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Absolutely the most Ferengi thing in the game, ever...
staq16
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Thought this might amuse / interest people...
I've recently started a Ferengi alt, as a bit of fun (because it's hard to get further from Trek's ideals than the Ferengi, created as they were during Gene Rodenberry's most militant stage). To get through the early missions, I splurged and bought a couple of D'Kora holoemitters, so I could at least pretend he had a Ferengi vessel. I'm weird like that, OK?
Here's where it gets fun. Holoemitters, it seems, remain tradeable, even if they've been used. So I have been able to list a Holoemitter with 4 seconds of runtime left, and it shows the same as a normal one on the exchange. I tried selling it to another alt, then passing it back, and the runtime remains 4s.
So in theory, I could sell a 4s-left holoemitter for the same price as a fully-charged one; or even as a 50% off special. Once only!
It doesn't get any more Ferengi than that. "Once you have their money, you never give it back".
(NOTE: I assume this would work for any character or holoemitter. It's just exceptionally appropriate for a Ferengi
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I've recently started a Ferengi alt, as a bit of fun (because it's hard to get further from Trek's ideals than the Ferengi, created as they were during Gene Rodenberry's most militant stage). To get through the early missions, I splurged and bought a couple of D'Kora holoemitters, so I could at least pretend he had a Ferengi vessel. I'm weird like that, OK?
Here's where it gets fun. Holoemitters, it seems, remain tradeable, even if they've been used. So I have been able to list a Holoemitter with 4 seconds of runtime left, and it shows the same as a normal one on the exchange. I tried selling it to another alt, then passing it back, and the runtime remains 4s.
So in theory, I could sell a 4s-left holoemitter for the same price as a fully-charged one; or even as a 50% off special. Once only!
It doesn't get any more Ferengi than that. "Once you have their money, you never give it back".
(NOTE: I assume this would work for any character or holoemitter. It's just exceptionally appropriate for a Ferengi
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Caveat emptor applies very strongly to holo-emitters. (I bought one, once, fresh from the latinum store, which I figure is the only safe way to do it... not that there's much else you can do with latinum anyway.)
This.
First time I've done it. The basic plan was run him to level 11, then DOff through to when I can use the Nandi; hence spending a grand total of 1M EC to have the illusion of a T1 Ferengi D'kora, for a bit of fun. The frightening thing is, with 2 hours of holoemitter time I finished that levelling with 20 minutes to spare. Buying Z-store T1 ships really is the most horrific waste of Zen.
Well, people usually buy them for the battery console or self-upgrading blue phasers... Not that they're all THAT good use for zen, but they're at least useful beyond level 10.
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So to avoid shady deals, you buy from a Ferengi? :: scratches head in confusion ::
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