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Introduction of The Borg for Players

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Hello Captains of STO. My name is Brian and i have been tasked with asking you all what you would like to see in the Borg Playable Characters, please be as detailed as you would like with how you would want to see the Borg as a Playable Character. All feedback is welcomed. Hope you are enjoying your STO Experience.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Tasked by whom?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Tasked? By whom?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    If the Borg were a faction, I can't see it as being anything than completely boring. I mean, they're the Borg. They have no individuality. Personalizing your character and ship would be silly. And every mission would be "Go to this planet. Assimilate it. Go to that other planet. Assimilate it."
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    RedSunBird wrote: »
    If the Borg were a faction, I can't see it as being anything than completely boring. I mean, they're the Borg. They have no individuality. Personalizing your character and ship would be silly. And every mission would be "Go to this planet. Assimilate it. Go to that other planet. Assimilate it."

    Hes got a point. Thats pretty much all the borg ever where assimilating all the species they come across so they can reach perfection. Maybe they could do something awesome with these "new borg" we are seeing in the game so far but idk. I think I would still play them I mean its the BORG their like my favourite star trek villian besides the xindi.

    Although for ship customisation they instead of having a borg cube you could have a rhombus? or a diamond? A square pryamid perhaps?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Well, I expect Borg characters to get a Sphere as their starter ship and then keep it until forever, as a Cube would either be ridiculously overpowered or totally off-canon. Oh and you would not be able to choose where to fly and what to do, you will only get popup messages telling you what you WILL do, and a single button named "we are borg" that just does whatever you have been told by the Collective.


    In other words: The way the Borg Collective works makes them totally ineligible for a player faction, and absolutely predestined for an NPC-only faction.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Bad-Boy wrote:
    Hes got a point. Thats pretty much all the borg ever where assimilating all the species they come across so they can reach perfection. Maybe they could do something awesome with these "new borg" we are seeing in the game so far but idk. I think I would still play them I mean its the BORG their like my favourite star trek villian besides the xindi.

    Oh don't get me wrong, I love the Borg as a villain too. But it's that very non-individuality of theirs that makes them scary. That's why the idea of becoming a Borg is so horrible (that and getting half your organs replaced by computers), because humans treasure our individuality and the thought of becoming a drone with no free will who is just like everyone else is abhorrent to us. If I was able to play a Borg, and be a Borg that was different somehow from all the other Borg, they'd no longer be that scary to me.

    Oh, and it's "she." :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    resistence is not futile :D
    im a ex-borg sci captain :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I think he's talking about the the liberated borg character. i don't know why he's "tasked." :confused:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Mephane wrote:
    Well, I expect Borg characters to get a Sphere as their starter ship and then keep it until forever, as a Cube would either be ridiculously overpowered or totally off-canon. Oh and you would not be able to choose where to fly and what to do, you will only get popup messages telling you what you WILL do, and a single button named "we are borg" that just does whatever you have been told by the Collective.


    In other words: The way the Borg Collective works makes them totally ineligible for a player faction, and absolutely predestined for an NPC-only faction.

    For some reason, the "We Are Borg" button is hilarious to me.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I prefer the idea that you could be the Borg and go around assimilating other players and planets.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    At the risk of going against the 'feel' of the Borg, can we get some less chunky implants. Maybe throw in some subtle options...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    LOL Trolled I think guys. I doubt cryptic would send a noobie to find out if you guys wanna play as the borg. they would at least make an ingame poll or something on the front page, not an obscure thread in the forums.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    fastillion wrote: »
    LOL Trolled I think guys. I doubt cryptic would send a noobie to find out if you guys wanna play as the borg. they would at least make an ingame poll or something on the front page, not an obscure thread in the forums.

    Which is why we started out asking who "tasked" A_Generic_Noob_01 to find this stuff out.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    fastillion wrote: »
    LOL Trolled I think guys. I doubt cryptic would send a noobie to find out if you guys wanna play as the borg. they would at least make an ingame poll or something on the front page, not an obscure thread in the forums.

    I was aware of this. I just assumed he was some player who wanted to know what we thought about the Borg as a faction, but just asked it in a dorky way.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Sneaky infliltration stuff for the inital few drones...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    If another faction would be added, I would want it to be Romulans.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    For one i was asked to post this by Craig Zinkievich Executive producer on Star Trek online after i had talked to him on the Phone and mentioned possibly introducing the Borg as a player Character, He told me to make a page asking other players how they would like to see the Borg made into the game so i did. So i was basicly Tasked to do this... in a way.

    Also as to the Missions people mentions about just going and Assemilating everything THAT is the man reason why i want to hear YOUR thoughts on stuff like this. Craig will be checking my thread every so offen when i tell him i found some things he might be interested in but i do need Ideas on how people playing STO would like the Borg to be. For instance "There all about Assimilating" Not true in a few Episodes of Star Trek TNG the Borg were not interested in Assimilating they were more about Fixing themselfs and making themselfs better, Lore for one took command of several Borg and he made them think for themselfs and they did well. So please give me any ideas on how to bring the Borg into STO. Thank you
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Pull the other one.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Damien6669 wrote:
    For one i was asked to post this by Craig Zinkievich Executive producer on Star Trek online after i had talked to him on the Phone and mentioned possibly introducing the Borg as a player Character, He told me to make a page asking other players how they would like to see the Borg made into the game so i did. So i was basicly Tasked to do this... in a way.

    Also as to the Missions people mentions about just going and Assemilating everything THAT is the man reason why i want to hear YOUR thoughts on stuff like this. Craig will be checking my thread every so offen when i tell him i found some things he might be interested in but i do need Ideas on how people playing STO would like the Borg to be. For instance "There all about Assimilating" Not true in a few Episodes of Star Trek TNG the Borg were not interested in Assimilating they were more about Fixing themselfs and making themselfs better, Lore for one took command of several Borg and he made them think for themselfs and they did well. So please give me any ideas on how to bring the Borg into STO. Thank you

    Lies make baby Jesus cry.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    nixboox wrote: »
    I prefer the idea that you could be the Borg and go around assimilating other players and planets.

    I'm waiting for the first person to say 'I'd assimilate 7 of 9'. The amount of times I've seen that in chat this week.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    cordy38 wrote:
    I'm waiting for the first person to say 'I'd assimilate 7 of 9'. The amount of times I've seen that in chat this week.

    over and over again?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Yep, almost as much as the players who think they are the first to ask where Darth Vader is. Or, 'lvl 80 priest lfg'.

    They did move on to 'assimilating' Deanna Troi and that's where they went on to ignore :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    RedSunBird wrote: »
    If the Borg were a faction, I can't see it as being anything than completely boring. I mean, they're the Borg. They have no individuality. Personalizing your character and ship would be silly. And every mission would be "Go to this planet. Assimilate it. Go to that other planet. Assimilate it."

    This says everything that I believe can reasonably be said about the possibility of true Borg gameplay. Unless you get to control the Collective ala Armada II, which wouldn't work at all in an MMO.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Well, if their is a borg play able race, then their armor and weapons would have to evolve with them lvling up. Or the borg would have to go and fined componites in order to make beatter weapons and armor. And as for the ships, their are plunty out their to assimulate and take over than to have the borg fly around in cubes and the such.

    And from the stng, their were borg who was still borg but not in the collective. Who fight the enterprise and who could also assimulate. I think this would be a beatter option to most people than have to play the borg. And in this way the people that paly this off shot of the borg still look like borg and can assimulate other charters and ships but are also hunted by the borg as being an obsolet flaw that came from the borg them selfs. but only the future well see.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Since the producer is supposedly going to be reading this:

    for the love of god never make borg a playable faction.

    that is all.
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