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telekill2012
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Hello,
I was curious on if there is the ability to be part of the Borg? Not just have a Borg captain or have a Borg bridge officer but to have a Borg cube and an entirely Borg crew? I know right now there are Federation, Klingon and Romulan factions, but will there ever be a Borg faction?
If not, is there a Borg vessel that one can obtain to fly around the universe in? Also, how many different types of Borg bridge officers are there? Currently, I have the liberated Borg female from the C-store but I've seen there are others. I just don't know how to get them. I just think it would be interesting to play as a character from a Borg perspective.
I was curious on if there is the ability to be part of the Borg? Not just have a Borg captain or have a Borg bridge officer but to have a Borg cube and an entirely Borg crew? I know right now there are Federation, Klingon and Romulan factions, but will there ever be a Borg faction?
If not, is there a Borg vessel that one can obtain to fly around the universe in? Also, how many different types of Borg bridge officers are there? Currently, I have the liberated Borg female from the C-store but I've seen there are others. I just don't know how to get them. I just think it would be interesting to play as a character from a Borg perspective.
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Now, Borg Cooperative, that's entirely different case, as they are a group of Liberated Borg and I'd love to see that myself. But, it seems very unlikely at this point.
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I know we already have ridiculous ships like the Enterprise J and the Herald Vonph in game.. the Borg Cube is that one last line that they haven't crossed yet. I still believe that if it ever happens it will be as a last cash grab before the lights go out.. so hopefully not for many more years.
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Where the fact of knowing which direction you are flying with the Borg ships is concerned. It would not be that hard I am sure to add a visual-overlay, such as on the shield display around your ship that is always visible that would give you a orientation of which direction is the forward facing. Also I could easily see if we got the Borg vessels from the Coop-Borg that they might be designed/redesigned, or built/rebuilt to be flown with smaller crew sized, which could translate to them being reduced in their overall size (which I would be fine with). My bigger thing would be what kind of ship trait, and consoles would be put onto the ships to make them desirable. Even that though is not that big an issue.
Back in an interview that Geko did a while back, he mentioned that they were toying with the idea of a borg faction, actually. They stated they had solved the issue of the orientation problem, but they shelved the idea when they decided to focus in on endgame with that expansion. They could come back to it later though when they decide they're ready to do a borg expansion.
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I would be happy with a shuttle. Something like the dark Caitian ones design-wise, with the ability to mask its energy signature to avoid any possible difficult questions. It would make travelling to university so much easier.
Those ships look fantastic.. they really did a good job on these.
I'm heavily leaning toward getting one for an alt.. they definitely look like Assimilated ships.
Oh and if they do make a playble borg faction you bet things like the adaption won't work as well as they do for NPCs.
Borg Cooperative PC's make much more sense. As a faction, no, but if Cryptic ever goes to individual starter quests I could see Chapter One of a Liberated Borg's starter quest being the first Borg mission which ends in your character's assimilation.
Cue cutscene of medics and doctors working on the incapacitated drone, then your character awakens, hideously transformed into a cyborg, only to be informed that you killed your pregnant wife.
"NOOOOO!"
Then, "Let me introduce you to my friend Eliza. She's helped hundreds of captains through their first command."
This is STO. Do you ever imagine the same STO with:
-Dinos shooting laser out of their heads running amock?
-Flying a Voth City Ship was it impossible? How about Voth Bulwark Dreadnought Cruiser?
-Flying the Enterprise J or your own mini starbase could not be done?
-How about flying a Tholian recluse? Can you actually fly in a bridge aimed for 207 °C/404 °F and pretend you are a Tholian?
These are just some of the examples of how ridiculous and non canon this game has evolved. A borg ship NOT doable???. Think again.
The way I see it if Dinos shooting laser from their heads is possible...heck anything goes and that ship full of logic is way past already. Now bring me that Tactical cube and take my money
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For me, personally, the collective would be a perfect place to add playable borg into the game for EVERYONE. As an LTS though, i would love for them to update and add considerably more to the LTS Liberated Borg though, to keep it as a benefit rather than a cop out. Currently, they don't even have full body skins, which has been a HUGE bane to several of my captains and some of their boffs. Seriously. Telaxians are okay, but the super expensive Borg get a bad face makeup? that's it? Boo...
I think Realistically, regular borg players should get the traits and parts of the current LTS borg players but those LTS borg players should be upgraded to the superior versions of the traits, as well as having more Actual borg costume bits and not just the cooperative costume bits. Keep the LTS a step or two above the Cooperative, to keep it as an incentive but open up and expand the Borg considerably for ALL players. This way, we get cooperative ships, and the Borg cubes get to remain the dread of the galaxy.
Aside from the two boffs and the LTS work around, the only other things i can think of are the two adapted ships with the two borg sets equipped. There are even Borg weapons that you can get (from the rep now, i think?) the Arm weapons. I would love to see, as either Liberated or Cooperative, weapons that actually covered your arms like the fluidic wrist lance. There is an insane amount of potential in a borg faction and i would absolutely love to see it, so long as the LTS people were compensated and it didn't diminish the Borg as a whole... like voyager did.
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That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
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l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'