BORG Balance?

posted on June 29th, 2010, 3:01 am

So here are my first suggestions:

- slow down the movement of the BORG (hey, they are flying like a rabbit throught the map)
- limit the availability of making Cube armadas (that's stupid, a Borg is a Borg and not a discounter*)
- lower the health from the digging ships
- check the nanites, that's very tough if all your stations and ships go down within seconds in a relative big radius

* perhaps a bigger Cube is a solution in late games to replace "smaller" cubes

Slow down the movement?  The Borg are already slow, even though they (at warp) surpassed all vessel speeds in Trek.  I admit, the speed of their ships in FO helps keep it balanced and also give them that sort of cocky "hey, we're gonna send ONE cube to Earth every time we try to take it over because you guys are super weak!!" attitude.  Seriously though....the speed is fine.

Cube armadas?  Only against the AI.  If you're having trouble with this, put them on normal and decrease their build speed...it makes for more of a "realistic" challenge.  Or keep it on hard and increase it....either way, Borg are super expensive and cube armadas don't happen during online play.

Lower the health from digging ships?  What's a digging ship?  Borg are fine as is.  If you're talking about their miners?  Nah, they are fine at the moment.

Nanites aren't used right, seemingly, by the A.I.  If I'm not mistaken, there are changes coming for them.

posted on July 22nd, 2010, 5:04 pm

The Borg are by far the strongest race for the AI.  All it has to do is mine, build (with massive cost reductions because it's a cheating AI) and send stuff out.

If you play against humans, though, you'll see that they are NOT overpowered at all.  Their miners are harder to kill, but killing one sets a borg player back a lot more than killing other races' miners.  Borg only have strength in one place at a time, because they have to keep all their ships together.  They're easy to harass and have trouble defending on a large map.  Add to that expensive ships that can be killed while they're building and they're actually one of the harder races to use.

Try going to a small map, 1v1 against the borg and rushing to kill their miners.  I don't even play against random AI on large maps anymore because in 3v3 AI the borg will always win.