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# 31
02-16-2011, 04:01 PM
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To help clarify in game terms...

Bridge Officers are fully featured pets that you can customize, level, and take on away teams.

Duty Officers are predefined crew that occupy an org chart on your ship to perform a specific function (add a bonus). They are not customizable, they do not level up, and cannot go on away team missions with you.

Where some confusion might be coming from is the idea that we want duty officers to perform assignment missions. An example would be - send these 3 guys to go find stuff. an hour later they return with stuff. You did not accompany them, it all happens outside of view in the background. While the three are gone you cannot use them for anything else.

For now, Bridge Officers and Duty Officers do not mix. This may change in the future, but right now they are two completely different types of crew.
What happened to the idea of being able to slot BOffs into Duty Officer positions (typically as department heads) in addition to their current functions?
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02-16-2011, 04:15 PM
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Here's some concept UI for receiving new duty officer recruits on your ship.

The idea is that you request a shuttle of new recruits, they show up and then you assign them to active or reserve rosters.

We will most likely revamp the way you get Bridge Officer recruits as well as part of this.
Awesome pic Dstahl - do you have any concept screens as far as Depart Heads and how that might work? i.e. Chief Science.. Engineer.. ect.?

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02-16-2011, 04:16 PM
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For lore/RP/nitpicking's sake, I hope there are a lot more than 3 titles to give to the top BOffs. Like if I want a Spock/McCoy setup (Chief Science Officer separate from the Chief Medical Officer) or even just a Spock (Science XO) on the ship. I know most XOs wore Tactical colors, but - just like Captains - it's nice to be able to pull them from other specialities.
He did write "Etc"
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02-16-2011, 04:34 PM
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For lore/RP/nitpicking's sake, I hope there are a lot more than 3 titles to give to the top BOffs. Like if I want a Spock/McCoy setup (Chief Science Officer separate from the Chief Medical Officer) or even just a Spock (Science XO) on the ship. I know most XOs wore Tactical colors, but - just like Captains - it's nice to be able to pull them from other specialities.
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He did write "Etc"
^ Pretty much this, though I'll get specific - I want:

First Officer
Science Officer
Chief Medical Officer
Chief Engineer
Operations Officer (maybe Second Officer instead)
Chief of Security
Strategic Operations Officer or Tactical Officer
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02-16-2011, 05:09 PM
I'm just hoping that if you train your bridge officer to be a duty officer, that you don't lose that officer on your bridge. I like the way this sounds so far...Spock was the first officer as well as the science officer. And it would be intriguing to send my first officer to lead an away team as well, but I currently have all my BOs set up for my ship's build, and I don't want to lose their abilities if I make one of them my first officer. I mean, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy used to go on away missions all the time. It's fine if I tell my first officer they have the bridge while I go, but if I want my CMO and chief tactical officer to come with me, I should be able to do that.
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02-16-2011, 05:12 PM
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I'm just hoping that if you train your bridge officer to be a duty officer, that you don't lose that officer on your bridge. I like the way this sounds so far...Spock was the first officer as well as the science officer. And it would be intriguing to send my first officer to lead an away team as well, but I currently have all my BOs set up for my ship's build, and I don't want to lose their abilities if I make one of them my first officer. I mean, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy used to go on away missions all the time. It's fine if I tell my first officer they have the bridge while I go, but if I want my CMO and chief tactical officer to come with me, I should be able to do that.
Your BO's never become duty officers and as of right now your Duty Officers do not become BO's. BO's have avatars, aside from the "card" like nature of the image Dstahl posted Duty Officers are more "numbers" or "data" than and actual officer with an avatar.
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02-16-2011, 05:12 PM
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^ Pretty much this, though I'll get specific - I want:

First Officer
Science Officer
Chief Medical Officer
Chief Engineer
Operations Officer (maybe Second Officer instead)
Chief of Security
Strategic Operations Officer or Tactical Officer
Operations Officer doesn't necessarily equal Second Officer.

Harry Kim was the Operations Officer aboard Voyager. Can you imagine him as your second officer? *shudder*
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02-16-2011, 05:15 PM
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Duty Officers are predefined crew that occupy an org chart on your ship to perform a specific function (add a bonus). They are not customizable, they do not level up, and cannot go on away team missions with you.
I very much hope we get the opportunity to customize our general crew uniforms, as a template that would be applied to the generic crew members we see (wandering halls and as security teams) and duty officers that can be seen (I am assuming the transporter chief, who can be seen in Stranded in Space, is going to be a duty officer position not a bridge officer position, to avoid the illogicalness of being able to have your transporter chief on your away team), similar to adding a fleet uniform to existing captains.

I have uniform B-05 (I think) in black as my standard bridge officer uniform, with the shoulder pads in the division colour, and would love be able to have my generic crew members wearing it too. I'm not suggesting that the more outlandish ones, such as mirror universe or Seven of Nine, become available for crew uniforms, just the standard Starfleet ones. For the KDF it doesn't matter so much, given that they don't exactly have a strict uniform, but I would love it if this was an option for Starfleet captains.
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02-16-2011, 05:15 PM
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I'm just hoping that if you train your bridge officer to be a duty officer, that you don't lose that officer on your bridge. I like the way this sounds so far...Spock was the first officer as well as the science officer. And it would be intriguing to send my first officer to lead an away team as well, but I currently have all my BOs set up for my ship's build, and I don't want to lose their abilities if I make one of them my first officer. I mean, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy used to go on away missions all the time. It's fine if I tell my first officer they have the bridge while I go, but if I want my CMO and chief tactical officer to come with me, I should be able to do that.
Read this entire thread. The department head positions like Executive Officer, Science Officer, Chief Engineer, etc, will be filled by your BOffs.

Duty Officers will fill the crew stats and won't themselves be avatars/pets like your BOffs.

I think we're mostly confused because we're referring to this whole system as the Duty Officer system when that's really only part of what the revamp entails. dstahl, maybe we need a name for the BOffs getting specific assignments/depart head titles as well?
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02-16-2011, 05:16 PM
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Operations Officer doesn't necessarily equal Second Officer.

Harry Kim was the Operations Officer aboard Voyager. Can you imagine him as your second officer? *shudder*
Yeah, on Voyager I believe Tuvok was the Second Officer.
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