Why Do People Do This?
nthing
Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3091Members
Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3091Members
Ok, imagine this scenario.
You build 3 sensory chambers first, then up goes a hive. When the second hive is built, 3 defense chambers go up.
Now, the marines come and seige your first hive. You manage to take it back, and you go gorge to put the hive back up. You still have your three sensory chambers and three defense chambers.
Ok, now the hive is re-built, and it is not assigned to any chamber type yet. Now, logic dictates that someone should now build 3 movement chambers, as this will allow 3 different upgrades at only two hives. Although this will disallow the building of more sensories, we already have quite a few dotted around the map. Why settle for another sensory when you could build movements and have all 3 chamber types?
But, alas, without asking someone always builds the same chamber type somewhere. When I question why they build it, they say, "We don't have 3 hives yet". I can forgive this if they don't realise how it works, but it's kind of annoying. Especially when you tell them, even before the hive goes up, to build mcs rather than another sc.
You build 3 sensory chambers first, then up goes a hive. When the second hive is built, 3 defense chambers go up.
Now, the marines come and seige your first hive. You manage to take it back, and you go gorge to put the hive back up. You still have your three sensory chambers and three defense chambers.
Ok, now the hive is re-built, and it is not assigned to any chamber type yet. Now, logic dictates that someone should now build 3 movement chambers, as this will allow 3 different upgrades at only two hives. Although this will disallow the building of more sensories, we already have quite a few dotted around the map. Why settle for another sensory when you could build movements and have all 3 chamber types?
But, alas, without asking someone always builds the same chamber type somewhere. When I question why they build it, they say, "We don't have 3 hives yet". I can forgive this if they don't realise how it works, but it's kind of annoying. Especially when you tell them, even before the hive goes up, to build mcs rather than another sc.
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That's true.
Same thing with Movement. Not as important.
sometimes you just dont need the third chamber and need more of that seond one to get a third hive fast, so it wont matter.
Thats what I thought, remember it being a change in one of the 1.0xs I thought when a hive was rebuilt it was still assigned to its previous chamber type.
But I could be wrong...
sometimes you just dont need the third chamber and need more of that seond one to get a third hive fast, so it wont matter. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's true, but on most occasions when this happens it is due to gorges not realising that they can build mcs.
We had plenty of scs dotted around the map. We had way more than 3, so the likelihood of the marines taking them all down (especially since they can't be seen) was very low. There was no chance that we were going to lose our sensory upgrades, so movements would have really helped us alot more than another sc. Espcially to take back Biodome (as they had an observatory there).
Again, when I asked the gorge why he didn't build mcs he said that he couldn't until we had 3 hives, so it was not the case that more scs would have been more help to us than some mcs, it was just that he didn't realise he could build them.
yeah but that's no reason to not take the extra upgrades when you are given the opportunity!
Just before the hive is finished, go gorge, open up the pop up menu and move your cursor on top of the "movement chamber" icon. And when the hive hive is done, build it immediately. That's what I do. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
Just before the hive is finished, go gorge, open up the pop up menu and move your cursor on top of the "movement chamber" icon. And when the hive hive is done, build it immediately. That's what I do. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I know, but I was an Onos at the time and I really didn't want to go gorge just to make sure mcs are up. I did tell them, afterall.
Your getting 3 chambers for the price of two hives!
Thats not how its suppose to work.
yes you had to build 3 hives because 1 went down, but thats not controling 3 hives now is it?
So Explote, would be the correct word.
Any official confirmation on, "how its suppose to work" then?
Dropping them yourself is not always an option. I don't see why I should de-evolve from onos when we already have a gorge with enough res to drop some.
And secondly, I did tell them.
We get movement first, he drops sc. Leaving us trapped without dc, with HA marines coming toward us..They kill the hive (which happens to be the sc hive), we get it back. Everyone on our team is screaming DC at him and our other gorge..
And he drops a sc.
He did this multiple games in a row, even after being told by everyone playing and an admin there (me <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->) to ask what chambers his team wanted first.. He had some obsession with them I guess, and had to drop them everywhere, even though it meant he screwed his team over every time..
3chambers with 2hives isn't an exploit, IMO..
Usually you'll end up with 1 upgrade having like 1 chamber, and the rest having 3..
It dosent seem to happen too often though..