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Romulan Captain: Can't train Aligned BO's with Aligned BO candidates.

yourwebsiteblowsyourwebsiteblows Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited June 2013 in PC Gameplay Bug Reports
Setup:
Romulan Captain, KDF Aligned
KDF Bridge Officer

Action:
Try to commission a KDF Bridge Officer Candidate

Expected Result:
Train up
Join
Not Now

Actual Result on Holodeck:
Join
Not Now

Conclusion:
It is currently impossible to train certain abilities (Those requiring training from another BO) to Aligned Bridge Officers.

One possible solution would be to simply use only Fully Romulan Bridge Officers. Here are some reasons that doesn't work.

For a KDF aligned captain:
Liberated Borg Romulan Female counts as a KDF BO. (Seriously)
Unique Borg Warrior Female counts as KDF BO.
Android counts as KDF BO.
Photonic Tactical counts as KDF BO.
ALL Reward BO's count as KDF.
Reman Male (Seriously)
Breen Male
Jem Hadar Male

Basically almost every Special Bridge Officer counts as being aligned.

Even if that wasn't the case. Even if all Special BO's counted as Romulan then a Romulan Captain trying to get Beam Overload 3 onto a Bridge Officer either has to be incredibly lucky or insanely rich seeing as even crappy high level Romulan BO's are selling for ridiculous prices due to their racials.
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  • onethousandsonsonethousandsons Member Posts: 83 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I've run into this problem too. Apparently there's a Fed-side workaround, but nothing for the KDF as far as I've heard. I really hope they change/fix this and that it's not "working as intended" right now, because that would be ridiculous.

    There are some good BO skills (often only available on blue/purple boffs) that are almost impossible to get as a Romulan right now, due to the fact that the Romulan racials increase the cost of those purple boffs by something like 30x the cost for KDF/Feds.
  • crusty8maccrusty8mac Member Posts: 1,381 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    It seems ridiculous and/or just broken that my Romulan captain can have a KDF BO join the crew, but a KDF BO can only train other KDF BOs.

    I don't particularly want any KDF BOs on my bridge, but I would like to use them to train my other - Romulan - BOs.
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  • yourwebsiteblowsyourwebsiteblows Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    It does seem as though half of this issue has been cleared up.

    It is now possible as a Romulan Captain to train a Bridge Officer using a Bridge Officer Candidate of the same faction.

    It would be very helpful for those who would like to keep their crew 'Purely' Romulan if Romulan Bridge Officers could be trained using the Aligned Factions Bridge Officer Candidates.

    Any word on whether or not this is in the cards for the future would be appreciated.
  • onethousandsonsonethousandsons Member Posts: 83 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    The problem is the scarcity of Rom/Reman high-quality boffs. The cost of each is enormously inflated because of the Infiltrator/Operative/Subterfuge traits and how few there are on the market. It's like 30x more expensive to get skills like TSS 3 for Romulans than it is for KDF/Fed, since you're often paying for traits you don't intend to use.

    The price will eventually go down, but only once they start increasing the sources for Rom/Reman officers, which is one of those "we might get around to it before Season 10" kind of deals. I'd prefer not to have to wait that long to finally finish off my ship builds.
  • monkeybone13monkeybone13 Member Posts: 4,640 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Same here. Can't use my allied faction bridge officers to train up my romulan/reman boffs.
  • shkeltonshkelton Member Posts: 38 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    I have come across a similar issue.

    I respected my romulan character and can now train Cannon Rapid Fire 3, however when I try to train any of my tac officers - Romulan or KDF (im aligned with KDF) it gives me the message "this officer can not be trained for this skill) or something like that.
    Any thoughts on this - is it really a bug???


    This has got to be a bug, you should be able to train any of your BOs with powers you have been given the ability to train.

    Also another note, romulan BOs can only be trained by the romulan skill trainer at the command center and KDF by the KDF skill trainer at first city. - this is stupid too.
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