Borg assimilation racial technology

[Suicide Junkie]

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Boarding: Just create a component similar to the alligience subverted with shorter range.

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Aaaaah! How can people keep suggesting the alliegiance subverter as a borg boarding party???
You can't beam through shields! You can't just ignore SDDs and the valiant defenders!
I mean, sure the drones will wipe the floor with the defenders, but give them a chance!
Just use some Borgified Shield Depleters, and use an "organic regen" ability on the "Assimilation Drones" boarding parties! You can capture just as many ships as with the subverters, but the mechanics are much better.

[God Emperor]

ZeroAdunn,
Check out my Borg variant! Most of the things you mentioned are in it....
(There is a Borg Technology Tree).

[Q]

I hope you don't mind a little advertisement for my assimilating Borg modification:
I play a test game in a medium sized galaxy, low starting tech level, no computer bonus but high computer player difficulty. 8 races with Borg, Gron, Krill, Sergetti, Toron, Romulan, Norak, Ukra-Tal. It is stardate 2416.5 and Borg are first with a score of 1.2M, second are Romulan with 400K! Even before triggering the mega evil empire, the Borg were at war with just everyone. Their fleets have ships of all races included, that the Borg assimilated.

[This message has been edited by Q (edited 02 June 2001).]

[ZeroAdunn]

Just downloaded you mod, haven't used it yet, but downloaded it, hope you don't mind if I make some suggestions:

1. I think it would better simulate the borg adaptive shielding to change the borg shielding to be 1) non-phased (Something about them having phased shields just bugs me) 2)produce say one hundred sheilds and regenerate 100 shields per tern at highest level (to represent adaptive shielding, would make a dreadnought tough as "nails" for lack of a more profane word)

2. Create a custom beam, something like "Borg Antiproton beam, make it armor and then give it the regenerative armor ability, do the same for a tractor beam and pulse weapon if you like.

3. Last but not least, make pie!!! Man I love pie.

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Captain, I found your pants.

[Q]

Thank you ZeroAdunn for your comment.
1.) Ordinary shields would be soon useless when the enemy uses polaron beams, and many races do that. On the other hand 100 point of regeneration is awful much, too much IMO.
2.) I put the main defense of the Borg in the shields, so I don't think additional special armor will be necassary, and the combination of weapon and armor capabilities in the same component could produce very odd effects. Did you ever try this yourself?
3.) ??? (I may miss something, english is not my mother language).

[Suicide Junkie]

If you're not using armor, then set all the borg components as regenerating armor.

It won't change things much, since there is no armor on the ship, and you get your regeneration.

With regenerating boarding parties, the borg would capture multiple ships each combat, without needing cheap *** ignore everything weapons.
Even though the shields will go down, you still have the regenerating hull, and a design with lots of regenerators.

[ZeroAdunn]

My point about the regenerating shields was that after each hit you had to remodulate your weapons, so every other hit wouldn't do any damage. The lower sheild number would allow a good sized fleet to get the shields down every turn and do damage. (if 100 is a bit much maybe only 75 or 50)

My point about making weapons armor was so that they could regenerate every turn in combat. Would make combat really tough, even with weapons killing weapons.

Pie: A bakery product with fuit filling and a light flacky crust.. MMMMMM, pie.

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Captain, I found your pants.