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Change White R&D Assistance Mission Doffs to Green

captainrevo1captainrevo1 Member Posts: 3,948 Arc User
edited September 2014 in Duty Officer System and R&D
Can you please change the doffs given out in the R&D assistance mission at the acadamy to green officers?

At the moment, as far as I can tell they are all white and this makes them very easy to kill, or to use in starbase projects. These are the only white doffs i want to hold onto but its going to be a pain to try and not accidentally select them.

these are really valuable doffs even in white and not easy to come the one you specifically want, as they are needed for the higher reps and making them green will just stop them us from losing them.
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  • burstorionburstorion Member Posts: 1,750 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Even better, how about opening the option for all rarities or is the plan that we have to gamblebox to get purples? (or pay an extortionate prices in the exchange)
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    captainrevo1 wrote: »
    Can you please change the doffs given out in the R&D assistance mission at the acadamy to green officers?

    At the moment, as far as I can tell they are all white and this makes them very easy to kill, or to use in starbase projects. These are the only white doffs i want to hold onto but its going to be a pain to try and not accidentally select them.

    these are really valuable doffs even in white and not easy to come the one you specifically want, as they are needed for the higher reps and making them green will just stop them us from losing them.

    The ability to flag a DOFF as a reminder to ourselves that they're special in some way and we don't want to kill them off for one reason or another would be helpful. Otherwise, it's a case of keeping a list of the names of all the various DOFFs (they're fixed for the R&D DOFFs - but we might have others) and checking each DOFF against that list each time we're doing something.
  • drowrulesupremedrowrulesupreme Member Posts: 692 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I have never been able to select any of the white R&D DOFFs to sacrifice to the starbase holdings, they simply don't show up for me.

    As to losing them in other DOFF missions, I can see it being an issue but honestly I've got other DOFFs of higher quality doing the R&D (20 hours mission needs research lab doffs and I've those in abundance of every quality) so unless you absolutely MUST have an R&D doff for specific items of equipment I cannot see this as the biggest issue right now. I know I've used fabrication doffs to build stuff in the past and I've used the ones I already had over those from the white R&D box we all got.

    Can anyone enlighten me on this last part? Do you absolutely need R&D doffs for specific items of equipment or will any DOFF of the required specialisation do?
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    drowrulesupreme wrote: »
    I have never been able to select any of the white R&D DOFFs to sacrifice to the starbase holdings, they simply don't show up for me.

    As to losing them in other DOFF missions, I can see it being an issue but honestly I've got other DOFFs of higher quality doing the R&D (20 hours mission needs research lab doffs and I've those in abundance of every quality) so unless you absolutely MUST have an R&D doff for specific items of equipment I cannot see this as the biggest issue right now. I know I've used fabrication doffs to build stuff in the past and I've used the ones I already had over those from the white R&D box we all got.

    Can anyone enlighten me on this last part? Do you absolutely need R&D doffs for specific items of equipment or will any DOFF of the required specialisation do?

    There are required R&D DOFFs for the L15 stuff. They'll have the specific school...and they're the only ones you can use for those R&D projects.

    http://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/2dscos/level_15_crafting_doffs_get_schooled/
  • captainrevo1captainrevo1 Member Posts: 3,948 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    drowrulesupreme wrote: »
    I have never been able to select any of the white R&D DOFFs to sacrifice to the starbase holdings, they simply don't show up for me.

    As to losing them in other DOFF missions, I can see it being an issue but honestly I've got other DOFFs of higher quality doing the R&D (20 hours mission needs research lab doffs and I've those in abundance of every quality) so unless you absolutely MUST have an R&D doff for specific items of equipment I cannot see this as the biggest issue right now. I know I've used fabrication doffs to build stuff in the past and I've used the ones I already had over those from the white R&D box we all got.

    Can anyone enlighten me on this last part? Do you absolutely need R&D doffs for specific items of equipment or will any DOFF of the required specialisation do?

    Those free ones you got when crafting was revamped are junk white one. You can't use them in your base. They are only good for normal crafting.

    But when you get to level 15 the special items unlock and yiu require very specific doffs. Some were in the lockbox and cost over 10mil on the exchange, often more. The others come from the r&d assistance mission at Starfleet academy. They are white but can be used in starbase and normal doff missions.
  • adverberoadverbero Member Posts: 2,045 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I aprrove this idea , though I've not had too much trouble loosing my R and D doffs because I've never once gotten one from that mission

    The single one I do have was bought at an extortionate price on the exchange
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    adverbero wrote: »
    I aprrove this idea , though I've not had too much trouble loosing my R and D doffs because I've never once gotten one from that mission

    The single one I do have was bought at an extortionate price on the exchange

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  • drowrulesupremedrowrulesupreme Member Posts: 692 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    captainrevo1 wrote: »
    Those free ones you got when crafting was revamped are junk white one. You can't use them in your base. They are only good for normal crafting.

    But when you get to level 15 the special items unlock and yiu require very specific doffs. Some were in the lockbox and cost over 10mil on the exchange, often more. The others come from the r&d assistance mission at Starfleet academy. They are white but can be used in starbase and normal doff missions.

    Ah, that would explain it. Thank you. I always figured those free white ones were TRIBBLE, but didn't know there was a chance to get others of white quality from elsewhere. Seems daft, green should really be the minimum quality for any that aren't free. Totally agree with OP then.

    Funnily enough, the only DOFF I ever got from the academy mission was the same blue Ferengi another toon got for having crafted the Aegis set... go figure.
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  • fcsp1910fcsp1910 Member Posts: 48 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Good idea captainrevo1 :)

    I have accidently donated at least one or two of the guys. Since I'm still some weeks away to reach lvl 15 on any of my toons, I've outsourced those white R&D doffs to another toon, which serves basically as storage. ;)
  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    edited September 2014
    I heard there are ways to get purples throuh another doff assignment, but in general.

    1) They should have created way more purple R&D doffs. Right now they are set up mostly as money makers for PW since they're in lockboxes.

    2) They should have tied the doffs to all the doff assignments that reward doffs. ( Asylum, officer exchange, doff grinder/upgrinder, exchange prisioner,mcardie defection, etc)

    The lack of both 1 and 2 was pure coding lazyness
  • valenn1valenn1 Member Posts: 842 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    lucho80 wrote: »
    ...
    1) They should have created way more purple R&D doffs. Right now they are set up mostly as money makers for PW since they're in lockboxes.
    ...

    And offer one of your choice at Level 20 Crafting, currently all you get is a lousy title.
    Beta, LTA, CE, Multiple preorder Versions, all Addon Packs except AoY, nearly all KDF/Rom and ~50% of all Fedships, over 25 LockboxShips, Endurer of Atari's "Year of Hell", but...
    unfortunately:

    NOT LOYAL ENOUGH!!!
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