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New traits for BOffs too hopefully?

kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
So as some of you may know, we're getting our space and ground traits split into to different groups. For non-aliens, we get 9 space and 9 ground. Aliens get 10 and 10.
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9653823-star-trek-online:-trait-system-improvements
Truely a great quality of life improvement, and I think I speak for most when I say thank-you devs.

However, as many of you will also notice, they added new traits for our captains to get. In particular, 14 new space traits. I would propose that Cryptic not waste the programming of these new traits on just players, but add them to the pool of traits that BOffs can have upon creation. It would certainly at least lessen the "Embassy BOffs or go home" that's needed to be competitive in space combat.

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  • tempus64tempus64 Member Posts: 806 Arc User
    Adding more to the pool of traits for BOFFs will make it even harder to get ones with some of the traits you'd like and people will still end up using the embassy ones etc. I suppose if they added only 1 or 2 more it would be "ok" but beyond that we'd end up with a boat load more BOFFs with traits you don't want.
  • vetteguy904vetteguy904 Member Posts: 3,943 Arc User
    I think they should get 4 at white quality 5 at green, 6 at blue and 8 at purple. the first four traits should be a combination of race/class and any open beyond that a learnable trait
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  • shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    Not certain, but I do believe these will effect boffs as well, and probably will be by my guess either still species specific, or finally universal!

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  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    BOFF traits need to be looked at because regular KDF & Fed BOFF traits are completely inferior compared to the RRW's complimentary traits of Subterfuge, Infiltrator, and Romulan Operative.

    What are the best Feds & KDF have?

    Leadership.... OOOOoohhh!

    Pirate... Yaaaarr!

    Everything else just sucks. Every race should bring something special, useful to both space and ground.
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  • id0liciousid0licious Member Posts: 74 Arc User
    vetteguy904 wrote: »
    I think they should get 4 at white quality 5 at green, 6 at blue and 8 at purple. the first four traits should be a combination of race/class and any open beyond that a learnable trait

    8 traits for BOffs?

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  • lowy1lowy1 Member Posts: 964 Arc User
    I think 4 is fine but we need tone mable to select them. Plus have 3 superior for ur and 4 for epic. Not to mention make all space traits available to all species.
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  • kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    tempus64 wrote: »
    Adding more to the pool of traits for BOFFs will make it even harder to get ones with some of the traits you'd like and people will still end up using the embassy ones etc. I suppose if they added only 1 or 2 more it would be "ok" but beyond that we'd end up with a boat load more BOFFs with traits you don't want.

    "a boat load of BOffs with traits you don't want"
    You mean like how it is now? With any BOffs that don't have a space trait being worthless unless they have a really good commander level ability that people might want? The exchange is flooded with these kinds of BOffs. So it will be a little harder to get the traits that you want on your BOffs. Right now, if you don't want an all Human/Saurian/Nausican/etc. crew you can't get the traits that you want on your BOffs period.
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  • aurigas7aurigas7 Member Posts: 488 Arc User
    It would be nice to have 2 space and ground traits for each race. Having for example a Klingon ship full of Nausicaans may be the best way to do it, but I would prefer a Klingon bridge crew with usefull traits.
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  • kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    aurigas7 wrote: »
    It would be nice to have 2 space and ground traits for each race. Having for example a Klingon ship full of Nausicaans may be the best way to do it, but I would prefer a Klingon bridge crew with usefull traits.

    Completely agreed. I would be fine if they split up these new space traits among the different species. For example, species A, B, and C can have imposing presence. Species D, E, and F can have innocuous. Etc. This way, all the different races can be useful in space, instead of those select few.
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  • drsanitydrsanity Member Posts: 76 Arc User
    Actually, I had to go back and re-read the announcement because my first take on it was that BOFFs would be similarly affected.

    I'm in the 'please don't do this by halves, fix the BOFF imbalances' camp if that's not already a foregone conclusion. I cannot see why Cryptic wouldn't correct the entirely nonsensical state of implementation that has been the Boff space traits availability at present. Every player I know has derided the way this was done since launch.
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  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,899 Arc User
    tempus64 wrote: »
    Adding more to the pool of traits for BOFFs will make it even harder to get ones with some of the traits you'd like and people will still end up using the embassy ones etc. I suppose if they added only 1 or 2 more it would be "ok" but beyond that we'd end up with a boat load more BOFFs with traits you don't want.

    Well would make boffs worth something again...instead of seeing purple boffs go for a thousand EC.
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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    Well if the Exchange is full of these Boffs, then absent really great Traits commanding high prices, people are too soft hearted. Boffs should be going to the Solyent Green tanks and their essence (Training Manuals) posted instead. ;)
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  • imadoctornotaimadoctornota Member Posts: 469 Arc User
    I want to be able to pick traits for Boffs, that would be HUGE.
    Thanks for the expansion that had "as much content as the last"
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  • tigerariestigeraries Member Posts: 3,492 Arc User
    Just make is so you get a boff with out gender so you can choose everything... no random stuff. choose gender if possible if not at least let us choose the traits.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    lianthelia wrote: »
    tempus64 wrote: »
    Adding more to the pool of traits for BOFFs will make it even harder to get ones with some of the traits you'd like and people will still end up using the embassy ones etc. I suppose if they added only 1 or 2 more it would be "ok" but beyond that we'd end up with a boat load more BOFFs with traits you don't want.
    Well would make boffs worth something again...instead of seeing purple boffs go for a thousand EC.
    Nah, that is because supply exceeds demand. As long as there are more purple boffs than people need, boffs will sell for very little.
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