[Ed Kolis]

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The Ferengi still get a combat bonus from captainless ships...

What do you mean? The Ferengi do not have dedicated combat captains like other races...their only sources of bonuses will be in the form of sensors etc.

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Yeah... but there's nothing to stop a cunning Ferengi admiral from assigning NO captain to a ship... and since all the Ferengi captains provide combat penalties, that would effectively be a combat bonus! Not to mention that when the captain is lost, the penalty goes away too... The captain's dead, now we can all fight better!
Why not just give the Ferengi a racial penalty to combat, either in their culture or their racial traits, and remove the penalties from the captains?

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Planning on using all the fancy Nx damage to shields damage types?

The polarized hull plating is armor, not shields, and is simply basic emissive armor.

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Huh? Never said anything about polarized hull plating... I was just asking if you're going to spread around those interesting damage types to make some weapons better at penetrating shields than others.