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Turn Tovan Khev into manual?

lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
edited May 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Lol, just read the release notes. Can you dismiss Tovan Khev right now by turning him into a manual? Because if so, I'm throwing him into a Gobstopper machine ASAP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxyxhHzKUYg

If true, this is an awesome bug.
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  • wbaker256#3172 wbaker256
    wbaker256#3172
         Member Posts: 300 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Shame we can't convert Bridge Officers we already have into manuals... He looks so out of place on my Reman's all-Reman crew roster, and even more so on the bridge of his Scimitar :(
    "[GARBLED ELECTRONIC NOISES]"
    - Thot Gar - Commanding Officer of the Braaktak Kaan
  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Can't do anything with him. No options to discharge or anything.
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  • svindal777svindal777 Member Posts: 856 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Everyone with a rommie will be running to see if they can do it before tomorrow,

    Poor Toby, he gets no respect.
    Well excuse me for having enormous flaws that I don't work on.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Uh, I don't think it's actually possible. IIRC Tovan is automatically commissioned. Thus you can't turn him into a manual.
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  • evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,951 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    4/22/2015 - the date Tovan Khev was thrown out the airlock, to his death, hundreds of times. Scientists then used the transporter and replicator together to turn his cold, dead body into a PADD.
    Lifetime Subscriber since Beta
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  • ssbn655ssbn655 Member Posts: 1,894 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    So Hate Being Forced To Have This Pos Bridge Officer!
  • gavinrunebladegavinruneblade Member Posts: 3,894 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Does anyone know how to do it? I'll totally do it tonight if its possible, which I'm assuming it is if its in the patch.
  • stormstrykestormstryke Member Posts: 31 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Someone said they had c-store boffs they commissioned before getting Tovan to fill up the slots. That made him an inventory item which can be converted to a manual.
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    Lifetime no longer gives a forum title. That should be updated on the Lifetime page that mentions what you get. PMing the CSR doesn't work neither.
  • gavinrunebladegavinruneblade Member Posts: 3,894 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    stormstryke2 wrote: »
    Someone said they had c-store boffs they commissioned before getting Tovan to fill up the slots. That made him an inventory item which can be converted to a manual.

    Ah, too late for me then. Genius idea. I salute every one who manages to accomplish this feat before the patch goes through.
  • stormstrykestormstryke Member Posts: 31 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    gavinruneblade wrote: »
    Ah, too late for me then. Genius idea. I salute every one who manages to accomplish this feat before the patch goes through.

    I don't have that many c-store boffs myself to do it myself though. Just something a person said in zone chat the other day when the subject came up.
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    Lifetime no longer gives a forum title. That should be updated on the Lifetime page that mentions what you get. PMing the CSR doesn't work neither.
  • sonnikkusonnikku Member Posts: 77 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Sadly, it's too late for most of us to turn him into a manual.

    But it's NOT to late to turn him into... FABULOUS!


    http://i.imgur.com/InCQ6SD.jpg

    http://i.imgur.com/GygJLo8.jpg
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  • purvee1purvee1 Member Posts: 360 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    What I want to know is, why don't we have an option to get rid of undissmissable bridge officers AFTER we've completed the story line? For example tell Torren

    "Right sonny Jim, Foxtrot Oscar back to New Romulus and spend time with your sister."

    That's
    A) Fluffy and nice so that the Cryptic moral thought police don't go off the deep end.
    B) Closes his story arc.
    C) Gives many thousands of players what they want.
  • hyperionx09hyperionx09 Member Posts: 1,709 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    If you own the DR pack and still have some Zen, you could commission all 3 DR Boffs and an extra, IIRC.

    Aside from that, I wonder how much less people would complain about him if he did have SRO.

    Also, Delta Recruit Romulans should have gotten alternative versions of their VR starter boff.

    Delta Recruit Romulans should get Mirror Tovan Khev. A Tal Shiar-like individual who wants to flaunt Romulan supremacy and has the Superior Impatient Space Trait and Superior Romulan Operative. Subterfuge optional. Trade-off is that he's even more of pain in the TRIBBLE and questions your authority in exclusive pop-up dialogue on the side of your screen. Also dislikes the Feds, and grills you about it if you side with them, and rants over why the KDF is buddy-buddy with the Feds.

    All three only available to Delta Recruits, and all 3 only questioning your actions if they're set as active Boffs on your Bridge or Ground team.

    Would have been a golden opportunity to make the starter VR Boff useful.
  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    hyperionx09 wrote: »
    If you own the DR pack and still have some Zen, you could commission all 3 DR Boffs and an extra, IIRC.

    Aside from that, I wonder how much less people would complain about him if he did have SRO.

    Also, Delta Recruit Romulans should have gotten alternative versions of their VR starter boff.

    Delta Recruit Romulans should get Mirror Tovan Khev. A Tal Shiar-like individual who wants to flaunt Romulan supremacy and has the Superior Impatient Space Trait and Superior Romulan Operative. Subterfuge optional. Trade-off is that he's even more of pain in the TRIBBLE and questions your authority in exclusive pop-up dialogue on the side of your screen. Also dislikes the Feds, and grills you about it if you side with them, and rants over why the KDF is buddy-buddy with the Feds.

    All three only available to Delta Recruits, and all 3 only questioning your actions if they're set as active Boffs on your Bridge or Ground team.

    Would have been a golden opportunity to make the starter VR Boff useful.

    Considering how overpowered Rom Republic BOFFs are already, I don't think they need anymore help.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    sopwithsnipe wrote: »
    Uhm... C-Store Boffs are Faction restricted so Roms can't buy them or use them until they choose a faction at level 10.

    You get stuck with Tovan before that. and Roms get an extra boff slot because they are forced to use Tovan.
    There's two exceptions. 1: the Borg Reman guy from the Rom Legacy pack. 2: the Deltapack intel boffs
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    My character Tsin'xing
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  • megatronis1megatronis1 Member Posts: 67 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    markhawkman wrote: »
    There's two exceptions. 1: the Borg Reman guy from the Rom Legacy pack. 2: the Deltapack intel boffs

    The delta pack intel boffs that's like $100 right? if so.
  • keepitnastykeepitnasty Member Posts: 0
    edited April 2015
    sonnikku wrote: »
    Sadly, it's too late for most of us to turn him into a manual.

    But it's NOT to late to turn him into... FABULOUS!


    http://i.imgur.com/InCQ6SD.jpg

    http://i.imgur.com/GygJLo8.jpg


    Very funny...well done...
  • megatronis1megatronis1 Member Posts: 67 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    sopwithsnipe wrote: »
    Okay then where am I getting two extra boff slots from?

    New rom 1

    Same Rom with delta boffs

    Same Rom after adding Rom Lib Borg Boff.

    This doesn't happen to my Fed or KDF factions. So where am I getting the 2 extra boff slots? If they were perks from being an LTS or something wouldn't they appear immediately and across all factions?

    maybe a contingency plan to keep people from adding boffs and avoiding tovan. The thing to do is for the people that have turned him into a manual and deleted him, is to lvl up their characters as fast as possible and prove once and for all either yes or no, if dismissing him will break the game mechanics for your character.

    If yes then it's a lesson learned, if it doesn't break the character then maybe if enough people successfully test this then it could be an option for those who want to dismiss him safely without affecting other players who like tovan.
  • s2racings2racing Member Posts: 53 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Yes, I have managed to send Tovan to cryo by buying a Borg Reman to go along with my DR pack BOffs (just to see if I could (was kinda expecting him to be forced on me anyway)).

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v235/dsaf/screenshot_2015-04-10-00-15-02%20-%20Copy.jpg~original

    And no, he does not simply shut up and go away. He possesses your Tac officer.
    Free jkname!
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  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    evilmark444 wrote: »
    4/22/2015 - the date Tovan Khev was thrown out the airlock, to his death, hundreds of times.

    The Kobali will feast on those thousands of corpses, for sure! :P
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  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Tovan Khev needs to go down the Fargo Wood Chipper. Or a Mr Fusion.
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  • astro2244astro2244 Member Posts: 623 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    sopwithsnipe wrote: »
    Finished the tutorial and verified Tovan goes to cryo and can be converted to a Manual.

    BUT this can ONLY be done by using the Delta Boffs and PURCHASING the Reman Lib Borg Boff.

    The free Lib Borg Boff that comes with the LoR packs also comes with extra boff slots and claiming it unlocks the boff slots and defeats attempts to kill off Tovan Khev.

    Shame there are no mail terminals on viranat or i'd mail myself some rommie boffs. to try it

    Can't get the delta pack myself right now. But I recommend testing out what megatronis said, see how gameplay is.
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  • pweistheworstpweistheworst Member Posts: 986 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    The devs have already stated they don't care if EVERY player wants to be able to dismiss Tovan from our bridge crews. They integrated his character so heavily in the LOR storyline (and the code associated with those missions) that getting rid of Tovan would require too many hours of dev time ... even just to make it possible to dismiss him AFTER completing the early missions and then locking out those missions unless you have Tovan in your crew.

    I certainly have no love for Tovan. I have largely abandoned using any of my Romulan or Reman toons because I'm still so annoyed and angry that I'm stuck with a bridge officer I'd rather murder than keep as part of my bridge crew.

    At least the free BOffs that we get for the FED and KDF toons are OPTIONAL and we can dismiss them from our crew if we don't like them.
    In the immortal words of Captain Sisko: "It may not be what you believe, but that doesn't make it wrong."

    Don't believe the lies in this forum. I am NOT an ARC user. I play STO on Steam or not at all.
  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    sopwithsnipe wrote: »
    Finished the tutorial and verified Tovan goes to cryo and can be converted to a Manual.

    BUT this can ONLY be done by using the Delta Boffs and PURCHASING the Reman Lib Borg Boff.

    The free Lib Borg Boff that comes with the LoR packs also comes with extra boff slots and claiming it unlocks the boff slots and defeats attempts to kill off Tovan Khev.

    I'm curious, what happens in the Romulan missions that are supposed to feature him when you do that? Do they really break as badly as the devs have suggested? Or does it just use a different boff for the job like everywhere else?
  • pweistheworstpweistheworst Member Posts: 986 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    sopwithsnipe wrote: »

    Way I see it (as it is now) if you name your first officer Tovan Khev you can have any damn boff you like. Male, Female, Alien, whatever. No reason why the name has to be a male romulan name.

    I wish the devs would make this the solution. If it's too much work to completely kill Tovan, then change the way the character works so that the PLAYER gets to choose the race, gender and specialty (tac, sci, eng) of the first officer which MUST be named "Tovan Khev" no matter what you race/gender/specialty you choose.

    I could live with being forced to use the name "Tovan Khev" for my first officer if I at least have complete control over everything else.
    In the immortal words of Captain Sisko: "It may not be what you believe, but that doesn't make it wrong."

    Don't believe the lies in this forum. I am NOT an ARC user. I play STO on Steam or not at all.
  • fovrelfovrel Member Posts: 1,448 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    OK downtime and a Tovan Khev hate thread. Time for some Tovan Khev hate debunking.

    First. If you want to have some manuals, just play the game and doff. Soon you will swim in boffs, which all can be turned into manuals. If the Tovan Khev character is such a nuisance, such a spoil in your gameplay, you can play STO and never have to deal with this NPC. Roll fed or KDF.

    If you roll a Romulan character you get him shoved in as a boff and cannot get rid of him. You can setup your space and ground stations without him. He will show up in dialogues as if he is part of the active crew, but this is only the case in the starting missions. We are talking about an afternoon or an evening of gameplay. After that you can ignore him and he will be ignored, unless you look for him in your UI. Are mommy and daddy besides you when you play, because the mean, ugly Tovan Khev may show up and you cannot handle it anymore.

    I do not mind the character and overall I really like LoR. It is still for me the best expansion. My problem with Tovan Khev haters is that they make me aware I am just playing a kids game with kids; people that cannot place things in a normal perspective. Further, if it is up to players that complain about Tovan Khev and the way he is integrated into the game, we will end up with quests like, 'Kill 10 crag boars, when you are done come back and I have a new quest, collect 5 tusks from the crag boars'.
  • drake122svkdrake122svk Member Posts: 731 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I don't understand why they insist on not allowing us to get rid of that moron. Is it because they want to boost BOFF slot sales by forcing him into our crews?
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,460 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    All these threads just make me think I ought to jump back into my backup account's Romulan alt, Subadmiral Tovan Khev, commander of the RRW Tovan Khev VI.
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  • svindal777svindal777 Member Posts: 856 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    jonsills wrote: »
    All these threads just make me think I ought to jump back into my backup account's Romulan alt, Subadmiral Tovan Khev, commander of the RRW Tovan Khev VI.

    LMAO, that makes me want to role a new rommie and do that.
    Well excuse me for having enormous flaws that I don't work on.
  • dakotadahotnessdakotadahotness Member Posts: 170 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I find your hatered of Tovan Khev distrubing...:eek:
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