Start points for aliens

Maveric

<div class="IPBDescription">How many and how far?</div>well, im making my second re-make of my map (Ns_Facility) becuase the previous had some... uh, issues. (damn thing froze again! <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo--> ) besides, i only finished the marine spawn, which btw, looked like @*&#. <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->

anyways, the question:
Just how many spawn points should be in a hive room, how far away (any limits?) from the hive should the spawn points be, and i'll just used my judgement on how far apart each should be.

only thing im wondering is if the aliens spawn point in hive 1, will the spawn points in hives 2 and 3 be turned "on" or something? i just dont want a bug in the map where aliens can spawn in each hive, change, and build in all 3 all at once... <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->

JediYoshi

The <a href="http://www.natural-selection.org/MappingGuidelines.htm" target="_blank">Mapping Guideline</a> is your friend. <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->

ChromeAngel

Aliens will use any alien spawn points within 2000 units (by default) of an active hive.  At the start of a game a single (randomly chosen) hive is active and there could be 16 alien players spawning at once, so each ive needs 16 spawn points.  It is recommended that you keep spawn points away from vertical architecture otherwise player may get stuck.

Maveric

thank you!

i needed that.