CAPTAIN'S BLOG

I think that a Borg Faction is a desire we will just have to leave unfulfilled. The very heart of what makes them so evil is their destruction of all free will. People fear being assimilated because they lose their identities and what makes them unique. Having sentient players being drones is sadly just too antithetical to the very concept of the Collective.

Now, if people want a chance to play as a drone with it's capabilities without being a lifetime subscriber, perhaps Cryptic could make a mission or a Featured Series where the player is goes on a special mission against the Collective and gets assimilated in the process. Something of the kind was done in Voyager, and STO has also done a mission where the player disguises as a Klingn. How about that instead?

I have always been against a Borg faction in this game. The very nature of the Borg and their singular goal makes them a better NPC enemy than a playable faction. Though I do like the idea CheRoj puts forth.

I am against a Borg faction due to reasons mentioned on the STO forums in the thread. I'd think after a Romulan faction, provided we ever see one (KDF needs to be complete before we do) a True Way faction would make a better 4th faction.

The Borg are just too difficult to do, and wouldn't feel right plus a lot of players seem to be against it for obvious reasons.

I'm not totally against a Borg faction; however, it needs to be fair and balanced. This is where the difficulty arrives. In addition all the life time subscribers need some sort of compensation.

My personal favorite idea is that STO should add a playable Cardassian faction before any Borg faction. We already have the Galor class cruiser in the game. In this faction players are given an option to either support/defend the new Cardassian Civil government or join the True Way alliance. All the devs have to do is just write the story and add more ships!

Well i think your looking a little too deeply into the subject and would i would like to be able to operate a fusion cube and play as a borg character , its only a game after all ^

I may have an idea though which on could enter a Borg Faction, What will happen is that when your character is assimilated by the Borg they'll be beamed up to the orbiting vessel where they'll be fitted with implants, Body Armor, ETC. And your Drone can be liberated by a friend in your original faction where most of your implants are removed and you get command of your old ship back, Also the implants can be customized both while Assimilated and after being Librated

Why not play a borg queen as the captain? They are connected to the hive but have the ability to make choices. In the voyager series it suggests their maybe a few queens and the main one from next generation was always looking for a companion (an equal) with a measure of free will intact. Why can't the player take on that roll in the borg collective? They get to make choices and still be considered part of the collective. I'm against a liberated faction because the whole reason I want to play borg is to go around assimilating and conquering. Liberated borg wouldn't do that.

if you do a liberated borg faction than just change the lifetime subscribers unlockable race to something else like the undine.