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gurren22
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When i first saw this game coming out sayin to pre-order and you can play as borg but seein how the game is now you can have a borg character but i was hoping for a faction.
With that i discussed it with fleet friends cause it wouldn't be fair if a faction got a bonus like other borg where to become immune to weapons but more like an "UNALLINED BORG" that opens up just new character outfits with the machines poking out or something along with some borg ships. although the borg cubes were much if you ask me but do like a C-Store thing with it like KDF bortasku's so you can buy smaller cubes cause unallined borg are more of an infected borg with a virus that gives them separate concience but still have some borg tech so you can have assimilated versions of other ships. with something this unique there might need to be a lvl cap so like fed side or kdf side needs this lvl before borg can be unlocked.
Please comment on this and throw in your own ideas cause if like it too cryptic may not wanna run on a vauge idea of something this complicated cause it would need new campaign, ships, ect.
P.S. THE IDEA IS UNALLINED SO THEY CAN'T ASSIMILATE OTHER CHARACTERS (or ships but a weaker version built into a point defense system would be cool), tryin to make a fair yet unique faction to bring in more players and make the game fun.
With that i discussed it with fleet friends cause it wouldn't be fair if a faction got a bonus like other borg where to become immune to weapons but more like an "UNALLINED BORG" that opens up just new character outfits with the machines poking out or something along with some borg ships. although the borg cubes were much if you ask me but do like a C-Store thing with it like KDF bortasku's so you can buy smaller cubes cause unallined borg are more of an infected borg with a virus that gives them separate concience but still have some borg tech so you can have assimilated versions of other ships. with something this unique there might need to be a lvl cap so like fed side or kdf side needs this lvl before borg can be unlocked.
Please comment on this and throw in your own ideas cause if like it too cryptic may not wanna run on a vauge idea of something this complicated cause it would need new campaign, ships, ect.
P.S. THE IDEA IS UNALLINED SO THEY CAN'T ASSIMILATE OTHER CHARACTERS (or ships but a weaker version built into a point defense system would be cool), tryin to make a fair yet unique faction to bring in more players and make the game fun.
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and i'm not looking to get this done ASAP i'm lookin for like season 8 since season 6 is comin out next month. plenty of time to think it over
As for the Borg specifically. I can't see it ever being a playable faction. As fun as it would be, it just isn't possible with the Borg. They have no ranks/command structure. You are a drone and continue to be a drone, you are no higher/lower then any other drone.They have like 3 or 4 ship types, with no level of costumization do to focusing more on functionality rather then ascetics.
Honestly, while I still hold out hope for an eventual Romulan Star Empire, Cardassian Union and Possibly Dominion playable faction, I just don't see how one can make a playable Borg Collective.
Really? Who says?
The devs can just leave the KDF in the dust and move on. There's nothing stopping them.
I don't want to see it. Just wanted to mention that.
All the KDf fans have been saying it for years now. The Devs even stated it was gonna happen but got lost chasing the ego-centric feds around grabbing at thier wallets when the game went F2P.
Now Crytpic is trapped of thier own making but, especially with the help of some feds, unable to climb out and make STO a real mmo with multiple factions, a storyline that follows some measure of sense and endgame that is immersive.
Of course thats just my personal opinion tempered from years of waiting for STO to actually get out of its extended Beta.
R.I.P
Why?
Because the devs are not able to handle even 2 factions, how can you expect them to handle 3?
So all the talk about wanting to add the romulan, is just talk about want.
Nothing will come of it til the game dies.
Unless something drastically change sin the view of the devs or in the manpower department.
any PVP would have to end in the destruction of the borg
because in this game borg are wuss factor 7
While it saddens me to say this, I agree. I think it would be hard to integrate a Borg faction into the game. If they were kept at what we all know them to be, they would be over powered, if they balanced them to be fair with other races, they would be nerfed. It would be a headache of trying to keep everyone happy.
I can't wait for a Romulan and Reman faction. The idea of a mini-faction (5 Level Faction), should be reconsidered, and a Cardassian return to the "game" as a meaty military force should definitely be explored. True Way eradicators perhaps.
When I look at the KDF and then listen to the DStahl interview on Priority One's latest podcast where he backtracks on his long standing promise to make the KDF a full faction, the last thing I want in STO are more half-baked factions.
Nope just not an assimilated drone.
And staying that way
Drones are mindless zombies and any player drone would be limited to lt level (and of course walk slowly and into doors)
R.I.P
yes, finally someone gets it. just not the tech part, they get their own mind back and a LIMITED assimilate ability that mostly gives their ships a faster ship hull regen, other than that that is mostly up to cryptic and that is why i started this thread is to discuss it. if you do want a borg cube in game i recommend that its integrated into the C-Store like the other factions greatest ships like oddy and bortasku. although cube is too big so that is to be discussed.
is not assimilated and wants to get as far away from other ex borg as possible
MOST consider suicide or need massive counselling
Borg SHIPS function only because of thousands of enslaved borg
and again your not listening. watch voyager where halfbreeds do exist yet there are some who can't reverse being borg with the borg look but rarely like 2 episodes at max where there was one borg who matches my description exactly that split off and freed a few other borg from assimilation and they dissapeared in the show and never mentioned again. if (you definitely of all) you actually ever watch any of the shows as much as some of the experts on this game do you'd know. but what i'm getting at is continuing that borg, who's name escapes me, story till he makes a faction of his own with free minded borg it could be possible. and also like the ships need many borg that just means more crew that give the ship regen to hull like i sad before.
Bringing up the notion of work outside the Feds to Cryptic? You can see their tears welling up in their eyes. They hate working outside that box.
They have yet to bring the KDF & Federation factions on equal footing, 2 YEARS after the game has been released. They refuse to do much more for the 2nd faction.
Cryptic's track history in the game, their focus in development (and milking) point that no other factions will be made playable in STO. If they do, they will be in such horrible condition such as when the KDF was in when the game went live.
The Romulans, often brought up as a desired new faction, will not make it.
Another newer faction, critical in Star Trek's later era, is guaranteed not to be playable. And that faction is the Dominion. Why? Cryptic's already whor*ing out ships that have traditionally been aligned with the Dominion. Galor? Check, but I can understand the seperation for the Dominion & Cardassians. Jem'Hadar Attack Ship / Bugship? Thrown out like candy to anyone.
New factions have no shot in STO. Because Cryptic is too lazy to even think that this is a multi-faciton game. They're too busy chasing behind the Feds trying to cut their purse strings.
ok i see what your saying but if you read it the free minded borg don't have the strength to be immune to weapons. they just have resistence to plasma and (yes nerfed but fair for borg) be able to be either immune to weapons for a very short amout of time not including grenades or knockbacks, or be able to freeze turrets and drones for a short amout of time.
BTW i'm talking about character abilities not bridge crew. they just get resistence to plasma and 1 depending on race
ok i can respect your argument cause your not just downing the unallined borg saying they are mindless when i've mentioned thats not the case. and i know there is a snowballs chance but this is an idea for the future. yes 2 years is long and i see how kdf isn't on equal ground thanx to the copy paste and cookie cutter they get from fed being the only faction you can start with till lvl 24, but an idea for cryptic to look at expecially with them and perfect world joining for some odd reason (i think PW is paying cryptic or something so PW might give a large part of the vote) the kdf could get better management (eventually) and then they will get around to a 3rd when they find it will benefit money and/or customer wise which again the 3 large power in game is FED, KDF, and Borg.
Hugh whose "faction" self destructed
Seven ov nine who worked tirelessly to KILL all borg
Picard who was so damaged he went Ahab
A borg freed from the death state wants to get as far away as possible from ALL borg tech
Borg vessels should be WEAK and limited
borg faction (if any) must be weaker than ANY other option (including Ferengi shop keepers)
is it anymore rediculous than romulans who's home planet was destroyed? and its not like cryptic has much sense of logic in teh game anyways so there is no point arguing plus the smart and brave would use a tech resistant to the enemy which is the borg tech itself sense it boost an original ships capabilities. get off this thread if you don't like it your just biasedly upset. come back when your older kid
As for the Borg, sorry but I don't like your idea. If I wanted a borg faction I'd want it to be the collective, that monolithic lovecraftian geigeresque consumer that tells it's victims exactly what it's going to do to them like it was a foregone conclusion. I could only see that working as more of an RTS style game and that would require far more work to implement and balance than Cryptic can handle. Ofcourse I think the same of your idea requiring more work than Cryptic can handle, so really our brainstorming is just an exercise in frustration.
Im a LOT older than the Borg are missy
And people who have been mutilated , abused and dehumanised do not do the same to others
NO one who had ever been assimilated would WANT to use a borg ANYTHING
If you don't like people disagreeing with you i suggest "my little pony "
good luck finding the report button..........................
join date: Jan. 2012
disagree with me isn't a problem as long as you have a logical answer behind it although your just bein a kid, close minded, unwanted noob of a girl who prefer to strike down any idea with an opinion than looking at the facts.
for one, cryptic being owner of the game could bipass your entire idea of noone wanting to deal with borg when you still haven't looked up the small fact i told you where its happened that at least 1 borg actually dealed with it and returned to the collective to free more like him.
next, cry, just cry
i know i would like a buffed up borg too but this is mmo and like you said it won't work like that. glad you dropped your opinion, thats what i was waiting so long for