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QoL - Bridge Officers - Player select traits on commission?
tigeraries
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They should give players the right to select the traits & abilities a bridge officer gets when first commissioned.
it's not that hard I dont think... they have the table of traits and abilities a BO can have... just give folks a check box to tick off the traits the BO will have and abilities they should start off with. If they dont care they can check off the random check box and it'll be up to the system.
it's not that hard I dont think... they have the table of traits and abilities a BO can have... just give folks a check box to tick off the traits the BO will have and abilities they should start off with. If they dont care they can check off the random check box and it'll be up to the system.
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I dont see how this would end it... regular humans have X traits and abilities. BO from K13 have their own.
Research will have Krenim BOs. Colony have Lukari/Kentari and they too have their own traits and abilities.
The BO missions to recruit will still be the same... you just can choose what traits/abilities they start off with. You cant choose a trait or ability they would can never get.
Then you mean to pick from their default ones
Yes from the defaults attached to the race maybe it wouldnt be too bad but expect a high fall in price for SRO and others that people pay more if they got specific traits - I personally do not bother with boff trading though
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Having a way to upgrade them and progress(in a way how we progress) would be nice yes
I dont think they will let us ever pick any trait outside of boff's race's defaults due to some boffs acquired with certain means that have special traits(k-13, embassy, event, c-store boffs)
Having a BOFF Academy/Training/Upgrade/Crafting-like system for increasing Rarity and/or upgrading/changing Traits would be great.
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l don't know.
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Not unless they replace the whole boff trait system, at least.
and yes, when my Rom gets a Romulan BO I want to select SRO as a trait... even if they limit it to 1 Sup trait in Space and 1 in Ground it'll be better than the random gunk we get.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
no it wont break it... it'll just decrease the resale value of BOs on the exchange. you can get one without spending a single ec if you wait long enough to do the BO recruit mission enough times. it's a time saver... a QoL improvement.
For example lets say you have budget of 200 trait points for a green rarity boff, also that a superior traits cost 100 point, normal cost 50 and basic one 25. Lets say you want a boff with the "superior romulan operative" trait. now this would mean that in order to have 4 traits in total 2 of those would have to be "basic" ones since 100+50+(2*25)=200.
This way you'd have to still think what traits you want and not just mindlessly but the best traits in superior quality. obviously you might want also limit the number of "slots" for traits and maybe limit the avaibility of certain traits to certain races, but that's up for Cryptic to deside.
Each rarity already has a specific number of basic, standard, and superior traits they may get, and the pools from which the traits are gathered are already separated by species. All that would need to be done is take the existing lists of traits and change things from a random choice to a player choice.
The only possible problem would be the "required" traits part, but that should be simple enough, because even those already have rarities built in.
It shouldn't be any more difficult to program than the same change that player characters underwent all those years ago, and may even end up being easier since they'd have the old code to at least study, since spaghetti is hard to copy and paste.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
And knowing is half the battle!
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no thx. that will be again a tool with sliders, time gate, and with a pitiful random system.
boffs are great like they are currently.
I'm generally opposed to changes that allow for instant gratification, rather than the steady build-over-time - the exception being when something is so rare that it creates absurd inflation to the in-game economy.
When a player can get anything he wants relatively easily, the game inevitably will become boring. The hunt, search, and excitement of finally finding what you want is worth the wait. There is an ineffable joy from finding a boff with the exact set of traits for which you've been searching or doing a doff mission and getting a boff reward that is exactly what you want - THAT is a "surprise mechanic" that really does create enjoyment.
Although to be honest, other than SRO the traits on random boffs are more or less irrelevant as they are.
A better idea yet, would be Cryptic to revisit traits with knowledge on which traits are useful and why and try rebalance into making others more useful or just give some way to progress boffs and train them into learning more things(with limitations depending on race and class)