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Lethean/ Saurian Efficient Boffs.

rustiswordzrustiswordz Member Posts: 824 Arc User
edited September 2012 in Builds, Powers, and Game Mechanics
Ive recently heard of these fabled Boffs with the efficient tag, that boost your abillities greatly.

Q) where do i get one: ie missons/ assignments or the exchange.

If exchange how much? I heard the price is high if so how high, can i afford it or not.

Thanks. :D
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  • thoroonthoroon Member Posts: 409 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    If you don't care for other traits (which are usually useless) you can get them for less than a million EC on the Exchange.
    You can get them from DOFF missions (Achievment X: Saurian X Bridge Officer for example).
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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Search for Rare or Very Rare quality, starting at a million and up from there. Borg Boffs get it as well, but to buy them you search in Reward Packs instead. And its not that they 'greatly' increase your abilities, its just that Efficient is the only Boff trait that enhances space combat at all, equivalent to something like an extra +10 or so in Starship Warp Core Efficiency, for an extra point or two of power in each of the four categories. Still, its a lot more useful than Superior Covert and other such junk.
  • rustiswordzrustiswordz Member Posts: 824 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Right i get ya. I didnt realise the full spec on these things. Thanks. :)
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  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,901 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Where do you recruit Saurian bridge officers from? I mean its hard to find Federation Boff recruitment missions in general. Its much easier on the Klingon side unless I'm supposed to go somewhere special in space?
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  • kylesal24kylesal24 Member Posts: 312
    edited August 2012
    reginamala78. Humans have teamwork. I use a full human ship and my hull repair is crazy.

    lianthelia, the 2 places you can get them is the exchange and random luck in sector space.

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  • bloctoadbloctoad Member Posts: 660 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    I got an efficient Saurian today as a selection for my Sci hitting Captain 39.
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  • funkychicken2funkychicken2 Member Posts: 28 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    I got an efficient saurian boff as the level 9 boff reward on my fed engineer. The next boff award I got had another saurian, but it didn't have the efficient trait :(
  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,901 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    its just Lethean's seem to be a dime a dozen, I swear I have never seen a Saurian recruitment in the whole time I've played sto...and see less recruitment on the fed side in general.
    Can't have a honest conversation because of a white knight with power
  • knockyknocky Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Add efficient to Caitain boffs....profit.
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  • ussultimatumussultimatum Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    knocky wrote: »
    Add efficient to Caitain boffs....profit.

    We need more races that are efficient that don't require beer goggles to look at.
  • marctraiderzmarctraiderz Member Posts: 539 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    rustiswordz wrote: »
    Ive recently heard of these fabled Boffs with the efficient tag, that boost your abillities greatly.

    Q) where do i get one: ie missons/ assignments or the exchange.

    If exchange how much? I heard the price is high if so how high, can i afford it or not.

    Thanks. :D

    They dont boost your abilities greatly, a full efficient crew simply adds a a few points to your lowest powerlevel systems.

    They used to only come with some Uncommon saurians, where the prices went up to 50+ million EC a piece, now they come in all rarities except common. Price is acceptable.
  • crusty8maccrusty8mac Member Posts: 1,381 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    I've outfitted one set of Letheans - 7 due to needed variations - I believe I picked up about 3 in DOff missions, the rest were under 15k apiece. I still put one on the the exchange every so often.
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  • marctraiderzmarctraiderz Member Posts: 539 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    kylesal24 wrote: »
    reginamala78. Humans have teamwork. I use a full human ship and my hull repair is crazy.

    lianthelia, the 2 places you can get them is the exchange and random luck in sector space.

    Kyle

    Human teamwork trait doesnt work at all.

    - It doesnt increase your subsystem repair skill like it says.
    - It doesnt increase your innate passive hull repair either.
    - It doesnt increase your "hull repair skill' which would suggest it would buff hull repair abilities.

    Please, don't speak unless it are facts, there ahve been too much misinformations on the forums imo.
    The trait has been broken for a long time, since i play this game. They said they fixed it a while ago, but thats (probably) for the human playable race species trait.
  • dontdrunkimshootdontdrunkimshoot Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    the price for efficient letheans is greatly exaggerated. they are often posted on the exchange by people that don't know what they have it seems. thanks to the doff mission, ive gotten about 6 total, and bought 14 more off the exchange and fully crewed 2 characters with efficient letheans for probably no more then a million ec.id have to double check but with 5 equipped at a time i think my powers set to 25 give me an extra 5 power, certainly worth the small price i ended up paying
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  • darienavandarienavan Member Posts: 28 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    a efficient Doff gives you +7.5 efficience rating for a total of 37.5

    So after the formula efficience/300 x (75-Power level) a crew of 5 efficient officers gives you:

    +6,25 in any system with Power level 25 and
    +3,125 in any system with Power level 50

    Given the regular setup of 100/50/25/25 a crew of 5 efficient Boffs gives you +15.625 (probably rounded to 15.6) in Power.

    so, yeah, they are worth it ;)
  • thepantspartythepantsparty Member Posts: 431 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    rustiswordz wrote: »
    Ive recently heard of these fabled Boffs with the efficient tag, that boost your abillities greatly.

    Q) where do i get one: ie missons/ assignments or the exchange.

    There are occasionally doff assignments to recruit a saurian/lethean bridge officer if you check your personal tab. The lethean assignment for kdf is fairly common, but the saurian assignment for fed is extremely rare.
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