If you are playing a competitive style game, I dislike aliens, if it is a builder, type game, aliens can be cool. All depends on game style. For any tournament style I would stay away from aliens.

aliens in a competitive game are crap. if its just a fun game and you can capture cool ships from them it can be fun.
how does the presence of aliens make a truce or non-truce game better? how do they make a game last longer?

quote:Originally posted by Slim Shady

how does the presence of aliens make a truce or non-truce game better? how do they make a game last longer?


wow man I'm soooo glad you asked that slim!

the problem in today's games is that, even when they are put into a "comptetitive" game they are so darned weak they are worthless! I've seen people suggesting using the "120 days" to full strength setting. Weak Weak aliens is the result, especially in today's game edits!

That 120 day spawn default was set up when it took 32 days to get an L6 planet, and people got 1 hour per day to play, and about 500 turns!

Today's game editors make the aliens weak, or they don't put them in at all and you know why that is? They are catering to the scripters! It's hard to run ssm scripts and fly around on the "crazy" setting when you know there are about 50 aliens lurking out there, with loaded Butt ships ready to cap you in a heart beat!

It's the scripters who complain and say aliens suck, and that is why!

Aliens that are set properly are the scripters worst nightmare!

You can tell a site that caters to the scripters, there are no aliens, or they are weak as crap!

Aliens add RISK to the game, and the better you spawn them, the harder the game is to play. That is what they were designed for.

Dude, did you ever play the old tradewars with the "Cabal" instead of the ferrengi. Heh! They were blasting the hell out of you every time you turned around!