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Caution!! New Doff system will Kill doffs if not careful. [Auto-select Issues]
spike74656
Member Posts: 55 Arc User
Anyone else feel Like this new Autoselect algorithim as actually designed to give a higher chance of Killing your better Doffs.
Befoe this I would NEVER but purple doffs on a mission if there was A high Casualty risk and a chance of disaster. Now I have to pay alot of attention to make sure this doesnt happen as the autoselect will always do this!!!
Also it certainly doesnt work out the best crit chance for all missions Either. For most assignments I have been able to improve the crit chance by swapping the Doffs.
So
It doesnt give best Crit Chance
It doesnt give best Success Chance
It DOES make it more lightly you will Loose high quality Doffs if your not on the ball!!
Thoughts and opinions?
Befoe this I would NEVER but purple doffs on a mission if there was A high Casualty risk and a chance of disaster. Now I have to pay alot of attention to make sure this doesnt happen as the autoselect will always do this!!!
Also it certainly doesnt work out the best crit chance for all missions Either. For most assignments I have been able to improve the crit chance by swapping the Doffs.
So
It doesnt give best Crit Chance
It doesnt give best Success Chance
It DOES make it more lightly you will Loose high quality Doffs if your not on the ball!!
Thoughts and opinions?
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It may not be perfect, but it does give MUCH better crit chances than it used to
Also it simply slots what it thinks are the best DOFFs for the task, ignoring casualty rate because it is just meant to optimize crit chances
They could do with a couple of options.
1: Recomendations for best success chance
2: Recomendation for best balance of Success then Crit
3: Recomendation for best Crit
Also notice now how most of the interface is BIG but the casualty risk is just some small text at the top right? Make that bigger so we don't miss it!!!
And of course add back in some of the features of the old doff system.
Are you sure??? I've never actually risked a purple myself but have been told by others that they have had purples killed on mission.
If this can be confirmed then fair point and I take back what I said.
You CAN, however, grind/trade/kill them if the mission explicitly says "this will result in the loss of your officer" such as KDF "execute mutineer" or officer exchanges. I got royally BONED by the system changing already-locked missions with lesser boffs that were going to be exchanged/traded for various reasons and it took several purples/blues from me that I NEVER selected and gave me jack squat in return. I'm VERY upset.
Aside from that I have no issues with the new system. Well I would like to see the descriptive text without going into the mission but that is a seriously minor gripe.
"The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play." - James T. Kirk
Also a lot of normal missions because they are setup up after crits end up with horrible combination like sending armory officers on research mission although a corresponding blue sci officer would guaranty a success bu tslightly higher crit with the armory officer so he must be better...
My favourite must be when the system wanted me to send 5 lauras on a support as kdf that was kinda annoying. 30% crit and 70% success instead of with my normal setup 33% crit chance and 67% success. sure only 3% but still it just feels dumb.
Could the system perhaps be setup so that it takes into account the best chance to succeed and after 100% succed goes for the best crit chance.
I get it that the system is set up for crit and that the search box is sorted after best to worst to succed at a mission but it is just a really clunky design if you have 400+ officers...
The new doff system needs a better set of options. It needs the options added that lets a player select their doffs by traits and rariety, just like the old one. As it is now its just one huge Cluster #?%$!!!.
Cryptic if you read this. Please add all the old options to the new system. Also add a scalable UI that way we can have more than 4 doff missions on the screen at a time. It needs work. I just hope you guys make it a #1 priority.
If you put them into a mission that will "Turn in changeling" or something like that, yes... That Officer will be removed... but thats somewhere around 1% of the missions... probably less.
the only ones are the ones that offer an exchange, or for klingons the ones that allow you to execute crew members.
Not fond of the new layout.
Its far from perfect, its a complete mess.
The auto slotting doffs feature is a complete fail. Why? because i dont know othe rpeople, but in my case, an example, most of the times i dont want a purple biochemist to return contraband, with a white security officer i have more than enough, or some doffs assignend i dont want em to be there in that assignment even if they give me more critical chance, because i want em in reserve to be used in other assignments that will fit more their specialization.
And this happens with almost 75% on all my assignments.
And at least i hope they implement the sort system as fast as they can, because trying to change the default slotted doffs for 5 or 6 can be a pain. Since they are going to appear already in the candidate roster, even if you already have em sloted in the assignment..
In the end, this system is pure TRIBBLE. If you are used to the doff system and how it works, this new doff mechanics is the worst thing that ever happened to it.
I know cryptic is trying to make the game focused to non brained fellows, but this is getting ridiculous. Trying to achieve that (first, they remove the star clusters, now they make a child-based doff ui system) they are destroying the game at little steps.
About killing doffs, only white common can be killed, thats the universal rule, but i experienced weird issues in the past, and i remember having a couple of bugs where 2 purple doffs were killed in some marauding assignments.
And this happens because what i said. Why the hell, if we already have that doff assigned, he appears again in the candidate roster?? its really stupid.
Better than my origional name granted but don't mods inform you when they edit stuff?
PS: If you disagree, rather than flaming me for disagreeing, please do me the courtesy of responding politely with specific examples.
But we all knew it was coming. As soon as they started "improving" the DOFF UI, we knew they would TRIBBLE it up somehow. Given all the negative feedback..........why couldn't they have left well enough alone? The old UI worked, was 99.5% bug-free. Now, it's a massive disaster.
They might have been able to get something in game if only someone had said something when this was on Tribble....
P.S. We were screaming about this in the tribble forum as well. There's like... 20 pages there.
I have only read of one actual instance of a purple Doff dying.
In the Doff'ing sub-forum, a player posted that after doing a mission (can't remember which one) his William Shakespeare Doff died. He mentioned that the mission had casualty rating of Extreme, but I forgot what his disaster percentage was.
Regarding the Doff UI...
I will admit that the algorithm does seem to choose Doffs for you which gives pretty decent success and critical success rates, but since players can no longer easily filter their Doffs, it's hard to manually assign Doffs on missions.
Additionally, sometimes I do not want to choose the best Doff for a mission if I am going need high quality Doffs for missions that I will eventually get to. For example, say I am at ESD and i wanna fly to Omega Leonis sector to do the colony chain missions there. Many times I would simply fly there and pick up various Doff missions along the way. I generally avoid selecting any purple Doffs so that I will have them all available for the colony chain missions.