Random Hive Start
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Join Date: 2011-01-23 Member: 78645Members
Join Date: 2011-01-23 Member: 78645Members
I think that Aliens should always have a random hive start. Having a designated hive for alien start is rather dull. I liked the fear in NS1 when the marines didn't know where the heck the hive was and all strategy for that game was based solely on the location of the alien hive. So much more dynamic. What are your guys' thoughts?
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Also this is the wrong forum for suggestions :P
This would be moddable in the future, but won't be in vanilla NS2.
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Sometimes nearby tech nodes would work, some technodes should never be marine start, some should never be alien start. It's very hard to implement some automated mechanisms to do this intelligently. The lazy solution is to force the mapper to designate possible {marine start, alien start }-pairs and then just pick at random from a list. The even lazier solution is to expose some limited LUA functionality to the mapper and make the mapper implement whatever desired functionality himself in a lua file named ns2_<mapname>.lua.
I mean, it'd be cool if mappers could decide if they want their map to be random or not, but as a forced thing? Don't like it.
Considering functional random starts usually means 'the map is really boring' I think you'll find that simply spending the time to make extra maps would be a better solution.
Chris you are throwing everything out of proportion, just because we want random hive starts don't mean the map sucks, just means it would be a cool idea to add making the gameplay more fun/adventerous. Maybe that's not your suite but that's what we mean by random starts.
Which means the map is more or less the same every time you play it.
Which means that you spent time you could be spending making other maps in order to make one map play more or less the same every time.
I would rather have two entirely different maps than one map with three random spawns, because it's still the same map.
Which means the map is more or less the same every time you play it.
Which means that you spent time you could be spending making other maps in order to make one map play more or less the same every time.
I would rather have two entirely different maps than one map with three random spawns, because it's still the same map.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Or.... you could have random hive starts and not have to spend all the time making new maps. Each alien hive start utilizes the map in a different way. This will affect the strategy for both marines and aliens.
Exactly, to put it blunt, the game turns boring when there is no sense of mystery.
That being said, would be interesting to set this up as a gamemode.