borg assimilation idea

posted on November 12th, 2010, 12:25 pm

Honestly, I don't think the virus would work on a ship.  Small environment, once signs show, it's quarantine and irradiate time.

Now, as a system to capture stations?  Maybe.  Just might work when there's more places for the new drones to hide out, and where nobody really expects to find the missing person instantly.  (Starbases are BIG.)

If colonies ever get added back in, it would be the ultimate answer to them, however.  20 fishermen become 18 Drones who march over to the next town that's already starting to change from the virus and start nano-tubing anybody who's not already infected.  By the time a response can be mustered there's an army of drones.  Probably a good deal of them being Tactical Drones.

[Tyler]

posted on November 12th, 2010, 12:31 pm

Last edited by Tyler on November 12th, 2010, 12:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.

The Nanite virus should be more effective against smaller targets (being airborne); it would assimilate groups together and there are less people to assimilate. Working slow enough to assimilate large groups at once without being noticed helps.

However, it appears to require a detonation in order to spread through the atmosphere. A ship or station would have to have lost shields to be affected.

posted on November 12th, 2010, 7:08 pm

@silent93: well the virus is supposed be a virus that only gets detected once already 50% of crew is infected, perhaps by then it may already be too late to quarantine and eliminate.

@Tyler: i already said previously that shields would need to be down to infect a ship.

posted on November 14th, 2010, 8:45 pm

Q) why no special energy.
A) because if it uses special energy then i fear its gona become like the the holding beam, where you gona use crap loads of special energy just to fire it for like 5 seconds and perhaps still not be able to capture the ship. i feel the weapon is something that should be able to be standard hardware. it doesnt take special energy to fire a phaser or torp hence i dont think it should take special energy to fire this new weapon. and it makes sense in terms of cannon coz the real threat to the borg are the resistant species like human, romulan, klingon etc, so its logical for the borg to equip it as standard on all borg vessels to combat those species, the borg arent just gona fire it like once or twice using special energy they gona use it all the time.

Note: even tho i say it should come standard on all vessels, i still want it as a module coz its fun to customise borg ships.

Note: I really dont want it to use special energy coz then it gona be like the holding beam, you get 1 or 2 shots with it and then u cant use it again till special energy regens. and lets be honest here how often do we see a holding beam borg ship? practically never coz it sucks, its incredibly ineffective, u beter off just waiting till you knock out shields and then just teleport drones over. also its gona take on average 1 to 2 minutes to assimilate a ship using this weapon, so it takes a while, its not like instant or a 30 sec deal. hence why make it use special energy?

Q) The Borg lack late game strength? Since when? They got a cube and nanites!
A) Of course, how often does one ever see a cube in multiplayer, its a very rare sight. and even then its easy to kill if u got like 20 excel II's and some support. also cubes are incredible expensive, u proberly better off building like 3 regen spheres than a cube with the same resources.

Well, you oly consider Holding beam all the time, but what about slicer and that green disruption and other Borg specials? They need a valid amount of special energy, so that larger Borg ships can constantly fire them, Probe and SCube are restricted. That's what I had in mind, would be a special energy of 150 -200. In that case I would add your torp to the transmission matrix, if you want it as a module it hast to be weaker, maybe just a chance of 40% to kill some crew members with every shot. I know, that's not really a virus thing anymore then, but it would be easier to balance and leaves the others a chance to flee.

I must say I see cubes quite often in multiplayer. They are used both when the Borg player loses as a last try to change the game or when he's winning and gets the ressources to finish of the enemy.