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[ParadoxSpace]

123
Please God give us one.
Plus three is the most difficult and one already has framework.

[Yottawhat]

Shouldn't you use a poll for this?

[Steelpoint]

A actual poll would be great.

Otherwise I would support option 3, making the game more optimized and efficient would most likely see a big payout in more quicker and easier to implement features in the future. Otherwise it goes from 1 to 2 afterwards.

[Stivan34]

Just do 1, Every xeno player want a xeno buff, They are begging for it. Marines and efficiency can wait.

[RhMoore]

3, 2, 1,
I'm no coder, but what if your efficiency update breaks 2 and 1? Then you'll have wasted all that time for nothing, best to build a foundation on which to build on.

[Seehund]

3, 2, 1,
I'm no coder, but what if your efficiency update breaks 2 and 1? Then you'll have wasted all that time for nothing, best to build a foundation on which to build on.

Actually a very good point - 2 and 1 will be wasted work in that case.

[Fritigern]

1 > 2 > 3 People need to realize Xenomorph players have been waiting long enough and asking desperately for changes. Guns are easy and simple to change around, it can follow quickly after Xeno changes.

Anyone that suggests the efficiency changes as a priority before gun or Xeno changes should realize this will take months at a minimum, whereas the Gun and Xeno updates can take up to a few weeks if the staff are synced on the project.

One thing I've learned over the years from dealing with volunteer coders and coders working for small completion fees ($100-$200 dollars a job) is that you're always better off starting with the easy stuff first, or in this case something that, apparently, progress has already been started on. Interest wanes, life happens and people get tired of each others shit. You do the easy stuff first, because who knows if they're still gonna be around 2-3 months from now.

[Abbysynth]

As far as "how much of these are already completed" goes, it goes in order 1-2-3. The xeno sprites are currently being worked on by not one but TWO expert spriters, and as I said most of the basic structure is already in place (there's actually a test method right now to grow bigger claws in game that nobody's seen).

The projectile rewrite I already have a guideline in place but no code work has been done yet.

The efficiency update is as you might expect gathering dust in a forgotten corner with a sheet over its head. This mostly means having to look through our process manager, find the inefficient code, and rewrite it from scratch. Often this means going into ancient relic functions that haven't been touched in over ten years because our server is doing something new that messes with stuff from the days of yore.

[Stivan34]

As far as "how much of these are already completed" goes, it goes in order 1-2-3. The xeno sprites are currently being worked on by not one but TWO expert spriters, and as I said most of the basic structure is already in place (there's actually a test method right now to grow bigger claws in game that nobody's seen).

The projectile rewrite I already have a guideline in place but no code work has been done yet.

The efficiency update is as you might expect gathering dust in a forgotten corner with a sheet over its head. This mostly means having to look through our process manager, find the inefficient code, and rewrite it from scratch. Often this means going into ancient relic functions that haven't been touched in over ten years because our server is doing something new that messes with stuff from the days of yore.

Can tell us the method?

[Abbysynth]

#1 is direly needed so people will actually play xenos for a change, marines don't need >another< buff

The complete and utter lack of anything on part of the dev team has shown nothing but massive incompetence on their part. On top of that reading through the thread the massive marine bias on part of the player base is compound is wanted with the projectile change, aka marine buff, aka alien nerf

Devs shouldn't ask what should be done, they should be able to look at the sorry state of balance on the server and know what needs to be done

Wow, you need to relax buddy. It's just me here. Hi. Reel in the hostility a bit. I generally do just do what I want to, code wise, but with some really nice content on the way I figured I'd ask for recommendations on what order to do them in. I certainly don't have a marine bias, it's just that I do upgrades in batches.

Think of it like this -- with high marine bias codewise, it means that xenos are due for a -very-, very sweet update to balance it out. You'll notice the veteran players are not becoming annoyed about marine bias. I certainly know about it already and it's something I take into account with everyone's answers (I myself play all 3 with regularity).

[Siserith Vassada]

213/231 quickest fix fist, lag issues have been horrible recently and anything to help would be amazing, plus projectiles right now are just somewhat bad, then probably the xenos, they dont really have much going for them right now it sounds like work on this would be quicker than 3 and this and would make gamplay much more intreresting, then efficency, it's time consuming and kind of needed now but if it's going to take the longest while you dont want to back burner it and forget it you want to finish what your currently working on first.

[forwardslashN]

321
But more realistically, 213. The projectile code is awful and would benefit both marines and aliens.

[ParadoxSpace]

More realistically it'd be 123 in terms of what's already done. Come on lads.

[GGgobbleCC]

Wow, you need to relax buddy. It's just me here. Hi. Reel in the hostility a bit. I generally do just do what I want to, code wise, but with some really nice content on the way I figured I'd ask for recommendations on what order to do them in. I certainly don't have a marine bias, it's just that I do upgrades in batches.

Think of it like this -- with high marine bias codewise, it means that xenos are due for a -very-, very sweet update to balance it out. You'll notice the veteran players are not becoming annoyed about marine bias. I certainly know about it already and it's something I take into account with everyone's answers (I myself play all 3 with regularity).

Thats because the majority of veteran players play marines

[Fritigern]

The salt is real.

[MikeHdez97]

Thats because the majority of veteran players play marines

take it easy man.
There a lot of aliens veteran players but you dont know them because their 'alien 'name'' change every round or every time they spawn as alien.
Toroic and Halinder are two of the best known aliens veterans.
Please stop being an asshole,Abby and the dev team work harder for give us an awesome game,be thankful.

[Azmodan412]

Mike, I usually play Queen. ;-;

[Edgelord]

#1 is direly needed so people will actually play xenos for a change, marines don't need >another< buff

The complete and utter lack of anything on part of the dev team has shown nothing but massive incompetence on their part. On top of that reading through the thread the massive marine bias on part of the player base is compound is wanted with the projectile change, aka marine buff, aka alien nerf

Devs shouldn't ask what should be done, they should be able to look at the sorry state of balance on the server and know what needs to be done

There are right ways to voice concerns about the management, and then there's what you just said. People devote so much time and energy into making this server not only run, but continually improve. This comes with little thanks and a lot of stress. If you're really so out of touch that you think that the devs show "nothing but massive incompetence on their part" then you can get your self-entitled ass out of this server.

[MikeHdez97]

Mike, I usually play Queen. ;-;

i know,it was just an example

[Tristan63]

+Two, definitely

[Stivan34]

take it easy man.
There a lot of aliens veteran players but you dont know them because their 'alien 'name'' change every round or every time they spawn as alien.
Toroic and Halinder are two of the best known aliens veterans.
Please stop being an asshole,Abby and the dev team work harder for give us an awesome game,be thankful.

GG i'm a xeno veteran... But man, Aliums are begging for that update. Don't shit, Marines can wait, Xenos are in need of a buff.

[MrGabol100]

2>3>1

[monkeysfist101]

#1 is direly needed so people will actually play xenos for a change, marines don't need >another< buff

The complete and utter lack of anything on part of the dev team has shown nothing but massive incompetence on their part. On top of that reading through the thread the massive marine bias on part of the player base is compound is wanted with the projectile change, aka marine buff, aka alien nerf

Devs shouldn't ask what should be done, they should be able to look at the sorry state of balance on the server and know what needs to be done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLLa_JvaEZk



That being said, 2-1-3. You're a good person, Abby.

[Clayton_Kelly]

2 2 2 2 2

[DMAN]

2 should be first then 1 then ol'3.