Ok heres something. A year or so ago I spent a lot of time moding this game I called the Neutral Zone. The concept was this. I created a 20k sector universe with a few huge bubbles. I renamed fed space to “the Neutral Zone” and made the bubbles territories of my custom races, klingons being one. I modified the sectors so their planets and spawn aria was inside one of the bubble territories and the door opened to “The Neutral Zone” The races were intentionally made to be strong and aggressive as they would not be free to roam open space. I intended to create scenarios that would entice players to venture into these arias. Anyway the #$%^ aliens kept escaping to open space. Some investigation showed them warping to class 0 ports. I have racked my brain trying to figure out a way of keeping them enclosed including things like moving the class 0 ports to fed space (cant do it). I know they don’t require going to class 0 ports to regen fighters and such but they still go there. I’m hoping they will change this in the future as there seems to me to be a lot of possibilities in a game like this and have sent some requests to this effect but apparently the gold alien configuration programming is not the easiest thing to mess with. Any ideas on how to keep the buggers in there bubbles anyone?

You have them set so they're not allowed to enter fed?

Yes, they traswarp to the 2 class 0 ports

quote:Originally posted by Harley Nuss (teamEIS)

You have them set so they're not allowed to enter fed?

i do not believe it is possible to have gold aliens not goto AC and Rylos. good luck

Slim

heh, they can't twarp to a class 0. They wouldn't have a fig there in the first place. Aliens cheat

Heh they do cheat. And they don’t need to go to a class 0 port to get figters. got that from John Pritchett himself. But was hoping someone had some ideas to get around it. Hopefully hell give us more control of them someday. I really think a creative person with a little imagination could do a lot editing a game with the ability to restrict them to a given aria. Things lie editing a derelict ship deep with in the Romulan empire that while damaged beyond repair is still worth millions at SD. That with a tedit script to regenerate it once in a while if someone gets it. It would be a great diversion in some of the longer games.

quote:Originally posted by Harley Nuss (teamEIS)

heh, they can't twarp to a class 0. They wouldn't have a fig there in the first place. Aliens cheat