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No Female Alien BOFF's candidates?? Do they exist?

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Perhaps its just a coincidence, but for the last week I have been browsing at the exchange for a few new officers and out of the roughly 40 alien engineering, 50 alien tactical, and 30 alien science... there has not been single female candidate. I guess my question is, has anyone seen one before?

Kind of silly question I know but my curiosity is now getting the better of me, so I thought I would put up a post. I just thought it a little odd that out of over a hundred BOFF's not a single one was a chick. I didn't know if Cryptic had a thing against alien females... J/K... don't want to create a gender bias issue...

The DarkWanderer
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Perhaps its just a coincidence, but for the last week I have been browsing at the exchange for a few new officers and out of the roughly 40 alien engineering, 50 alien tactical, and 30 alien science... there has not been single female candidate. I guess my question is, has anyone seen one before?

    Kind of silly question I know but my curiosity is now getting the better of me, so I thought I would put up a post. I just thought it a little odd that out of over a hundred BOFF's not a single one was a chick. I didn't know if Cryptic had a thing against alien females... J/K... don't want to create a gender bias issue...

    The DarkWanderer

    I purchased an alien female boff last week, and turned her into an orion female. But i think there is definitely more males than females to choose from. At least thats my experience. Of all the officer candidates i've received from lvling/missions, it seems its about 66-75% males.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    curzon176 wrote: »
    I purchased an alien female boff last week, and turned her into an orion female. But i think there is definitely more males than females to choose from. At least thats my experience. Of all the officer candidates i've received from lvling/missions, it seems its about 66-75% males.

    Im glad we are so liberal in the 25th century :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Yes, it is possible to get alien females. But you can get them as white level quality only. So there is no point in buying them off the exchange, because they will be no better then what you can buy from the requisitions officer.

    This is the reason why you don't see many on the exchange. As far as finding female aliens in green, blue, or purple quality? They simply do not exist. Its an apparent glitch that has yet to be fixed.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    When you trade, remember that probably somewhere between 50 and 90% (there... I havnt made up a actual statistic) of the players are male. As such there may be a reluctance to trade female characters.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    captnwan wrote: »
    Yes, it is possible to get alien females. But you can get them as white level quality only. So there is no point in buying them off the exchange, because they will be no better then what you can buy from the requisitions officer.

    This is the reason why you don't see many on the exchange. As far as finding female aliens in green, blue, or purple quality? They simply do not exist. Its an apparent glitch that has yet to be fixed.

    Thanks for the info... that explains why I can't find any at the exchange. I wonder if Cryptic knows there is a "glitch"...lol
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    This is no glitch.

    The fact is that most of the players are male. Many of them have an all female, or mostly female, harem/crew. So they usually keep the female BOs and sell the males.

    You might find it interesting to note that, when I was monitoring the Exchange, I noticed that, for those races that are visually appealing, the prices for female BOs are usually 3 to 5 times higher than that of male BOs with the same abilities/skills. For those races, like Rigelians or Tellarites, that aren't visually appealing the prices are the same between male and female BOs.

    The one exception being Saurians of course.

    Which reminds me. Does anyone know why Saurian females have TRIBBLE? They're lizards. Lizards don't breast feed and they don't have TRIBBLE.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    This is no glitch.

    The fact is that most of the players are male. Many of them have an all female, or mostly female, harem/crew. So they usually keep the female BOs and sell the males.

    You might find it interesting to note that, when I was monitoring the Exchange, I noticed that, for those races that are visually appealing, the prices for female BOs are usually 3 to 5 times higher than that of male BOs with the same abilities/skills. For those races, like Rigelians or Tellarites, that aren't visually appealing the prices are the same between male and female BOs.

    The one exception being Saurians of course.

    Which reminds me. Does anyone know why Saurian females have TRIBBLE? They're lizards. Lizards don't breast feed and they don't have TRIBBLE.

    they are bolt-ons
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    What really grinds my gears is the inability to choose our BOff's traits. Especially with the Alien ones, as they all seem to have only a set handfull of traits, no matter how outrageous you make them look.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Which reminds me. Does anyone know why Saurian females have TRIBBLE? They're lizards. Lizards don't breast feed and they don't have TRIBBLE.

    They could be reptomammelian. Or they could be actual saurinoids, in which case they're totally not lizards at all.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    This is no glitch.

    The fact is that most of the players are male. Many of them have an all female, or mostly female, harem/crew. So they usually keep the female BOs and sell the males.

    You might find it interesting to note that, when I was monitoring the Exchange, I noticed that, for those races that are visually appealing, the prices for female BOs are usually 3 to 5 times higher than that of male BOs with the same abilities/skills. For those races, like Rigelians or Tellarites, that aren't visually appealing the prices are the same between male and female BOs.

    The one exception being Saurians of course.

    Which reminds me. Does anyone know why Saurian females have TRIBBLE? They're lizards. Lizards don't breast feed and they don't have TRIBBLE.

    well there were the femles in the tv movie/show v that had breast :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I have been getting allot of BO's from missions and from leveling up...all aliens that I have gotten have been male and not a single female, but most of the other BO's (Ferengi, Trill, Andorian, Vulcan, Human and so on) that I have gotten have been female.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    *ahem* raises hand. I'm a female and I play numerous MMOs and have done so for years. Just wanted you boys to know that female gamers are not a myth...we are out there...*cue ominous music* :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    You can find them. I have a pakled (blue), a human (purple) and a bolian (blue) that I haven't assigned. Besides my borg female and joined trill.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    You can find them. I have a pakled (blue), a human (purple) and a bolian (blue) that I haven't assigned. Besides my borg female and joined trill.

    Ummm you missed the question... as in "ALIEN species" female.... not non-human races..:)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    *ahem* raises hand. I'm a female and I play numerous MMOs and have done so for years. Just wanted you boys to know that female gamers are not a myth...we are out there...*cue ominous music* :p

    Glad to know that the myth has been busted.... actually nice to meet a true "female" gamer.... unfortunatly I don't think you would join my BOFF's list as a female alien officer... although I am sure you would be the "number one"... might even take over the ship as your own, beat me down, throw me out of an airlock, ahhemm sorry... got a little carried away there for a sec..;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Ummm you missed the question... as in "ALIEN species" female.... not non-human races..:)

    That make more sense....might what to change it to non-humanoid female species. Right now it just talk about female alien boff's.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    *ahem* raises hand. I'm a female and I play numerous MMOs and have done so for years. Just wanted you boys to know that female gamers are not a myth...we are out there...*cue ominous music* :p

    There are more female players than some people think, but they don't notice it until they hear them talk in ventrilo, mumble or teamspeak.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    anazonda wrote: »
    When you trade, remember that probably somewhere between 50 and 90% (there... I havnt made up a actual statistic) of the players are male. As such there may be a reluctance to trade female characters.

    Welcome to the internet. Where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.

    :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    The fact is that most of the players are male. Many of them have an all female, or mostly female, harem/crew. So they usually keep the female BOs and sell the males.
    This. And buy all the females, of course.

    Priorities. :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    *ahem* raises hand. I'm a female and I play numerous MMOs and have done so for years. Just wanted you boys to know that female gamers are not a myth...we are out there...*cue ominous music* :p

    Reading comprehension for the win!

    On-topic: I agree, I've not seen any non-white-named Alien Females from any source. I've seen female officer candidates from most every named species but not from the generic aliens. They really should fix that.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Female alien officers above common don't exist. Benzite and Caitian officers don't exist at all. They are either unable or unwiling to change this right now.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Female alien officers above common don't exist. Benzite and Caitian officers don't exist at all. They are either unable or unwiling to change this right now.

    Considering all the other things on their to-do list, the probably consider this to be relatively less important.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Female alien officers above common don't exist. Benzite and Caitian officers don't exist at all. They are either unable or unwiling to change this right now.

    I think they're too busy being medics in Klingon space to join your crew. Ever since they added them to the game, 9/10 of them medics I see in NPC groups are female Caitians (the others are Benzites and Tellarites). Did Starfleet fire all the non-Caitian, Benzite and Tellarite medics recently?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Whatever the reason/s are, these issues have been around since release. I don't expect them to be fixed anytime soon.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I guess the big question then is ,,, does Cryptic know there about the fact or is it just a "ghost/glitch" in the system. Obviously not a big enough concern to create a ticket for, but has anyone heard of them even mentioning this before (not like they don't have enough to do grant you).

    Has anyone heard of this mentioned by any of the Devs at all?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I guess the big question then is ,,, does Cryptic know there about the fact or is it just a "ghost/glitch" in the system. Obviously not a big enough concern to create a ticket for, but has anyone heard of them even mentioning this before (not like they don't have enough to do grant you).

    Has anyone heard of this mentioned by any of the Devs at all?

    thats the thing also, there is some races/ sexes get only a certain career. like a female trill can be sci but not tact or eng. omho cryptic needs to fix these.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I think they're too busy being medics in Klingon space to join your crew. Ever since they added them to the game, 9/10 of them medics I see in NPC groups are female Caitians (the others are Benzites and Tellarites). Did Starfleet fire all the non-Caitian, Benzite and Tellarite medics recently?

    Also, most Benzite Crewmen die in Security Teams before they reach the the "Ensign" status.
    (At least 50% of my Security Team members seems to be Benzites).
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    thats the thing also, there is some races/ sexes get only a certain career. like a female trill can be sci but not tact or eng. omho cryptic needs to fix these.

    I have sci, tac and eng female trill BO on my joined trill captain.

    Took some time to find them, but they do exist.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I have sci, tac and eng female trill BO on my joined trill captain.

    Took some time to find them, but they do exist.


    Umm,, thank you for the time you spent to post.... however the thread is concerning... the "Alien" in game race not having any female BOFF's ... I attempted to indicate that with my first post , although I was apparently not expressive enough (holiday weekend... perhaps a bit to much celebrating.. my apologies) So aside from Trill ....do you happen to have any NON-White/Common female "Alien" BOFF'S or have you seen any???
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Umm,, thank you for the time you spent to post.... however the thread is concerning... the "Alien" in game race not having any female BOFF's ... I attempted to indicate that with my first post , although I was apparently not expressive enough (holiday weekend... perhaps a bit to much celebrating.. my apologies) So aside from Trill ....do you happen to have any NON-White/Common female "Alien" BOFF'S or have you seen any???

    Did you even bother to read the post that I replied to or my other posts in this thread?
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