Well I own it but have played very little of it so far.

I struggled to get to grips with it early on and found myself switching from my mouse and keyboard to my 360 game pad. This made things easier but It still felt overly clunky for my tastes.

I'm convinced the way to enjoy this game properly is to splash out on the flight stick and that's probably what I'm going to do.

But also the multiplayer is pretty non-existant. Me and my buddy did manage to find each other in the game but at that point we kind of struggled to find things to do together. The official forums is littered with people who want to play with friends (it is an mmo after all) but the game just doesn't accommodate.

But .. this is the thing. I bought Elite: Dangerous knowing that it's a game that will eventually "grow" into a great game and I'm happy to wait. Planetary landing and ship boarding is apparently coming and I think will make a big difference to "break up" the current game play.

But my name is Halish so if you want to bug me in game, please feel free :)

Here is a list of things you can find all over our fleet holdings :)
Feel free to comment or improve!

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There are five important Fleet places you can go to:

Fleet Spire (Solanae Dyson Sphere)
Fleet Starbase
Dilithium Mine (Vlugta, Beta Ursae)
Embassy (New Romulus, Tau Dewa)
Fleet Research Lab

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What you can buy in the Fleet Spire:

Requisition Space Equipment:
- Critical Hit Consoles (Tactical - Vulnerability Locator)
- Critical Damage Consoles (Tactical - Vulnerability Exploiter)
- Advanced Fleet Plasma-Integrated Warp Core
- Elite Fleet Plasma-Integrated Warp Core
- Advances Fleet Thoron-Infused Singularity Core
- Elite Fleet Thoron-Infused Singularity Core
- Spire Hangar Pets

Requsition Ground Equipment:
- Kits & Modules
- Trade-In (Kits)

Requisition Personel
- Voth DOff
- Active DOff Slot

Other things in the Fleet Spire:

Tailor

Select Ship
Requisition Ship

Exchange
Bank
Mail

When in Fleet Spire, you can travel to Allied Sphere Space, Fleet Starbase, Dilithium Mine, Embassy (when in system and when docked).

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What you can buy in the Fleet Starbase:

Fleet Space Supplies:
- Adv. Weapons
- Adv. Engines
- Adv. Shields
- Adv. Delfectors
- Elite Weapons
- Elite Engines
- Elite Shields
- Elite Deflectors
- Hangars

Operations Quartermaster:
- OpAssets – Eng
- OpAssets – Mil
- OpAssets – Sci
- Boosts – Eng
- Boosts – Mil
- Boosts – Sci
- Fleet Mark Bonus

Fleet Ground Supplies:
- Adv. Assault
- Adv. Pistols
- Adv. Rifles
- Adv. Armor
- Adv. Shields
- Elite Assault
- Elite Pistols
- Elite Rifles
- Elite Armor
- Elite Shields
- Adv. Melee (Vulcan Lirpa)
- Elite Melee (Vulcan Lirpa)

Commision Duty Officers
- Fleet Duty Officers
- Fleet Duty Engineers
- Fleet Duty Scientists
- Fleet Duty Tactical

Other things in the Fleet Starbase:

Tailor

File Comendation Report (exchange commendation points to fleet marks)
Personel Officer
Hail Lt. Ferra (DOff Management)
Officer Of the Watch (mission)
Mail
Bank

Nemo Jones
Replicator
Chef
Councelor
Bartender
Signal DJ
Holo-Morn :D

Turbolift to Engineering:
- Tellarite Personel Officer
- Operations Officer
- Engineering Repair Officer
- Ship Customization Officer
- Engineering Officer

Turbolift to Science:
- Bridge Officer Trainer
- Medical Treatment Officer
- Medical Officer
- Science Officer
- Vulcan Personel Officer
- Skill Retrainer

Turbolift to Tactical:
- Security Officer
- Tactical Officer
- Andorian Personel Officer
- Ship Selection Officer
- Ship and Shuttle Requisitions

When in Fleet Starbase, you can travel to Fleet Embassy and Dilithium Mine, but only from the Transporter Room.


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What you can buy in the Fleet Dilithium Mine:

Requisition Space Equipment:
- Resist All Consoles (Engineering - Enhanced Neutronium Alloy)
- Resist Kinetic Consoles (Engineering - Enhanced Monotanium Alloy)
- Enhanced RCS Consoles (Engineering - Enhanced RCS Accelerator)

Requisition Warp Cores:
- Adv. Fleet Reinforced & Hyper-Charged Warp Cores
- Elite Fleet Reinforced & Hyper-Charged Warp Cores
- Adv. Fleet Reinforced, Hyper-Stabilizing & Hyper-Charged Singularity Cores
- Elite Fleet Reinforced, Hyper-Stabilizing & Hyper-Charged Singularity Cores

Requisition Officers
- Ferengi Miner
- Yridian Miner
- Horta Miner

Other things in the Fleet Dilithium Mine:

Miner Foreman (DOff Assignments):
- Mine Motherlode of Valuable Minerals
- Mine Dilithium Motherlode
- Additional Dilithium Refining Capacity (Refine 500 Ore)

Miner Shift Manager:
- Mine Impure Dilithium Crystals (mission)
- Mine Rich Dilithium Crystals (mission)
- Mine Pure Dilithium Crystals (mission)

Tailor

Exchange
Mail
Bank

Turbolift to second floor

When in Dilithium Mine, you can travel to Fleet Starbase and Fleet Spire (when in system and when docked).

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What you can buy in the Fleet Embassy:

(in Shuttlebay)
Requisition Space Equipment:
- Plasma Infused Consoles (Science - Plasma-Generating Weapon Signature Amplifier)
- Hull Repair Consoles (Science - Hull-Repairing Weapon Signature Amplifier)
- Shield Emitter Consoles (Science - Shield Repairing Weapon Signature Amplifier)

Requisition Ground Equipment:
- Kits
- Trade-In

Requisition Consumables:
- Consumables (Psionic Pacifiers, Agitators, Emitters)
- Commodities (not all)
- Assignemt Slots (Active DOff Assignemt Slot)

(in Ops)
- Requisition Bridge Officers (special Romulan)
- Requisition Operational Assets
- Requisition Duty Officers (Romulans)

Other things in the Fleet Embassy:

(in Ops)
Contact Federation Recruiter (Personel Officer)
Contact Tailor

(in Lobby)
Officer of the Watch (mission)
Chef
Bartender

Bank
Mail
Exchange

Go to Staging Area (New Romulus)

Turbolift to Ops, Shuttlebay, Lobby

When in Embassy, you can travel to Fleet Starbase and Fleet Spire (when docked, from the Shuttlebay).


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What you can buy in the Fleet Research Lab:

(in Middle Section)
Trait and R&D Project Slot Store:
- +1 R&D Project Slot
- +1 Active Ability Reputation Trait Slot
- +1 Space Reputation Trait Slot
- +1 Ground Reputation Trait Slot
- +1 Starship Trait Slot

(in Research):
Kit Module Store

Secondary Deflector Store:
- Strategic Inhibiting Secondary Deflectors
- Strategic Deteriorating Secondary Deflectors
- Strategic Resonating Secondary Deflectors

Duty Officer Store
- Krenim Researcher DOffs

Bridge Officer Vendor
- Krenim BOffs

(in Development)
Kit Frame Store:
- Versatile Engineering
- Versatile Science
- Versatile Tactical

Science Console Store:
- Restorative Particle Focuser Consoles
- Exotic Particle Focuser Consoles

Other things in the Fleet Research Lab:

(in Middle Section)
Repair Ship

Heal Injuries

Mail
Bank
Exchange

(in Research)
Tailor

(in Development)
Daily R&D Missions
Duty Officer Assignments

When in Fleet Research Lab, you can travel to Fleet Starbase (when in system and when docked).

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Okay, I think that's it! If you're not sure what kind of things there are to buy exactly (for example what kind of Elite Shields there are in Fleet Starbase), I recommend taking a look at the wikia pages, because writing every item down here would be just to much work and the list wouldn't be transparent.
Maybe a map would be helpful but I guess since you know where to find what you're looking for you will find it right away :)

I'll be keeping this post up-to-date.

29.09.2015 - Added Fleet Research Lab, cosmetic changes to the previous list.
16.10.2015 - Research Lab updated.

Anyone playing Elite: Dangerous? I never played the original wireframe one from 1984, but I got addicted to Frontier: Elite 2 in the 90's with its ability to allow ships to fly through atmospheres and land on planets. This one definitely has better graphics. I haven't progressed far enough to get into the story that changes as players elsewhere affect the game.

Elite Dangerous

Well, I look forward to seeing how it gets put.

Hiya Seannewboy Thanks for the Heads up! I peaked at your profile and read you like Babylon 5. I also really liked the Show !! My Favorite Character was the Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari. I thought the Story line was Great! I also liked Farscape. Ok back to the Doffs. I keep hearing about these purple ones being the Best but i found a drop down and it looks like their are 2 other I can only remember one at the moment an Epic one where do they come from? Oh and this is my only Toon 1st time playing STO so yes this is my Main.

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I contributed?! yay?

you will have for the end of year issue :)

If this is your main, you can get the extra 2, but it isn't necessary. I bought all 5 with mine and it is nice, but my 2 other primes only have 100 each, and for the most part they do fine. My current view is 300 is just fine for a main (me im a completionist), but 200 will do in a pinch.

I contributed?! yay?

Fimon update I went to the C-Store and bought a Roster upgrade to 300 is that enough or should i get more, i think it said i can update to 500 officers i assume that is the Max? I also bought 2 Doff Packs.

Thanks Again

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not really its good for tracking hard to find doff missions but that's about it.

Great info thanks you for sharing it WhiteOnmyoji!!! I googled some info and found this DoffTrekker Speadsheet that looks interesting anyone else use it? And Fimon wow thank you so much i find all this so interesting!!! Thanks Guys for all your help!!!!

Hey there mysticman. I work a mix of graveyard and normal days. So hopefully I can catch you on. I'm on graveyard next Fri-Sun. So hopefully I can catch you then. I'll be on the lookout!

Crap forgot one of the easiest place to get Doffs, the Fleet Starbase, for ~15K Fleet Mark yiou can get a random purple doff...it is random and if you want to be more specific by class (Tac, Eng, Sci) you'll have to pay more

Some other things to consider when using doffs for active duty:

They are removed from your reserve roster, so you can't send them on missions. This makes their traits unimportant, so you don't have to look for someone with good traits if you are throwing them on active duty.

The usefulness of the power increases with the quality of the doff. A green doff may offer a 5% chance to do something while a purple one will offer 20%. This means if you're wanting to experiment with a power, you can try one of the lower quality ones (even the best powers are cheap to buy on green doffs) then if you like it, you can save up for a higher quality doff.

Remember to save up for the extra active duty slots at the fleet spire, they are 200% worth the investment. Even if you throw a green doff in that extra slot, that extra little boost is worth having someone in there.

Like was said before me, if you're not playing a hardcore build, your doffs won't make or break you, but you can have a lot of fun playing around with the powers. Stuff like the gravimetric scientist making extra gravity wells is pretty cool if you're just starting to play around with the gravity well. But some of the special powers on the new doffs can really change the way that your skills work. There is a voth doff that makes it so your tractor beam repulsors pull your target instead of pushing them away, which changes how you evaluate the skill. Some other doffs add bonuses on to skills, making things that may have seemed mediocre seem much cooler. Some of the hirogen doffs add a chance to take subsystems offline when using various abilities (subnucleonic beam, aceton beam, etc), this might make these powers more attractive if you build around them.

Just some food for thought :)

Steamrunner?

If you're looking for specific, high quality doffs, most of them can be found on the exchange. But if you're just looking to do some roster building, here are some tips:

The personnel officer at the academies (Starfleet Academy in the building with Lt. Ferra and Cmdr. Valia, Klingon Academy next to the exchange, and Romulan Republic command [this one is a console in the room with the bridge officer trainer]) have free missions that can be done every couple of days that award doffs. Beware the General Recruitment one because it costs dilithium, as does the Request R&D assistance (though that one is usually worth the dilithium cost). The other 4 missions though award 2-3 doffs upon completion. These are usually white quality, sometimes green (though I did once get one of the purple original ultra rares from it).

Refugee missions are great for roster building as well. Buy up some common refugees from the exchange, and then grant them sanctuary/refuge via the available doff missions. If you are playing a fed character, buy the doffs Neva something or other and Jeffery Toby Lamar. They have all 3 necessary traits for the mission, which means it will often trade the common refugee for Blue/Purple doffs. The mission is available at ESD under the ops tab, as well as in orbit of Sol System. The mission repopulates about every 36 hours, so you can do this fairly consistently to get some good doffs. If you go out in to the Sirius sector block, you'll also find grant Asylum on Vulcan/Andoria/Rigel V/Tellar Prime, there are doffs that line up well with all of these as well, but I can't remember their names offhand. If you're KDF, it becomes even better, because the Omega Leonis block/Qo'nos/First City maps almost always have 1-4 missions available that are of the grant asylum/sanctuary/refuge type that will grant Klingon, Nausicaan, Gorn, and Orion doffs.

All of the exploration clusters have a 7 part mission chain that ends by awarding a unique blue doff. Then, once those have been completed, they have a repeatable mission that on success awards a refugee (fed) or prisoner (kdf) and on critical success award a purple version of the blue doff you get at the end of the chain. (B'Tran cluster at the bottom of Gamma Orionis block awards liberated borg technicians [caitains for fed, gorn for kdf])

Doff packs are a pretty good way to grind too. Reinforcements, Fleet Support, and Romulan Surivivor duty officer packs can be found on the exchange and award 7 doffs, with special powers. These occasionally drop a purple doff, and are guaranteed to drop at least one blue doff.

Special doff requisition packs, like the Elachi Survivor, Voth Separatist, Tholian Warfare Specialist, and Dominion Duty Officer, reward 1 (2 in the Elachi pack) purple doffs with unique powers. They're pricey, but these doffs usually have traits that are good for many of the doff missions out there (most of these doffs have resolve, which is a useful trait).

Also, if you talk about doffs in the fleet chat when I'm on, I'll often mail you a bunch in the in-game mail (I have thousands of doffs and don't need most of them, so I like to help out where I can B) )

If you have any questions, there are lots of resources out there, but hopefully this gives you a little bit of an intro.

Here's the deal with doff, they can make or break high end builds but for base-mid level build they are really optional. There are doffs that allow beam overload to penetrate your enemies shields and penetrate that stacks, and doffs that create aftershock gravity wells and does not stack. It's really a matter of what your build is and (really important here) How much can you afford. In most cases Blues are satisfactory but in others you really want those purple ones.

When buying doffs check the exchange price first and find the doff you want for your faction before asking in a trade channel to avoid getting taken for a ride. Better yet ask fleeties, they may have doffs they're not using and will never use that they may be able to give away

Thanks for the Link Andrew!! Looks like alot of Channels. Can people Trade these Doffs or sell them?

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