A Simple Question About Alien Resources
alyandon
Join Date: 2002-10-17 Member: 1523Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2002-10-17 Member: 1523Members, Constellation
I've seen some disturbing behavior proliferating on servers and I need a definitive answer on the matter as I find it quite annoying.
I was playing as alien on a server and at least half of the team was constantly telling everyone else not to spend resources so the gorge's would get the extra resource points. I assume they believe that once you hit your 1 hive limit of 33 that all additional resources are metted out to gorges since all the skulks/lerks will be "full".
I believe (after following the mod for over a year) that resources are dolled out to aliens round robin or randomly and even if you are at your max the server won't give it to another player on the team.
Who is correct?
I was playing as alien on a server and at least half of the team was constantly telling everyone else not to spend resources so the gorge's would get the extra resource points. I assume they believe that once you hit your 1 hive limit of 33 that all additional resources are metted out to gorges since all the skulks/lerks will be "full".
I believe (after following the mod for over a year) that resources are dolled out to aliens round robin or randomly and even if you are at your max the server won't give it to another player on the team.
Who is correct?
Comments
Say your team is getting 60 resource/min, and you have 3 skulks and 1 gorge on your team. Since gorges count as 3 normal aliens in terms of resource allocation, the gorge will recieve 30 of the 60, and each skulk will recieve 10.
However, if one of the skulks is full (33 resources), then obviously he cant take anymore, so now the 60 RP are divided between a gorge and 2 skulks. this means the gorge gets 36, and each skulk gets 12. If ALL the skulks are full, you guessed it, the gorge gets all 60 RP/min to himself. If a skulk then evolves into a lerk, he can start accepting resources again, slowing the income to the gorge. Likewise, evolving something will cause you to recieve resources again for a short time, also slowing the gorges income.
As a side note, if NOONE on the team can accept resources, they go into a communal 'pool'. Then, whenever someone has less than full RPs, the pool will drain into them until they are full. This is how in mid/late game, you can sometimes spawn with full RPs, or evolve into something and see your RPs shoot right back up.
Sorry, but they are correct.