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Bridges and BOffs

turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
in The Art of Star Trek Online
Does anyone know and can explain how the game decides which NPC slots on a bridge to fill with a player's BOffs?

Here's the situations; three Science, three Engineering (one of whom is an Intel-Specialist) and two Tactical on a Presidio-class Tac-Command Battlecruiser with the 'Healer' Bridge (Was using the 'Virtue' bridge, but I got tired of seeing one of my BOffs sitting halfway into the floor every time I went to the bridge)...

Two Tactical BOffs... check.
Three Science BOffs... all present.
Three Engineering BOffs... one... two... only two are there.

The problem is that there's two NPC Tac crew, one NPC Sci crew and two NPC Eng crew. In other words, there's plenty of room for the game to place my third Eng BOff on the bridge, but it doesn't. I even tried leaving the bridge and returning, and while most of them had moved around the bridge, it was the same BOffs and the same one was still AWOL.

Thus the question; "How does the game decide which BOffs appear on a bridge?"
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...

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  • captz1ppcaptz1pp Member Posts: 931 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    Can the Dev's make it so you can choose, via ships tailor, which chair each BOFF sits at on the bridge, or even if you can make some of them replace the DOFF assignments NPC's on the lower decks when you choose their names for the Department head categories?

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  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    turbomagnus wrote: »
    Thus the question; "How does the game decide which BOffs appear on a bridge?"

    First it uses the boffs slotted on the ship. If there are more boffs in the bridge map than the ship has slots, the rest are filled in the order your boffs were commissioned (so, your oldest boff, second oldest boff, and so on...that's why Roms always get Tovan).
  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    warpangel wrote: »
    turbomagnus wrote: »
    Thus the question; "How does the game decide which BOffs appear on a bridge?"

    First it uses the boffs slotted on the ship. If there are more boffs in the bridge map than the ship has slots, the rest are filled in the order your boffs were commissioned (so, your oldest boff, second oldest boff, and so on...that's why Roms always get Tovan).

    But then why are there instances where NPCs will appear on a bridge when a player still has more commissioned BOffs in their roster (Nine BOffs, a six BOff bridge and getting five BOffs and an NPC, for example)?
    "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
    ^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    turbomagnus wrote: »
    warpangel wrote: »
    turbomagnus wrote: »
    Thus the question; "How does the game decide which BOffs appear on a bridge?"

    First it uses the boffs slotted on the ship. If there are more boffs in the bridge map than the ship has slots, the rest are filled in the order your boffs were commissioned (so, your oldest boff, second oldest boff, and so on...that's why Roms always get Tovan).

    But then why are there instances where NPCs will appear on a bridge when a player still has more commissioned BOffs in their roster (Nine BOffs, a six BOff bridge and getting five BOffs and an NPC, for example)?

    Some of the characters may simply be preset NPCs.
  • lindalefflindaleff Member Posts: 3,734 Arc User
    In my case, I have a separate space crew and Away Team. And when I go to my Bridge, THE ENTIRE Away Team is on my Bridge. I have only one of my actual space crew on the Bridge.
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