Officer benefits
Seeing that we can't get officers anymore, they should be removed completely and the benefits added to all player's bases like what was done with the factions. There is a big difference in my fleet and building build/ repair times because I have officers and my son's base that has none. If it's not available to everyone then it should be fixed so everyone has the benefits.
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Personally, I'm down with this. I'd hate to stare at the disgusting bright Scourge faction base every time I play the game just because it happens to have stronger turrets.
But yeah, the reliance on faction to make turrets was removed in favor of balancing things to be able to be useful on their own. Which is a good thing in my opinion.
In regards to officers though, last I knew they could still be recruited. I haven't tried personally, but there was someone talking about doing it a month or so ago on discord and they were able to get it to work.
That said, it would be pretty nice if they just made a character officer that could be recruited during a raid/pillage/bounty for each of the faction leaders. Harlock already exists for players from back before dirt was invented.
@Templar614 I preferred the Reaver skin
So yeah.....there's that.
There was an idea of turning Faction leaders into officers by a kix staffer (I can't remember who) which would give all players 5 officers.
@Templar614 can you follow up on that? Might've been Peter or Hank who mentioned it.
It was likely me you saw suggesting it. I don't believe anyone from Kixeye has said anything about it being a possibility.
Harlock already exists as an officer though. Which is why I made the suggestion. So from a technical standpoint it should be doable. But if there was any kind of behind the scenes agreement with Facebook then it may not be possible.
Considering the OP made a comparison to treating officers the same way that factions and bonus damage were treated it isn't an unrealistic jump.
Obviously not everyone can have officers.
Just like some old blueprints.
Maybe it depends on when or how you joined this game.
It seems to me that Kixeye wants older members to have advantages against newer ones.
Do you have him as an officer? It was a promotion way early on in the game, like back in 2011.
I would assume you don't have him and that is why you can't assign him.