Building structures in water

humb1edhumb1ed Join Date: 2002-10-06 Member: 1446Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Rules?</div>Can aliens build structures under water? or even in just shallow water?

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  • FlayraFlayra Game Director, Unknown Worlds Entertainment San Francisco Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 3Super Administrators, NS2 Developer, Subnautica Developer
    Yep, aliens can build in water but marines can't.
  • NecroNecro &lt;insert non-birthday-related title here&gt; Join Date: 2002-08-09 Member: 1118Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Flayra+Oct. 09 2002,14:06--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Flayra @ Oct. 09 2002,14:06)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Yep, aliens can build in water but marines can't.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    cheaters <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->

    <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/bob.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='::skulk::'><!--endemo-->
  • coilcoil Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Aliens can build just about anywhere.  Marines can only build structures on flat, hard ground.

    Building a structure in lava or another trigger_hurt will kill it.



    <!--EDIT|coil|Oct. 09 2002,14:32-->
  • LegionnairedLegionnaired Join Date: 2002-04-30 Member: 552Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Flayra+Oct. 09 2002,14:06--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Flayra @ Oct. 09 2002,14:06)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Yep, aliens can build in water but marines can't.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    H4x!

    Seriously though, this helps the aliens retain a bit of control over their hive areas, since they usually have irregular ground, which works well... I assume.
  • FreemantleFreemantle Join Date: 2002-06-16 Member: 783Members
    I remember there once was a problem with aliens building their structures <i>inside</i> marine ones. One TFTFL stories talks about building offensive chambers inside phase gates, effectivly trapping any marine that teleported there inside the offensive chamber as they were slowly spiked to death... that would be a hoot to watch as a commander.

    ::<b>SWEET!</b>::

    "What's sweet commander?"

    ::Uhhh, nothing. Hurry up and use that phase gate before Bilko respawns...::
  • MoleculorMoleculor Namer-of-Bob Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 9Members
    Yup. Though that was more of a case of the phase gate being non-solid, when the rest weren't.

    There have been one or two games where we PTs decide to test wacky things, and make great staircases of buildings (you have to do very very very odd things when playtesting), one right on top of another.

    I have some screenshots of them (buried, deep within my computer) that I may dig out some day.
  • tommydtommyd Creator of ns_tanith, co_pulse and co_faceoff Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 40Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, NS2 Developer
    wait until you find the sweet alien build spot near the water hive on bast <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
  • UnknownUnknown Join Date: 2002-06-12 Member: 759Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Moleculor+Oct. 09 2002,15:17--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Moleculor @ Oct. 09 2002,15:17)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Yup. Though that was more of a case of the phase gate being non-solid, when the rest weren't.

    There have been one or two games where we PTs decide to test wacky things, and make great staircases of buildings (you have to do very very very odd things when playtesting), one right on top of another.

    I have some screenshots of them (buried, deep within my computer) that I may dig out some day.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Thats not odd.  Me and my friends build SG towers all the time.  The highest we got was 5 sgs on top of eachother.  We could have had more if we had more people and an admin (n00bs came in and destroyed them all, admin could have locked server).
  • MoleculorMoleculor Namer-of-Bob Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 9Members
    Five? That's all? I pity you. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> Plus our buildings are prettier.



    <!--EDIT|Moleculor|Oct. 09 2002,14:41-->
  • GreedoGreedo Bounty Hunter Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 37Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    If you want a real stack, remember:  Viaduct Hive in ns_nothing.  A catwalk so far off the ground that only skulks, lerks, jetpacks, and a lucky blinking fade could ever hope to get up there.  It's at least a 25 building stack from ground to where you are.
  • J1mmyZJ1mmyZ Join Date: 2002-09-09 Member: 1304Members
    Wait, so is Marine build area only on a flat alotted area (IE Warcraft 3's undead)?  If they can only build in a ceratin area, how big is it?
  • MoleculorMoleculor Namer-of-Bob Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 9Members
    As big as a Marine building.
  • GwahirGwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation
    they mean any area that is flat and large enough to accomodate the building
  • SurgeSurge asda4a3sklflkgh Join Date: 2002-07-14 Member: 944Members
    Cool. You haven't had any exploits of alien buildings buil-... oh wait, Marines can get jetpacks...
  • ICha0sIICha0sI Join Date: 2002-06-13 Member: 763Members
    now what if there was a high level if terrain and the aliens started to build structers up there how would the marriens get up there? jetpacks?
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