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sollvax
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Am now sure of this
largely because BORG surrendered
thus I am counting this as a holographic simulation NOT a mission (thus anyone damaged in it can consider themself still a living person)
I NEARLY deleted a character just now then I realised
Borg SURRENDERING?
Borg Sabotaging at all
Borg at all
got to be a simulation
largely because BORG surrendered
thus I am counting this as a holographic simulation NOT a mission (thus anyone damaged in it can consider themself still a living person)
I NEARLY deleted a character just now then I realised
Borg SURRENDERING?
Borg Sabotaging at all
Borg at all
got to be a simulation
Live long and Prosper
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Why would the Borg surrendering cause you to almost delete a character?
now the two characters who have suffered this fate in MISSIONS were deleted
this one gets to live because borg DON'T surrender
EDIT: Nevermind - you're talking about the Starbase Incursion repeatable.
I don't see Borg surrendering, you're right there.
The Borg sabotaging is reasonably common though, see the Enterprise episode and I'm sure some of Voyager.
The Borg don't surrender though. The drones have no mind of their own and are completely expendable. Entire fleets of cubes are completely expendable. The only part of the collective that is not expendable is the Queen, and I don't think even she would surrender either.
As for the sabotage it could simply be them adapting their tactics. It was part of the Borg Queen's plan in Voyager to get Seven to develop a way of infecting humanity with nanites that would adapt the species over generations. Not really that far stretch of the imagination to believe they are conducting some raid of this sort to infect local supplies on a smaller scale.
Why would you do that? Your character could found a club with Picard, Seven of Nine, Icheb, Janeway, Tuvok, Torres and Hugh. You could even print t-shirts. "The Borg assimilated me and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
sollvax has the belief that Borg are zombies, you can't ever be unassimilated and that he has "counter assimilation nanites" in his head so if he does get infected by a borg he dies...
that's why he deletes characters that get assimilated
he explained this through his usual barely coherent crazy ramblings in another thread
Allow me to be very clear on this point, and mind you this is only my personal observation.
You are certainly within your rights to roleplay this game to the point that you would consider a character "lost" if they ever once got assimilated. It seems extreme to me, but I won't criticize you for that.
However, the choice to delete them is yours and yours alone. No other player, and not Cryptic, forces you to do that or is to blame for that decision.
I get the feeling that you are unhappy that you can't force the game and other players to fit into your worldview. If I'm right about that, I'm sorry you feel that way.
Play the way you want, but please don't expect the rest of us to conform or agree. When all is said and done, this is only a game and we'd like to just enjoy the entertainment.
For the record, I agree... having the Borg show up in this particular scenario isn't very consistent. With all of the other races in the game who might try to sabotage a starbase and who might surrender, I don't see why the Borg need to be included in this.
If pretending that it's a holoprogram simulation helps you enjoy it, then I'm glad you found a way to enjoy it.
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Although, what does that make it if you play it on Tribble...
Do we know for a fact that Sollvax isn't actually a cleverly renamed SuperLink?
The posts are almost identical - difficult to read/understand and always with a my-way-or-the-highway vibe to them.
Seriously, anyone ever seen them together? We may be looking at a Clark Kent/Superman scenario here.
Obviously the Borg are looking for relics of their third dynasty we stole from worlds that they decided to retreat from since the primitive cultures there overthrew their overseer.
Perfectly consistent Borg behaviour. :cool:
I have noticed a couple of other odd behaviours in this simulation as well
Including "flying" Gorn
and a Sab spawned approximately 2/3rds of the way into a crate
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it didn't
he was potty at that point
He was "hearing voices"
so unless you think joan of Arc was assimilated by the british??
But yes incursion is THAT broken that you can get characters facing the borg there
You do know when you are fighting Borg in space and you see the red alert boarding "lights" on your screen, the Borg have boarded your ship and are Assimilating your ship and crew.
About Joan of Ark, heck I wasn't alive then, maybe she was. (what does she have to do with a Star Trek game anyway) :P
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After I completed all of them i STOPPED
and yes its cost me 2 VA level characters so far
only Three made the cut
"endgame" is nothing if you are dead
so you have endgame characters that you won't let do any of the endgame content ... well they sound useful
(retired)
some of them are still running story missions (but are safely past the Borg now)
One has retired entirely and now merely acts as Command and control for my Alt fleet
See "end game" means "game over" for some of us
Now I have enough Alts i can be playing GOOD (non STF ) content for several YEARS
Any new content is worth more than 30 Times as much to me
I expect eventually to have a full set of retired characters
and THEN ill start a new account
I find it odd tho that you would willingly ignore the largest section of content... I mean leveling is fun but very short for an MMO... like a day and a half of /played time to get from Lt. to VA. just doing missions... and how is repeating STFs over and over and different than starting new toons and repeating the story missions over and over...
I wouldn't do it myself, but I figure it's sollvax's business what he does with his own characters.
It's one way of making the game extremely challenging, if you look at it that way. It's not any more far-fetched than the folks who wanted a hardcoded permadeath option.
"Win or die."
How many players can claim a character that's played through each STF to the end and never lost a battle against the Borg? According to him, he's got three of them.
If the main goal is building characters for PvP, then that endgame content is only good for obtaining the gear you want and can't get any other way.
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And Retired as in "desk job" like dear old Quinn
who incidentally is only a RA at best
Its been explained a number of times that the Borg we are dealing with now are not the same Borg we have known from the shows. They dont behave like classic Borg. The STFs were supposed to open all of this up and reveal whats made the Borg change. But Cryptic has lost sight of all of that.
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I have seen ingame an Elite Tact Drone running away from my Duralloy Steel Boots of DOOM MK Roundhouse Kick.
So yeah probably the Borg are finally getting that they are being killed wave, after wave after wave in the millions, probably billions and there is no light at the end of the tunnel except for the light out of my phaser rifle.