A different take on the alien commander

Andos

What if all aliens could enter and exit the hive as they pleased and be presented with options to donate their resources to give various upgrades that benefit the entire team?

Example upgrades:
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hive5.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::hive::" border="0" alt="hive5.gif" /> Make infestation slightly more resilient against fire
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hive5.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::hive::" border="0" alt="hive5.gif" /> Give eggs more amour and a temporary armor-boost when just hatched (against spawn camping)
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hive5.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::hive::" border="0" alt="hive5.gif" /> Upgrade the effect of the different upgrade towers (DC,MC,SC) while on creep/near a hive

The main idea is that the aliens now get the "commander" some people wanted, but still everything is on a voluntarily basis if people want to donate their res for the greater good of their team or be selfish and use them themselves.

Aliens should IMHO be highly individual, I don't really believe an overmind giving the aliens orders will make NS any good. I play alien when I want to be my own boss and I play marine when I don't care and just want to blow up some aliens. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

What do you think?

Blitz1o1

I love the idea of being able to enter the hive!

ryknow69

I loathe the idea of being able to enter the hive!

Andos

ryknow: Well then you could just be presented with the options while standing next to the hive or something similar. Hiding inside the hive might not be that great since you could just hide in there forever if the marines were nearby. Constructive criticism please <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> You didn't comment on what you thought about being able to donate the res to team-improvement.

ryknow69

Donating to a 'Team Fund' and not another player, sucks.

I always thought of aliens as Individualy Connected, confusing right?

I'm ok with donating to other players, not a team fund to get this special upgrade.

Radix

The concept of multiple commanders and donation is cool for competitive play, but will fail horribly in pubs.

I still like the idea of the alien comm being a lifeform that costs 30 res.

ryknow69

I'm the stuborn Texas Muel, I will never accept alien commander >_> I will edit it out with Lua if they put it in.

I am, however, in support of a second commander for humans, my ideals for a 'Support' commander can be found 1-2 pages back.