I captured a borg constructor!!!

posted on November 11th, 2009, 2:39 am

Yes, not to mention even using one Assimilator per a Rhienn (I tend to assimilate multiple things at once so I can at least drain crew and reduce effectiveness, or make it difficult to micro all vessels out of range) leaves plenty of time to self destruct - unless of course the self destruct timer is around 10-15 seconds. It's funny, because this is just Borg we are talking about - and just the auto assimilator. Forget using the holding beam as Silent93 mentioned, or even troop ships or normal ships. There goes the whole idea of mixed technology too - I'll just explode them if they lose shields.

posted on November 11th, 2009, 3:22 am

I think what should happen is all ships gain self-destruct, then get hit with Borg nanites so you mis-click with your fleet and end up setting the self destruct for all your ships, and then fail to hit the deactivate self destruct and watch the fireworks.

posted on November 11th, 2009, 3:31 am

That would be a perfect way of balancing it Mal!

Maybe - just to make sure that it is actually balanced even better - we could just randomly select one base structure or vessel that would instantly be assimilated/captured if a self destruct goes off.

posted on November 11th, 2009, 3:49 am

There could be a Romulan spy on board who uses anesthizine gas to knock out the crew just before the self destruct goes off and disarms it.  That's what the Intelligence center could be used for!

For the feds we could have ship upgrades that give them a Hazard Team who can board a ship and disable self destruct!

posted on November 11th, 2009, 2:04 pm

...... Would anyone happen to agree with me on my thoughts that mixed tech shouldn't have to require an enemy builder, rather, that a builder could be a one-ship-shortcut. But I also believe that if you went on a capture spree and you captured alot of your enemie's ships that you'd actually be able to build the ships' corresponding mix yard because those captured ships would probably have been anylized enough to where you can mix its races tech.

posted on November 12th, 2009, 8:01 am

I assume you guys are talking about having the SD be disabled if it's captured? That makes perfect sense if the timer is long then...

posted on November 12th, 2009, 12:16 pm

If you dont want him to capture that ship start beaming troops from the rest of your fleet as soon as he starts assimilating.

Thats suicide against the borg. They dont have shields to beam through. Your ships have to lower them. You want to risk your fleet for one ship.

If you dont want a ship captured, select the fleet, mouse over the effected ship, press 'a' and click.