New Borg Economy

[Optec]

posted on April 1st, 2013, 7:26 am

Last edited by Optec on April 1st, 2013, 5:26 pm, edited 10 times in total.

Today we will take a look at two brand new Borg features which will define the Collective experience!

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posted on April 1st, 2013, 11:16 am

what about a Li2OH cube? would that go faster?

posted on April 1st, 2013, 11:18 am

Can we get a Gold Cube?

posted on April 1st, 2013, 11:25 am

Can we get a Gold Cube?

maybe a small one, all the gold on the earth wouldn't make a very big cube. they'd need to strip mine dozens of worlds for 1, but it would look so pimping. ho's other races would be lining up for assimilation.

posted on April 1st, 2013, 12:22 pm

This sounds fantastic!
Really cant wait to see this in-game
On top of this you should be able to assimilate ships and transform them at the atomic level
Love the ability to stick ships and stations together!
Loads of potential there
Of course borg ships should be made super cheap to make it viable to assimilate space through this method
Like the idea of a gold cube!
Off topic but when is the donut going to be implimented? cant wait for that!
LOLOLOLOL

posted on April 1st, 2013, 12:32 pm

Pimp my Cube (with Au)

posted on April 1st, 2013, 1:03 pm

One question. How are you supposed to simulate every element without adding MILLIONS of ODFs?Other than that, it looks very interesting.

posted on April 1st, 2013, 1:57 pm

Looking at the date the first part seems a little strange to me . However I hope there is something real to the second part, which sounds awesome.

posted on April 1st, 2013, 3:18 pm

Can I add a beryllium sphere to my Cube?

posted on April 1st, 2013, 3:56 pm

Sigh.. is it midnight yet?

posted on April 1st, 2013, 4:27 pm

Okay, there is something very suspicious about the element thing. Very un-Borg like. The Unicomplex-like structure seems to make sense though.

posted on April 1st, 2013, 4:37 pm

Finally! this is exactly what the Borg needs. Latinum Cubes with a lot of bling bling the Ferengi will go nuts!

posted on April 1st, 2013, 4:58 pm

I want mine with latinum plated spinning 24's . I d also like to have some independently firing z axis thrusters installed so I can bounce my cube while like its bagged while cruising the galaxy looking for some hoes to assimilate

posted on April 1st, 2013, 5:22 pm

I have to admit i'm scratching my head on this one. It is certainly an ambitious project, an unobtanium cube sounds interesting, but with all the combinations I fear it will make balancing very tough. The assimilation idea sounds nice, but I fear in team games it could be way too overpowered, taking over a large amount of space while your teamates give you cover fire seems like to easy of a stratagy. That being said it will be interesting to see this in the patch.

posted on April 1st, 2013, 6:31 pm

The Element thing sounds uncanny, un-Borg like and just 100% something the Borg would never do! When the Borg Assimilate a ship or station in Star Trek (and I mean the TV shows and the movies, namely First Contact since its the only Borg featured movie) they do 1 of 2 things:

(1) They disassemble the vessel and incorporate its most valuable technologies into the construction of another vessel or they add it to the vessel that did the assimilating to approve efficiency. Even the non-essential parts of an assimilated vessel or station get used, never are they broken down to the sub-atomic or atomic level of their elements.

(2) Even when a vessel has been boarded by the Borg, the crew assimilated (or partially assimilated), they still make use of the vessel as they start to assimilate it. Case and point: "Star Trek: First Contact". As the Borg were starting to assimilate the USS Enterprise NCC 1701-E, they first assimilated and took over Engineering, they then captured the rest of the ship up to deck 11 then they just stopped. There they set out to turn the Main Deflector into an Interplexing Beacon that they could use to contact the rest if the Borg Collective in that century.

Creation of the Interplexing Beacon

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The creators of the stock Armada II game were right when they included the Borg Recycler. Who ever thought of this idea with elements in my opinion based on Star Trek Canon NEEDS to rethink this whole Elenent thing. This better be an April Fools joke, if it ain't well I just will never play as the Borg anymore because of this illogical overcite!
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Assimilation
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Borg_cube
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_(Star_Trek)
Pretty much, I bet no one could ever recall any episode where the Borg ever broke down anything for its elements, because then why would they choose to destroy anything that they couldn't assimilate. If I am mistaken, please anyone prove that this is something the Borg in Star Trek Canon actually do.

If it could be broken down into its base elements, everything would be useful to the Borg and then destroying anything would be illogical and thus un-Borg like because they strive for perfection. If this was even possible, I doubt the Borg would have a Directive to destroy those that they find unassimilatable. Instead they would have something to break down those forms of resistance into the original elements that would make up the target.

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The only really good thing here is the Borg Unicomplex idea, finally the Borg will be able to build like Borg, but really all primary Borg stations and ships (spheres and cubes) should be what's allowed in the construction of a Borg Unicomplex and possibly the incorporation of the ability for the included ships to be able to separate from the facility without disassembling it or making it look weird. The area where Borg vessels connect should be like docking berths.

Borg Unicomplex

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(If you look closely at the pictured Borg Unicomplex from Star Trek Voyager, you can see the possible areas that could be docking berths)

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Unicomplex]
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Borg_Unicomplex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_(Star_Trek)#Unicomplex
http://www.stdimension.org/Institutions/UnicomplexE.htm
http://www.stowiki.org/Unicomplex