I agree something needs to be done, however my creative juices are not flowing properly so I have no ideas.
All I know is that right now I love to hate playing gorge. I am in the same boat as everyone else. I would rather skulk and kill, but someone has to gorge, and no one seems to ever want to.
Though I did play a game last night with a good bunch of players that everyone helped out.
Plus when I play gorge, I feel like I have to hide, and stay away from the action, and that is BORING...
Gorge is a vital class for aliens, just as the skulk is. Let gorges be 2 res per evolve. For post 3.0 revisions, why not let aliens SPAWN as gorge if they so desire? You die as gorge, you spawn back as one.
Agreed, though switching it so dying gorges spawn as gorges would incidentally block the semi-exploit where people choose to suicide instead of re-evolving to skulk so they can afford another upgrade or whatever...
When you insta-gorge for a res tower at the start of the game, you generally have two options.
A: /kill, wait in the respawn queue, then walk back to wherever you wanted to be as a Skulk with 0 res, having completely wasted the 10 res you spent on Gorging, or B: Go hide in a safe place for several minutes as a 0-res Gorge until you can afford to drop another building, to save the 10-res Gorge cost you would have to pay to drop that.
This is what deters most people from insta-gorging...but I've found a method that sort of helps. After dropping my RT, I charge forward and follow some skulks around healspraying them as they fight marines. Sometimes the marines kill the skulks anyway and kill me pretty fast afterwards, then no harm done, its basically option A. Sometimes the skulks kill the marines, with benefit of healspraying, and its like option B except more fun and I'm actually helping the team. Sometimes I'll even get lucky and the Healspray will do the last point of damage to the marine, giving me RFK that gets me to the next building drop that much faster.
What if evolving to skulk Gave you 4 res? or maybe 10 res? I bet more people would gorge then. Then people you sometimes go gorge just to drop a res and go back would do it more often, yet at the same time it wouldn't then screw up the balnce of res cost for buildings.
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All I know is that right now I love to hate playing gorge. I am in the same boat as everyone else. I would rather skulk and kill, but someone has to gorge, and no one seems to ever want to.
Though I did play a game last night with a good bunch of players that everyone helped out.
Plus when I play gorge, I feel like I have to hide, and stay away from the action, and that is BORING...
<!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif' /><!--endemo--> ;*slaps the gorge's *****
A: /kill, wait in the respawn queue, then walk back to wherever you wanted to be as a Skulk with 0 res, having completely wasted the 10 res you spent on Gorging, or
B: Go hide in a safe place for several minutes as a 0-res Gorge until you can afford to drop another building, to save the 10-res Gorge cost you would have to pay to drop that.
This is what deters most people from insta-gorging...but I've found a method that sort of helps. After dropping my RT, I charge forward and follow some skulks around healspraying them as they fight marines. Sometimes the marines kill the skulks anyway and kill me pretty fast afterwards, then no harm done, its basically option A. Sometimes the skulks kill the marines, with benefit of healspraying, and its like option B except more fun and I'm actually helping the team. Sometimes I'll even get lucky and the Healspray will do the last point of damage to the marine, giving me RFK that gets me to the next building drop that much faster.
Would definitely promote tempgorging. But it has drawbacks , we'd see less permagorges on the battlefield (hence less healing)
muha, yes you will get flamed beyond hell, but it would be fun. i tried it