Ferengi

posted on August 18th, 2009, 3:22 pm

I was wondering. Do you think it would be possible to make the Ferengi a "mini race" sort of thing? You have them as an ally if you play Federation or something. You can hire them for some latinum, and they give you a trading base and a Ferengi shipyard, and then you build some Mauraders and blow stuff up. I think it would be fun to hire them as mercenaries, but be able to control their ships. 

posted on August 18th, 2009, 10:10 pm

aye, the Ferengi are on todo for implementation as a "non playable" race

posted on August 19th, 2009, 2:58 pm

Well, I have seen an occasional D'Kora class Maurader go by, but  thought it would be cool if they could somehow be used as an ally. 

posted on August 19th, 2009, 4:37 pm

The scavenger marauders are a feature from stock A2...as far as I know, hireable mercenaries (including Ferengi) are on the todo list for future versions

posted on August 22nd, 2009, 7:38 am

Hmm...

I have disabled the "Non-playable races" option. With trading removed, I'd capture the derelict ships at my own pace, rather than racing against the Ferengi to see who gets the ship.

IF (big "if") trading gets re-implemented in FO, I might consider enabling the non-player races option back again.

posted on August 22nd, 2009, 4:34 pm

Okay.... are there ideas of some Ferengi ships?

posted on August 22nd, 2009, 7:09 pm

On AFC's (Armada Fleet Command) web site they do have a Ferengi mod avaiable for A2. However I have not installed it. The reason is  you had to root around in the files,and sometimes after that other mods would not splay well together. I don't know how hard it would be to convert to Fleet Ops (with mod makers permission). In modding  ability , I am about as skilled as  the Exon Valdez's Capatian. I have not been able to look at the mod and see the jpg's of the ships . If I remember correctly there are several ships in the mod as a playable race.Besides the Bortas  which no is a map object  on FO, I beleive there were  a mining/attack ship that directly removed Dilithium and Trilithium of  opponent ships to be used  for the ferengi use.