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assimilated locked box

deepspacejunkiedeepspacejunkie Member Posts: 82 Arc User
edited September 2012 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
i really would like to see them do like an assimilated lock box, with special ultra rare borg weapons (beam arrays, cannons and torpedos) idk about all of you but i would love one those borg plasma torps that some how manage to one shot kill you through full shields and hull and borg consoles like a Borg Tractor beam or like dontra's phase shifting console..
. and as grand prize could be one of those assimilated ships such as assimilated borg bird of prey & assimilated carrier or something of the sort
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  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    No.
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  • mondoidmondoid Member Posts: 305 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    If they do release Borg lockboxes they had better put an actual Borg ship in there. A Cube for the grand prize, a sphere and a probe for the Lobi store.
  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    centersolace wrote: »
    No.
    ............

    My thoughts exactly...
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  • eurialoeurialo Member Posts: 667 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    deepspacejunkie wrote: »
    i really would like to see them do like an assimilated lock box, with special ultra rare borg weapons (beam arrays, cannons and torpedos) idk about all of you but i would love one those borg plasma torps that some how manage to one shot kill you through full shields and hull and borg consoles like a Borg Tractor beam or like dontra's phase shifting console..
    . and as grand prize could be one of those assimilated ships such as assimilated borg bird of prey & assimilated carrier or something of the sort


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  • mondoidmondoid Member Posts: 305 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    NO to the one shot torps,we already have a tractor beam.
  • captainrevo1captainrevo1 Member Posts: 3,948 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    perhaps not what the OP describes but i think there is room for an assimilated lockbox.
  • khayuungkhayuung Member Posts: 1,876 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    deepspacejunkie wrote: »
    i really would like to see them do like an assimilated lock box, with special ultra rare borg weapons (beam arrays, cannons and torpedos) idk about all of you but i would love one those borg plasma torps that some how manage to one shot kill you through full shields and hull and borg consoles like a Borg Tractor beam or like dontra's phase shifting console..
    . and as grand prize could be one of those assimilated ships such as assimilated borg bird of prey & assimilated carrier or something of the sort

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  • majesticmsfcmajesticmsfc Member Posts: 1,401 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    anazonda wrote: »
    My thoughts exactly...

    And mine too. I can digest a lot but playable Borg ships or a Borg Lockbox, no thanks.
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  • hereticknight085hereticknight085 Member Posts: 3,783 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    centersolace wrote: »
    No.
    ............

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    Ditto.
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  • flash525flash525 Member Posts: 5,441 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Oh God not this again. Practically anything by the Borg is going to be overpowered, especially if you're asking for a friggin' Cube.

    I can't see the harm in a Collective Lock Box providing it's full of Borg Weapons and Borg Salvage Nodes (which players can then use for their Borg STF gear). The best ship we should be able to get via any Collective Lock Box though would be a Sphere; nothing more.

    Personally, I don't ever want to see a Borg Lock Box, however knowing what Cryptic done with the Tholian, I'm expecting the worst here and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if we did see players flying around in Borg Cubes.
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  • diogene0diogene0 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    I'm not completely opposed to that, as long as the Grand Prize isn't a sphere or a cube. An assimilated Negh'var and an assimilated Galaxy (because both are iconic ships) would be far more acceptable imo. You simply get back what used to belong to your faction...
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  • switchngcswitchngc Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    diogene0 wrote: »
    I'm not completely opposed to that, as long as the Grand Prize isn't a sphere or a cube. An assimilated Negh'var and an assimilated Galaxy (because both are iconic ships) would be far more acceptable imo. You simply get back what used to belong to your faction...

    I would not be opposed to assimilated ships like that, though, what is the difference in that and a Galaxy or Negh'var with the full Borg set?
  • teleon22teleon22 Member Posts: 424
    edited September 2012
    The only way I?d even consider allowing a player to play a Borg Cube as a rewarded ship item is if and only if the Cube wasn?t allowed to equip anything. No Duty Officers, no Bridge Officer Abilities and no ship equipment.

    Basically, it would be a ?Monster? playable ship whereas the player could use what the NPC normal Borg Cubes in Deep Space Encounters could use: Nano Virus, Borg Tractor Beam, Cutting Beam, Torpedo Spread, Plasma Beam and re-distribute shields.

    Essentially the player would be able to play a NPC ship with all of the NPC trimmings at the loss of any of the Player trimmings; even this wouldn?t be fair however in PVP because other players could simply heal you up.


    But there you have it. I vote NO btw.
  • teleon22teleon22 Member Posts: 424
    edited September 2012
    Sorry for double post? but what About a Borg Tactical Drone Bridge Officer? We have a playable Borg Captain, an Engineer Borg Bridge Officer? but what about a Tactical Bridge Officer that gives a passive resistance to the Borg Nano Virus ability as a space trait?
  • willamsheridanwillamsheridan Member Posts: 1,189 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    my idea would be that cryptic posts some decent in game advertisements from real life companys (like other games already did) on starbases, quarters, bridges (maybe console designed by apple ot something) and forgets about the lockboxes . Instead they could give us a free ship foe VADM, and advanced weapons shields as rewards for special missions (not like these random drops for Maco sets ). gold members and other subscribers still could get the better ships like Odyssey and the others but this would close the gap between the paying and the lots of f2p users a bit. Or they make the VADM consoles available for lower Tier ships (with or without adapting their stats to the VADM (so Seperation for Tier 4 Galaxys with or without setting the hull to he same level though they should be raised to an appropriate Tier 5 Ship
  • voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    willamsheridan wrote: »
    my idea would be that cryptic posts some decent in game advertisements from real life companys (like other games already did) on starbases, quarters, bridges (maybe console designed by apple ot something) and forgets about the lockboxes . Instead they could give us a free ship foe VADM, and advanced weapons shields as rewards for special missions (not like these random drops for Maco sets ). gold members and other subscribers still could get the better ships like Odyssey and the others but this would close the gap between the paying and the lots of f2p users a bit. Or they make the VADM consoles available for lower Tier ships (with or without adapting their stats to the VADM (so Seperation for Tier 4 Galaxys with or without setting the hull to he same level though they should be raised to an appropriate Tier 5 Ship

    I *might* agree to this if the adevertisements were not huge thngs plastered all over the wall of my starbase, and the day one shows up in my ship interior with a c store option to remove it is the day Cryptic loses the last sliver of my respect for them.
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  • foundrelicfoundrelic Member Posts: 1,380 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    teleon22 wrote: »
    Sorry for double post? but what About a Borg Tactical Drone Bridge Officer? We have a playable Borg Captain, an Engineer Borg Bridge Officer? but what about a Tactical Bridge Officer that gives a passive resistance to the Borg Nano Virus ability as a space trait?



    So let's tweak this Assimilated lock box idea using some of the suggestions so far.


    Grand Prize: Assimilated faction ship. Assimilated Odyssey or Assimilated Bortas Same Bridge officer layout as the tactical versions of the ships. Built in Borg regenerative hull ability doubling the hull regeneration rate.

    Prototype Borg Salvage (Ground/space random)

    EDCs (random rarity)

    Delta Quadrant/Borg DOFF pack.

    Lobi Crystals (Because Borg like shiny things?)






    Lobi Store
    Borg ground weapons or a borg ground weapon MK XII upgrade otion similar to the THolian ground set upgrade.

    Borg Probe Small craft

    Borg Tactical Drone Bridge officer (How the ferengi got ahold of a Borg Tactical drone I have no clue)

    Random Borg styled melee weapon

    Some form of Nanocell weapon booster like the sonic cell for the tholians, maybe somethign that can interrupt the connection to the hive mind momentarily creating a confuse state in the target.

    Borg Probe non-combat pet


    Anti-Borg Kit. (Automatically adapts to your character class, provides buffs against Borg and the appearance is a Borgified version of a kit from your class)
  • darkenzedddarkenzedd Member Posts: 881
    edited September 2012
    Dont forget guys, we are having the USS Relativity in game soon. A "time" ship from 500yrs into the future!

    I cannot wait for the devs to explain that one.

    All bets are off.....
  • adabisiadabisi Member Posts: 260 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    What woulod be cool from the borg lockboxes would be an item you equp on yourself.
    The item then links you to your own collective of BO's.

    the benefit would be an increase in efficiency to a set location of the ship......maybe engineering warp core or tactical a boost accuracy or a defense boost as you are in the collective mode now.....



    instead of "helmsman course 546 mark 23....correction course 345 mark 12...


    you just think it...this translates into a boost in your defense or offense or whatever you chhose.......lets not go over the top though and make the whole ship borg'ed out and your crew assimilated. It would be a small boost with a moderate cooldown

    Maybe small boosts here and there......and a neato fritos sound effect of the thoughts of your BO's becoming one as you enegage the item......
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  • cormorancormoran Member Posts: 440 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Eh, at this point we might aswell have cubes and spheres. We fly everything else we shouldn't.
  • hasukurobihasukurobi Member Posts: 1,421 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    deepspacejunkie wrote: »
    i really would like to see them do like an assimilated lock box, with special ultra rare borg weapons (beam arrays, cannons and torpedos) idk about all of you but i would love one those borg plasma torps that some how manage to one shot kill you through full shields and hull and borg consoles like a Borg Tractor beam or like dontra's phase shifting console..
    . and as grand prize could be one of those assimilated ships such as assimilated borg bird of prey & assimilated carrier or something of the sort

    The Torp has to be invisible too! Do not forget that very important part of it. You can already have the Tractor Beam if you get all the pieces of the Assimilated Set on your Ship. We need the Cutting Beam that goes straight through shields.

    I want the grand prize to be a Tactical Cube. You only have to mount one rack of weapons but each is twice as powerful as normal and has a 360 degree arc (though Torps cannot fire straight up or straight down) and it gets an epic Warp Core Breach if it dies. Also if you put the Assimilated Set on it and have a Liberated Borg captain it gets a base 125 power to all subsystems. It gets 10 upgrade consoles which are all UNIVERSAL and all of its Bridge Officer Stations are Universal.

    cormoran wrote: »
    Eh, at this point we might aswell have cubes and spheres. We fly everything else we shouldn't.

    EXACTLY. There is no rhyme or reason nor any care for Canon at this point. So let's take off the kid's gloves and get to it.
  • aethon3050aethon3050 Member Posts: 599 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    centersolace wrote: »
    No.
    ............

    I couldn't have said it better myself. There's no need to try and reason with this; just...NO.

    I'll drop this game like a bad habit if playable Borg or playable Borg ships go in.
  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Why does the ultimate prize of a lockbox have to be a ship? If the devs are willing to change the liberated borg humans and klingons to liberated borg aliens for the lifetime subscription, then I wouldn't mind having the liberated borg humans and klingons species be the ultimate prize for a borg lockbox.
  • kyeto13kyeto13 Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    centersolace wrote: »
    No.
    ............

    I concur.. this would be way OP.
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  • tebsutebsu Member Posts: 372 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    i would just be happy about a borg set that actually looks good.
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  • hasukurobihasukurobi Member Posts: 1,421 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    tebsu wrote: »
    i would just be happy about a borg set that actually looks good.

    Aesthetics are Irrelevant. More importantly you can turn them off. I still wish we could use any visuals we have unlocked.
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