Borg nanite replacement

posted on June 9th, 2009, 6:55 am

Instead of the stupid Borg nanite effect, which doesn't make sense to me, would it be possible to put in something else, say, a video that blocks your view and does the whole "We are the Borg..." speech?

posted on June 9th, 2009, 8:18 am

I agree that there must be a better effect for nanites. The current one does something very naughty in my opinion (mess with the UI). In some ways its more damaging than any other weapon, as it can make you go to a random point on the minimap, unselect all your ships and stuff like that.

Also, using nanites on a scout or sensor post on one side of the map can have an effect on every battle the player is involved in across the map.

Perhaps it could give a localised harsh accuracy decrease? Or firing rate decrease? At least the player would still feel like they have some control, instead of trying to give attack orders as the minimap flies past and catches the click.

(This makes me sound a bit of a complainer. I do actually like FO a lot! )

posted on June 9th, 2009, 8:48 am

Can it be set to sometimes do what it does now, and sometimes change what buttons do? For example, select a Special weapon and the ship instead goes back to shipyard or click somewhere to give a move order and the ship instead gets a search & destroy order.

posted on June 9th, 2009, 8:50 am

yep, i'm currently working on a redo on the Borg Nanites

posted on June 9th, 2009, 1:32 pm

Coolio: as it is now, the GUI disturbance is merely annoying to me and not really problematic as I have all my ships teamed anyway...