Evolving informs on hive status

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Evolving informs on hive status

Post by Socket » 04 Oct 2016, 05:33

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):
When evolving as any kind of alien your choices are presented to you with additional information regarding how many of each of your options already exist in the hive.
Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):
It prevents nobody going drone at the start of the round.
It helps interpret queen's orders, for instance they've said "larvae evolve into 1 drone for every 3 non-drones".
Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):
Upon clicking evolve a tally of the things you can evolve into are listed. That way you know there's already a hivelord without having to ask, or you can see there's 5 runners so going runner would be stupid. Unlike the hive status command, this does not include dead/disconnected aliens or it displays a tally for inactive and/or the dead too.
Hive status remains as a command so those who want to check up on it when they've got nothing to evolve into can do so.
Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it):
It'd be similar to late joining as a human or just joining a round in progress in other servers. Evidently you can see how many of each jobs are active in the round, so adopting that code might help?

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Re: Evolving informs on hive status

Post by Snypehunter007 » 09 May 2017, 17:03

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