After many years playing STO I still have to marvel at how fun the DoFF system is, it really gives a feel of giving tasks to your crew sometimes, and earns nice little rewards over time without much effort on the players part, just a few minutes setup.
Admiralty is also a pretty neat system, but more limited because of the expense of owning many ships compared to the availability of DoFF cards.
I would rate the DoFF system 9/10 and the Admiralty system 7.5/10
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
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Doffing 10/10, Admirality 10/10
i hope we will get more content admirality-doff related
I dont mind the XP nerf to doffing and I don't see a problem with the UI, I just wish they'd do a lot more with it.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
The amount of time missions take to run is fine, but it would be nice to be able to run more than 20 at once.
Being required to travel for the different DoFF missions is what makes it unique, if anything there should be more location specific DoFF missions with unique rewards making it worth travelling there.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
its posibble 23 tho sometimes 26, even got 27, temporal and mirror incursion going outside that number
tho those 3 aditional are from fleet embassy, while those more of 23 i have no idea how they get generated and why, tho it happens only sometimes, i guess it has something with those doffs who get in sickbay.
Otherwise, the Doff system has basically stagnated. There are no new types of Doff missions. The Delta Quadrant doesn't have any unique Doff mission specific to that quadrant as far as I know. Yeah, it's a good way to earn XP on the side, as well as dilitihum (especially for KDF) and some EC as well from doing some of the "experimental gear" engineering mission. But no new Doff missions have been added for a change of pace.
Last significant addition to the DoFF system seems to have been with the sphere doffing, they really should add unique DoFF assignments to the Delta Quadrant, as well as the badlands battlezone (you can actually pick up small amounts of undine marks through special undine zone doff missions).
It's clear the DoFF system hasn't been ENTIRELY abandoned as lockboxes still reward DoFF packs, it's still used in crafting and theres been the mirror universe assignments in the last season, but I wish they'd give it more attention.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
I wonder if they were intended to be more common but someone messed up with the numbers behind the frequency of its appearance.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
You have to get lucky in getting a 1k 20 hour mission and etc.
I guess that's why they created the Temporal Recruit Rewards so people will be usin' the Doff System to get Doffs. At least it isn't all 11 you have to get to Rank 4 that would be annoying.
I love the Admiralty System it is a great supplement to the game.
Though they had to nerf the Doff System to make the Admiralty System more viable.
I rate both systems over 11/10. Mostly because the Admiralty's Tour of Duties are really nice and the repeatable missions after completin' a Assignment Chain is awesome.
i wouldn't tell thats slow, some categories can be maxed to t4 in matter of weeks like espionage, military, science, development and medical. While recruitment, diplomacy need months, while Colonial it depends how often we doing colonial clusters.
Tho you can max them all in several of days, not sure for diplomacy, if you have nice doffs and lot of Mirror/Temporal assignments. As they giving nice amount of specifc CXP on critical.
Undine Battleground assignments give very good commendation points for the time and difficulty level and never go anywhere. Very good for science, military, and espionage commendations if I remember right, with good assignments in a couple other categories, as well.
Hmmm.... I have to take a closer look then. I currently have 4 captains going through the Delta story arc. Maybe I didn't notice them in the past since I was kinda rushing through it on my older captains.
As far as where to go for it. Just park at your factions home area or right in the gate to Solanae. Solanae is where I parked my AoY char, and without bothering to change from the beginning doffs you get. All of my Commendations are R2, with 2 being R3.
Solanae is usually good for Science, Military, Espionage, Exploration, Colonial, Trade and Development. Then add the standard personal ones to this and Department heads. There isn't a need to go anywhere else. Which is good, My AoY char is on the last bit of Rep, so until I have all the rewards, it will be parked there.
Not only that, but Romulans get TRIBBLE on personal buff missions...they get like a handful. I know Bort said he looked into it and said its fine but it's not. It never HAS been.
Also I would add some of the best Doffing sectors are the Cardie sectors (confusingly referred to as the Alpha Quadrant). Those sectors have all the add exchanges as well as other random and fun missions.
Assignment Chains? Fleet missions? Colonial Clusters? Academy? Boff recruitment?
Also any tips for getting to rank 4 diplomacy quicker? I feel like Marauding is so much easier / faster plus gives tons of rewards and prisoners. All the diplo missions I see are like 50-60 XP each.
Thank you for any advice!
I don't really enjoy doing it persay, but I enjoy the rewards.
I don't travel anywhere other the ESD Space/Sector space just outside ESD, and on the occasional new toon like my AoY, I just park her in the undine space battlezone. (Some great XP + Marks assignments there)
In regards to the best assignments, I'd imagine everyone has different preferences but I always do the following;
Any Scanning/Analyzing etc... for R&D materials
Contraband (Even though I play Fed)
Colony (Set up a colony with colonist) = +500dil on success
Recruit Colonists (keep the colonists restocked for ^)
Boff Recruitments = +Recruitment XP
General Doff recruitment at the Academy (when I feel like it - Or when a new toon needs some Doff backups)
Request R&D aid at the Academy even though it costs 1000 or 2000 dil to run, you can get some good stuff from it.
The issue I'm having with Doff/Admiralty is that it takes up most of my playtime to cycle through 6 toons.
Its at least 45mins -1hr a day, and I only have about 1.5 - 2 hrs a day to play.
I wish they'd allow auto set up for admiralty. But then again, you're rewarded a lot more for cherry picking certain assignments. But on toons I don't really care about, it would be nice, and save me about 10-15mins a toon.
That's my only complaint about it I guess, and its not even a real complaint, though I find it does kill my playing time these days.
But even still I enjoy the rewards, so I'd give it a 9/10 just for the fact it can net you some nice materials, dil and EC.
But I am getting a little sick of clicking buttons for about an hour a night.
I suppose I could "not do it" or do it every second day. But I hate leaving good profits on the table. So I've made it a habit to do doff/admiralty right away, and as fast as possible. Problem is after 6 toons, it really wears down my desire to actually play the game. Most nights these days I set up my doff/admiralty and just log out.
But yeah in general they're pretty great and quite lucrative.
I do not want to see a full doffing revamp as it will be further nerfing. I would like to see new missions and chains added with major new content. Just a couple little treats for us pretty pretty please just 2 or 3 times a year.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
Not only that, they needlessly hypernerfed the "Perform Hamlet" play thing. That requires 20 doffs and is like a week long but pays less than a single instance of "Entertain Foreign Dignitaries". *smh*
Doffing needs a Quality, QoL and balance pass. Again. It could also use new missions for the DQ, as earlier pointed out.
in other words... the 1st time you open up doff screen... you see all possible missions regardless of quality. as you complete missions... the quality only effects the duration of the cool down before the mission is listed again.
I like to play the game, not get simulated content in which I pretend some non existant crew does the stuff I'd like to do myself. Admiralty is copy paste so the same applies.
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At least they aren't as bad as another game, before the latest paid expansion... haha, if anyone knows what I am talking about its pretty obvious which game. lol
Ehhh... Actually no, I have no clue. What game are you talking about.
Your avatar somewhat says otherwise.. lol