Queen telepathy upgrade.

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): Allow a marine to speak inside his head back to the queen if it has used telepathy on him. The queen would have to be in about the same distance of the telepathic sending for this to work.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): This would give the queen, and potentially captured marines something to do. I've seen marines ghost when they get caught because they have nothing to do. This would add a rp aspect of it, and would make it so the marines have something to do, besides complain over the radio and struggle uselessly.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): The benefits, as stated above, would allow the marines to have something to do, and give the queen more reason to use the telepathic message ability, and not have a one sided conversation. It could play out like the queen sends a message, and since the queen had just invaded the marines mind, it can see one quick response 'message', and so on and so forth. Could lead to some interesting RP.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): No clue, perhaps using the same code as the queens telepathy?

[Wickedtemp]

I'd vote yes for this, but make a sort of... "Speak only when spoken to." rule about it.

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

That was the general idea. Please, you think i'd let those worthless humans address the queen without being deemed worthy to be spoken too first?

[ChickenShizNit8]

Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.... Marines don't possess the... pure ABILITY to talk through their mind....

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

It wouldn't be a speaking through the mind deal. My line of thought would be that since the queen has probed their mind, she would be able to see their next thought. They have no direct way to speak to her, it would be more like a single thought in your own mind the queen sees.

[coroneljones]

Do the xenos actually have mind reading as an ability in the lore at all?

Never seen it,i know our queen currently does but...

[Toroic]

-1

Xenos have no reason to talk to hosts, this feature will only be used by queens who want to befriend marines.

There is no advantage for players that aren't morons.

[ParadoxSpace]

Yes, Queens have telepathy in lore. Queen Mothers have such strong telepathy they enslaved the entirety of Earth.

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

I can see Toroics point. However, for those who enjoy a little rp (yes, I'm aware that this may be just a small few) it could be used to instill fear into marines, and get a real response out of them, instead of the usual "*o** s**t **** *** *ha*". I for one, would love to be able to attempt to scare a marine shitless, and get the good ol fashioned response 'who the hell are you, and why are you in my head!?'

[Jack McIntyre]

Had one round where we did this on low pop, I was trying to find out why xenos were attacking us and again due to it being low pop you usually get a more rp from both sides. Sure we had guys shooting and some of their guys attacking us, but was a cool round when we are approaching hive and I get subtle messages like, "Why are you here?" "Leave now or you will die." "We only want the planet." So I role played kinda of looking around paranoid while the rest of my squad thought I was going crazy. XD was a fun time.

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

See, this is what I'm talking about. Suspense. Paranoia.

[Toroic]

See, this is what I'm talking about. Suspense. Paranoia.

That's all well and good, but my interpretation of xenomorphs doesn't let them have empathy towards any non-xenos.

Do you spend time talking to your child's hamburger before they eat it?

[Jack McIntyre]

I'm really neutral on the subject, I am just saying on a low pop round it was interesting since it was mostly role players on. When we have high pop where it usually is just team deathmatch, I don't really see the point. Two sides of the argument here, really depends on the time I believe.

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

Toroic, that's suggesting I have a child.

[Azmodan412]

+1. Psychic whispering needs more than a one way trip. Last time I was host-sitting, me and said host was playing Go Xeno (Spess Marine version of Go Fish) until he burst.

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

....if it was in LOOC and was on the prison map.....god I think that was me..

[Azmodan412]

Yep. I was queen, you were the captured survivor. LOOC proof: *Jumps on survivor in anger* BURST ALREADY!

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

Oh god damn, that round....WAIT...YOU MELTED MY COOKIES! HAVE YOU NO SOUL!?

[Azmodan412]

None whatsoever.

[PoZe]

+1 In old Xenos vs Marines or CM Queen had this ability and marines could talk back by whispering.

[apophis775]

Denied. WE changed it for a reason. And the queen should ONLY be using it to generate terror, not friends.