Borg techs; boarding party/holding beam...

posted on October 13th, 2009, 4:44 am

I'm just curious....does anyone think it would be a good idea to have the Borg boarding party be somewhat like it is in the Star Trek universe.  One use will transport some drones and those drones will slowly start to take over the ship.  The larger the chassis, the smaller the effect.  So if 5 or 10 drones go to a ship with 20-30 crew, it would eventually turn to Borg (also, there should be a chance for the boarding party to fail.).  If the special transports 5-10 drones to a ship with 100 crew, it should take it down by half.  Borg are pretty balanced as it is.  I already mentioned possible turret tweaks amongst all classes so I won't bother bringing that up.  I think the upgrade for some buildings to learn holding beam could be better utilized in some buildings.  i.e. have it on graviton turret but not have it use the transfer crew over.  Let me know what you guys think.

posted on October 13th, 2009, 4:58 am

I think boarding parties right now could do with a little randomization. They also seem to be a little ineffective- you'd think a boarding party of trained marines would be pretty capable of eliminating resistance on a ship. I think boarding parties should all be stronger and particularly on Borg and Troopships.

posted on October 13th, 2009, 9:27 am

I agree Combat transports (i.e. Borg and TroopShip transporters in general) should have an increased amount of crew transfer, but, if I recall correctly, the amount of transported troops via teleporter is controlled by a global variable. If you increase that variable, all ships transporter capable in the game will transport the same amount of crew.

If you want to send more crew over, you need to make a special, like the Tavara's or the Borg Boarding Party.

On another note, no to having the graviton turrets with Holding Beam. If you micromanage the turrets, you can stop any offensive cold, you just need to put together enough turrets.

posted on October 13th, 2009, 12:50 pm

So the boarding party specials cannot be changed to affect different chassis size?  I haven't looked that much into the files but if not....phooey. lol.  What about the idea of making Borg boarding party drones (or beaming drones for that matter) slowly attempting to take control of the ship like in First Contact?  As far as the graviton arrays having holding beam, I'm not talking loads of special energy.  Maybe enough to hold ships for a few seconds at maximum.  You could even bring the recharge rate of the special energy down as well.  Its just a nice thing for perimeter defense as Borg are slow builders and having spare ships to guard a base is just not that effective at the moment.

posted on October 18th, 2009, 12:45 am

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