Assimilated vessels

posted on June 11th, 2010, 6:13 pm

I had the idea today asically - as the assimilation avatar, when you assimilate enemy vessels you get options to upgrade the vessels with 2 enhancements for a cost and outfit them with Borg technology finally allowing you to really turn their own ships against them with borg improvments ontop! My ideas for improvements were:

Enhance weapon systems 250 Tritanium, 250 Dilithium
Outfits the vessel with Borg weaponry suitable for its class, so intrepid gets the disruptor from the probe, Sovereign maybe from the Sphere

Enhance shielding 350 Tritanium, 350 Dilithium
greatly increases the strength of the vessels shielding by 25%, amount increases depending upon the class (battleships receiving 50% increase)

Enhance engines 200 Tritanium, 200 Dilithium
Increses the vessels speed

Construct Central Plexus 750 Tritanium 750 Dilithium
Completes the newly assimilated vessels uplink to the collective, allowing it to receive the most recent technological adaptations of the Collective. Basically gives the ship access to the transmission matrix specials you've researched.

• put back the borg stuff on models for assimilated vessels

I also had the idea that these could serve as a visual representation of the upgrades you've purchased, for example engines turn green for speed upgrade, borg chunks on the hull for weapons, shields turn green for shields and a glow for the central plexus.

What do you guys think?

posted on June 11th, 2010, 6:25 pm

i think this has been suggested before. i personally am im support for small upgrades, not too damaging though, or the assim avatar will steamroll.

posted on June 11th, 2010, 6:30 pm

Better assimilated vessels has been discussed before, though not with costs for the upgrades. From what I've read it seems the ideas just quietly died. And the steamroll too much has been discussed too, assim beams are already damn powerful and are long range. That could really screw balance.

posted on June 11th, 2010, 6:31 pm

Lol. Then what would happen if a B'rel got assimed? Eh? Borgie B'rel Beams? 

Heh, it would be good to see Borg pulse weapons introduced.

(Such as on the ScoutSphere that Boggz suggested).

posted on June 11th, 2010, 6:34 pm

Somehow, pulse weapons seem too 'creative' for the Borg...

posted on June 11th, 2010, 7:03 pm

Eh, the borg would either remove them, or upgrade their power capacity so that they hit much, much, much harder.

posted on June 11th, 2010, 9:41 pm

i think this has been suggested before. i personally am im support for small upgrades, not too damaging though, or the assim avatar will steamroll.

Keep the ideas flowing in my opinion - balance is irrelevant as things can always be changed

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posted on June 11th, 2010, 11:12 pm

Last edited by Nebula_Class_Ftw on June 18th, 2010, 9:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Lol. Then what would happen if a B'rel got assimed? Eh? Borgie B'rel Beams? 

Heh, it would be good to see Borg pulse weapons introduced.

(Such as on the ScoutSphere that Boggz suggested).

We saw Borg pulse weapons in BoBW, they destroyed three Federation fighters (that's what they looked like anywhows) that were apparently Mars Defense.

EDIT: Just watched SFDebris review of Descent pt I, noticed another instance of pulse weapons.

Lore's rogue Borg drones also used handheld green pulse weapons.