placing egg spawns

Racer1Racer1 Join Date: 2002-11-22 Member: 9615Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">anywhere on dynamic infestation</div>Traditionally, aliens spawn right around the hive. As a different tactic, alien comms could place some eggs on dynamic infestation anywhere throughout the map. However, the farther away from the hive, the longer it would take for a player in the egg to spawn.

So, the comm would have to play a balancing game. If he builds too many eggs too far from the hive, all of the aliens could take too long to respawn and wouldn't be able to protect the hive.

The specific amount of time it takes is up to balancing. But, I would expect that anything within the hive room would have the standard short delay. Outside of that range, the amount of time could increase linearly or even exponentially based on distance from the hive.
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  • TwiggehTwiggeh Join Date: 2010-09-24 Member: 74165Members
    But wouldnt it defeat the purpose of spawning further ahead if you had to wait longer to spawn? Because then you could just as well spawn in hive and run and be useful.
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  • SN.WolfSN.Wolf Join Date: 2010-03-29 Member: 71115Members
    Maybe if the player could pick their spawn location but i think it would just cause rage quitting to be honest. Spawn eat as many times as you can to evolve.
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  • CruorCruor Join Date: 2004-11-07 Member: 32677Members
    There was an idea floating about a while ago that you could pilot one of those glowies that fly around the hive, if you look closely you'll see them. You'd pilot one of these during the usual respawn timer, and then you could fly to a spawn point of your own choosing, but given the limited time of the respawn countdown you wouldn't be able to get very far however this would allow you to some degree to avoid spawnkilling marines etc. by picking an off site location maybe even somewhere up in the roof or a nearby vent. Then the usual egg checking for a free space would take hold and place the egg approximately where you'd want it.

    So in short, pilot your own glowie/flying larva (not drifter) to a spawnpoint of your choice during the spawning countdown.
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  • PsiWarpPsiWarp Gifted Gorge Richmond, B.C., Canada Join Date: 2010-08-28 Member: 73810Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1814381:date=Dec 8 2010, 10:46 AM:name=Cruor)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Cruor @ Dec 8 2010, 10:46 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1814381"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->There was an idea floating about a while ago that you could pilot one of those glowies that fly around the hive, if you look closely you'll see them. You'd pilot one of these during the usual respawn timer, and then you could fly to a spawn point of your own choosing, but given the limited time of the respawn countdown you wouldn't be able to get very far however this would allow you to some degree to avoid spawnkilling marines etc. by picking an off site location maybe even somewhere up in the roof or a nearby vent. Then the usual egg checking for a free space would take hold and place the egg approximately where you'd want it.

    So in short, pilot your own glowie/flying larva (not drifter) to a spawnpoint of your choice during the spawning countdown.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    I think this would be pretty awesome, though maybe with a temporary Drifter (those glowies are soooo tiny).
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