Resources

digz

on the alien team, can one alien give its rp's to another alien? Lets say "the builder needs X amount more to build another hive" situation, or would that be considered too much of an advantage? (ex a few onos apear 10 min into game)

Freemantle

Yes.

To my knoledge, when an alien goes to a hive and presses the use key, his RPs will slowly be distributed to his entire team.

ChromeAngel

No they can't (STC).  They <i>used</i> to be able to USE a hive to donate resources, but that was removed.

Khaim

makes sense, otherwise people could just keep re-donating their rps to the pool, and boost 1 or 2 ppl to a high lvl alien evolution. I'll try to give you some info by finding an old topic on this hold on *goes to the search button* *returns* hmmm tried various diff things but couldnt find a topic on this, know i've read one though.

coil

I think it was taken out because it couldn't be balanced.  In pub play, you couldn't expect people to willingly give up RPs to a builder - so if you made RP donation a necessity, the aliens would be screwed in pubs.

Conversely, if you made it so that the aliens could donate, but could survive without it, they would be overpowered in Clan games.  Clans would be perfectly willing to donate to another alien for structures or higher-level classes, making the aliens too deadly.

So in the end, it had to be removed.  I think the current system, in which builders draw RPs faster than other classes, is balancing pretty well.

digz

Thanks  <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->  , I couldn't find this topic anywhere on the forums, but that does very nicely coil  <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

Daxx

I know its been discussed many different ways before, including having some weird animation where the aliens "mate" or something to donate resources  <!--emo&:0--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'><!--endemo-->

Necro

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kinky!

Daxx

Well, it had something to do with the 2 aliens joining, can't quite remember the details.

DOOManiac

no. no mating in NS. That is just mess up, you should really go see a shrink or something.

Flayra wants to keep things at a suitable level (hence no blood), and as such, I would think it is a safe bet to assume alien sex will never be seen ingame...

Necro

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Flayra wants to keep things at a suitable level (hence no blood), and as such, I would think it is a safe bet to assume alien sex will never be seen ingame...<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
NS gets a pg13 rating...following the suits of doom the movie  <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->


except ns > doom movie

DOOManiac

if they tone down DOOM to a pg-13 rating then even VEGGIETALES will be > doom the movie. :/

ICha0sI

i think its a bad idea to be able to give minerals(whatever)to other players.

MCThornGristle

That has to be one of my major qualms with NS.. dumbing down the violence to appeal to a wider audience.  I mean, the source material is Starship Troopers, Aliens, etc. which were chock full o' blood... kinda ruins it just a little for me.

Gwahir

can't tone down that which wsa never up in the first place.  Low blood was part of the plan from the start

Khaim

I'm pretty sure there IS alien blood, I dont think the marines bleed, but that makes sense, those battle armor suits would probably be able to stop blood loss.

Venmoch

Major sparks for the marines!
Not so major blood loss for the aliens!

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MCThornGristle

I used the words "dumbing down" because, as a modification of Half-Life, they've lowered the amount of blood/gore present in the original game.  *zing*

It's not too big a deal, I just wonder why... I mean, it's not like they're planning on selling this in Wal-Mart and desperately seeking a Teen rating.  Or... are they?  *dramatic music*

I think it'd be a lot cooler of a marine splattered blood all over the wall when an alien's claws tore him in half, rather than shooting out a few sparks then neatly curling up in the fetal position.

coil

Drag it back on topic, guys...
1) Give up the blood discussion.  It's not gonna happen.
2) This is a discussion about resources, not gore.

Venmoch

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1) Give up the blood discussion.  It's not gonna happen.
2) This is a discussion about resources, not gore.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Good Point, Yeah no sharing resorces, real bad idea

digz

<span style='color:red'><b>***NUKED***</span></b>

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lol, sry, no sense of humor? really, sry!

MCThornGristle

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Well... can we still get the alien sex?

Moleculor

No! I just locked this thread, then unlocked it when I realized Greedo had just nuked the post above... But if you guys are going to obsess over xenobic mating activities, I'll lock it again!

*pats Bob on the head*



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Thansal

/me pulls out an HMG for the next tool who brings up Alien sex

now for NO TOPIC

I knew that LvL2s got recources faster but I just relized I don't know how (mechanics)

do they get like 4 RPs fpr every 1 they get(4 aliens each gets 4 RPs one goes lvl2 and he starts getting 8 instead of 4), or do they get a bigger slice of the pie compared to the other lvls (like if you have 34 aliens each gets %25 but if one goes lvl 2 he gets like 30% and every one elses goes down?)

Moleculor

Well, I'm not entirely sure LVL2s get resources faster any more... But they don't have a limit to the number of RP they can get like the other aliens do.

See, with one hive, you can only get 33RP, except for the LVL2, who can get 100.

Two hives == 66RP, but the LVL2 can still get 100.
Three hives == 100RP.

See?



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Thansal

hmm, is it possible to cheat the system by becoming a lvl 2 getting the RPs needed for going lvl5 and then doing such? (or do you actualy need 3 hives?)

Moleculor

You need 3 hives to go LVL5.