. The problem is the Very Rare Gorn only have 1 Superior Trait, and so despite they claim to be Very Rare; if you commission them they are downgraded to Rare.
Perhaps the DEV's don't want to FIX or update the RNG of Gorn Duty Officer's that drop to award to awarding 2 Superior Traits for Very Rare Gorn? Which means Klingons are out of luck. Only Federation Captain's can get a single Very Rare Gorn Duty Officer, because he does in fact have 2 Superior Trait's...
I've previously brought this to the attention of @ambassadorkael#6946 I'll try and ping him one more time.
Wait a second...Gorn BOFFs can get Bite?! I've only seen it on my Gorn captain, never on a BOFF.
The bug works in reverse when you commission a rare Romulan bof from your fleet's embassy and it becomes "very rare" but I believe is only the color label for the quality of the bof and is not actually upgraded to very rare in any way.