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Ferengi Ingenuity

    Submitted by KaiserK on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 16:53

    Ferengi Ingenuity

    Quark's refusal to spend latinum resulted in some creative holosuite repairs. Rom once used a copper-ytterbium composite spatula as a spare part - the perfect plasma conductor.

    Dilemma Dilemma - Dual dilemma Dual
    Special icons: Countdown 3

    If one personnel present has 2 Computer Skill, discard dilemma. Otherwise, to get past, place on most CUNNING Computer Skill present ("stopped" during countdown).

    Characteristics: Countdown icon dilemma, wall dilemma.

    Rule hint for this card

    This card has an clarification:

    When affected by Access Denied, this dilemma reads as follows: “If one personnel present has 3 Computer Skill, discard dilemma. Otherwise, to get past, place on 2 most CUNNING Computer Skill personnel present (“stopped” during countdown).”

    Taken form Glossary - Version 1.9.5.

    Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
     

    		Ferengi Ingenuity

    This Card-Review article was written by Kathy McCracken and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Jul 31st, 1999.

    This dilemma is guaranteed to slow you down unless you're very well-equipped with Computer Skill. Specifically, those personnel with 2 Computer Skill just became a lot more valuable, because that's the only way to get by this dilemma with no further effects. If you have no Computer Skill at all, it becomes a wall dilemma; if you have only single-Computer Skill personnel, the most CUNNING is placed out of the action for three turns. Follow up with other Computer Skill-requiring dilemmas for maximum impact.

    Combos:

    • Ferengi Ingenuity + "Pup" + Access Deniedimage: Take out one Computer Skill and up the requirements for nullifying "Pup" to a mind-boggling 5 Computer Skill. You'll have plenty of time to take advantage of the disabled ship attributes.
    • Ferengi Ingenuity + Ancient Computerimage: Often the Computer Skill who is "stopped" will also be one of your SCIENCE or ENGINEERs, making it that much less likely that you can pass the Ancient Computer by any means.