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Kobali Command Bridge Officer

macknzycalhounmacknzycalhoun Member Posts: 8 Arc User
edited March 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Apparently this thing was in the maze during the "Dust to Dust" mission? I ran that place 3 times and never saw him. You know why? I didn't know he was there (it's a MAZE), and also I was too good at it and ran straight through without many dead ends.

I understand it's my fault, but it feels like I'm being punished now for being good at content. I purchased a Command Tac BC and I can't even utilize the damn thing now unless I grind XP like it's gold. 10 freaking Specialization points to train someone (and I don't have any in the tree yet). Yay. :mad:



EDIT:

OKAY, FELLAS, LISTEN UP:

You can get a Command BOFF outside Dust to Dust and the 10 spec points: Bridge Officer Requisitions (Elsa Morra) underneath Admiral Quin's office (Earth Space Dock), next to the BOFF trainer. Cost: 204 Dilithium
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  • kdawgenigmakdawgenigma Member Posts: 300 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Good reason not to zerg through missions and actually explore for little easter eggs and special goodies that may be around.
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  • eagledracoeagledraco Member Posts: 340 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    http://sto.gamepedia.com/File:Maze.png

    Keep STOWiki handy. Someone always makes a map. :)
  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    You don't have to wait for 10 spec points to train a boff. You can buy a training manual off the exchange from the people who do. They aren't that expensive either. I think I paid like 200k for mine.

    Also when the mission comes back up (because I'm reasonably sure it will, I don't think it was supposed to be taken down) you can run it again to get the boff. In the meantime, pick up a command training manual from the exchange.
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  • jaguarskxjaguarskx Member Posts: 5,945 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Hey, at least you did not forget to slot the project to get the Kobali Cruiser for one of your toons.

    I got the free Command Tac Boff, but no ship to slot her into for that toon. Well, at least that toon is already flying the T6 Faeht Warbird.


    LOL.
  • kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    There's still a chance that once it comes back you can still get the BOff. Truth be told, no-one is 100% sure what's not staying when we can do the mission again starting Thursday (except the devs, but good luck getting them to talk).
    jaguarskx wrote: »
    I got the free Command Tac Boff, but no ship to slot her into for that toon.

    To my knowledge, she's always a Command/Engineering BOff. :confused: What BOff are you talking about?
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  • rahmkota19rahmkota19 Member Posts: 1,929 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    lan451 wrote: »
    You don't have to wait for 10 spec points to train a boff. You can buy a training manual off the exchange from the people who do. They aren't that expensive either. I think I paid like 200k for mine.

    Also when the mission comes back up (because I'm reasonably sure it will, I don't think it was supposed to be taken down) you can run it again to get the boff. In the meantime, pick up a command training manual from the exchange.

    Guess he was talking about converting said boff towards being able to use spec manuals at all.

    And I agree with the ability to get the boff. When Sphere of Influence lost its special reward (the Obelisk Carrier), the Advanced Swarmer easter egg remained. To this day I think.
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  • kodachikunokodachikuno Member Posts: 6,020 Arc User1
    edited March 2015
    macknzycalhoun wrote: »
    Apparently this thing was in the maze during the "Dust to Dust" mission? I ran that place 3 times and never saw him. You know why? I didn't know he was there (it's a MAZE), and also I was too good at it and ran straight through without many dead ends.

    I understand it's my fault, but it feels like I'm being punished now for being good at content. I purchased a Command Tac BC and I can't even utilize the damn thing now unless I grind XP like it's gold. 10 freaking Specialization points to train someone (and I don't have any in the tree yet). Yay. :mad:

    apparently you also missed her tricorder scan sound effect she uses near constantly and the big "!" on your minimap... dont feel too bad I missed her twice myself but its pretty impossible to miss her every time running that mission for 7 alts
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  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    eagledraco wrote: »
    http://sto.gamepedia.com/File:Maze.png

    Keep STOWiki handy. Someone always makes a map. :)

    I stopped payng attention after I got her, but unless they changed things, she isn't always in the same place. A map is only as good as the information it contains...
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  • macknzycalhounmacknzycalhoun Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Thanks, fellas.
  • macknzycalhounmacknzycalhoun Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    rahmkota19 wrote: »
    Guess he was talking about converting said boff towards being able to use spec manuals at all.

    And I agree with the ability to get the boff. When Sphere of Influence lost its special reward (the Obelisk Carrier), the Advanced Swarmer easter egg remained. To this day I think.

    Yes, since I failed to get the free Command BOFF, that means I have to train one. Thing is, I need 10 points in Command Specialization to do that, right? That's my only option? There's nothing you can buy in exchange that will do it?
  • macknzycalhounmacknzycalhoun Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    OKAY, FELLAS, LISTEN UP:

    You can get a Command BOFF outside Dust to Dust and the 10 spec points: Bridge Officer Requisitions (Elsa Morra) underneath Admiral Quin's office (Earth Space Dock), next to the BOFF trainer. Cost: 204 Dilithium
  • oneratsonerats Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    So.. first - sorry you missed her. That said, she's pretty useless. Her traits are ground only, so you don't want her taking a seat anyway.

    Second - You can use the command ships without running command abilities. You don't need to put a command boff into a hybrid command seat. Regular ol' engineers work just fine.

    Third - The command skills are pretty terrible. It's pretty much a certainty you're better off with the regular old skills, so you'll be fine even if you can't run them.
  • alexmakepeacealexmakepeace Member Posts: 10,633 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    macknzycalhoun wrote: »
    Yes, since I failed to get the free Command BOFF, that means I have to train one. Thing is, I need 10 points in Command Specialization to do that, right? That's my only option? There's nothing you can buy in exchange that will do it?
    Clarification: near as I can tell, you need tier 3 command skill. If, like me, you go all stupid and put your 10th point into a tier 2 command skill, you still won't be able to train a command officer.

    You might be able to trade an officer to someone with tier 3 command and have them train it for you. I'm not certain.
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  • bobtheskull99bobtheskull99 Member Posts: 706 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    macknzycalhoun wrote: »
    Yes, since I failed to get the free Command BOFF, that means I have to train one. Thing is, I need 10 points in Command Specialization to do that, right? That's my only option? There's nothing you can buy in exchange that will do it?

    sigh.....you DO NOT need 10 spec points to train a boff in command/intel, you just need a qualification manual.....you can buy these on the exchange....you only need the 10 points if you want to MAKE the manual yourself

    I know they don't explain it very well in-game but damn it I can't believe there are this many ppl who don't know this by now
  • prierinprierin Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    macknzycalhoun wrote: »
    Apparently this thing was in the maze during the "Dust to Dust" mission? I ran that place 3 times and never saw him. You know why? I didn't know he was there (it's a MAZE), and also I was too good at it and ran straight through without many dead ends.

    I understand it's my fault, but it feels like I'm being punished now for being good at content. I purchased a Command Tac BC and I can't even utilize the damn thing now unless I grind XP like it's gold. 10 freaking Specialization points to train someone (and I don't have any in the tree yet). Yay. :mad:



    EDIT:

    OKAY, FELLAS, LISTEN UP:

    You can get a Command BOFF outside Dust to Dust and the 10 spec points: Bridge Officer Requisitions (Elsa Morra) underneath Admiral Quin's office (Earth Space Dock), next to the BOFF trainer. Cost: 204 Dilithium


    If there is no countdown timer then take your time to explore every nook and cranny. Get the speed accolade later (yes, there is one for completing the maze in under 2 mins). That's my advice... I missed her the first two time as well and literaly ran into her at a dead end.

    There is also, for those who do not know, an accolade for running the electric maze in less thna two minutes AND for not getting shocked, one for accessing all of teh Vaadwuar consoles... I've gotten these. What I CAN'T get is past the last portion without falling through the floor or running through the red fields.

    How... HOW can you keep shooting those things on the wall AND run at the same time??
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  • alexmakepeacealexmakepeace Member Posts: 10,633 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    bobtheskull99 wrote: »
    sigh.....you DO NOT need 10 spec points to train a boff in command/intel, you just need a qualification manual.....you can buy these on the exchange....you only need the 10 points if you want to MAKE the manual yourself

    I know they don't explain it very well in-game but damn it I can't believe there are this many ppl who don't know this by now
    Having been grinding away for some time and facing more grind because of my aforementioned TRIBBLE up... thank you. I now have my desired command and intel boffs, and I am free.
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  • macknzycalhounmacknzycalhoun Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    onerats wrote: »
    So.. first - sorry you missed her. That said, she's pretty useless. Her traits are ground only, so you don't want her taking a seat anyway.

    Second - You can use the command ships without running command abilities. You don't need to put a command boff into a hybrid command seat. Regular ol' engineers work just fine.

    Third - The command skills are pretty terrible. It's pretty much a certainty you're better off with the regular old skills, so you'll be fine even if you can't run them.

    I run an A2B beam boat. So Overwhelm Emitters II is AMAZING for the science slot.
  • x6460x6460 Member Posts: 60 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    I really wasn't impressed with the Kobali Bridge Officer. If memory serves it didn't have any traits for space.

    I suggest saving up, & buying a Romulan Bridge Officer from the Romulan Fleet Embassy, Then buy a training manual off the Exchange. You can get a much better bridge officer in the end. The Romulan Operative trait will give you a small boost to Crit Chance/Severity.

    I'm lucky to have a veteran bridge officer Engineer. With the Space Warfare Specialist trait. No way would I ever trade him for a Kobali with no space traits at all. I used the manuals to train him in all the useful skills, & Specializations.


    There is a downside from what I hear about the Romulan bridge officers from the Embassy. I hear you can't customize them, so Kind of like having a Jem'Hadar, or Breen. They are stuck.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    prierin wrote: »
    If there is no countdown timer then take your time to explore every nook and cranny. Get the speed accolade later (yes, there is one for completing the maze in under 2 mins). That's my advice... I missed her the first two time as well and literaly ran into her at a dead end.

    There is also, for those who do not know, an accolade for running the electric maze in less thna two minutes AND for not getting shocked, one for accessing all of teh Vaadwuar consoles... I've gotten these. What I CAN'T get is past the last portion without falling through the floor or running through the red fields.

    How... HOW can you keep shooting those things on the wall AND run at the same time??
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  • flash525flash525 Member Posts: 5,441 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    jaguarskx wrote: »
    I got the free Command Tac Boff, but no ship to slot her into for that toon. Well, at least that toon is already flying the T6 Faeht Warbird.
    There is/was a free Command TAC Boff?
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  • szimszim Member Posts: 2,503 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Congratulations. It takes a lot of cunning to evade all the threads, posts, in game chats, fleet mates talking about it etc to completely miss any information about the hidden Kobali officer. And did I mention lack of interest and couriosity? Because there was a big mark on the map right where the officer stood.
  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    There is even more than the BOFF. There are consoles all over the temple map that give some story info about the time the Vaadwaur created the temple/vault.

    2 of them are pretty easy to find, but 1 is off the path of the electric grids, and one is inside the maze, and the other is only accessible when the maze is removed (and you have to actively go back for it.)
    szim wrote: »
    Congratulations. It takes a lot of cunning to evade all the threads, posts, in game chats, fleet mates talking about it etc to completely miss any information about the hidden Kobali officer. And did I mention lack of interest and couriosity? Because there was a big mark on the map right where the officer stood.
    Am I overthinking this if I wonder what this means about the community's actual interest in "exploration"?
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  • lyanaarlyanaar Member Posts: 148 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    prierin wrote: »

    How... HOW can you keep shooting those things on the wall AND run at the same time??

    The magic of autofire and a key assinged to "target closest enemy". It also works pretty well in space :D
  • reiklingraiderreiklingraider Member Posts: 209 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    She was so easy to find and get that all of my tunes got her multiple times and made PADDs out of her to train my other officers or to sell. Every time I found her she had a different name. :)
  • flash525flash525 Member Posts: 5,441 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    reiklingraider wrote: »
    She was so easy to find and get that all of my tunes got her multiple times and made PADDs out of her to train my other officers or to sell. Every time I found her she had a different name.
    You know you can rename her anyway, right? ;)
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  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    x6460 wrote: »
    There is a downside from what I hear about the Romulan bridge officers from the Embassy. I hear you can't customize them, so Kind of like having a Jem'Hadar, or Breen. They are stuck.
    Not true anymore. I gave one of mine a very unsightly (for a Romulan) receding hairline, just because I could.
    lyanaar wrote: »
    The magic of autofire and a key assinged to "target closest enemy". It also works pretty well in space :D
    Really? I'll have to try that... when they bring it back up...
    reiklingraider wrote: »
    She was so easy to find and get that all of my tunes got her multiple times and made PADDs out of her to train my other officers or to sell.
    You do know that since she is Bound, any manuals you make are also bound, right?
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    macknzycalhoun wrote: »
    I understand it's my fault, but it feels like I'm being punished now for being good at content.

    No... You are not being punished for being good...

    You are being punished for not being curious and minded on exploring.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    I've seen the Boff in a small side room in the dead center once. so maybe she can be in any dead end?
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  • reiklingraiderreiklingraider Member Posts: 209 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    flash525 wrote: »
    You know you can rename her anyway, right? ;)

    Of course I know that. She had a different name every time I recruited her.
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