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Mystery BOFF talking to me?

colson15colson15 Member Posts: 2 Arc User
edited October 2012 in PC Gameplay Bug Reports
So, I have been playing for about a a month and a half... leveled my tac char to 50, and when on missions and stuff, your bridge officers often give suggestions and input on the situation....well since I started my science character, every time i am on a ground mission, if one of my boffs is supposed to say something, it opens a box, and there is this.... mystery alien in it... he's purple, and his name is Enceladus....I have no "Alien" race boff on my bridge crew anyway, and none that look like that or have ever had that name.... can someone explain this? Thanks.
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  • dragongod17dragongod17 Member Posts: 40 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    If you only have 4 BOFFs and they are all on your away team with you, the game uses a random placeholder character in place of your BOFFs for suggestions on ground missions. Once you have more than 4 BOFFs, it will start using the ones that aren't on your away team.
  • colson15colson15 Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Oh, okay!! That explains it, thanks for the quick reply!
  • evilgenius180evilgenius180 Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    dragongod17 wrote: »
    If you only have 4 BOFFs and they are all on your away team with you, the game uses a random placeholder character in place of your BOFFs for suggestions on ground missions. Once you have more than 4 BOFFs, it will start using the ones that aren't on your away team.

    That's true. However, I have 10 boffs and I had only 4 of them on an away team with me and 6 still on the ship and I still got some random dude who's not one of them talking to me yesterday.
  • dragongod17dragongod17 Member Posts: 40 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    What ship do you fly? It might have to do with the BOFFs slotted in the ship used and using the same BOFFs on your away team. Other than that, we would need a dev to come in to explain how the system works for this case.

    I fly the Regent and have 6 BOFFs (2 tac, 2 eng, 2 sci). I use both my sci and eng BOFFs on away teams, and the tac BOFFs slotted on my ship are the ones hailing me from the ship during ground missions.
  • evilgenius180evilgenius180 Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I was running an Excelsior class (T3) with 2 engineering stations. Only one of the engineering boffs was down on the planet with me, the other was on the bridge. The mystery boff talking to me on the com was also an engineering officer. With one of my engineering boffs at her station, there was no good reason for that to happen. It used to never happen when you had enough boffs to fill your stations, but a recent update (Season 6, I think) has caused it to start happening. It's probably a bug.
  • matridunadan1matridunadan1 Member Posts: 579 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Set up your Department Heads.

    This is found under the Duty Officer window.
  • evilgenius180evilgenius180 Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I'd already done that too. Besides, all that seems to affect is which officers offer recommendations for doff assignments.

    Believe me, I've set every customization setting I can for this toon. It only happens some of the time, mostly my boffs talk to me as usual, even when they're on the ship and I'm not. It's probably a bug.
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