Kharaa Resource Pool Question On Hud

CaptQuark · February 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">question about resource pool</div> When I play Kharaa and the resources show (50/100) for example, is that the total amout available for me or is it the total pooled together for all the aliens?

I was wondering because if I wanted to upgrade to a fade or lerk, I would not want to rob a gorge of building stuff.

Nikon · February 2004

that is the total available to you. The rez pool only comes from aliens with 100 res, and each tick that they would receive res after that goes into the pool for gorges. So no your not really stealing it, but you may want to ask your team if they need anything like more D chambers or a hive before going fade.

CaptQuark · February 2004

Ok, so bear with me while I sort this out.

The resource pool on my HUD is my personal amount available to me. Once it reaches the max, the spillover amount goes to the gorges currently playing at that moment.

So, if your desparate for some chambers and need them asap, it helps to let your resources sit on max and not upgrade traits/classes and let the gorges get the extra.

Am I on track? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

tankefugl · February 2004

If you are 50/100 and are desperate for some defence chambers, I'd say evolve to a gorge and put them up yourself. That way, all of your teammates will have the upgrades much faster than waiting for some other player to do the exact same.

Gorge is usually not a permanent job, it is something most players must expect to be every now and then.

Redford · February 2004

Ok, this is how the kharra RP system works.

Unlike the marines, who recieve a flat amount of res per "tick" (the increment of time it takes for a tower to extract 1 res), the kharra recieve a flat amount, but distbute it much diffrently.

Each Kharra res tower extracts 1 res per tick. This is universal. Two res towers would extract 2 res per tick, Five would extract 5. When res is extracted, it instantly goes to a reserve holding spot that I will refer to as the "pool". When the amount in the pool is equal or greater then the number of the aliens on the alien team, every alien gets 1 res, and the pool is decremented by the number of aliens. Then, if there is still enough res, this process continues untill the pool is decremented to a point where it has less res then the number of aliens. Then, it just waits until the next tick. These actions happen every tick, distributing res to the alien team. There are two important points that you should remeber:

1. Gorges no longer get extra res like they did in 1.x. Every alien gets an even share now.

2. If an alien makes a kill, he gets 1-3 res AT RANDOM to himself for RFK. This is not related at all towards what he killed, and does not go into the pool and is not shared in any way.

example: The alien team is five strong, and has three towers. Each tick, the towers extract 3 res.

1 tick: +3 res. Pool increased to 3.
2 tick: +3 res. Pool increased to 6. All aliens get 1 res. Pool decreased to 1.
3 tick: +3 res. Pool increased to 4.
4 tick: +3 res. Pool increased to 7. All aliens get 1 res. Pool decreased to 2.
5 tick: +3 res. Pool increased to 5. All aliens get 1 res. Pool decreased to 0.

And the pattern repeats. Note that unless your team has 5 or fewer players, you will almost never get 2 res in any given tick because most maps have between 7 and 10 nodes.

EDIT: OH NOES, TORAK IS TEH LEET VETAREN, F4!

MMZ_Torak · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>O Added alien resource overflow. So any res over 100 that is received by players will go into the pool (bug #87).
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