Ferengi Alliance idea

posted on June 15th, 2011, 12:15 am

The Ferengi would have it's own battleships such as the D'Kora marauder but would gain 50% more resources with it's Trading post station.

The Ferengi can have pacts like contracts with the Miradorn, Talarians, the Bajorans, the Tholians, the Niberite alliance, the Gorn confederation for stronger battleship support.

posted on June 15th, 2011, 12:17 am

I wouldn't call the D'Kora a battleship, the weapons and defences of them probably vary by the owners wealth.

[Zulnak]

posted on June 15th, 2011, 9:34 am

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I dislike the idea of a merged fraction consisting of Ferengi and all those Others with a warp-capable ship. The Mercenary-Station is a smoother proposal to bring the smaller Empires into FleetOps - like Orion, Miradorn, Talarians, Nausikans, Gorn etcetera.

Nevertheless, the Ferengi are important. Perhaps 'The Undying Nephalim' or 'Mal' can build up a detailed version of a playable Ferengi-Alliance. The same has been done for some other Races & Avatars. Could be useful for Modder who might use this. U can take a look here and here -- these Topics include good examples. Oh I see the Images are broken; damnit!

I remember, some Ships/Classes/Chassis exist on a2files. Avatars could be build around the Rules of Acquisition. Some kind of 'War is good for business' and 'Peace is good for business'.

posted on June 15th, 2011, 11:05 am

this is a great idea!! Maybe the ferengi can have alliances with several RACEs but for game balance, depending on your avatar, you get different race alliances.

posted on June 15th, 2011, 7:47 pm

Here is the line-up of the Ferengi-Classes from Birth of the Federation:

• Explorer - Bronta (possible as Scout)
• Light Raider - Ngort (possible as early light Destroyer)
• Raider - Tokorn (possible as middle powerful Destroyer)
• War Cruiser - Garont (possible as fast light Cruiser)
• Strike Cruiser - Ooron (possible as long range Cruiser)
• Marauder - D'Kora (possible as workhorse Cruiser)
• Colony Ship - Tomax (possible as Constructor)
• Troop Transport - Glantor (possible as Freighter)

I wouldn't call the D'Kora a battleship, the weapons and defences of them probably vary by the owners wealth.

Bring up some re-fits for the D'Kora Class -- like the different Nebula Classes of the Federation. One of this re-fits could named "Marauder re-fit" or something like this.

posted on June 15th, 2011, 8:48 pm

Despite the fact that the Ferengi were my favorite race to play as in BotF, I always felt that the chances of them building up a large effective military would be very low. While a Ferengi can easily get into a fight, as has been shown many times, this is usually the equivalent to a Peacock showing it's feathers. Ferengi ships are geared towards mercantile operations rather then warfare and I think they should reflect that in FO. By my understanding that's the plan of the Devs once they get the NPC races put in on the maps. We'll probably end up seeing a handful of stations, utility related ships, the Marauders and probably a handful of other smaller Ferengi ships down the road in FO. I'm still in the dark on how future diplomacy will work in FO but I'd not be surprised if you could bribe an NPC Ferengi player to join the cause.

posted on June 16th, 2011, 9:38 am

Offtopic:
It's nice to meet a fan of the BotF Ferengi Alliance. Personally, I wasn't a big fan of playing as Ferengi but I really enjoy them as a impossible opponent. They was able to build up tons of ships within a short time and in the later game there was some good fights against 'em.

You are right, the Devs have their plans for the Ferengi as a npc. Sometimes I want to read the ideas in order to shorten the time. I really enjoy your Thread with the third Avatars (here) and Thread with intressting new Races (like this). I can't stop referring these two. Beside do you notice that the images are broken?

[Utopia]

posted on June 17th, 2011, 5:21 pm

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The miradorn ship is a cool looking ship.  I hope it becomes a npc or both 
I like the special that the marauder has. It is a very impressive combat defense. The ships from Birth of the Federation are nice with the new ferengi starbase.