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mattgrant
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Ever since I returned to the game, I have been wondering about if it would be possible to change which BOFF is my number one. Currently, the Nausicaan tactical officer, Lt. Commander Kroxei is my commander's second in command. I'd like to change that. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with Kroxei; I think it would simply be more appropriate to have a Klingon first officer since my KDF ship is not run by a proper Klingon.
Digging around, I haven't been able to find away to change which BOFF holds this position. That said, I'm going to be level 30 in three levels. Once I reach that, I will have the opportunity to promote all my BOFFS from Lt. Commander to Commander. If I only promote one BOFF to Commander and then discharge Kroxei, will the aforementioned officer be automatically designated the first officer?
Digging around, I haven't been able to find away to change which BOFF holds this position. That said, I'm going to be level 30 in three levels. Once I reach that, I will have the opportunity to promote all my BOFFS from Lt. Commander to Commander. If I only promote one BOFF to Commander and then discharge Kroxei, will the aforementioned officer be automatically designated the first officer?
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Ranking your officers up simply means you get more abilities to use for your ship and on away missions, all of your officers should be fully ranked up to be effective.
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Oh, I'm slow.
That's ok. It is early, and judging from your Avatar, you REALLY need your coffee...
That preference seems to be for the officer who has been on your bridge the longest. Sometimes it seems to be random though, or sometimes it goes to a random officer who is not on your away team.
The "first officer" pick screen is only for DOFF assignments, has no effect outside of that.
Strange.. because whichever boff I put in that slot, ends up being the one who always asks if I'm ready to warp to the next sector. That or normal pop-ups in missions that don't require a certain profession.
The obvious one is the one you put in the 1.st officer slot of the Doff department heads tab. The other one is the highest tac. boff slottet in your ship. Ships with a designated 1st officer spot on the bridge interior will always show the highest tac slot boff on these. This is also the one announcing the sector change (which actually should be the helm; maybe somebody at cryptic changes that to the lowest level tac slot or something).
The department heads where a nice idea; in regards to the boffs sadly never expanded.
Generally speaking, the person who handles the navigation pop-ups will be your top-most stationed officer in the station assignment tab(generally your primary tactical officer). Other pop-ups will call for your assigned science, medical, operations, etc. officer specifically.. or the highest ranking one that is available.
If you play around with the Foundry toolset, you can specifically see all the ways bridge officers can be displayed. It really just comes down to the ingame event that calls them.
Just one of the many things, we've been told that is coming,being worked on, going to happen, PWE wants, Cryptic wants.....
Need I go on.