I have one FED Cardassian I have been making due with 2 Common Cardi BOFFs and this would have been huge, even if it turns out to be Rare/Blue quality. Sadly, I am 90 % Certain it’s not faction-transferrable even though it’s a neutral race.
Since I have seen a rare thread come up in the distant past on the issue, the recruiting assignment spawned in the KDF shipyard (I heard a report it’s maybe more likely/only likely on DS9) so I wanted to throw this out for the record.
What's worse is that the people who did get the one-in-a-million Cardassian recruitment on a Fed character probably just turned the result into a training manual because they don't realize how rare they are. Like Reman boffs on a Romulan character.
I might have done it myself over the years since I have no Cardassian captains.
Dil sink idea #2019 - offer some of these rarer, broken recruitment types in VR quality for a big pile of dil
IMO, the best solution for getting a cardassian is actually playing one yourself. They have some of the way better captain-traits (not as good Vanguard-JH but at least they get scaling buffs).
IMO, the best solution for getting a cardassian is actually playing one yourself. They have some of the way better captain-traits (not as good Vanguard-JH but at least they get scaling buffs).
True, but the player would probably want a full Cardassian crew to go with that if they care more about Space Barbie than maximizing DPS.
I never use a Diplomacy Nausican Pirate or the Voth defector in my crews because they mess with the themes.
> @davefenestrator said: > True, but the player would probably want a full Cardassian crew to go with that if they care more about Space Barbie than maximizing DPS. > ...
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Pretty much this. It’s hard to resist the trait temptation of a diverse bridge, but then there’s the away team as well. One solid (purple) LtCom/Commander on the bridge and maybe 2 Ens/Lts (any rarity) at minimum on the away team, and the makeup looks right for say a Cardassian Captain.
The common cardassians are cheap as free in the tailor and have photographic memory (15% dmg, defense and 10% accuracy).
Even the common ones are like better than the pirate trait (There is no superior pirate). All my new toons use a full common Cardi space crew. Most bridge officers don’t even have space traits.
Just get the common ones from the Boff vendor at ESD. They are severely under-rated.
I do wish we had more options for recruiting specific boffs we want
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Agreed. I was lucky enough to get a Cardassian from the Exchange when prices were reasonable.
I also really wish that all of the special BOFFs (Hierarchy, Voth, Jem'Hadar) could wear faction specific uniforms. I don't use any of these on my characters because they can't wear my ship's uniform, which really sucks.
Actually that's not quite true. The Hierarchy BOFF was originally 'bugged' and I was able to put him in my ship's uniform. The others though, I just don't use.
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I might have done it myself over the years since I have no Cardassian captains.
Dil sink idea #2019 - offer some of these rarer, broken recruitment types in VR quality for a big pile of dil
True, but the player would probably want a full Cardassian crew to go with that if they care more about Space Barbie than maximizing DPS.
I never use a Diplomacy Nausican Pirate or the Voth defector in my crews because they mess with the themes.
> True, but the player would probably want a full Cardassian crew to go with that if they care more about Space Barbie than maximizing DPS.
> ...
^^^
Pretty much this. It’s hard to resist the trait temptation of a diverse bridge, but then there’s the away team as well. One solid (purple) LtCom/Commander on the bridge and maybe 2 Ens/Lts (any rarity) at minimum on the away team, and the makeup looks right for say a Cardassian Captain.
Even the common ones are like better than the pirate trait (There is no superior pirate). All my new toons use a full common Cardi space crew. Most bridge officers don’t even have space traits.
Just get the common ones from the Boff vendor at ESD. They are severely under-rated.
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> Just get the common ones from the Boff vendor at ESD. They are severely under-rated.
I have had the commons already for years. That’s why this was great/sucked when it happened to land in my lap (on the wrong
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I also really wish that all of the special BOFFs (Hierarchy, Voth, Jem'Hadar) could wear faction specific uniforms. I don't use any of these on my characters because they can't wear my ship's uniform, which really sucks.
Actually that's not quite true. The Hierarchy BOFF was originally 'bugged' and I was able to put him in my ship's uniform. The others though, I just don't use.
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NOT creating a KDF Card alt, though damned tempted. Debating whether she should go to my Vanguard or my main- KDF Naussican