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What happened to the Ferengi Prototype Console NPC's?

I can't find anything in the release notes about them being taken/phased out. They are/were a great source for GPL! Please bring them back.

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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    He's still on ESD.
    When you face Q's chair, the two Ferengi are still to the left by the Tailor.


    Edit:
    Ahhh, I see. He no longer has a response bar. Bummer
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  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,708 Arc User
    Also on drozanna station. Not sure where they're located for the klingons.​​
    This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    daveyny wrote: »
    He's still on ESD.
    questerius wrote: »
    Also on drozanna station. Not sure where they're located for the klingons.​​

    Apparently, they took away his action bar but left the character there.
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  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,708 Arc User
    daveyny wrote: »
    daveyny wrote: »
    He's still on ESD.
    questerius wrote: »
    Also on drozanna station. Not sure where they're located for the klingons.

    Apparently, they took away his action bar but left the character there.

    That's entirely possible. Don't think i ever used them so i would not have noticed that.​​
    This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
  • shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    I never bothered to trade them in, as I still use them to make random consoles!
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  • faviokfaviok Member Posts: 13 Arc User
    Precisely... they took away the interface ability.

    For those that didn't know; they would buy consoles that you picked up from drops and they'd pay in GPL. They would pay anywhere from 15-50k GPL per console. Of course they would not purchase all of the consoles I would have in inventory, but on average I could sell 20% of them for GPL instead of EC.

    I was making huge amounts of GPL.... unfortunately it appears that they've decided to stop that gravy train....
  • gradiigradii Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    faviok wrote: »
    Precisely... they took away the interface ability.

    For those that didn't know; they would buy consoles that you picked up from drops and they'd pay in GPL. They would pay anywhere from 15-50k GPL per console. Of course they would not purchase all of the consoles I would have in inventory, but on average I could sell 20% of them for GPL instead of EC.

    I was making huge amounts of GPL.... unfortunately it appears that they've decided to stop that gravy train....

    Wouldn't be so bad if we could win GPL in more ways than Dabo and Doffing.. I vote playable tongo.

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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    Wasn't the original purpose of the character to take back science consoles that used to have twice the current amount of skill bonus on science skills from a skill system prior to a major skill revamp and had been allowed to keep the higher bonus for a while until they were nerfed, too?

    Timeline:
    Game Release
    Cryptic decides that science consoles give to high of a bonus and nerfs it to half. All existing consoles stay at their old values.
    Cryptic realizes that this is a dumb idea and nerfs the existing consoles to the new values, too. TO appease the raging players that spend millions of EC (that used to be a lot) to get these consoles by adding the vendor.
    Cryptic realizes the skill system sucks and revamps it.
    ...
    Now.

    Why would the vendor even still take any consoles? Shouldn't they be all gone by now?





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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,573 Arc User
    Assign the Ferengi Doff you get from the first play-through of 'Time in a Bottle' to an Active Ground Slot. As you slaughter Borg, Vaadwaur, or Voth in the Ground Battlezones, it'll start adding up. One of my characters has made over 40k GPL just doing what we do in this game as a matter of course - killing new life and new civilizations. ;)
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  • sheldonlcoopersheldonlcooper Member Posts: 4,042 Arc User
    I'm sorry to have missed this bonanza. But each summer and winter I sell some ornaments to keep all my characters around 250,000. This would have made the big floor trophy doable though so again sorry I missed out :( sniffle.
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  • fiberteksyfirfiberteksyfir Member Posts: 1,207 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    Gpl isnt particularly hard to come by but you cant even get these consoles anymore can you? This is going back five years at this point at least iirc, before f2p even
  • shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    Gpl isnt particularly hard to come by but you cant even get these consoles anymore can you? This is going back five years at this point at least iirc, before f2p even

    They may have made changes recently, as to prevent new ones from being obtained, but it wasn't just too long ago, they were still being provided via doff assignments!
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Gpl isnt particularly hard to come by but you cant even get these consoles anymore can you? This is going back five years at this point at least iirc, before f2p even

    They may have made changes recently, as to prevent new ones from being obtained, but it wasn't just too long ago, they were still being provided via doff assignments!
    Actually... I think they were craftable in the new R&D too.
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  • dareaudareau Member Posts: 2,390 Arc User
    You mean the guy that says he'll buy "prototype" science consoles?

    So, which ones are the "prototypes", because I've never received one as a drop and/or seen it as a possible DOffing/Crafting result...

    Therefore, if he was buying "regular" science consoles along with prototypes, then that would fall under "glitch" and lead to his unannounced "correction"...
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    dareau wrote: »
    You mean the guy that says he'll buy "prototype" science consoles?

    So, which ones are the "prototypes", because I've never received one as a drop and/or seen it as a possible DOffing/Crafting result...

    Therefore, if he was buying "regular" science consoles along with prototypes, then that would fall under "glitch" and lead to his unannounced "correction"...
    Yeah, that....
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  • monkeybone13monkeybone13 Member Posts: 4,640 Arc User
    http://sto.gamepedia.com/Ferengi_Collector#Notes
    The Ferengi Collectors have been added to Star Trek Online with Season Two: Ancient Enemies as Cryptic Studios decided to "nerf" Consoles from the early days of the game that had superior stats. To compensate players who own these older consoles, the Ferengi will reward players willing to sell their consoles with a large amount of latinum.

    Season 2 patch notes http://sto.gamepedia.com/Release_notes/20100727#General
    Older science consoles have been updated to be brought in line with the stats of newer science consoles. These older consoles now have the term “Prototype” in their name and can be sold to vendors on DS9, Drozana Station and ESD for a some Latinum.

    It's obvious the ferengi collector wasn't suppose to be taking just any science consoles. It was bugged so they disabled him.

    One thing the wiki doesn't say is that he also took andorian phaser ship weapons. Shortly after the andorian Kumari ships were released they nerfed the andorian ship weapons you purchase from the dilithium store. The collector would offer players a full dilithium refund for the weapons they purchased before the change.
  • faviokfaviok Member Posts: 13 Arc User
    Thanks for the info. I guess they figured so few players were utilizing these merchants that they didn't need to announce they were being removed.

    You would think that if they have been in operation since season 2 that that would warrant a foot note or something....

    Appreciate the assistance
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Given that it was classified as an exploit it's not surprising that they didn't say much.
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