Hi Door Repair Guy.
I think I've talked to you in game once, by the exchange, asking about your uniform. Am I confused?

Greetings,

I am Bradley, the Stonewall Fleet Ambassador. I will add you to my friends list in game and look forward to chatting with you about our repsective fleets. My global handle is @bradley1701 Talk to you soon!

LLAP

I have to say this map surprised me. Countries still have the death penalty for homosexuals! I had thought Humanity had moved past things like that. I guess not.

To all those homos living in those countries and any country that would put us behind bars, my heart and thoughts are with you all.

Oh and just so you know my view. The Borg as a playable faction, however you do it, would be a massive break in canon. You can't have individuals controlling drones in a collective.

^^This^^

I don't see what the problem is either :) I was simply saying I thought I heard ppl were getting in trouble for doing it

I have to disagree. Anyone who does this should be made to clean my warp coils whilst I'm traveling at warp 9!

Just joking, if someone wants to do it let them. I see no reason why someone should be punished for it.

I remember when the fleet changed our weapons colour to pink n went into SB24. Twas so fun. :laugh:

Congratulations, Halish!

Now off to add it to my uniforms, my ships, and update my communicator to the alternate design...

Grats Mister Halish :silly:

I'm Door Repair Guy @ Jennjahn the Canadian Federation ambassador. The CF is a casual fleet, though Canadian in focus, we are international in scope.

I'd like to open a channel of communication for relations between our two fleets. I would appreciate if you could put me in touch with whoever in your fleet handles diplomacy, so that we can exchange information and contact information to begin a dialog.

We've established a special diplomacy channel in-game for interfleet contact. Please feel free to get in touch with me so that our two fleets can work together as STO grows and matures.

If you would like to know more about us, I invite your ambassador to our forums at http://canadianfederation.forumotion.com/

Thank you for your time.

I was also under the impression they had removed this. Wasn't it just something left over thing from Champions Online or something?

Anyway, for me it's a none issue. I mean it's the colour of your phasers, if people wish to do so then let them until it's removed. It's hardly something that needs a punishment.

chemkarate wrote:

It's a cool idea, but I didn't give it much serious thought because I just don't want Cryptic working on ANOTHER race. Their time would be better spent fixing and polishing the game as it exists. I'm seeing way too many people, some of them in our fleet, dropping out of the game. I have to admit, had I not bought I lifetime subscription, I'd probably have left by now as well.

I haven't read the long post on the Borg. So sorry for speaking out of topic but I'd just like to reiterate what Chemkarate has said.

I don't understand why there's so much discussion about adding new things (factions, ships, uniforms) when the game we currently have simply isn't finished.

There's time in the future for these discussions and It should come when they announce the first full expansion for Star Trek Online. That should be in about a year.

Oh and just so you know my view. The Borg as a playable faction, however you do it, would be a massive break in canon. You can't have individuals controlling drones in a collective.

Episode 8 - TOS - "What are Little Girls Made Of?" - 10/20/1966

Part 1:



Parts 2-5:

Found from the above link in the related videos section

Enjoy!

Argh, I replied on my comment page, instead of here. >.

Thanks very much guys. I'm very proud to have won (more than that I'm probably putting across) and love the way it looks in game.

I really wish they'd get a shimmy on with the fleet star bases and fleet PvP. Then we'll see the logo really become our identity!

bfelczer wrote:

I thought so too but I think they said players who do this may be subject to penalties for breaking some rule in the TOS

I don't see why it's a problem. They say it's because people in PvP won't know what they're up against, but that's just a cop out. Seeing the colour of my beams doesn't change your ability to counter me in combat; you can't change equipment mid fight. Even if you blow up and say, "I'm going to put on my anti-proton armour, now." chances are you're going to have someone else take you out with disruptors, afterwards.

I feel it all comes down to a feeling of control: The less we have, the more confident they become.

Finish the KDF.. Bring on the Roms.. and then the Cards.. and go from there.

It's a cool idea, but I didn't give it much serious thought because I just don't want Cryptic working on ANOTHER race. Their time would be better spent fixing and polishing the game as it exists. I'm seeing way too many people, some of them in our fleet, dropping out of the game. I have to admit, had I not bought I lifetime subscription, I'd probably have left by now as well.

Galan_Vaurek wrote:

as someone else put it:

No Borg,
No Undine,
No Iconian,
No Q

Saith

I agree with the last 3, but I think there could be some gaming potential for playable Borgies. The question is if there's enough to be gained in the gaming experience to make the changes to the Trek universe worthwhile. And realistically I doubt STO has the power to change a race so drastically.

OTOH, what really separates Klingons from Cardassians (not to be confused with Kardashians, which are a completely different species, as I understand it). For that matter, how will they make Romulans different enough to make them an interesting alternative to playing Klink or Fed? With the Borg, you have some serious differences that could be explored in the game play.

Time will tell. Nobody says all of us have to play every faction.

bfelczer wrote:

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=176326

An amazing amount of time must have gone into making that thread. What do y'all think?

I hate to come across as being closed-minded on the subject.. but I just will never be for a Borg faction.

Everything that makes the Borg, Borg would have to be removed or changed to make them viable as a playable faction, as I stated in my post on that thread.


Finish the KDF.. Bring on the Roms.. and then the Cards.. and go from there...

as someone else put it:

No Borg,
No Undine,
No Iconian,
No Q

Saith

First: good grief, that's long! I confess I didn't have the patience to read the whole thing. Much of what I did read was opinion, and I could see multiple other ways a Borg playable faction could be accomplished in-game.

But the question remains: just because they could do it doesn't necessarily mean they should.

bradley1701 wrote:

The thing that I don't like about the idea of the Borg being a playable faction is that they are supposed to work as a whole collectively. When you add hundreds of individual people, playing Borg they way they individually want to play...you don't have The Collective anymore.

If anything, the Borg should be left as an NPC bad guy...there are plenty of other Trek baddies to choose from.

I can see the logic of leaving them NPC-only, but on the other hand the game developers have already indicated there is another big bad for the overall game. It could be that the Borg, through their many battles with races known and unknown, have adapted by allowing some level of individuality.

The most interesting aspect of playing as a Borg would be assimilation. That should be their overall goal, just as glory in battle is the Klingons' and peacefully blowing shit up is the Feds'. One example, it would make PvP a much scarier prospect if a Borg player could assimilate a non-Borg's bridge officers. And maybe Feds and Klinks could liberate Borg BOs in return. Suddenly STO becomes a big Pokemon game!

Missions could include assimilation as a goal. Starting with just your playable Borg, you battle and assimilate troops as you go. You can't assimilate enemies you have completely defeated, but if you get an enemy's health down below 10 or 20%, and have sufficient time, you could inject them with nanoprobes and start the conversion process. Once complete, you have a drone to fight at your side. Then you go and make more and more.

It's not something that will happen any time soon, but maybe in a few years time, when the game is looking for something new to draw us all back, they could try something like this.