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No Tailor Options for Romulan Bridge Officers (Fleet Embassy)
odstparker
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I finally got around to grinding enough Fleet Credits to buy myself a new bridge officer, the final bridge officer that I need to complete my non-Starfleet collection (Borg, Breen, KDF, etc.), so I went to my fleet's Embassy and got myself a very rare Romulan boff.
I was looking forward to having a Romulan on my away team, standing beside my KDF Orion officer that I'd gotten from maxing out Diplomacy, wearing my Romulan Decorated Admiral's uniform (my Orion is also decked out in KDF Veteran gear). I thought, since they let us customize the KDF officer just like someone would on the KDF faction, that they had done the same thing with the Romulan ones. Apparently, that's not the case. You can't change the way they look at all, they're stuck with the default face, body, and uniform that comes with the officer, a civilian uniform with some color added to denote career. Mine has a yellow scarf and armband for Engineering.
Please... allow us to customize these officers like any other Romulan officer. I like displaying my own uniforms, and having no ability to change them is really disappointing. You let us customize our Diplomacy KDF officers, why not these ones from the Romulan Republic?
I was looking forward to having a Romulan on my away team, standing beside my KDF Orion officer that I'd gotten from maxing out Diplomacy, wearing my Romulan Decorated Admiral's uniform (my Orion is also decked out in KDF Veteran gear). I thought, since they let us customize the KDF officer just like someone would on the KDF faction, that they had done the same thing with the Romulan ones. Apparently, that's not the case. You can't change the way they look at all, they're stuck with the default face, body, and uniform that comes with the officer, a civilian uniform with some color added to denote career. Mine has a yellow scarf and armband for Engineering.
Please... allow us to customize these officers like any other Romulan officer. I like displaying my own uniforms, and having no ability to change them is really disappointing. You let us customize our Diplomacy KDF officers, why not these ones from the Romulan Republic?
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And while you're at it, Cryptic, perhaps make Reman BOffs also available from the Embassy?
From the one bridge we get for every single ship, to the lack of ground customization the message from Cryptic is clear. We're done with the Romulan Faction. :mad:
Wanted this for a long time. The lobi lib borg romulan can be customised to faction, so why can't the embassy boff?
And I thought the KDF was the faction that got the least attention...
(Yes, OP, you're in for a shock: once another Captain trains one of these Embassy boffs for you, they stand a severe chance of losing a body part, like head/feet, etc. It's a very longstanding bug).
As usual, though, Cryptic doesn't care.
They're tied at zero each.
One can hope, yes.
It's also high time the Rom female Embassy boffs get 2.0% CrtH too.
I am like many here - I refuse to use them (or in the case of the Embassy Boffs - purchase them) because of their tailor lock. I like to customize my bridge officers - all of them - and if I can't, then don't expect me to use them.
It is disappointing to be sure, but it's the card we've been dealt. Considering how often this has been requested (and how often the request has been ignored) the likelihood of seeing such is practically null.
I'm fine with the other "special" bridge officers (Jem'Hadar, Borg, Breen, etc.) being stuck with default tailor options, because there's not much that we can do with them. I wish that we could give them some more elaborate armor that's associated with that faction (Jem'Hadar First, Breen Captains), but I'm okay with the default outfits.
Romulans, on the other hand, have a full tailor full of facial features, uniforms, and accessories to choose from on their player faction, so why can't we access them on the Embassy officers? I loved the ability to make my Tier 4 Diplomacy KDF officer look like a badass with veteran, so why can't I do the same here, with a Romulan?
Personally I don't see these or any of the FE boffs ever becoming customisable mostly due to time constraints. The Heirarchy one was customisable for a limited time but it was never intentional and was soon patched.
"You don't have to do something again and again and again repetitive that doesn't have much challange, that's just a general good gameplay thing."
I applaud your resolve and principles! Kudos!
Me? I caved a long time ago, and use as many Rom Embassy boffs as I can on my Fed (for that extra 6% CrtH). It *does* mean Cryptic basically ruined bridge-life for me, though, as I can't stand to see these fugly, unshaved Rom Embassy boffs in their ridiculous Robin Hood suits. Since Tacofangs has long since abandoned bridges anyway, I guess this one extra act of sabotage didn't really bother them either.
Technically, so do Jem'Hadar now that they've developed Jem'Hadar tailor options. And Reman as well.
The only ones that wouldn't presently work, conceivably, would be the Breen and STF Borg BO.
The rest might be limited in some ways but no moreso than Talaxians are.
Cheers.
It was possible to cutomize it until cryptic decided that this boff is not supposed to be editable (as stated in the patch notes).
Its not a technical problem to do it since for that boff it already worked... its something that cryptic does not want to be done.
If you fill your crew with romulan boffs they all will look the same. Same clothes... same face... same hair.... like procuded in a clone factory.
And they don´t even wear the correct Romulan Uniform. Its like a bunch of Colonists on my Bridge.
But that will never change because to change it cryptic would have to listen to the players and we all know they never do that.
It's fully within Cryptic's ability to do this, just for reasons unbeknown to the rest of us, they wont do it. :rolleyes: