Birth of the Federation

The trick is to not make it go out of control late game. There will be a break point In any game after which the Borg becomes unstoppable. The resistance is futile. For now it was about fully assimilate and control one quadrant. I mean with "adequate systems' defense'. In the last game I was c...

It is from turn 265. I have 10 cubes and 2 diamonds, but I need more and more probes to monitor borders. In this turn I have 271 of free support, but I have cube, diamond and assembler in construction. I met tritanium shortage recently and the construction is delayed about 10 turns. The fleet in the...

This is what I mean by a lack of adequate system defense In this case I needed more probes, but I met tritanium shortage earlier
With such sophisticated AI ( ) the Borg Collective currently has no chance. The Roms are the real threat for now.

5 pop will only help those colonies that do not have "round" pop capacities.

I meant moons (standard feature) and belts as an add-on.

TW, there's also this other ship type for the Borg called the round thingie. Or Sphere if you prefer :mrgreen: That's the one that you are supposed to use to protect your borders, not Cubes! :razz: They're faster, they're cheaper, they have higher range, they have lower maintenance, and lower resou...

Two more ideas: - the Dilithium cost of the Assembler is higher than for the Cube, even if it becomes a hub sooner or later. I suppose the dilithium is for warp speed mainly. The maintenance cost about 25-30 would help as well. - I am not convinced that all planets become habitable for the Borg imme...

I made a mistake, edited later. I had 7 systems with Tritanium, not Deuterium. You also considered to split the Hive Link into two buildings, so randomly I have in that game only 1 Gas Giant. The Transwarp jump of 1 cube was from Hub (86,43) to a new Hub (58,14). I wanted it quick because of the nei...

I suppose you hate the Borg a lot! :grin: I have downloaded the file and played 170 turns ending up without the Deuterium, :sad: because I sent one (!) Cube through the Transwarp Hub. Generally it might look playable, but I would propose some corrections: - increase the Hive Link resources, Dilithiu...

In fact that's why I posted those screens. The Borg is not dominant power in both games and with more aggressive AI most likely the Borg couldn't win the game. It's all about the balance, but maybe at some point the Borg fleet support is too restrictive. For now the Borg has no room to construct mor...

Sorry, that I am responding so late, even after the patch, but somehow have been quite busy till yesterday evening. Nice little fleet there. :twisted: Do the Klingons have more of those, attacking your colonies? Unfortunately only one and quickly destroyed. Would you like to see more unstable wormho...

OK. I will try to edit that.
BTW - almost all wormholes are active, so that feature of the Supremacy galaxy is not unique.
As the Borg has no research ships, any inactive wormhole would mean one lost probe.

One more thing which may be valuable against the Borg. Top Romulan ships are undetectable for the Subspace Analyser. I suppose that Klingon Attack Cruiser III is also not detectable. If other top Klingon ships had the cloaked strength 7, it would be harder for the Borg to defend their systems. An ex...

You think turn 556 is too early :?: Definitely too early. The turns are quicker. In the first game I needed 750 turns to assimilate the first whole quadrant. About that time the Borg dominates so significantly that a further game does not make sense for me because it looks like a butchery. I have a...

I have checked carefully a while ago and:
- I downloaded the fix on 2023-10-04 22:10 (I still have that copy)
- my first save from the second game (for turn 1 - I usually do it for turn 1) was 2023-10-04 23:37
So the second game was with the patch and the fix.

I would like to report my remarks from two last games played as the Borg - one before and one after the last patch. I assume that the general difference made by the patch was how quickly the Borg could develop their power in number of cubes and fleets. The patch made is somehow slower. The Borg game...