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ktmcdo1968
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I would love to be able to play as the Borg
In one of the cube ships
In one of the cube ships
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Or just let yourself get assimilated and watch as your character attacks your team.
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I have a mission on foundry where the borg are attacking ESD
I could see it done as "Twitch Plays Pokémon STO", Be kinda amusing for a short while.
I really think they're saving it for that one last cash grab once the game starts to get in danger of shutting down. Personally, I hope the day never comes.
I think it would be hilarious if Lifers got special unlockable "Regular Human/Klingon/Romulan" playable captains for a Borg Cooperative faction.
Clutter.
Trolls would start greifing with cube ships, forming blockades in front of esd and blocking another other entry exit point they can find.
Not a good idea. Not to mention a cubes weapons layout.. what would it have ? 10 fore 10 aft ? 10 tac consoles ?
That said, spheres or probes would be just fine. They wouldn't cause the same scale or power issues so I'm all for it.
A Borg lockbox has been asked for on many occasions over the years. Its been long requested.
They "know" it would be their most popular lockbox to date. Their ace up their sleeve.
If I were Cryptic, I'd release a borg lockbox about 6 months to a year after the game goes live on xbone and ps4.
This will be a crucial time for them, in terms of capitalizing financially on the large influx of new players.
The need to use their ace. And hope for loyal players on the new platforms.
@trekpuppy , I wasn't around for that unfortunately. But..
I would love to see all the devs show up at esd in Cubes.
"You think the game is too easy do you ?"
And just start decimating everyone LOL !
I would totally squee event
So they started work on it, but abandoned it for "more important stuff".
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Other possibility: As an April Fools joke, you play as a drone going about your daily duties on a cube in the middle of Borg space. That's all you do, walk around, analyze data here, assist in assimilating some poor basta interesting addition to the Collective there. Then end it with a Fed/Kling strike team beaming aboard and ending your career as a drone.
But I suppose that would be seen as trolling.
Yes this is how a borg faction would play, it would be like a screensaver as your character is played for you with no ability to control your character's actions.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
Not quite since we would be at least a thousand years too late. The Vaadwaur encountered the Borg before the 15th Century, but the Borg only had a few solar systems conquered.
So... it would be like an average ISA or fleet alert PUG? xD
Unless they were prepared to give lifers another exclusive species as compensation, but even then I think it would be more logical to just add that 'compensation species' as the new faction.
The Cooperative could be more interesting but I think most of the appeal for that faction would be in the roleplay side, and thus lost in STO.
Oh I strongly disagree. My main has always been Fed. I have a Klingon that I roleplay as a liberated borg who has established a rogue collective of her own, but I don't like Klingons so I never play her. I think Romulans are interesting, but was never able to really get into my Romulan toon ... though I think part of that is due to Romulan weaponry being trapped in the horrid reputation system. The TOS micro faction coming with AoY seems interesting, but I highly doubt my TOS will ever eclipse my existing main. Now, my Delta (the Vorta in my sig) DOES come close sometimes, but thats only because I put her in a Jem'Hadar strike ship and created a crew that basically breaks the faction system (they are all Jem'Hadar except for the mirror universe version of that boff you get in the tutorial, and a Denobulan scientist that engineered female Jem'Hadar for my Delta captain, who herself has abandoned the Dominion and is working for the Federation as a mercenary).
All that being said, if I could make a Cooperative character that toon would instantly become my new main, no matter how many exclusive missions such a faction would have. Best of Both Worlds is the reason I fell in love with Trek, First Contact is my favorite Trek movie, and Regeneration is one of my all time favorite Trek episodes. The Borg are my all time favorite Trek aliens, and the only reason that I got my lifetime sub all those years ago. I also have this hanging on my wall, which I got from Vegas ... 12 years ago? Back when one of the casinos had a massive Star Trek section:
A Borg faction would be the single easiest way for Cryptic to separate me from my money.
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"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
I actually liked the old way more TBH ... a LOT more in fact ...
Say that again when you ran your 300th CGE STF and still didn't get the M.A.C.O Phaser Battle Rifle Mk XII. The problem with praying to the RNG Gods is that some people are extremely lucky while others are extremely unlucky.
I personally love loot based systems, you play the game and always have a chance at whatever it is you're looking for, as opposed to the mindless daily click the reputation sliders and eventually you can just buy it system that always seems to make me stop playing for months on end.
Now, I'm well aware of the downsides to loot based systems, in WoW I've been soloing Ulduar (very old raid) every week for at least 2 months now looking for a pair of boots I'd like to use for customization on my Death Knight. It hasn't dropped yet, but it DOES keep me playing, but like I said the slow crawl that is the STO rep system just leads to me giving up long before I get the gear I want, because every time something comes up and I miss a day, or I forget to do my rep, or whatever, it takes that much longer and unlike with a drop system there is no chance of getting it sooner. Well, I guess if they added a .05% chance for rep project rewards to have set gear I might be tempted into doing it ...
Bottom line, I'll gladly grind daily/weekly for months for a loot based reward, but STO style rep rewards erase my desire to play altogether, because I don't find clicking time-gated buttons fun.