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peetapipmac
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Basically, what is the best way to get them? I really have no interest in having my allied faction species on the bridge of my warbird. But the vast majority of the boffs my Romulan toons get are allied. Is there any reliable way to only get Rommie and Reman bridge officers of high quality? I know the boff vendors on New Romulous and the flotilla sell them, but only white quality and no remans.
SO how do the rest of you go about staffing your warbirds?
(And for the record, I have no interest in Embassy boffs. I want to be able to customize them.)
SO how do the rest of you go about staffing your warbirds?
(And for the record, I have no interest in Embassy boffs. I want to be able to customize them.)
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For example, you get Satra, Hiven, and Veril doing the beginning missions (and they may not be the best out there, but they're good for whatever), then you get D'vex after doing Devil's Choice. Plus, you have Tovan, who isn't too bad either.
For me, I just do whatever I feel like doing at the moment. I even have some Bridge officers from either the Federation (on three of my Romulan/Reman characters) as well as my 3 KDF aligned Romulan/Reman characters.
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White, Green and sometimes Blue BoFF's sell for around 20K EC on the exchange with no Operative traits.
Basic Romulan Operative can go for 50K to 500K EC. "Romulan Operative" sells for 500K <-> 2Mil EC and 'Superior Romulan Operative for 3Mil <->25Mil EC
I'll be honest, I paid no attention whatsoever to where I was, but I do know that Recruitment missions HAVE popped up from time to time ...
My main Rom has been parked in New Rom Command for 2 weeks while I did the Mirror event and I checked my DOFF assignments every day before and after doin the Mirror run... So unless its tied to recruitment rank, I begin to think that rumor is BS
You want Romulan and Reman Boffs for free? Park your butt in New Romulus Command and be patient.
The recruitment assignments come every 2 days after completion of the previous assignment.
Level another Romulan and mail the BOFFS to your main Romulan.
Reman is much rarer, I've only seen in come up maybe twice for me in the time I've been playing.
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You're in luck. Cryptic apparently feels the same way. So, until they change it (around the time the first unicorn is born....in Bangladesh), you will never see a Federation bridge officer on the bridge of your warbird. Romulan bridges are fixed. There are a number of Boffs that will always have a place on the bridge (Tovan, Satra, Hiven, Veril, D'Vex) and the other spots will be filled either by the last Romulan/Reman boff of that department that you took onto a ground map (assuming it was different from the aforementioned five) or generic (i.e. 'Tactical Officer', 'Engineering Officer', 'Science Officer') ones. I spend a lot of time on my bridge (every personal reset, I check all my departments there) and I hate seeing the generics on the bridge. So I usually go to Nimbus shortly after logging in and taking the specific officers I want on the bridge down then back up, which seems to set them for that play session.
I got most of my Romulan boffs from the exchange, though I have gotten a few from recruitment missions in Tau Dewa. Besides Veril, my only Reman boff came from the exchange (someone posted a 'Superior Infiltrator' for 25k. Couldn't pass it up, even though I had already reached my personal quota of science officers). I've flipped a few (people posting superior operatives for 250-500k) but for the most part, it's either recruitment mission or (rarely nowadays) exchange.
Romulan Boffs are faction-set by the person who first received said Boff, even though they weren't commissioned. Seems a very, uh, "developmentally disabled" way of doing it, but that's how it works. So, if a Klink aligned Romulan receives a boff as a quest reward, that boff is forever barred from wearing 'Republic: Federation' uniforms (locked into 'Republic: Klingon' set) due to being touched by a KDFer. The same is true for the flip side (a Fed aligned boff will not be able to wear the Republic: Klingon uni).
And no, they haven't fixed it so you can tell the difference before spending EC, adding them to your crew, and then trying to change their uniform. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that to happen either.
I disagree. It's been months since the last time I got a romulan/reman boff candidate assignment and have had both my reman and romulan parked at new romulus command for a couple weeks at least and still haven't found them. There is no specific time frame to get the assignments. It's completely random but not in our favor.
The assignments are so damned rare to find that's the reason why purple romulans and remans are expensive on the exchange, especially if they have something like a superior operative trait. It's bullcrap.
I can find federation and KDF bridge officer candidate assignments all over the game. In social zones like ESD, Qo'nos, DS9, Drozana station, and all throughout various sectors in space.
But they limited the romulan and reman boff candidate assignments to *only* tae dewa sector and new romulus command and made the assignments super rare to find. Why? I don't know but my guess is because romulan/reman boff's space traits are too OP to just go handing them out to everybody. :mad:
The recruitment missions are what I like to call highly rare, as they only come around once it seems in a blue moon, but they do come around and you need be logged in at the right time.
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Similiar for Alien Recruitment. Take a look at the Exchange as well. Alien BOffs getting more and more rare. They really seem to have shortend the amount of BOff Recruitments.
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I've gotten four of these assignments (three Romulan, one Reman) in the last two weeks. In fact, there was one up on Tuesday that I got that should be finishing soon. And that's just when I'm playing my Romulan! I have no doubt that I've missed a couple (not many though).
Yes, the missions are rare (even moreso for Remans) but saying you haven't seen one in 'months' indicates that you're either not playing very much or.....you're not being honest. Keep in mind that the devs can tell you exactly when these missions were available so saying 'it's been months...." or even "I've been parked in the zones for a couple weeks" isn't going to prove any points.
Again, the missions are rare but not THAT rare. If you're spending your time cycling through STFs, you're probably not going to be in a position to even see the mission when it comes up. Also, if you play 2 hours a day or only on the weekend, you're not going to see these missions as often as other folks do.
Personally I think the mission is too rare. I believe the primary race that Romulans should see are Romulans with Remans as secondary and everything else (faction alignment depending) as rare. Heck, alternate Romulan and Reman if you want to make it fair. A Republic player shouldn't HAVE to "fluff" his/her roster with allied Boffs, it should be a choice. As things stand now, quality RRF boffs are so rare, you can't even run to the exchange to fill in roles because of the expense involved (not to mention the alignment/locking issue). Give people an opportunity to "earn" their blue/purple boffs rather than having to farm EC to fill slots. Not everyone has the time or inclination for farming.
Ok so theory, what is everyone's recruitment level? Because I have yet to see a single one of these recruit missions and I logged in every day for the two weeks mirror invasion was live, and I checked before and after running the event since available doff missions can change over time.
I am *hypothesizing* that recruit level plays a major factor in this mission showing up and how often.
It's not dependent on recruitment level at all. I used to farm the assignment on a few characters and I actually got more on a fresh romulan I made than my tier 4 recruitment main. The trick is to use a lot of characters, refresh every hour on the hour, and use the unbound Tal Shiar Romulan faction doffs to minimize your investment/maximize chances of a purple.
Romulan on the other hand is just insanely priced. Most are over 100k and if your looking for purple quality, your looking in the millions.
Also the "Recruitment" missions only seem to allow me to acquire Klingon aligned BoFFs, never Romulan so I am stuck with trying to jimmy around I think 5 Romulan, 1 Reman crew to fit the BoFFs I need for multiple Romulan ships each with a different requirement. This can be frustrating.
What I have finally started resorting to is looking for Alien BoFFs then making the look as close to Romulan as I can.
I mean if I can outfit 2 toons with reman and romulan boff's without buying them, and only doff recruiting them than so can you.
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Maybe there's something bugged in some characters?
This is my issue though. If you are playing a romulan, then the romulan (and to a lesser extent reman) boffs should be much easier to obtain the then the allied ones. Pressently the exact opposite is the case.
A Romulan shouldn't have to grind for their own factions boffs!:mad:
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They made them hard to obtain by doff mission for a reason, because they are highly sought after and pretty much better than 99% of any other race there is.
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