Well sorry for posting this every where else, but this place was down.

Aliens, heard most people think they are annoying, so I am wondering, for it fits a theme, if aliens had better ships than what you could get, would you go after them? Or would you just not play?

Was thinking of making 3 alien races that would have ships that you could not buy at SD. What would you think about that kind of game?

Many games have that theme. It is not new. If there is any chance in hell that players can capture those ships, you can bet they will and the game will get played.

yeah, its a common theme when aliens are involved. usually they have nice planets with lots of cash in their cit's too.

Sounds like what I did for the Traveller edits. I made Vargr ships that the players can't buy, but trust me they will want to capture them.

Darn Vargrs, putting 10K offensive figs everywhere. I think I made them too mean for their own good.

Well with this one I was making some good to have and others speciallized.
I was making a race use TW, one use IG, the Federation have photons, then a race that is just aggressive that you can't get the ships of, and a race called Choas which mixed attributes form the other races, then the wondering super ship of max value for everything.

But don't want to make them over dominating the game, so like what is a number I shouldn't cross as far as how many aliens of the race should be active?
Will the aliens use IG if they have it?
And was going to have 3 of the 4 races aggressive, but not the TW race or the super ship.

Aliens never use IG. Look at the Subzero edit, its on many servers. It has 3 races that become very very annoying after awhile. 50k offensive figs everywhere you go. Aside from that its a great game.

Personally, because we grid heavily, I won't play games with aliens.
Wading through hundreds of messages when I log in is not fun.

Maggie

quote:Originally posted by Steel Magnolia

Personally, because we grid heavily, I won't play games with aliens.
Wading through hundreds of messages when I log in is not fun.

Maggie

Just to save the masses from quote:Wading through hundreds of messages I think its time to TELL ALL and suggest the A key to Abort
So you don't have to look at all your messages.
Then type :y in twgs v55 and up
To clear them.

Well, I use an auto login but what if there is a message along the way about another corp member that I really want to see?

If you grid heavily don't you have to wade through 1000s of messages already of other players hitting your grid?

I do understand your point though.

Actively gridding aliens punish the "stronger" corps (usually those that have a large grid) far more severely than the "weaker" corps. Those who play to win typically cannot stand aliens in any form.

Aleins are just plain annoying, they cannot be defeated and they multiply like roaches. They are useless unless you want to just go around blowing up ships. But thats just me I know some people love to play against them.

Its not necessarily to play against them, its a little like Cherokee said, more to attack peoples grid and get them to waste resources, turns, time, etc on scripts that chase aliens instead of players.