Mixed Tech Idea

posted on May 12th, 2010, 6:02 am

Well it was just a thought.

  Haha sorry man.  I didn't mean to come off as harsh .  I actually think it's a pretty cool idea to add a little bonus onto the assimilated ships, it's just that my instinct says "Ack!" .

  Didn't mean to train my AA guns on anything

posted on May 12th, 2010, 11:25 am

It could be that all assimilated (maybe all borg) ships could be considered large in terms of size to show the borg don't care about weapons hitting them and don't bother with ECM or dodging, and after all, torpedoes are amazing at tracking, it is only ecms and evasive maneovers that prevent torps from hitting smaller ships.

This would give all borg ships a certain borgish quality, however I can see that it would severly limit stragtegies *against* the borg, as you would only ever build torp boats.

[Tyler]

posted on May 12th, 2010, 11:28 am

Last edited by Tyler on May 12th, 2010, 11:31 am, edited 1 time in total.

Or just increase them by a single class instead of all to the max? Shows the Borgs arrogance, while showing they're still smart enough to take advantage of the ships ECM abilities.

Speaking of ECM, is EC3M supposed to have a number in it?

posted on May 12th, 2010, 11:34 am

i think ec3m is supposed to be ec[sup]3[/sup]m which is like ecccm as its counter counter counter lol

posted on May 12th, 2010, 11:35 am

That makes sense, both Tyler's comment on my comment and myles' comment on Tyler's comment.

posted on May 12th, 2010, 11:35 am

That makes sense, both Tyler's comment on my comment and myles' comment on Tyler's comment.

lol im just repeating something i heard dom say lol

posted on May 12th, 2010, 11:54 pm

  Haha sorry man.  I didn't mean to come off as harsh .  I actually think it's a pretty cool idea to add a little bonus onto the assimilated ships, it's just that my instinct says "Ack!" .

   Didn't mean to train my AA guns on anything

No worries, with Tact like that you'd make a lousy psychiatrist.

I really dont think the odf work would be too extensive your talking one additional per each vessel ingame. Theres no reason to be able switch back to the normal version so the replace weapon would be permanent.

I do like Doms thoughts more.... Im just not sure how in the hell the devs could get an assimilated vessel to overtime look more assimilated and increase its stats slightly. From the canon stand point its completely logical - just like the borgs gradual assimilation of the Enterprise E in first contact. Even further so by that episode of Enterprise, where the borg assimilated a frieghter, and augmented its capabilities over the time.

posted on May 13th, 2010, 11:07 pm

According to Memory Alpha, an idea that was (sadly) removed from the Enterprise episode was that the ship was being built into a new sphere using stuff from ships it encountered. It would be interesting to be able to use assimilated vessels as makeshift shipyards that build Borg vessels (unless you prefer cannon-fodder.) The bigger the ship and the more ships added, the faster the new Borg ship builds (and the less resources it depletes since it already has some from the assimilated vessels.) Might be a little hard to balance, but if you could ram the Borg with any ship they're assimilating (or self-destruct if they're using holding beams) it might give you good reason to keep those ships out of Borg hands.

posted on May 14th, 2010, 6:41 am

Assimilated vessels could have a button to turn them into collective uplinks.