Cadet Burnham

KTz

You gave us two Burnham cadets, which I would like to use, but they are useless because they are not alien. I think they should have Vulcan, so they can be used every day, instead of occupying the vault.
Thank you.

Irial

@KTz - To clarify, you cannot use the 2 new cards in the manner in which you would like to use them; I think implying they are completely "useless" is inaccurate.

Every card in the game has its limited 'usefulness', and its skills and traits are supposed to match as best as they can the character in the TV episode/movie. It is normal for some new cards to end up quickly going into the Vault, as 'collecting' is a part of the game. For example, there are many players who immediately Vault most of the new 4* crew they acquire.

By the logic I an inferring from your suggestion, DB should never release another new 2* male character, since it could not be used for cadet challenges on Thursdays? Or they should never release another new 2* character that is not a member of Starfleet?

KTz

@Irial that is not the logic, I understand very well what collecting means because I am one of the collectors player. What I wanted to say is that I like these new characters (Burnham in this case) and if they were released, I would have liked to use them every week for the challenge cadet and for that use she need an alien trait.

bowdy

I agree with the OP - bit of a waste of a card. Why not make her a rare maybe? Is there something about rares that they don't like? I dunno, it's all well and good collecting, which we do, but it'd be nice if they had a function.

We do need a rare 3* alien female - kira nerys anyone? Seems the perfect character to fulfill that need. She'd be a very much a hallehlujah cadet for the weekend.

Jhamel

3* Data, 3* Worf, 3* Kira, 3* Seven ... there are a lot of possibilites for aliens and alien/females ... and there still is no 3* Picard either which shocks me.

Ironagedave

Well I kind of agree with OP. Desert Burnham in particular is not very good. But not for the reasons of the alien trait. She is human not alien, not part alien. She has an afinity with Vulcan sure but DB really needs to work out how to make the distinction between species and affinity in the traits. The problem I find with these new cadets is their stats and unfitting traits. For a two star character Desert Burnham is just not that great.

Example I run the 3rd epic in Ex Astris to get the sci experimnets. I run comfortably with Worf, Jaxa and F. Dax. on a good roll Dax can clear both Dip nodes not just the last one. Now Desert Burnham has slightly better Dip by 20 points but her proficiency is so awful there is a good chance she will fail.

She offers very little, doesn't have the right traits - unless there is a challenges overhaul she is just immortalising fodder.

Jim Steele

I dont think the problem is with Burnhams traits, more the Cadet missions needing 'Alien' to qualify. The Cadet missions need re-hashing just to maintain interest in the game really!

Jim

SirLanik

Worth mentioning that both 2* Burnhams are eligible to be used, presumably due to her Vulcan upbringing. Try ‘em yourself!
I was going to post a picture of me using them, but embarrassingly it says I need to “be around a bit longer to post a link.” Cheers to new forums I guess.

Zann Calcore (ISA)

There’s another thread somewhere around here where it’s mentioned that both green Burnhams can be used on alien cadet missions. I know this to be the case because I’ve used Desert Burnham myself on Tuesday missions. @Black Pebble made a reply there saying that it is actually some kind of bug and that eventually they’re going to fix it, so I wouldn’t depend on having any Burnham for the alien missions but might as well use her while you can, if you want.