posted on June 28th, 2011, 11:01 pm
for the earlier comment after mine:
it doesn't make sense to give individual borg ships a rank system. they're a collective. why give them ranked ships up to veteran? why do they need five ranks at all? we could change it first to collective adaptations. no ranks. and they can only adapt collectively say three times. the first collective adaptation allows countering against (choose what). the second allows ... etc. it could be something like the three adaptations allow for increased resistance against beam, pulse, and torp. or we could give them four collective adaptations, the fourth being for against specials. or instead, back to the three. it could be against small, medium, and large ships, the first collective adaptation gives a 20% reduced damage, and we can give it any resource cost, as well as being based on weapons fire received.
the possibilities are pretty much endless
the above suggestion also works.
we just set it so that the borg can adapt - and I think it could be something like being researched at a station, i suggested an icon of sorts for it earlier yandonman also offered a way of doing this, or we just set it to work off of a point system stand alone - but we can always hamper this so that a universal borg adaptations dont cause to much trouble for other races.
we can give the other races opportunities to counter this with "sir, the borg seem to be adapting to our weapons, given enough time they may become useless. } "understood signal starfleet, get them working on it.
then presto we do some research thing a ma jig and new weapons are created for countering borg adapting process.
other races have a ranking system.. which doesnt transfer nicely to borg. but i like it being based on shots fired against ships. and a universal counter for when the borg adapt. anything else wouldnt be borg. i realize it seems op, but we have some pretty creative devs who im sure can balance it out if they like the idea.
