Boarding distractions

posted on March 8th, 2011, 5:24 pm

Could baording actions slow down repairs or weapon firerate for a while (during boarding and for a few seconds after seconds)? Having to fight off invaders would cause distractions for a ship or station that would impare their ability to fight, especially if the transport is directly to the bridge.

Probably limited to assault ships and transport-style special weapons, or the Borg would just transport with impunity.

posted on March 8th, 2011, 5:45 pm

interesting, even limited to assault ships, it could become quite a boon to the b8 strat as they dont have to lower shields. Maybe if once 20pc of the crew are gone u get temporary slowdowns.

Nice idea.

posted on March 8th, 2011, 6:46 pm

I'd rather not limit to assaults, as they already get beaming with shields up. I like the idea of needing to take out so many percent before things start getting messed up.

posted on March 8th, 2011, 7:15 pm

me say:

Big NoNo

why?

Because of the following:

I already abuse transport and cause grief for some players (hinthint:boggz)

with this transport will seriously frustrate players more than they are now with transport activity ....

The End.

[Tyler]

posted on March 8th, 2011, 7:22 pm

Last edited by Tyler on March 8th, 2011, 7:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.

You didn't actually read the post, did you? Beacause you seem to have neglected the 'Troop ship and boarding special-exclusive' part of it.

posted on March 8th, 2011, 8:36 pm

I was talking about not just special troop ships.

I think that transporting can have some cool features like this, but it will have other features that prevent it from becoming so easy to capture ships.

posted on March 8th, 2011, 8:58 pm

While I was talking to Arash, who appears to be under the impression it's for standard Transporters. Despite the first post stating otherwise.

posted on March 9th, 2011, 9:03 pm

I'd see it as an alternative to boarding Borg ships. Due to their crew size you can't hope to really get the ships, BUT troops could go there, do some damage since drones don't care about them, and leave. (Well, the leaving fact won't be included, let's just hope they leave and don't get assimilated right away ).
Of course the Borg player simply can decide: you beam me, I beam you harhar! Troop ships would become a point here against Borg.