Brainstorming Better Endgame For Aliens

[Steelpoint]

I'll forgo the format for this.

In my opinion right now we are slowly reaching the point where we will start banning common sense for Marines when it comes to the Alien end game of attacking the Sulaco.

Right now its extremely effective for Marines to defend against large Alien attacks on the Sulaco. While many Aliens/Admins are calling it out as meta on the Marines part, I'm noticing that more often than not the Marines are fortifying and defending the hanger in such depth due to them not only seeing the Aliens board and use the Dropship via camera, but also from Marines noticing someone has called back the Dropship from the surface.

Yet if the Marines don't go to this depth more often then not the Aliens will ran rampart and easily overwhelm the ship.

So dammed if you do, dammed if you don't.

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I think what we need to do is find a better way for Aliens to attack the Marine's homebase that is not entirely reliant on using the Dropship.

Anything from Aliens piloting a colony cargo ship to smash into the Sulaco at random to building a damn resin elevator would work. What we need to do is find a way to randomly deposit Aliens on the sulaco in a way that presents a liniar fight for the Marines but is also cannot be defended against in advance.

[TopHatPenguin]

Isn't this suggestion basically on the same lines as this viewtopic.php?f=59&t=3211 ?

[apophis775]

If aliens are boarding the sulaco EN MASSE, the game is over and Marines lost.

Marines should NEVER be building defenses on the sulaco, until the aliens have used the shuttle to BOARD it. They have no idea, the aliens can use the shuttles.

The point should be, that the marines should be holding the FOB with everything they have. It was intentionally designed to be easier to defend on the planet than on the ship, and the ship was designed, with the idea in mind that the aliens could take it over in around 20-30 minutes. Which, how long does the shuttle take? 20 minutes and 3 minutes.

We do nothing by accident.

Also, the format is REQUIRED. If you just want a discussion, make it in General.