If there was a playable Borg faction how do you think it should work?

I wouldn't think they'd have BOs like how other factions would. Instead there could be ship upgrades which have Borg specific skills. A Borg specific skill could be a boarding party that beams aboard and that reduces crew in addition to attacking ship subsystems.

The only way it would work is if they weren't true Borg, but a liberated splinter group. Which means the dynamics would be just the same as anyother playable fraction, just with some very boring looking ships.

Yeah, I don't get the appeal....it always comes back to 3 ships. Don't get me wrong, Borg are cool as hell, just to really be Borg (not a splinter group), it's basically not playable. Hive mind and all.

I guess a work around for the 3 ships types would be "assimilated" ships....ships that were captured and Borged out by this splinter ground....something like a combo of say a Constitution/whatever class and Nero's ship.

I would rather the Borg be a faceless and monolithic enemy which assimilates all in its path with endless persistence and number. Each member serves the Collective, and none are granted any individuality or descent. Allowing customers to play the Borg would pretty much destroy what they are, just by the nature of each Human player having their own personality.

Though, if I could play the Borg...ramming speed with a Borg Cube, baby! Other ships would be like bugs on a windshield. THUMP!

Locutus (looking through Borg Cube view screen as starships splat all over it like bugs on a windshield): "Wipers..... Engage"

My sentiments almost exactly.
when this idea comes up in fleet chat, it is usually someone making fun of people who want to play as Borg, I inevitably point out that as soon as a player makes a proper Borg character they should no longer be able to control that character. Borg are the ultimate NPC. They are literally drones that obey a programed set of responses to any input. If something new and unexpected happens to arise the system logs it and auto generates a bug report and quries for a solution.

If they were "real" they would be Wal Mart shoppers as their primary identity.

Does that mean the Queen is the greeter?

Fact- Borg- Three ships- Sphere- Cube- Rectangle

Fact- Borg- the three ships just get bigger

Fact- Borg- you assimilate instead of blowing up- and in pvp any one you beat becomes borg
then all the bad players are a mass of borg. with plasma weapons. and they kill the complaining
Rear admiral guys that are bored anyway and turn them into borg. Then the bad players and the veterans that are now borg fight everyone else. But a Science ship/officer can use a ray and turn you back if you hate it

Fact- Borg- they really need to loosen up and have some fun with the game. do stuff that everyone will really complain about- demote them, kill the BO's, - and people will complain but secretly like it

the evidence is clear- Borg- playable, doable, and you should get a 7 of 9 looking tactical officer

ROFLMAO!!!

Fact? That's all conjecture.

Fact: Borg are a hive mind and posses no individuality, not even the queen. To play one would mean only one could play them all.

Surrender your individual account to contribute your digital indistinctiveness to the collective. Playing Borg in STO would be like cloud computing gone all wrong!