Repair from mixed tech yard

posted on December 5th, 2010, 12:50 pm

For the Borg its a necessity or else assimilation of vessels would be futile.

Irrelevent. It's a unique trait of theirs whether it's also a gameplay thing or not.

posted on December 5th, 2010, 1:47 pm

Irrelevent. It's a unique trait of theirs whether it's also a gameplay thing or not.

The Borg as a whole are unique, if anything the repair on their mixed tech yard is the strange duck.
It most certainly wouldn't hurt or affect borg gameplay of the feature was introduced to all races.

posted on December 5th, 2010, 1:56 pm

It would make their yard more like the others, esentially making it just a standard shipyard with an empty list. So much for unique.

It isn't strange to have it as a repair yard; it's a station design specifically for adapting to alien tech, and would be oufitted specifically to deal with it. Normal Borg ships don't repair, so only alient ones need a yard.

posted on December 7th, 2010, 6:46 pm

But wouldn't the other races want all their yards to repair, I mean in DS9 they were repairing Romulan and Klingon ships all the time

posted on December 7th, 2010, 7:08 pm

DS9 is a Starbase, repairs is standard to many of the larger ones. Even if they wanted them all to repair, it isn't that easy. Only so much tech for seperate purposes can fit in a single frame and MT yards tend to be smaller than regular ones (Romulan and Klingon ones are thinner and less bulky).

Aside from that, there's also the same gameplay aspect that prevents all ships from being built in the same yard; specific in-game roles.