Behold.....DOFF System

[Jason32]

After spending a few hours to level up to LCDR 2, I finally unlocked the DOFF system. Here are a few screen captures with some text beneath them explaining what they are. Honestly, its very overwhelming and could very easily be considered a game within itself. This is going to take some time and us putting our heads together to crack.


As soon as you level to LCDR 2, Cat Man here will hail you and send you about 11 or so Duty Officers. They are completely different from Bridge Officers.


This is what your roster will look like. It shows special traits and specializations each officer has and they match to a specific assignment.


This is where you actually assign a duty officer to a task. Once in progress, you'll notice a "Time to completion" clock. the current task I have selected is going to take 2d 23h 58m 48s to complete.


This final shot shows you the reward to receive from the completion of the assignment. A 1 hr skill bonus among other things.

[Morgan Shackelford]

Man I cannot f'n wait for this to be live.

[VADM pRett]

sparrow794 wrote:

Man I cannot f'n wait for this to be live.

+1...billion.

[CAPT Huckabee]

we've been waiting how long? seriously they need to hurry and go live.......i say they've had their time!! MUTINY!!!!!!

[Jason32]

Ok, here is what we have learned thus far with the new DOFF system.

1. You get 15 DOFFs with you make LCDR 2, to get more, you have to go to Starfleet Academy(and ESD), open your DOFF Assignment window and start the Assignment titled "Officer Cadre" The time is takes to complete this will depend on the type of officer you are trying to recruit. (hours to a few days). I am not sure if there are other ways to recruit more DOFFs.

2. There are over 1000 Assignments currently in this build with more to come. The Assignments that you have available to execute change when you move into different sector blocks. They also change based on time.

3. There are some Assignments where you need more than just DOFFs to start the Assignment. For example, I needed a Tribble (dot) to start a scientific Assignment to Gene Splice a Tribble. Another example is trade. You will use energy credits, provisions, weather stations, ect to conduct Trade Assignments.

4. You cannot start Assignments will on a map other than sector space. The only exceptions to this are the major starbases and Starfleet Academy. However, you can check on Assignments and claim rewards for completed Assignments, you just can't start a new one.

5. Once an Assignment is complete, you claim the rewards under the "Completed" tab. The rewards range from fairly cool gear (rares and very rares), new passive buffs for you and your ship, energy credits, Commendations XP (CXP) and more. The CXP is specific to the type of Assignment you are working on. For example, my Gene Splicing Assignment I mentioned earlier, gave me 30 Scientific CXP. This CXP is what you need to unlock tiers. For example, Tier II for Science is at 2,500 CXP. Theses tiers are what Cryptic is using as a basis for the reward they are giving out for testing the DOFF System on Tribble. See #6.

6. "As a bonus, playing on Tribble can earn your character on Holodeck some free random Duty Officers, awarded within the three weeks after free-to-play goes live on Holodeck. Complete any Tier 1 Duty Officer commendation category accolade to receive an unique blue-quality duty officer. Complete any Tier 2 Duty Officer commendation category accolade to receive an unique purple-quality duty officer. Complete any Tier 3 Duty Officer commendation category accolade to receive a unique purple-quality duty officer with an active roster ability not attainable anywhere else in the game." -Dev Heretic

I am going to sticky this thread so it will remain at the top of the news forum and this can be our collaborative tool for working on the DOFF system. I know some of the others have started on it. Anything else you want to add, feel free.

[VADM pRett]

Haven't gotten to the DOFF system yet, but I will say the client on the Tribble server is looking a lot cleaner.

So far, I've noticed:
1) crisper, more detailed career icons at the character log-in screen
2) crisper looking career badges for prospective BOffs
3) target shield arc indicators (the ones around the ship, itself, not on the "target info" window) change color, based on the shield strength (yellow, then red)

[CAPT Huckabee]

i just hope that it aint to long before they get this stuff live. The content drought has finally hit me, and I'm bored. I dont even have the urge to play tribble. Just dont feel like leveling up a character to try doff. If not live hopefully they will allow character copy soon

[VADM pRett]

I honestly doubt they'll allow character copying, because some of the leveling process is different. How you gain access to missions, for one; that'd open the room for a lot of bugs, which we all know aren't fun.

Keep in mind if you participate in testing on Tribble, you do will get some extra DOFFs on Holodeck once it goes live.

[VADM Kor]

Awesome thanks for the recon on this. Looking forward to trying it out!

[CAPT Huckabee]

Borannus wrote:

I honestly doubt they'll allow character copying, because some of the leveling process is different. How you gain access to missions, for one; that'd open the room for a lot of bugs, which we all know aren't fun. Keep in mind if you participate in testing on Tribble, you do will get some extra DOFFs on Holodeck once it goes live.

Still with rewards I just don't feel like wasting time to level a character on a test server. If I'm going to take time for that it will be for an alt on the live server