How are hives generated?

Diogenes_DogDiogenes_Dog Join Date: 2002-05-13 Member: 610Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">See above</div>I read some time ago that Hives are generated automatically as time goes on, but since then I've gotten the impression that all alien buildings have to be manually built.  How does this work, exactly?  Maybe a combination of the two? (As in, a new Hive appears when X cumulative total resources has been produced by the alien team or something).


-dio
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  • ComproxComprox *chortle* Canada Join Date: 2002-01-23 Member: 7Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    The orignal plan was for them to come online at time intervals, but that is now by building. Any builder alien (level 2) can build a hive in a designated location by the mapper for some resources. There is no more time limits or anything.
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  • FlayraFlayra Game Director, Unknown Worlds Entertainment San Francisco Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 3Super Administrators, NS2 Developer, Subnautica Developer
    We tried having hives spawn in on their own at time intervals, but it was a bit boring and predictable IMHO.  Now hives must be built by builders.  It gives the alien team more options as well, in deciding which direction they want to go (hives, or upgrade buildings, or resource towers, or spend points on higher level aliens).
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  • SentrySteveSentrySteve .txt Join Date: 2002-03-09 Member: 290Members, Constellation
    How do buildings for aliens work, the same for marines?  A transparent link figure is there and then the builder has to 'construct' it?  Or once the building plops out of pudgy does it work right away without needing to 'construct' it?   And building a hive sounds like it might take a while...
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  • ElowindElowind Join Date: 2002-03-06 Member: 279Members
    im not sure, i dont have hands on experience but from wut i've [/U]read[U] *remembers psycho45's post about FAQs* the aliens morph into them, but i may have imagined that
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  • bob2bob2 Join Date: 2002-06-15 Member: 772Members
    the [/u] is after the [u] just like html.. the slash tells it to close
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  • coilcoil Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    For the upgrade towers and turrets, they're built just as marine buildings - the builder drops the building, then holds "use" to build it.  One difference is that only builder-class aliens can build structures... a level1 can hold "use" on a turret all he wants, but he won't get anywhere.

    The hives are the one difference... once the builder places it, it grows automatically.  No need to hold "use".  It's a nice difference, because hives take a while to grow and it'd be pretty annoying to have to sit there and build it.
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