Simply put, we should give the gorge the ability to eat alien buildings so as to regain res. I mean, how often does someone build a WoL, only to find that later it is utterly useless where it is. Or they misplace an oc. Or any other time where you dont want a building there. (like a marine is hiding in a pipe behind it)

The gorge could walk up to a building and eat it, regaining res when they finish eating. It should take the same amount of time no matter how hurt the building is (to prevent people from getting quick res from a dying tower).

Some problems might include lamers eating important sturctures to get onos faster, so maybe make it so you can only eat your own or something.

I know there are problems with this, but we can probably work them out, and i think this is a useful and logical feature for the game.

PS: I know it had been suggested before, but not quite the same thing, and so long ago i thought i might as well start the thread anew

I agree. The aliens do need a way to recycle resources.
But it may make problems regarding the alien resource pool.

Not too bad a suggestion; they even have a Gorge recycle plugin for AMX that acts similar to what you've suggested (though you probably already knew that ).

But like you suggested, it would have to be restricted to only recycling your own structures, and the resources regained could be half the purchase cost (rounded down for the sake of Resource Towers).

i can imagine a lamer eating a hive to go onos. your main contradiction is that it can be used to clear someone elses WoL but you then go on to say that you can only eat your own structures. but i do agree that there has to be a way to get rid of structures that idiots build on res nodes or when they block an elevator with a stack. if you can improve this idea somehow, then im all for it

alienteam votes on areas to be eatable for a specific gorge?

like thos "time to choose" choose map events on the left side...


allow player x to eat alien
chambers in area y?
1- allow
2- denie


restowers and hives shouldn't be recycleabe, just because they cant be missplaced (and recycling a hive could be voted as surrender option, like selling the marine base)
maybe upgradechambers like dcs... dunno about that.

only structure I think it would be "recycleable" is Ocs.

Lone Dc/Mc/Sc give you at least an lvl of upgrades.

Eh, but what about making a bit of defense close to your RT? (I dont play classic much, but I have seen it done/done it myself a few times.) I tihnk you should have the res node as a nobuild area, that would solve it, right?

I like the idea. Just make it so hives cant be recycled. and you can only do your own structures. Also make it so you only get half the res you used on the structure back.

It's a good idea.

Just make sure it doesnt let other gorges eat your own strcutures, or you'll get lamers eating up YOUR structures and going onos or something.

i think maybe if you want to recycle a chamber, then the team should vote on it and the original builder would get the res back. that way you can clear out unnecesary chambers blocking areas, etc, and you dont have lamers going around eating up useful ones.

wow... a vote every few seconds surely isnt annoying at all

structure limit in areas shouldnt even be a problem in the first place either... And if some lamer is going around building OC everywhere, you should be glad he isnt onosing and jumping in pits

Non-lamers can build structures which turn out to be useless as well. How about you build 3 ocs and 2 dcs to cover a choke point, only to find that 2 minutes later, a teammate had done the same thing further up the path. Surely your wasted res could go to better use, so... munch munch munch

you would only be able to eat your own structure except hive, bnecause that is not fair for the team even you build it and it would be cheap that you recycle it before a hive dies

so only your own towers

theres a plugin available, already..
u can type /rec , then u have to aggree/disaggree if u really want to recycle that structure, and it gets recycled. its almost the same as u say.
and implementing it would b nice

This is a grreat idea and I wouldn't change one thing about it. I hope they implement it.

my two cents? The aliens survive through evolution. The marines through technology. Let the marines be the ones that pack up and move, let the aliens be the ones that depend upon keeping certain ground once something is placed there.

Keep the two teams different. We've survived without recycling for years, why implement it when it's unneeded and would only serve to make marines and aliens both more similar.

meh. Aliens are forced into three locations on the map they have to defend while getting rid of the attackers, since they're evolution based that's their fate. Marines are pick up and move out, freedom to pack up shop and go anywhere.

I like that difference, I'd rather see it stay =)