The way the devs described obtaining BOFFs originally, it sounded like THIS.
You go do a mission, save somebody's homeworld or whatever. For a reward, one of that species wants to join your ship and you can either take him or have him train your BOFF in some skill.
This is sort of how it works now but it's not quite as fleshed out as they originally described it.
Well, there's First Contact missions as part of the FDC content. Granted, most of the species don't look very cool, but there are exceptions. I have since made an Amlevian BO, for example.
I remember making a post in another thread, but this one is a better place for it beacuse I agree with the OP, also the post I refer to was me asking a geeky question about missions that could reward the player with a new BO who is a defector from another faction, a Romulan scientist or Breen Engineer for example.
I think more exotic boffs and more interesting and exotic ways of obtaining boffs would be great, especially if it meant there was a repeatable way to get BOs who are higher quality than common, even if it was just a rare chance.
Like if they added a repeatable mission on Vulcan, level scaling like the Featured Episodes. Random Vulcan BO. 75% chance common, 20% chance rare, 5% chance very rare.
Do that for all the homeworlds. Add homeworlds that aren't represented.
And maybe take races that are... less common and make them a % chance as rewards in appropriate exploration missions. Like non-unique versions of Breen or Liberated Borg or Vorlons or whatever. It would be a true souvenir of exploration then and desirable enough to get people exploring a lot more.
Oh. And there really should be some mercenary BOs for Latinum, even if just one-of-a-kind. Maybe a cross-faction Ferengi with a superior or unique trait, a cross faction Orion with Superior Seduce, a Klingon (no "Honor"), a Bajoran, and a Reman.
I really like the OP's idea. My favorite BOs are my Breen and the Orion I received on reaching Ambassador. I also miss getting choices of BOs when leveling up.
I really like the OP's idea. My favorite BOs are my Breen and the Orion I received on reaching Ambassador. I also miss getting choices of BOs when leveling up.
You got an Orion Boff as a Feddie? How? Was she female? I want one, I want one, I want one!
I like this idea. Just tie it to the First Contact missions.
I like it. It doesn't have to be released all at once, but it would be cool. Go to Vulcan, traverse the forge and convince a vulcan youth to join starfleet as your ensign. i like it alot.
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You go do a mission, save somebody's homeworld or whatever. For a reward, one of that species wants to join your ship and you can either take him or have him train your BOFF in some skill.
This is sort of how it works now but it's not quite as fleshed out as they originally described it.
Like if they added a repeatable mission on Vulcan, level scaling like the Featured Episodes. Random Vulcan BO. 75% chance common, 20% chance rare, 5% chance very rare.
Do that for all the homeworlds. Add homeworlds that aren't represented.
And maybe take races that are... less common and make them a % chance as rewards in appropriate exploration missions. Like non-unique versions of Breen or Liberated Borg or Vorlons or whatever. It would be a true souvenir of exploration then and desirable enough to get people exploring a lot more.
Oh. And there really should be some mercenary BOs for Latinum, even if just one-of-a-kind. Maybe a cross-faction Ferengi with a superior or unique trait, a cross faction Orion with Superior Seduce, a Klingon (no "Honor"), a Bajoran, and a Reman.
You got an Orion Boff as a Feddie? How? Was she female? I want one, I want one, I want one!
I like this idea. Just tie it to the First Contact missions.
You max out your diplomacy XP and you get one Orion, Gorn, or Nausicaan BO as a Federation member.
I went Gorn, personally.
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