may be a dumb question but here I go. Gold aliens and others do not seem to be affected by photons torpedoes and limpit mines ...is this standard ?

That is true .. they are not effected.

I'd be willing to add that behavior.

I would like to be able to choose maybe in tedit photons effect aliens like you have for players. As for limpets not sure if the balance would be maintained if they followed the aliens as well. ??
MHF

That would be funny , to have aliens pick up limps .. but not sure that would be popular.

I think that the Aliens could use a planet IG though , but there was problems last time that was tried.

A question that came up a couple of days ago , was why is there no Tedit functions for removing limpets (while we can remove fighters , armids , planets , nav haz) from sectors we can not remove limpets.

<sorry for high jack>

TEDIT is a work in progress ;)

I for one never understood why limpets and ptorps didn't have an effect on aliens... After all, they are cruising around in ships just like everyone else in the game...

Yeah, the general goal is for Aliens to be just like players. These two just fell through the cracks.