"If the swarm sees a marine node, it will hijack its resflow."

:s

I dunno.

--Scythe--

Yeah, I think the AI in Source is way more developed too. That way, you can have a single-player game for NS also.

Now returning to our size 15 cloud, assuming that nothing interfered with it; it could build for a minute, weld for a minute, dispense 375hp and 15 ammo packs or do 450 damage (assuming a bolt does 30hp).
All of these tasks would make the cloud dissapate after one minute.

The main advantage that Bacteria Swarm has over Nanite Cloud is it only requires energy to make. As mentioned in my first post, when a swarm and cloud meet, they cancel each other out and both decrease in magnitude until one dissapates. So a gorge with healspray can destroy a nanite cloud relatively easily.


It recently occured to me that the introduction of the nanite cloud would make elec TFs/nodes redundant and would also help to weed out that endgame loveshack.

That concept has been replicated thousands of times in RTS games like WarCraft 3, and just about every game that lets you trade resources and/or units.


And, since everyone is so keen to point out the faults of it, i'll point out a few of the things it "fixes"
1. Reduces Commander's need to tell one of his trigger-fingered marines to build something.
2. Lets the Commander command better his marines in battle, as the result of 1.
3. Lets Gorges put something up that isn't a DC, and will heal players.
4. Lets Gorges spend some more of their res to build the resource tower faster.
5. Games with lower player counts are a bit more ballanced (this makes more "hands" available to do work; in big games it wont really matter)

And if everyone is so damned afraid of it breaking your precious servers and melting the CPU/RAM, just make it a secondary constructable resource for the marines, and a large stationary area-of-effect building that moves with the gorge (hindering that gorges building abilities, mind you)
- This way whenever a building is damaged or in need of building, the Marine Commander can select "Auto-build" which will cost [x amount] of Nanite clouds, and the only actual team-resource for the aliens which isn't used by players but is instead used continously whenever something is damaged or building, or whatever.


It's a good idea, it just needs a bit of optimizing... It doesn't need to be AI NPCs.
And to hell with the thought that nubbies "dont know how" or "get confused". They'll get it eventually, especially if something (the manual) and someone (a kind and experienced NS player) tells them how.

since when is Warcraft 3 an Egoshooter?

1) Isn't this what NS is all about? Why would removing this be a good thing? Commanders are meant to rely on their player-controlled marines who have a mind of their own. Teamwork.

2) Commander doesn't have to "command his marines in battle" that much. I mean, clicking a location and saying "go here" isn't that hard, and good commanders can do both jobs at once. Removing commander and marine interaction is a BAD thing, not a good thing. Adding expendable "robots" to do the work marines should be doing (such as securing far off nodes) will hurt the dynamics of this game severely. Besides, who wants to fight alongside a bunch of robots?

3) Gorges have healspray. Why would we want them to "put something up" that isn't DC and heals players? That's part of going DC first, it's part of balance. Without DC, aliens either have to find a gorge or move to a hive (except Fades at hive 2). This, too, is teamwork, it's part of the game, it's balanced. Also, aliens already have innate regen, why would they need yet another way to heal themselves?

4) Not sure what this means. If Gorges need to build faster, they work together. If you mean SOONER, then the entire team needs to work together to secure more nodes (see a trend here? all player-based teamwork, the thing that makes NS work).

5) This isn't really true. In lower player games, everything is on a smaller scale. So for example, aliens don't need five nodes, maybe only two or three, and so forth.

EDIT: I just noticed you suggested an auto-build.

So let me get this straight. You want to include a structure that must be built so that it can automatically build structures?

No. The concept of "auto build" is a terrible one. How about we just take building out altogether. You drop a structure, and around five seconds later, it automatically deploys.

This is way better than forcing marines to work together to build structures up. Nevermind that it removes a huge chunk of the game.

Don't support this idea just because a mod made it. It's a bad idea, plain and simple. We don't need bots in NS.