hi. question when fighting the borg. how do i prevent them from jacking my ships? the norways don't do anything useful.
The Norway does do something useful, you have to use the anti-assimilation ability. You prevent them from jacking your ships two ways. Against the capital ship version of the cutting beam ability, don't lose your shields, do enough damage to shut it off early and avoid having them down for eight seconds if you lose them. Against the assimilation ability, avoid taking damage when it's in effect. The assimilation triggers are conditional.
Of course, you can also drain them of their antimatter.
and which borg vessels jack ships? it's so confusing. any help is appreciated. thanks.
Pretty much all of them.
Addendum:
one complaint about the borg is that they can just jack ships and neglect to build their own. is there some way to jack a ship, then have it self-destruct after a time? this converts the destroyed ship to resources for the borg? i'd love to see more cubes and less assimilated warships. just a thought.
If you were seeing very many Cubes, that would be a problem. If you're running the Borg has intended, hard/unfair difficulty and multiple allies teamed up against them, you shouldn't be losing so many ships that they end up with a fleet comprised mostly of assimilated ships.
If you're not, and you're doing something crazy like playing them in unlocked teams, or running easy AI, they're not going to behave. One needs numbers to kill them off, most of the assimilated ships should end up rapidly destroyed during the same battle they're taken. Low difficulty AI don't produce enough damage to kill the Borg ships, and low difficulty Borg have almost zero productivity themselves. You'll either end up with a Borg side that was a free kill, or a Borg side that absorbed most of the ships that were sent against it and has a massive fleet in comparison. The same sort of situation happens with unlocked teams. The Borg have an overwhelming advantage against individual opponents, with overwhelming advantages come ridiculously successful battles where most or all of your ships survive, hence massive fleets of assimilated ships would occur here as well.
As far as the number of Cubes goes, some perspective.
A max research Assimilation Cube pops out of the box with a thousand antimatter and the ability cool downs to use it. It's passive regeneration and armor are high enough to entirely negate the damage from any other side's capital ships. It can try to assimilate one ship every 16 seconds with assimilation, and use the beam continuously until it burns down the antimatter it's regaining at 6 per second. If you see one, you're neck deep in bat guano.
