Cubes And Technology Assimilator

posted on January 16th, 2004, 4:23 pm

Here is a quote from the FleetOps IRC Chanel:

"I also noticed that the only borg ship able to assimilate a technology was the adaptor, is this true
yep
why did you take this ability from the cubes
lol
I only mean this as constructive critisism
I just want to know why it was decided this way
hm, just because we thought it might be strategic better to give that very useful feature to a not too powerful ship as the cube
That's precisely the problem... and defeats the purpose of realism. The only structures that I have seen in Star Treck trying to adapt a technology were the cubes, besides since it is now not practical to take technology in combat, you might as well just take control of the enemy starbase an start over
... his tech tree
any race can do that"

The borg's capacity to assimilate others technology in combat was the main reason to play this race. Any toughts on this?

Supremebob

posted on January 16th, 2004, 4:48 pm

I agree totally.... The Cube and Tactical Cube should be the only ones to have the ability to asimilate in battle. But one ability that I think EVERY borg ship should have, following the subject of realism, would be transwarp drive. In the show, every borg ship I've seen has had the ability to use transwarp without the need for a HUB or GATE.

posted on January 16th, 2004, 5:22 pm

- Knock, Knock

- Who's there?

- 6 Tactical Fusion Cubes

- (gasp!) I'm not dressed, could you come back in 30 mins.... make that 3 hours.

Seriously while it would be cool to watch, I think the FleetOps team wouldn't do that because of the same reason they took the warp engine out :

strategy= 0 mass hecatomb= 359


Cheers,

Supremebob