Just a quick idea as I'm burdened with work with not much time to elaborate : maybe all the traits and attributes ajustments due to the Collective could be replaced by a new attribute or skill.
Whenever a Borg needs to tap into the Collective's knowledge (to gain Intellect or a skill), he'd roll this new skill or attribute against a TN depending on the size of the Collective the Borg can tap into (TN5 if he's in Unimatrix, 10 on a Cube, 15 on a sphere, etc).
On success, the Borg can aquire the skill or Intellect increase he wanted at the level he wanted. Failure means he can try next round with a TN lowered by 5 (basically the Borg will always succeed, the question is just how long this will take him to do so). Some intereferences in the communications with the Collective could also increase the TN.
The adaptive shielding could also work like this, only this time the TN would depend on the number of Borgs hit by a weapon with a certain frequency : TN 25 if one Borg was hit, 20 if two were hit, and so on...
This skill's value would vary depending on the Borg's state of assimilation, reaching 12 for all fully assimilated drones.
Just my 0.02€
Last edited by C5; 05-16-2003 at 04:58 AM.
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