An idea for the Borg Cube

posted on January 6th, 2009, 12:27 am

A thought I had about the Borg Cube having the ability to launch a Borg Sphere like in Star Trek: First Contact! Also, with the opening for launching the Sphere, it can also suck up enemy ships when the holding beam is active. So instead of drones boarding the ship, the holding beam can just simply drain the crew and put the vessel inside the cube and the player can have the option of launching the captured ship at anytime with a full assimilated crew!

posted on January 6th, 2009, 12:38 am

Sounds like a very, very cool idea! But I fear it might be damn hard to program.

posted on January 6th, 2009, 12:45 am

Yeah...still a good idea though! 

posted on January 6th, 2009, 11:33 am

How would it be hard? It would be no different to adding a Seperation ability.

posted on January 6th, 2009, 12:21 pm

How would it be hard? It would be no different to adding a Seperation ability.

yes but then you would need to code that into every single ship and is variants. The dominion that means the ships and their prototypes. And i doubt that this will be of consern until all the borg stuff has been re-attached to all the ships not just fed stuff.

I like the idea, but the possibility is slim.

[Megaman3321]

posted on January 6th, 2009, 6:56 pm

Last edited by Megaman3321 on January 6th, 2009, 7:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.

It is a cool idea,  but completely unbalanced.

Now that I think of it, the Command Cube, if all of the slots have Holding Beam, then it gains the ability to fire off small Spheres that are decked out with either a) 4 phasers, or b) if on optimize, the special ability that drains energy, and they all have 10 percent of their normal health of the larger counterparts, basically, they're fighters. HOWEVER, this costs as much as a small fleet of Tactical Cubes. Small as in 8, maybe 9.

posted on January 6th, 2009, 6:59 pm

... one crimp is also that the sphere would have to be different than the current one... as that one is way too big to fit in a cube I believe.

I happen to really like these ideas though 

posted on January 6th, 2009, 7:09 pm

completely unbalanced.

I'd be careful with those words. If we don't take care with the balance, it'll lead to another version of the Voyager Borg.

posted on January 6th, 2009, 7:13 pm

Read the edit.

posted on January 6th, 2009, 8:37 pm

... one crimp is also that the sphere would have to be different than the current one... as that one is way too big to fit in a cube I believe.

I happen to really like these ideas though 

Yeah, the Sphere that is inside a Cube is alot smaller. Though, the Cube can still have space to store captured ships that can be launched on command.