Ansbach Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 I've seen that mentioned in several threads but couldn't figure out what you guys are talking about... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrene Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 One unit sees the enemy = They all see the enemy. Gyrene 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 Originally posted by Gyrene: One unit sees the enemy = They all see the enemy. Gyrene They’ve adapted! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmerch Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 All your units share one mind. If one of your units sees something, the collective knows it immediately. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpwase Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 It implies extremely rapid intelligence sharing, that's all. It is a game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow 1st Hussars Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 *waits for the CM Borg to assCMilate this thread* 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ansbach Posted February 29, 2004 Author Share Posted February 29, 2004 Thanks everyone - easy enough, but I still have a (dumb?) question: what does 'borg' mean? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted February 29, 2004 Share Posted February 29, 2004 Borg is short for Cybernetic Organism and was a term used for one of the alien threat races in Star Trek the Next Generation and then even more so in Voyager. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanachai Posted February 29, 2004 Share Posted February 29, 2004 I thought 'Borg Spotting' was encountering a huge cubic starship in a previously unexplored section of space, and hauling arse for Federation territory... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted February 29, 2004 Share Posted February 29, 2004 The original abbreviation is Cyborg, those miserable Trek bastiff's just think it's original if they take away the first two letters. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpwase Posted February 29, 2004 Share Posted February 29, 2004 A convention! RUN! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stikkypixie Posted February 29, 2004 Share Posted February 29, 2004 Now let's see... Where the heck did i put my Spock ears??? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon J. Scudworth Posted March 1, 2004 Share Posted March 1, 2004 In "Star Trek: The Next Generation," the Borg were presented as a cyborg hive race that swallowed up other races' populations and technology and incorporated them into the Hive (or "collective," as the series called it). This was constant expansion was their only real goal. The Hive had one singular consciousness; the individual Borg "citizens" seemed to act only as instruments of that one shared consciousness. "Borg spotting" in CM and other games then refers to the idea that human and computer-controlled forces act with one consciousness that has total awareness of what each individual soldier knows, and thus allows those forces to act unrealistically (ex: you can point your anti-tank team in the direction of an approaching vehicle that has been spotted by other troops, even if that vehicle is behind a small hill and the anti-tank team shouldn't be aware of it yet). Then "Star Trek: First Contact" and "Voyager" ruined the idea of the Borg forever. But that's a whole different subject. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted March 1, 2004 Share Posted March 1, 2004 Originally posted by Mirage2k: In "Star Trek: The Next Generation," the Borg were presented as a cyborg hive race that swallowed up other races' populations and technology and incorporated them into the Hive (or "collective," as the series called it). This was constant expansion was their only real goal. The Hive had one singular consciousness; the individual Borg "citizens" seemed to act only as instruments of that one shared consciousness. "Borg spotting" in CM and other games then refers to the idea that human and computer-controlled forces act with one consciousness that has total awareness of what each individual soldier knows, and thus allows those forces to act unrealistically (ex: you can point your anti-tank team in the direction of an approaching vehicle that has been spotted by other troops, even if that vehicle is behind a small hill and the anti-tank team shouldn't be aware of it yet). Then "Star Trek: First Contact" and "Voyager" ruined the idea of the Borg forever. But that's a whole different subject. So its nothing to do with being on the lookout for a shapely blonde with a spray on uniform and weird jewellery? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulletRat Posted March 1, 2004 Share Posted March 1, 2004 OMG it's nerd convention 2004! RUN!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdstrike Posted March 1, 2004 Share Posted March 1, 2004 You know, when you read 'borg' backwards and modify the 'b' to be an 'g' it's 'grog'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stikkypixie Posted March 1, 2004 Share Posted March 1, 2004 You know, when you read 'borg' backwards and modify the 'g' to be an 'k' and the 'r' and the 'o' to 'ee', you get geek :eek: !!!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 That's enough of this geek Star Trek talk. Let's get back to our manly conversations about Italian officer uniforms! 'Borg spotting' was coined back when CMBO first came out. Back in the good-old-days of CMBO as soon as one of your men got spotted it seemed like every unit on the map immediately turned and fired at him. Things have got considerably more sophisticated since then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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