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NEW WAYS TO DONATE TO FLEET PROJECTS!
ambassadorkael
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Yesterday, a new feature involving donations to fleet projects was released on PC. Here's all the details, and answers to some of your questions:
https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11532353
https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11532353
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Wait, what? Breaking them down?
I thought they would be reassigned?!
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
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I would MUCH rather un-protect a dozen DOffs than grind-click to protect the bulk of them:
one.
at...
a......
time.......
STO really does need ways to make batch actions possible. In a case like this one, being able to hold down Ctrl while clicking DOFFs in the list to select more than one at a time, and then apply the action selected after right-clicking on one to all of the selected DOFFs would be better than slowly right-clicking on each of them to perform the same action over and over.
The same would apply to inventory items if you wanted to select more than one at once to toggle protection status, or even discard or equip all selected items. Something like this would be a nice quality of life update for the game so that we waste less time managing our resources.
Exactly - for those of us with tons of points from donating countless dilithium elsewhere, we can now no longer purchase common doffs with those points and donate them from overflow bag. Ridiculous.
I don't think removing them entirely is a good idea.
Maybe they can remove the requirement from some projects or make the requirements interchangable (like, instead of having to donate Doffs, those with the rights to select projects can opt for just putting in more EC or dilithium for example).
I like that we at least have the option to get rid of Doffs quickly now. It has been a hurdle, but that's also because only white quality Doffs could be donated until now. With the new changes, it will probably become less problematic to fill them up.
Personally green Doffs are almost as useless to me as white ones. Even blue ones aren't that interesting because for their active powers it makes sense to try and get purple ones eventually, given that you only have 5 or 6 active duty slots - and for Doffing itself... Well, what's the point of that anyway now that we have the Admiralty system?
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
Fleet doffs are way expensive for what little fc you get back for each doff you donate.
white cost 500 - return 300
green cost 5000 - return 900
blue cost 10,000 - return 2700
purple cost 20,000 - return 8100
this makes it very costly if your going to buy fleet doffs to fill the new system with so I for one will stick with common only doffs when filling project.
When I did the math on the dilithium doff donation, I actually found where that is the best secondary way to donate doffs to projects providing you have unwanted amount of dilithium to spend.
dil cost 300 - return 300 fc + 1 doff.
There are many other ways to get Doffs though. Packs (which one might be opening while trying to get a ship), through assignments like Strike against fugitive support network, and Exchange prisoners (with the Dominion), Instigate defection and the various nebulae chains.
While not necessarily an effective way of getting them, if you do acquire them while Doffing when waiting for a mission to start or while collecting accolades in those nebulae and so on, it's at least nice that they can finally be of use now.
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
Huh? As far as I know, we never received recruitment commendation points for donating Doffs to our fleets.
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
Yeah, exactly. That never was a thing.
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1. It is possible to donate "unique" non-reobtainable doffs (e.g. Exocomp and the Lower Deck doffs)
This needs to be prevented. The ability to set Potected Status is not enough here. Thes doffs need to be undonatable under any circumstances.
2. It is no longer possible to donate collonists and prisoners.
While they appear in the list for the appropriate projects, the box can not be checked. Clicking on it does nothing.
Interestingle, collonists in your overfow-bag CAN be selected and donated, just not the ones in your regular roster.
3. The coffers are not functioning at all.
3a. It is not possible to donate to coffers, other than by over-contributing to projects.
We expected to be able to empty the doffs that pile up in the overflow-bag into these coffers, but there is no contribute-button.
3b. It is not possible to use doffs from the coffers to fill projets.
I currently have the coffers filled from over-contibution, but can't use the "stored" doffs to fill the pojects.
4. Substituting Dill for Doffs is not functioning at all.
While you can drag the slider, the 'conribute'-button remains grey and uncklickable.
5. Filters are not functioning.
Filering e.g. for common and selcting auto-fill will still select them from the entire roster, inculding higher quality.
Some additional thoughts on the doff-coffers:
When this is extended to all holdings, please make sure that there is one shared doff-pool for all holdings.
Otherwise we'd end up with filled coffers in one holding, but needing doffs in another, as many fleet-members will just donate to any coffer, not paying attention to where the doffs are most needed.
For projects that take different types of doffs ("any doff" or "any non-civilian doff") let us select which doff-coffer to use to fill the projects.
I may want to contribute my tactical-doffs, but not my engineers that I need elsewhere.
[Edited: Typos]
We put together a list of DOFFs the other night that we submitted for consideration of this very thing.
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No, but you used to get them from the personnel officer as you "broke down" higher rarity DOFFs.
I would be OK with the ability to substitute requirements like that.
I think the feature is broken right now. At least it appears broken to me, but I also have all DOFFs protected so maybe that's why the list appears empty for me.
FYI: Latest patch notes mention an issue with substituting dilithium for officers. They also mention the addition of more safeguards to prevent DOFFs from being accidentally donated.
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That would make it too easy if we could save time by touching one button to open up all the boxes at once.