Two Ideas

scotty

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Idea #1

Gorge can place mini structures which act like the original structures, just has less health and does it's job less efficiently.

So gorges could place down mini crags to give a little health boost to aliens. The radius could be small. Use your imagination.


Idea #2

Instead of 3 drifters spawning either at the start of a round or when a hive is created. Let the commander build the drifters instead, so the hive has +75 energy to compensate for the drifters. You could also increase the rate at which drifters are created due to this.

This frustrates me as an alien commander as i receive three drifters i don't really need yet. I would love the ability to choose how i should spend my energy.

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Kouji_San

Idea 1: I said it in campfire, I like this idea. Maybe have to so the alien commander could upgrade them to normal structures and then mature structures? A bit more res, but helps the front offensive by not having drifters move in to do this. Leave them to do their Restower/Evolution chamber thing...

idea 2: So you don't need those two initial restowers and perhaps an evolution chamber then? Meh, if compensated by initial energy it could add a feeling to the alien commander like he has to do stuff...

SkymanderX

I certainly agree with the second idea because, as Kouji_San said, this forces the commander to do something but also adds room for more infestation spread. The First idea comes down again to the boiling point between ns and ns2 with the gorge's original role replaced by the alien commander. That is about if Unknown Worlds wants to Compensate for the older ns crowd to please them or if they want to latch on to the current alien commanding system.

swalk

I agree with both of them, but the credit of the first idea is on Schimmel.
It's in his prototype mod :P