no. Upgrading in that area will affect your BOs abilities. Its really unclear exactly which character abilities effect which BO powers, but it can be found in game, i think in the menu that has all your abilities (the only word that comes to mind is "spellbook")
this game really really really needs a strategy guide of some sort. or just a list of all the BO abilities and which character skills affect what...
But for example the skills Science team leader or Engineering team leader may be useful if you use certain BO abilities. especially Science Team and Engineering Team. Two of my favourites.
Im a Science Captain and i put full points into Science, Engineering and Tactical team leader abilities because i like to use the Tactical, Engineering and Science Team BO abilities. Im not entirely sure what Tactical Team does, but i use it when im trying to blow stuff up real good.
Hope this was helpful.
Im RA4 and i still dont get how this game really works.
I am a tactical officer. so if i upgrade my starship operations section will it have zero effect
it depends. Starship Operations is a skills which affects a broad range of Bridge Officers skills. Most (if not all) of the skills is boost are Science Officer related skills. If you are going to be heavily invest on Bridge Science skills (such as going into a Science Ship), you will want to get it. In the long run its a cheap way (in terms of skills points) for +18% on a lot of BO skills. But it not, you can skills it w/o much loss. You ccould focus on the more specialized level 2 or level 3 skills Science skills for the few Science BO powers you'll get. The lvel 2 and level 3 skills have bigger bonuses (+30% and +52% respectively), but they are more expensive skill pointwise/
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this game really really really needs a strategy guide of some sort. or just a list of all the BO abilities and which character skills affect what...
But for example the skills Science team leader or Engineering team leader may be useful if you use certain BO abilities. especially Science Team and Engineering Team. Two of my favourites.
Im a Science Captain and i put full points into Science, Engineering and Tactical team leader abilities because i like to use the Tactical, Engineering and Science Team BO abilities. Im not entirely sure what Tactical Team does, but i use it when im trying to blow stuff up real good.
Hope this was helpful.
Im RA4 and i still dont get how this game really works.
it depends. Starship Operations is a skills which affects a broad range of Bridge Officers skills. Most (if not all) of the skills is boost are Science Officer related skills. If you are going to be heavily invest on Bridge Science skills (such as going into a Science Ship), you will want to get it. In the long run its a cheap way (in terms of skills points) for +18% on a lot of BO skills. But it not, you can skills it w/o much loss. You ccould focus on the more specialized level 2 or level 3 skills Science skills for the few Science BO powers you'll get. The lvel 2 and level 3 skills have bigger bonuses (+30% and +52% respectively), but they are more expensive skill pointwise/
You might find the Character Basics link in my sig to be useful.
Hope it helps clear some things up.