Alien command?

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): Give the queen a command to allow her to spend some plasma, or none at all, to contact a higher alien, perhaps the empress or queen-mother her self.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): It would allow a bit of a rp aspect, as when a queen is at a loss to do, she could ask for ideas. Queen-mothers have perhaps the strongest mind of any xeno, and can contact them over VAST distances. While I'm not saying the queen would send over a pralatine, I'm saying she could point the queen in a general idea, like how we-yu sometimes gives the liason objectives. I've seen quite a few xenos mention the empress before, and think it would be interesting if the queen had like a little pipeline they could use to get some information on how to act, or to a lesser extent, rare assistance.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): If xeno's are having a shit round or an old queen fucked the hive over royally, the queen would be able to send a message for guidance or assistance. The queen mother would be able to pick up on this because of her extremely strong hivemind/telepathic abilities. The queen mother would either give guidance, or if feeling especially generous (read admins feel sorry for aliens) she'll use one of her abilities to assist. An example of this being that the queen-mother can actually take OVER a mind, so perhaps marines would turn cult mode-ish, and work against their marine allies, or she could control critically wounded marines to do this, so wounded that they would be considered dead by other standards. If we went with the latter, highly wounded marines would be able to get back into the game without medical help.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): Most likely use the same code of the 'USCM' and 'M.O.T.H.E.R' Announcements.

[Toroic]

While I like the spirit of this suggestion, bad Queen's would never use this, And good queens do not need it. 50% of the time I don't see a queen even using the hive orders option, so I can't imagine that I would see bad Queens use it either.

Remember, the queen can speak to her entire team at once. If she doesn't know what to do, she can ask.

[Bath Salts Addict]

It has potential, but if a Queen really wanted to call in some admin hoodoo-voodoo, they could just use the "Pray" command and word it specifically.

No extra code needed, no real potential for abuse since the pray command is just there and always has been.

[MrGabol100]

Indeed, pray command is a IC command to talk to admins, which are the gods, roleplaying the gods as the empress and etcetera, the pray command works just as you describe.

[Wickedtemp]

... I like this idea. I really do. Maybe keep it locked JUST for advice, or maybe if the Xenos are losing but there are several larvae, they could get reduced evolve timers if the 'Queen-Mother' chose to do so.

I'm neutral-ish on this, leaning to a +1.

[LordLoko]

Sounds interesting, it's like sending a mesnage to centcomm. But alium version

+1, don't see why not.

[DerpinMcDerpDerp]

1+ I would love that especially with the mind controlling

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

Keep in mind the mind control would be akin to an ERT, since it basically 'summons' allies. Alright, it brainwashes people to be allies. but you get the point.

[apophis775]

That's not how xenos work, they can't just "summon" allies...

[UnknownMurder]

It can be used to communicate with the hive and help by saying,
"HEY! This queen is bad. We need a new queen. Kindly kill our old queen and replace her with a better queen?"

[apophis775]

Use Pray.

[UnknownMurder]

My thoughts exactly, but change the name 'pray' to something else. Aliens has no deities.

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

That's also a route we could do. The idea of using pray seems silly because, I can see a marine praying, but I can't imagine a xenoqueen getting on a knee, and praying to xeno-jesus.

[Wickedtemp]

That's also a route we could do. The idea of using pray seems silly because, I can see a marine praying, but I can't imagine a xenoqueen getting on a knee, and praying to xeno-jesus.

Burn, you heathen.

[Azmodan412]

Burn, you heathen.

PRAISE THE XENO-MESSIAH!

[ForcefulCJS]

I favor it. I would never think to /pray as a xeno, we aren't a religion and contacting some imaginary xenodeity to ask for help just doesn't fit the theme.

A psychic transmission ability would allow for queens to get advice where their follows might not know (or it would be embarassing to ask), or for assistance to balance out a game (lol @ the round where we had 2 starting xenos v. 30 humans).

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

....there was a round like that?.....

[UnknownMurder]

http://wp.production.patheos.com/blogs/ ... nosaur.jpg

Alright. Aliens and Marines have the same deities.

[apophis775]

Just use pray. I don't want to code a brand-new verb and set it fully up just so that the aliens can mimic the pray verb. Cause it's not just the player-side I'd have to do, I'd have to code the message to be processed and displayed for admins as well. Basically, a bunch of work to rename something that already exists.

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

Understood apop.

[Stivan34]

Empress can contact a xeno, Coronel sent me a empress message he told me to rush the marines and i was like YES EMPRESS. LOL!

[KingKire]

necro: move to resolved and locked? (aliens use pray command instead)

[forwardslashN]

Locked I guess.