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We want to play Ferengi!!!

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Am I the only one who's hoping that in the next year or so - together with more playable Federation races - we will be able to play the FERENGI as well? On their own? Like, imagine the possibilities! A new kind of mission, money related/trade related, with negotiations or raids on convoys! It would be so cool!! With diplomacy involved!

GOD please cryptic add the ferengi!!
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    i hope so too but id rather see the big races like cardassians and dominion first but yes i would love a ferengi faction
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    rolls eyes

    checked the c-store lately????
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    MDK-187 wrote:
    rolls eyes

    checked the c-store lately????

    I was gonna say the same thing. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I would like a privateer/smuggler faction myself. Your own reffited ship from all races smuggling contraband to all sectors. Outrunning the big Corelian cruis.....I mean Federation cruisers or evading Klingon blockades for credits and equipment to upgrade you beat up old ship. Maybe in season 6 or 7.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    MDK-187 wrote:
    rolls eyes

    checked the c-store lately????

    the OP means a ferengi faction
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Neutral Faction is needed...

    Ferengi, Orions, Naucassans (sp?), Humans (Cyrano jones, Mudd, etc.)

    Traders, Smugglers, Pirates, Mercenaries and Lunatics (Lord Garth for example)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    i will /sign when there are more diverse Items in the game and more stuff that would be worth trading.

    Pirate Faction sound fine though... without OpenPVP? Who you gonna steel stuff from? NPC's? *meh*

    but yeah there is potential, but the game isn't there yet.
    Give it one or two years and a lot more items.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    i want ferengi too but only if they bring a decent economy system out with them too
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    OP doesn't say anything about a faction.........

    there's no reason a ferengi based fleet couldn't be established, roleplayed appropriately, dedicated to all things profit.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    MDK-187 wrote:
    OP doesn't say anything about a faction.........

    there's no reason a ferengi based fleet couldn't be established, roleplayed appropriately, dedicated to all things profit.

    this is his quote

    'On their own? Like, imagine the possibilities! A new kind of mission, money related/trade related, with negotiations or raids on convoys! It would be so cool!! With diplomacy involved!'

    sounds like a faction to me, otherwise those missions would be available to all feds species as well

    EDIT - unless the OP wishes to correct me
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    well thats half his quote.....

    no where does he say 'faction', thats your interpretation.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    MDK-187 wrote:
    well thats half his quote.....

    no where does he say 'faction', thats your interpretation.

    so that part was not good enough?
    your trying to get me on semantics now, just because he did not use the word faction.

    maybe ive misunderstood him but it sure sounds like we wants a separate ferengi group other than just a ferengi fed. maybe im wrong
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    need undine faction!!! crush the inferior races.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    MDK-187 wrote:
    OP doesn't say anything about a faction.........

    there's no reason a ferengi based fleet couldn't be established, roleplayed appropriately, dedicated to all things profit.

    It is not only possible, It has already been done. I have a Ferengi that is part of a Ferengi trade fleet (started it yesterday).

    Of course we have another fleet providing goods, but our only goal is to sell for profit.

    A full blown Ferengi trade faction would be absolutely great.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    maybe you have, maybe you haven't and maybe OP is so new to the game and its possibilites he still squeeks when he turns corners. we may never know.

    nor do i particularly care, i'm patching atm, 657mb
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    MDK-187 wrote:
    maybe you have, maybe you haven't and maybe OP is so new to the game and its possibilites he still squeeks when he turns corners. we may never know.

    nor do i particularly care, i'm patching atm, 657mb

    It would be wise to wait till the servers came back up before patching....


    Some people got bit in the TRIBBLE doing that about a month ago.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Soupgoblin wrote: »
    It would be wise to wait till the servers came back up before patching....


    Some people got bit in the TRIBBLE doing that about a month ago.

    to late now :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    I too would probably do a Ferengi Alt, if made a playable faction complete with Marauder Class Ferengi ships.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Sorry OP but that is a Cryptic only faction.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    While I know that Romulans and Cardassians (in that order) and likely even Borg (good grief I hope that never happens) are the popular choices, I firmly feel a "neutral" faction based on trade and crafting would do this game more good than another faction with the same attributes and goals as the 2 existing ones (well... 1.5 existing ones, lol)

    Ferengi is my personal first choice for a 3rd faction. I've been saying it since Beta.

    Focusing on obtaining, trading, and smuggling goods, crafting or modifying them, and doing it all for the latinum, not glory or exploration. THAT is my idea of a 3rd approach to gaming and an appropriate 3rd Faction.

    I still want Romulans eventually, maybe even Cardassians. But the quickest way to vastly expand the game's population is to expand its appeal to the "Uncle Owen" player (as we called them in SWG pre-NGE). It should of course also include the human and Orion traders, but all under a Ferengi trade alliance banner. To work, faction-centric weapons and equipment need to cease to be available to the opposing side. No more Disruptors at Sol. No more Phasers at Quo'nos. Only by being smuggled in with this 3rd faction to an exchange-like black market NPC by players, for latinum or barter.

    A complex barter system and a 3rd, latinum-based economy would be needed. Aid missions could become amusing, with Ferengi merchants bringing their ships into clusters to trade aid supplies for phaser or disruptor technologies. A dangerous haul of buffing tribbles slipped into Klingon space to provide to the Orion and Naussican captains...

    So yeah, I think a Ferengi faction would be amazing. But no, I doubt the rest of the population would stand it coming before Romulans and Cardassians.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    /signed

    I don't want to play a Federation Ferengi. I want to play a real Ferengi. =)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    For $1million donation they are willing to make a Ferengi faction available to that player heh.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Problem with all the other factions is they are too similiar. There will be no feel of changed gameplay but Ferenghi done right or Borg there will be so I do partly agree,

    Only advanced I see for Romulan is to get into PvP with cloaks against Klingons
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Jnoh wrote:
    While I know that Romulans and Cardassians (in that order) and likely even Borg (good grief I hope that never happens) are the popular choices.

    To work, faction-centric weapons and equipment need to cease to be available to the opposing side. No more Disruptors at Sol. No more Phasers at Quo'nos. Only by being smuggled in with this 3rd faction to an exchange-like black market NPC by players, for latinum or barter.

    I agree with this 1000%, but know faction specific weapons will never be enforced, we're too far down that road of mixing things up, to go back now. :mad:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Stillwater wrote: »
    /signed

    I don't want to play a Federation Ferengi. I want to play a real Ferengi. =)

    While I support the idea of wanting to play a Ferengi Alliance ferengi ... because I support all things ferengi in this game, I would like to take a moment to point out that Nog and the rest of the ferengi who have since followed in his pioneering footsteps and joined starfleet are REAL ferengi.

    Don't insult his legacy just because you can't find profit in such an endeavor.

    ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Blodveard wrote: »
    Neutral Faction is needed...

    Ferengi, Orions, Naucassans (sp?), Humans (Cyrano jones, Mudd, etc.)

    Traders, Smugglers, Pirates, Mercenaries and Lunatics (Lord Garth for example)

    Don't forget to include Pakleds. While they don't have the best of reputations, they steal, sell stuff, and are untrustworthy. A few might have made it into Starfleet, but the race as a whole could belong to the Ferengi faction.
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