Borg Faction - Thoughts

mejoyh

Thanks DB for the new faction! Love the Borg.

Just some thoughts
Great additions of regularly required faction only drops - Case Files, Security Codes, Klingon House Crest, Romulan Encryption Algorithm, Star Empire Icon, IDIC, Ancient Film (YES!), Holoprogram (2x YES!)

Not so sure about the other drops
- Microconnector - Already available in Cardassian and Dominon and not particularly useful
- Powercell - Already available in Klingon Empire and Dominion
- Subprocessor - Already available in Klingon Empire and Bajoran

This is not a complaint at all but perhaps an improvement could be to swap out the microconnector for a database drop?
- Database - Only available in Cardassian and the 2* and 4* versions are in constant need (especially for borg)
- Others with only single faction drops - Casing (Hirogen), Polyalloy (Terran)

CSR _Waylander

The odds of getting the items you want though would be rare because there are so many, ill get it up to honored but then just go back to the main factions.

robownage

I love how they handled the faction items - it was a neat approach and makes sense from a story protective.

We'll see what the drop rates look like to see if it makes sense for me to make this my go-to faction, but the potential is definitely there.

[Deleted User]

I like how they handled the cost of transmissions. One gets half the usual transmissions for the same merit cost, in return the player gets the chance to win the more useful items.

Paladin 27

[ING:ENL] OsirisSonOfGeb wrote: »

I like how they handled the cost of transmissions. One gets half the usual transmissions for the same merit cost, in return a player gets the chance to win the more useful items.

You get additional transmissions for each 75 merits as you increase your reputation with each faction up to 8 once honored.

This is the same for the Borg as it was for all other factions.

Imokles

The number of transmissions you get is linked to the faction standing. It will become more as your standing improves. I have some others still at "Allied" and get 7 transmissions, for the ones I have at Honored I get 8. I assume it will be the same with the Borg faction.

[Deleted User]

Paladin 27 wrote: »

[ING:ENL] OsirisSonOfGeb wrote: »

I like how they handled the cost of transmissions. One gets half the usual transmissions for the same merit cost, in return a player gets the chance to win the more useful items.

You get additional transmissions for each 75 merits as you increase your reputation with each faction up to 8 once honored.

This is the same for the Borg as it was for all other factions.

Ah. Thanks for the clarification. It has been a long time since I had anything but "honoured" on all Factions. 👍

[10F] Beltalowda Bandit

Do you get more reputation points for each successful shuttle the higher you move up (I.e. from despised to honoured) or is it always 5 points for a win?

Paladin 27

[10F] The Braavosi Bandit wrote: »

Do you get more reputation points for each successful shuttle the higher you move up (I.e. from despised to honoured) or is it always 5 points for a win?

I think it moves to 10 at some point, but that isn’t based on reputation but on the difficulty/length of the shuttle.

[10F] Beltalowda Bandit

Thanks @Paladin 27
I was just wondering if it was worth it intentionally failing missions in order to keep the duration down, and whether it would ultimately be a quicker way of reaching honoured status. Downside is it is merit intensive

DScottHewitt

CSR _Waylander wrote: »

The odds of getting the items you want though would be rare because there are so many, ill get it up to honored but then just go back to the main factions.

robownage wrote: »

I love how they handled the faction items - it was a neat approach and makes sense from a story protective.

We'll see what the drop rates look like to see if it makes sense for me to make this my go-to faction, but the potential is definitely there.

I got about a dozen Items built and Equipped last night off drops. Easily 75%-80% of returning Shuttles had at least one Item with a Yellow or Green "+" sign........

Paladin 27

[10F] The Braavosi Bandit wrote: »

Thanks @Paladin 27
I was just wondering if it was worth it intentionally failing missions in order to keep the duration down, and whether it would ultimately be a quicker way of reaching honoured status. Downside is it is merit intensive

If you sit there for a several hours and just do 30 sec shuttles you can probably get there quickly. I’m spreading mine out a little longer to take advantage of the increase in transmissions per merit for each rep level (only changes in faction store once a day at dabo time).

5000 Quatloos

Paladin 27 wrote: »

[10F] The Braavosi Bandit wrote: »

Thanks @Paladin 27
I was just wondering if it was worth it intentionally failing missions in order to keep the duration down, and whether it would ultimately be a quicker way of reaching honoured status. Downside is it is merit intensive

If you sit there for a several hours and just do 30 sec shuttles you can probably get there quickly. I’m spreading mine out a little longer to take advantage of the increase in transmissions per merit for each rep level (only changes in faction store once a day at dabo time).

Really? Wow, live and learn. Thanks for the info!

garner

The 30 second shuttles were only available until you had successes, as soon as you had one successful shuttle, they went up to 2 minutes, then 10 minutes then 30 minutes, 60 and 180.

So you could run 12 (I think) shuttles at 30 seconds, then one of each of the steps up to 3hrs and then it was 3hrs all the time.

Paladin 27

garner wrote: »

The 30 second shuttles were only available until you had successes, as soon as you had one successful shuttle, they went up to 2 minutes, then 10 minutes then 30 minutes, 60 and 180.

So you could run 12 (I think) shuttles at 30 seconds, then one of each of the steps up to 3hrs and then it was 3hrs all the time.

You have to fail 40% of them to stay at 30 seconds. I tend to open 7, send 5 (3 I try to pass and 2 to fail). If I get that exact ratio, I open five more and send five of the 7 again. If one of the 2 fails passes, the I send another 2 fails with the extra ones open.

It’s a bit of a juggling act, so you might want to try something a little easier. Just keep in mind you get 1 point for a success and -1.5 for a fail. If you are at 0 or .5 net points you get a 30 sec shuttle. 1 or 1.5 is 2 minutes and 2 or 2.5 is a 10 minute shuttle.

WaldoMag

Paladin 27 wrote: »

garner wrote: »

The 30 second shuttles were only available until you had successes, as soon as you had one successful shuttle, they went up to 2 minutes, then 10 minutes then 30 minutes, 60 and 180.

So you could run 12 (I think) shuttles at 30 seconds, then one of each of the steps up to 3hrs and then it was 3hrs all the time.

You have to fail 40% of them to stay at 30 seconds. I tend to open 7, send 5 (3 I try to pass and 2 to fail). If I get that exact ratio, I open five more and send five of the 7 again. If one of the 2 fails passes, the I send another 2 fails with the extra ones open.

It’s a bit of a juggling act, so you might want to try something a little easier. Just keep in mind you get 1 point for a success and -1.5 for a fail. If you are at 0 or .5 net points you get a 30 sec shuttle. 1 or 1.5 is 2 minutes and 2 or 2.5 is a 10 minute shuttle.

Also no negative. So once at zero, more fails mean nothing.

{DD} Smelly

It took me almost 12 hours and 11k merits to get it to honored.

VulcanDude

Really great! Hope they add a Borg assimilation feature similar to what is used for Tuvok, Duras Sisters and others to get Borg versions of characters. Of course there lies the difficulty.

WaldoMag

{DD} Smelly wrote: »

It took me almost 12 hours and 11k merits to get it to honored.

Congrats.

Knew it would take a lot to do, you probably were doing nothing else during that 12 hours. I am only at friendly. But I am doing two accounts, just no down time on one account to be doing other account. I think I have put four hours in so far. But I think I have 16 hours more to go. So maybe I do save a little time in doing two accounts.

Edit:
I am at allied. My time estimate is wrong. I switched to sending four shuttles 99% success, open three more (30 seconds) wait for the others to complete and complete them, then I send the three at 14% success ( crew without the stat). If any of those three that I want to fail, succeed, I open one more mission for 14% success rate and time boost if return is greater than 2 minutes. I may have to do more for failure ( if I had more than one success on those that I want to fail)

Once I am at 30 seconds again I do 4 at 99% , open three more, do as above.

My time estimate is cut in half this way. Basically it would take ten hours to do my two accounts. Or maybe, 6 hours just to do one account. From lowest to honored.


Edit2: I am not sure what happened. I might of made a mistake and sent 7 99% success rate in a row or all three of my 14% succeeded. But it took me to three hour missions. I ran the 4 three hour missions for failure (no time boost) and concentrated on my other account. When the three hour missions return, I followed my procedure above for return of my three failure missions.

Edit3: I had two of my failure missions succeed and the game gave me three hour missions. That is 6 successes and 1 failure. Looks like you need to go with 8 total four you send for success and open 4 others. Then either send three and wait on those to determine what to do with last open one, or just send four failures,

Funny having two success with my 14% success rate missions is more of a failure when you are trying to stay below three hour missions.

This is strange 6 successes and 1 failure gets you to three hour missions. Totally different with event faction missions.

Flemming

Just got Honored status myself:

Dahar Commander 5 of 12

I'm really happy that we got a Borg faction, but i'm a bit disappointed about their location.

Would it been that hard to give them a faction centre that looks a bit more "Borg"???

I really hoped for a uni complex like we saw it in "Unimatrix Zero", or an assimilated planet with a few Borg ship in orbit.

I know that this had no effect on the faction store or the game mechanics, BUT it would look great and feel more like Star Trek.

And i think this is what this game is all about. To collect cool looking Star Trek pieces and travel within the Star Trek universe.

Bylo Band

I hit honored earlier, but I am still only able to buy transmissions in groups of 7, is this true for the rest of you?

Paladin 27

ByloBand wrote: »

I hit honored earlier, but I am still only able to buy transmissions in groups of 7, is this true for the rest of you?

You have to wait for the faction store to reset. Should be at dabo time, though paying the 75 dil to refresh early might do it too.

WaldoMag

Paladin 27 wrote: »

ByloBand wrote: »

I hit honored earlier, but I am still only able to buy transmissions in groups of 7, is this true for the rest of you?

You have to wait for the faction store to reset. Should be at dabo time, though paying the 75 dil to refresh early might do it too.

No, it is as you said Dabo reset time. I bought a few times, then at DABO reset it changed to 8.

DScottHewitt

Reached Honoured.

Ten Pull gave me Trader Odo from a straight drop. Leveled up Romulan Warbird and ISS Constellation.

robownage

Ten pull gave me two fully-fused purple beholds, a bunch of honor and a little fuel.

At least it was more honor than fuel.

Me [AUS]

800 Honour and some fuel.

Commander Sinclair

Finally hit honored this morning as well. 10x pull – just honor and schems. I can't even use schems as repli-fuel anymore as all my crew are leveled! Just waiting for new Kirk I guess...

Odo Marmarosa

Just got honored myself. Picked up a second star on French Q, which is a nice break from all-honor pulls

Flemming

Odo Marmarosa wrote: »

Just got honored myself. Picked up a second star on French Q, which is a nice break from all-honor pulls

"Koo"?

[DC] Picard Loves Reds

Just finished too... 400 honor and


I took Crell since I didn't want another 1/5 in my crew.