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flash525
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For Season 9 (or before)
To Add:
* Benzite and Deltan Bridge Officers to the Federation
* Acamarian (and maybe Suliban?) Bridge Officers to the Romulan Republic
...honestly, I think the Klingons are fine with what they've got, though I'd ask people to freely nominate candidates they think practically suitable
To Allow:
* Unique Bridge Officer Customization
To Include:
* Breen Bridge Officer (x3 Costume Sets, minimal) with body morph
* Jem Hadar Bridge Officer (x3 Costume Sets, minimal) with face and body morph, plus facial options
* Reman Bridge Officer (allegiance costume options enabled) with full face and body customization
* Romulan Embassy Bridge Officer (allegiance costume options enabled) with full face and body customization
* Borg Bridge Officer (Science); to allow full customization as per Borg Bridge Officer (Engineer) from zen store
To Correct:
* Caitian/Ferasan with an option to have true feline legs opposed to humanoid ones.
I don't believe I am missing anything. Should we get a Voth Bridge Officer in a couple of weeks/months, then the option of customization should apply to that from the mark. The option of customization might just be bias from my point of view, but I believe more people would use (and buy) these unique bridge officers if they didn't all look the same.
To Add:
* Benzite and Deltan Bridge Officers to the Federation
* Acamarian (and maybe Suliban?) Bridge Officers to the Romulan Republic
...honestly, I think the Klingons are fine with what they've got, though I'd ask people to freely nominate candidates they think practically suitable
To Allow:
* Unique Bridge Officer Customization
To Include:
* Breen Bridge Officer (x3 Costume Sets, minimal) with body morph
* Jem Hadar Bridge Officer (x3 Costume Sets, minimal) with face and body morph, plus facial options
* Reman Bridge Officer (allegiance costume options enabled) with full face and body customization
* Romulan Embassy Bridge Officer (allegiance costume options enabled) with full face and body customization
* Borg Bridge Officer (Science); to allow full customization as per Borg Bridge Officer (Engineer) from zen store
To Correct:
* Caitian/Ferasan with an option to have true feline legs opposed to humanoid ones.
I don't believe I am missing anything. Should we get a Voth Bridge Officer in a couple of weeks/months, then the option of customization should apply to that from the mark. The option of customization might just be bias from my point of view, but I believe more people would use (and buy) these unique bridge officers if they didn't all look the same.
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I do like the idea of customizing the FE officers, though the Borg science officer from Khitomer Ground (that was the mission, right?) really shouldn't be customizable under the grounds you mention. The liberated Borg officers are essentially just humans, Klingons, or Romulans/Remans with extra bits. The science drone is one of the generic drones you'd normally be shooting, except, y'know... friendly.
Yes. yes, and indeed, yes.
I would add that existing Boffs need to have the restriction of "Uniform" removed so that the Costume options such as the Senate Robes, MACO, Omega, Dyson and Formal Wear and so on can be used with Boffs.
As far as unique Boff customisation goes; There's frankly no excuse to use the age-old Romulan/Reman designs now that we have fully customisable Romulan/Reman models.
and no, M'Ress didnt have digigrade legs.
the reman boff is a no brainer, place him in faction specific clothing, if feds a starfleet uniform, if klingons a warriors suit, if romulan considering that you have remans in the RR thats not hard to wonder with that one. never liked the cape hanging through a chair or that horrible nemesis uniform on STO. have the ability to change his face as well.
jem'hadar while all clones, they also can be told apart by the different facial appearance; different horn positions (besides around the jaw) and shapes and sizes, bony face plating between the various Jem'hadar as well. eg.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Unnamed_Jem%27Hadar - some have a strong bony uneven spiky brows above the eyes. others have horns coming from the cheeks in more then one jem'hadar a bony plate around the lower nose to the upperlip, others have strong thin bony indents on the top sides on their heads. some have horns coming out around near the eyes. so plenty to crew on the give the jem'hadar an appearance. and would you please add the black hair on the back of the head. the body should be a lot more muscular then it is, these are jem'hadar they are built to be the best and the arms need to be a tad shorter.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
the acamarians huh? no.. i dont see that one working because of their clans and recent history and having romulans getting involved in their problems is an extra problem they don't want. if the leader of the Acamarians asked the repubic for help it would be like stating that the leaders can not solve their own issues, it would make them look weak and disadvantage them further by then making deals with the romulans for supplies which their homeworld in sto is running short of.
suliban? what would it been in it for them to help? they would rather be left alone if it could be helped.
now i wont have any issues as a doff, but boff or playable is a problem.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Eh? I added my android to my latest Romulan just yesterday and he was fully customizable. Mine has Reman ears and Romulan brow ridges.
As for the original post, yes, more options are always good in a MMORPG and we ought to be able to customize all of our Bridge Officers.
Cheers.
Builds:
http://tinyurl.com/kqqg8f5
http://tinyurl.com/n3ewgcw
And he had a Starfleet Uniform, no?
Contrary to Trek lore, it makes sense that there would be more than one 'Federation' out there. If people don't wish to play as them, that's fine, but I believe the options should be there for those that do wish to play as them.
Yeah that's what I mean. You can make them look Romulan but they're still Starfleet officers (or KDF if anyone actually aligns with them). So if the customization is already in place how hard is it to make Republic androids?
Well we have the First Federation and the Interstellar Concordium, so it's not that contrary to lore...
As for the Interstellar Concordium, they're not true cannon. They're from a game. My initial point though was that it's dumb to think that Starfleet and THE Federation is the only such coalition that exists within the Galaxy. If I remember right, the Dominion was suppose to be a much larger coalition during early drafts, and was suppose to be an 'evil federation' of sorts, though as it turned out, they turned out to be a handful if species, most of which were clones.
Whilst I don't particularly like the idea of the Orion Syndicate within the KDF, the Gorn and Nausicaan are well integrated. It shouldn't be too hard to think that other species would band together either.
mirrorchaos mentioned the Acamarian clans, surely that would have been the perfect solution? What's wrong with a bunch of Acamarian tiring of the clan warfare and joining up with D'Tan and his new Republic? Just because we've seen the Acamarian involved in internal warfare, doesn't mean all of them are going to follow suit.
They make a wondrous mess of things. Brave amateurs, they do their part.
Nope, my customized uniform. He is KDF side.
Builds:
http://tinyurl.com/kqqg8f5
http://tinyurl.com/n3ewgcw
Way to miss the point.
What I mean is that the Android boff doesn't get a Romulan outfit, even if he's claimed by a Rom.
Actually, in certain times, you can have a Canadian officer, be a dept head in your ship or squadron, we did in VX-1, when I was there. Granted, it's a test squadron, however, in this game, with people "owning" their own Starfleet/KDF/RR ships, I think having more choices for boffs & doffs makes sense as well.
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I believe in variety, and I'd like to have said variety when playing this game. So yeah, I'd like a few Acamarians as Bridge Officers. What's so wrong with that?
+1 To all. Especially the ability for full customization on Fed Romulan Embassy Boffs.
-1 to necrothreads. Especially ones that are 4 and a half months old.
Do you have bridge officer slots available? This is not dependent on ship, but on your Captain. It's on the left side of the character menu. There's a "list" of collumns with the BOffs names. If you don't have empty slots (same columns but stating (no officer)), then you do not have available slots for new officers.