Incentive for Killing RTs

StixNStonzStixNStonz Join Date: 2006-11-06 Member: 58439Members, Reinforced - Shadow
in Ideas and Suggestions
<div class="IPBDescription">re-post of NS1 idea, summarized and linked</div>This is an old idea I proposed for a future NS1 release, that should now be relevant to NS2. Five pages of discussions are found <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=101391" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.

Basically, the alien who gets the final bite on a marine RT gets 2 res (or it could be the alien with the most damage to the RT).

RTs are really boring to chomp, but strategically its so, so necessary. Right now its a 'duty' to kill them, meaning its not fun at all, and you're losing out on RFK from the marines you'd be killing if you weren't chomping on an RT.

Two additional res would not affect the economy, and would not make the RT any less boring to chomp. But at least there would be some kind of a reward, and some kind of <i>incentive</i>, making the team naturally act more intelligently.

Thoughts?
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  • StixNStonzStixNStonz Join Date: 2006-11-06 Member: 58439Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Note: this is ONLY for aliens. Marines killing nodes get nothing.
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  • DominingDomining Join Date: 2007-09-27 Member: 62452Members
    edited November 2007
    Bribing aliens to kill nodes? This would work. (no sarcasm <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />)

    Well I personally believe that killing marines should yield more res than killing RTs (3 for marine, 2 for rt?) If not, you'd be repairing one thing but completely impairing another. Because then, ALL of the skulks (minus the best) will chew on nodes and there'll be nobody to chew on the marines.
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  • locallyunscenelocallyunscene Feeder of Trolls Join Date: 2002-12-25 Member: 11528Members, Constellation
    edited November 2007
    <!--quoteo(post=1658914:date=Nov 1 2007, 01:48 PM:name=Domining)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Domining @ Nov 1 2007, 01:48 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1658914"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Well I personally believe that killing marines should yield more res than killing RTs (3 for marine, 2 for rt?) If not, you'd be repairing one thing but completely impairing another. Because then, ALL of the skulks (minus the best) will chew on nodes and there'll be nobody to chew on the marines.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I don't really see this happening. Even if you get more resources from killing an rt it's definitely not more fun than hunting marines. Also hunting marines would yield faster resources unless rt death gave some ridiculous number like 10 res.
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  • CataclyzmCataclyzm Join Date: 2005-01-06 Member: 33031Members
    What more do I need to say than...
    *Thumbs Up*

    Why not make an incentive for killing RTs, what potential imbalance is there? 2 res for a skulk (typically is a skulk) killing an RT or 2 res for the marines that wasted the skulk chomping on their RT. It's seriously how I see a flashing Marine Node... "Oh! Two res, I'll be back commander"
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  • 2aimless2aimless Join Date: 2007-06-19 Member: 61299Members
    Well i would rly think about chomping rts instead of HA to get res <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

    If im saving for hive im the one who only concentrates on rines to get res as fast as possible to set the second hive.
    Well if rts would give 3 res (20% of the the rt costs) ppl would weld rts and skulks would bite them!
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  • NEX9NEX9 Join Date: 2005-03-08 Member: 44299Members
    dude this already has a thread in the old ns forums under ideas to go into future patches, or was it up and coming patches, i am sure even in your old thread i wrote this.

    theres also another thread about De evolveing thats a good read.

    i mean your almost turning up a grave yard

    still you know my take on this threads idea
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  • StixNStonzStixNStonz Join Date: 2006-11-06 Member: 58439Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Lol Nex, yeah, its not like i POSTED THE LINK IN THIS THREAD or anything.

    2 res for killing a marine RT could be contrasted against the time it takes the skulk to complete the task. It takes roughly 40 seconds (dont know exact time). In 40 seconds, a decent 1-hive upgraded skulk has a damn good chance of killing more than one marine. Hence why the best players tend to not kill rts, or at least feel guilty when they are (since that pro fade will take that much longer).

    The originial idea was to make it 4 res, but after discussion, we found that 2 res would be much more balanced.

    Its just a small amount of incentive that would really help the aliens play more 'properly'.
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  • schkorpioschkorpio I can mspaint Join Date: 2003-05-23 Member: 16635Members
    hmm i dunno, i always thought that the incentive for killing marine rts was that they won't have res to do stuff with. I guess though that in a perfect team you'd have 1 or 2 people in charge of killing rts and 1 or 2 killing rines, so its not fair that the rine killers get res, while the other two don't.
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