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New and more powerful ships .... but what about the Borg?
shomrim
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Surely the Borg are not just sitting still while the Federation, Romulans, Klingons and all other races are upgrading their ships. They have taken a beating from the Undine so maybe we will get to fight an even nastier Borg vessel in the future. Wouldn't it be great to run into a new prototype Borg warship in the Delta Quadrant? Think about that STO.
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However, if they are more challenging, then it means the AI is smarter, and will coordinate with other ships, try to split the team, or even just cycle through more powers. This will be challenging because they will force players to come up with tactics, and strategies to beat them.
I would be all for an upgraded Borg, since the Borg we now face seem like they were from back when Pickard first met them. They haven't really upgraded much over time, and they were suppose to be assimilating races the whole time. Lol.
In addition to that, Borg were capable of reviving fallen drones after death, so they could add that feature to the ground forces, but also to the ships in space too. Imagine a Borg ship thought destroyed/crippled regenerates back into action.
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Also more intelligent and varied AI would be good, not sure how it could be acomplished, but I for one would appreciate more challenging eneimes
My input would be to try and make enemy behavior in general more variable, forcing players to pay attention, analyse the enemy then respond to its current behavior
No thanks...if they're to make the Borg harder they need to do more than just make the Borg do more damage and more resistant to damage. Not the greatest comparison but at least they're heading in the right direction with the Voth and Undine...they actually use some powers.
They need to use some powers and tactics that you need to anticipate and counter.
If a Borg vessel would subnuke my escort's buff away as I am about to open an alpha strike, they would probably get some new respect.
I also think there is a visual thing they could do to make the Borg more menacing without actually altering any statistics. Just use smaller ship types for the current ship roles in the Collective.
Instead of a Cube, you fight a Sphere. Sure, it still blows up within 10 seconds or less to an Escort alpha strike, but - it's only a sphere. The current Cube would replace the Tactical Cube, and the Tactical Cube would replace whatever is next in the Borg food chain (Diamond? B'Gers?)
Make every shot a 1 shot kill.
How about making the Borg adapt to your ship and personal shields. Essentially making all of their weapons fire bypass them? Also, their shield draining missile should disable engines, and cause a speed and engine power debuff after they are repaired by the targeted ship.
Commanding Officer: Captain Pyotr Ramonovich Amosov
Dedication Plaque: "Nil Intentatum Reliquit"
Time will only tell!
Since the Borg STFs are very popular I suggest that Cryptic make these STFs for 10 players instead of 5; similar to Crystalline Catastrophe. I feel the Cryptic has truly nerfed Borg ships just so that they can be destroyed in a 5 player STF.
In the series a single Borg Cube can withstand attacks from several dozen starships. Yeah, sure everyone's favorite psychopath and mass murder Captain Janeway developed weapons to defeat the Borg (bad writing to quickly end the series which had poor ratings due to ummm.... bad writing) easily. But a decent amount of time have past which would have allowed the Borg to develop more powerful ships and abilities.
The universe is infinite, there is always someone to assimilate.
And how cool would that be. The Borg coming back into the arms race with assimilated species of aliens no-one has ever seen before. Borg ships that are totally new, using adapted technology unknown to the rest of the universe.
Then proceeds to beat the living daylights out of us. Just like first contact with them in TNG.
No tougher to kill (Unless you add the rotating adaptive shields.) but way more aggressive and able to put players more on the defensive.
Advantage: More challenge, tac boats can't ignore the fire power and handle it alone easily. so Cruiser/tanks, and sci/debuff have specific uses in handling such an encounter.
Really want to make them powerful? Have the parts able to toss hazard emitters on each other.
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
See you miss my point. It is one cube. Working as 2 or more vessels. Thus it can act like more than one and support itself. Emulating the adaption, regeneration, and multi tasking abilities of the borg.
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
You could make it more difficult for the cube to counter your team's attacks by hitting multiple sides at once. It would take longer to destroy, but it would be safer. Or you could tackle one side to destroy the cube faster, however this method is dangerous because the cube will divert everything to this one facing, increasing defense, firepower, and effectiveness from other abilities like tractor beam, shield neutralizer, and assimilate ship.
Boy oh boy, won't targeting be a nightmare though... :rolleyes:
Difficulty is fine and all, but at the same time how do you balance that against the desires of a player base who's idea of difficulty varies so greatly?
One other thing to keep in mind when asking for buffs to NPCs is that generally speaking NPCs get buffed across the board. So asking for the borg in stfs to get buffed will also more than likely get your mission and Red Alert borg buffed too. The Federation leveling track has borg appear in various missions. Think about what would happen to that hapless low level captain when the come across these newly buffed borg. It wouldn't be pretty, and would probably be quite frustrating.
Another thing to remember is that for many players, the game is about satisfying their immersion in the Star trek universe. Having their ship go boom is detrimental to that experience.
never liked them as concept(hurr space cyborg zombies).