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OOOH... I like that idea. I may need to steal that for freidnly home brew games...

I had this idea for awhile, tell me what you think.

Generic Mauraders have 1 acquisition points
Unique Mauraders have 2 acquisition points
Generic Captians have +1 acquisition points
Unique Captians have +2 Acquistion point

Grand Nagus Zek +3 Acquisition points, if they would ever make a card for him, counts as "admiril" upgrade only never captian.
Liquidator Brunt +2 Acquisition points, if they would ever make a card for him for Ferenghi faction, and not a captian.
Quark and a few other Ferenghi would have +1 Acquisition points
Ferenghi like Rom & Nog, if cards came out for Ferenghi, they would not have and Acquisition points. Why, they are not motivated by profit.
Maybe a talent that has a +1 Acquisition Point

Maximum 15 acqusition points per fleet.

Acquasition points a spent thus, to repersent "cost" in gold pressed Lattium and possibility rarity, these are free upgrades that DO count towards the upgrade slots on a ship and may be deployed face down. Any upgrade that has a ship type restriction may not be purchased with acquisition points.

+1 cost to tech or weapons that cost 1-2 points
+2 cost to tech or weapons that cost 3-4 points
+3 cost to tech or weapons that cost 5+ points

SO, systems upgrade would cost 3 acqusition points
Projected stasis field would cost 8 acqusition points

We came up with card ideas for Zek and Brunt

Grand Nagus Zek Admiril...never a captian
+0 Skill
Cost 5
At Start of turn before any ships have chosen manuvers, Zek may choose one enemy ship at range 1-3. That ship rolls 2 evade dice and applies all results as follows:
2 Evade: target ship may act as normal
2 Battlestations: may not attack Zek's ship this turn
2 Blanks: target ship may not attack any ship this round
1 Battlestations 1 Blank: Zek's ship and target ship may not attack each other
1 Evade 1 Blank: Zek's ship and target ship may not declare actions including free actions

Ship has +3 Acquisition points

Liquadator Brunt
Cost 5
Action: once per game, steal on tech or weapon on target ship that is not cloaked or has active shields.

Ship has +2 Acquisition points

 Corpsman913 wrote:
I still feel that the Ferengi aren't worth their own faction... With quark's treasure, we will be getting a total of 2 classes of ship.

There is another canon Ferengi ship from an episode of Enterprise. Some day we could get that too.

Wasn't there also an episode of the next generation where they Ferengi used some old Klingon birds of prey, we could get them as an op prize / blind booster ship?

There are a few different cards I hoping come out soon, for example, Jake Sisko and Nog will probably come out with Quarks treasure or the USS Valiant, and there was a Ferengi assassin/mercenary that should be with quark's treasure... maybe some Nosicans?
Just some thoughts.

Nosicans would be awesome Maybe something akin to Klingon Boarding Party.

 Tamereth wrote:
Wasn't there also an episode of the next generation where they Ferengi used some old Klingon birds of prey, we could get them as an op prize / blind booster ship?

Yes, B'rel class

In 'Rascals' I think. Also there's a Ferengi-owned Romulan Warbird in the novels.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
In 'Rascals' I think. Also there's a Ferengi-owned Romulan Warbird in the novels.

Just what we need... more dual faction ships. NOT! Couldn't resist.

I play in a ship pure environment, where it's been ruled that dual faction ships have both factions, and can thus have captains/upgrades from both factions. After the Big Borg Nerf, all the Borg players have been jumping all over the dual faction Borg ships. It's been highly annoying. LOL

Yeah, all of the places I play at say faction pure. Dual faction ships have to pick one of the two.

Though I like one of the shops: you can have two ships of different factions, but they must be faction pure. if you run a dual faction ship, that's your two factions.

I am ok with Ferengi getting dual faction... something besides a D'Kora class would be GREAT.