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Little difference between white and purple boffs for space?
tiberious
Member Posts: 183 Arc User
PS4 player playing since inception. My main is ranked 53 and I'm getting tired of looking at the same boffs between three Fed characters.
The price for purples at the exchange is ridiculous so I started looking at the requisition officers to see what they had. The only difference I see between a purple and a white boff for 'space' is a leadership skill. I don't see any other difference.
So I can see differences between the two for ground usage but for space is there really any difference between two?
The price for purples at the exchange is ridiculous so I started looking at the requisition officers to see what they had. The only difference I see between a purple and a white boff for 'space' is a leadership skill. I don't see any other difference.
So I can see differences between the two for ground usage but for space is there really any difference between two?
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tiberious
Member Posts: 183 Arc User
Thanks for the replies, particularly from turbomagnus for the history. Confirms that I'll keep rare/very rare for ground crew only and no issues with making changes to my space crew. Which is what I look at the most in this game.
Now that I'm using T6 ships, won't be doing much with boff swapping or movement once I make my boff purchases.0
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BOff traits (except for maybe Nausicaan "Pirate" and Romulan "Romulan Operative" and Reman "Infiltrator") don't really seem (at least to me) to play that big a part in space combat. It seems to be more about your ship's equipment and your Captain's traits than your BOffs'.
(Feel free to skip from here)
Bit of a history lesson, but three, four years ago, BOff quality played a role in what abilities a BOff had - the higher the quality, the better their abilities - that all changed a couple years ago when the Skill Revamp, I believe it was, came around. Instead of training a BOff in a new ability completely replacing the old, the new ability was simply added to a list that you could select from for the abilities they had equipped. A lot more BOff Candidates became ability fodder to add abilities to players favorite BOffs.
When the R&D Revamp brought in the ability to craft Training Manuals for higher level abilities (and the resulting ability to buy those Manuals on the Exchange), it pretty much sounded the death-knell for BOff quality having any real function. Training Manuals - whether crafted, bought or made from a BOff Candidate - could be used to teach any quality BOff any ability they could learn. Quality didn't matter. The addition of BOff Specialists to the BOff Vendors added to that with the fact that you could now easily buy Caitians, Remans, etc (depending on your faction) with a Specialization (usually Intelligence) already taught, despite the fact that they were white quality. For people wanting the Specialization or the BOff's species, the quality didn't matter.
Basically, if the BOff you want is white, green or blue quality; if they're Vulcan, FED-Klingon, or Alien; go ahead and get them, don't worry about the space traits or the BOff's quality.
^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
Also i think that Borg BOFFs also have Efficient added... but i may be wrong
Delta Pack got 3 Purple BOFFs (Inte/ 1 of each - Sci/Tac/Eng) for each faction - i think at least 2 of each 3 have also space traits...
And i think the Krenim BOFFs (from Fleet Labs) got some space and ground traits that shortens cooldowns on some skills/powers
For Romulans the D'vex from main plot episode got also nice space trait - "Basic Warfare Specialist"
I personally prefer the uncommon characters, as they were my creation from the beginning.
I wish, though, that their quality increased based on number of real life game hours played with them.
Just picked up that Hierarchy BOFF last night, he's also INTEL... saw the PIRATE and EFFICIENT trait and was sold!
I can confirm that the BORG boff from the CSTORE has EFFICIENT.
If yer a HESTIA ADVANCED ESCORT fan, there's a ready made KOBALI ENG/CMD BOFF hidden in the maze in the mission ASHES to ASHES:
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Kobali_Engineering/Command_Officer_Candidate
Somehow I missed getting LAW from "FIST FULL OF GROM", he would have been great for a torp boat build
Seems like the traits are key. We're pretty limited on console right now.
Yes I am aware but you need to settle for a Blue Male Tac Officer... and the OP is about White vs Purple BOs.
There is no Purple BO with SRO that a Fed or KDF can get.
The "color identifier" on the bought BOff is done with a "scan what they have" mentality. So when the "blue" Fed-Rom Embassy SRO BOff is "scanned" to determine rarity, the combination results in a "purple" answer and therefore display.
Gorn and one other BOff race are afflicted by the inverse. One of their traits takes up one of the two "superior" slots on the purple BOff, but it only registers in "normal" quality, so the resultant BOff scan indicates that the BOff in question is a Blue, not Purple...
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Final Boff color is dependent on how many Superior Traits they have... so yeah if a "Purple" Gorn only has 1 Sup trait... when commissioned it will turn blue. The SRO Tac on sale with New Rom Rep only has 1 Sup trait... it is marked blue when for sale and when commissioned it is Blue as well. <- From what I recall, I will check console when I visit the embassy again. But it's male so I have never bought one before.
I know SRO is SRO... but I am one who likes to have all Purple BOs... yeah Min/Max be damned. For my Roms characters they want Purple BOs... I can make do with Blue SRO but nope need Purple. To each their own.
My character Tsin'xing