Borg Recycler, Please!

posted on November 29th, 2003, 3:34 am

I don't know if the Borg Recycler was removed because it messed with the economic balance, but I'd love to have it back. (The dorky "convert from one resource into the other" buttons can stay gone though. lol) I noticed in the borg odf file that they currently recycle (decommission) vessels with only 50% efficiency. Since so many of the Borg special weapons are designed to capture alien vessels, and their game play depends so much on decommissioning those vessels to build their own, this rate is really, really poor. If the Recycler was added back, perhaps that station alone could decommission vessels with near perfect efficiency, while their shipyard decommission efficiency would remain unchanged.

Also, I hope I don't seem nit-picky with the mod, because I love it. But I play the Borg a lot (*cough*) and the current recycling rates make it tough to play the Borg the way I think they'd actually work. (Just my opinion, obviously.)

posted on November 29th, 2003, 4:02 am

I could see why it was removed... and its an interesting idea, although when the admirals system is implemented... Optec mby one of the borg what was it "nodes" (i think) could have this (mby costing credits).

posted on November 29th, 2003, 6:45 am

yep, that's a good ability for one of the avatars - and it is planed to give one of the borg avatars a better recycling rate

posted on December 2nd, 2003, 9:47 pm

I just noticed that since the mod uses tritanium (latinum) instead of metal, the tritanium can't be recycled. I don't know if the

recycleLatinumFraction = (some number)

line even works in the game, though I'll try it out this evening. If it doesn't, it strikes me that the whole recycle function in the game is compromised. (Or am I wrong? lol)

posted on December 2nd, 2003, 9:58 pm

You are wrong you can make the recycling working, but it's not funktionalbe in beta2 für tritanium / dilithium