Vehicles go vrooooom!



Yes, vehicles are in the game....well at least they are for the marines at this second.

The first vehicle to be added to the game is the marine APC (armored personel carrier).

Crafters first buy the blueprints from the marine crafting store. They will then craft the machines. Keep in mind there is a VERY high failure rate, so only highly experienced crafters will be able to make them without worry of losing the blueprints.

Once created, any marine can "enter" the vehicle. Much like the exosuits, they must not be wearing any armor or weapons. They will then get a big bonus to their armor while in the vehicle.

Cool stuff:

Once inside the vehicle, the player will earn experience over time. After driving around in the vehicle you learn new things and that translates into experience points. The player must STAY IN THE VEHICLE for roughly one day in order to earn any experience. If they leave the vehicle, the timer will reset.

These vehicles are not only just for that person. Other people can hop inside them with the driver as passengers. These passengers will ALSO earn experience however a slightly lower amount than what the driver earns. Passengers can not access the store area or use shop areas while riding, however they can still tend to their pets if they are pet owners.

In each topic (more areas to be added soon) under each persons stat area, you will see new icons:

- This means the person is driving a vehicle. Clicking on this icon will send a PM to the driver asking them to let you on board the vehicle as a passenger.

- This icon means the person is riding inside a vehicle.

Below those you will see "Vehicle Exp" This bar shows how far you have gone and how much left you have to go, untill your vehicle will pay out experience. Once it is full, you will get a message the next time you visit the store area.

Vehicles enable people to make extra experience, provide decent armor defence, and can be used to help others level up.

There will be other vehicles to come, the code that I had to write in order for all this to work took all day and is super confusing. However it is done, and making new vehicles will be easier.

There will be predator ships to fly, other land based vehicles for marines and predators. Aliens however do not use vehicles. There may eventually be a cacoon they can get inside of and 'evolve' into a flying alien.

I may be able to add weapon attachments to vehicles eventually as well, until then keep your eyes open.

Sounds interesting. Can you be attacked individually while you are in a vehicle? Passenger or Driver?

Yes, you can be attacked, but when in a vehicle you will have a LOT more armor, so you wont get hurt much if at all. Unless someone drops a nuke on you.

Sweet. Can't wait to make some vehicles for the Preds.

Predator Scout Ships are now craftable.

Looks like a pod more than a ship. So what does this bad boy do?

I just crafted one, and it weighs 76 lbs.

Yes, If I could actually find a picture of a predator scout ship, i would have used that instead.

It works just like the marine vehicle for now.

Yea, because if I made it realistic, no one would be able to have one in their inventory.

Well I'm still not sure what to do with aliens and vehicles.

I was thinking make it a cacoon they craft, and then when you crawl into it, you hatch after X amount of time and are in a new aliens species life stage.

But that would be a whole new thing id have to program. And what benifits would it have to do that anyway.

Thats the inherit problem with the aliens, they always hitched a ride in the movies ^__^.

maybe you craft a cacoon, and get inside, once inside after X time, you hatch and become a flying alien (they existed in the novels).

As this new species of alien, you get a bonus to your speed and agility, like say +10 to each, but you arn't able to evolve tougher exoskeletons (wear armor) since your wings can't harden or you would be too heavy to fly.

Maybe make 2 types of molting cocoons, one for that, the other if you enter it, you hatch into a bull alien. +10 to strength and melee weapon skill. But you get your speed and agility skills reset to 0 since you are big, and slow.

And the time you spend in your cocoon, you have increased armor and you get exp over time just like the other species vehicles.

This way you get that benefit, but it also makes sense in terms of aliens. You also end up sacrificing something to gain more in certain areas, so it balances out.

what do you mean a carrier.

Pets don't get exp while the owner is riding in a vehicle.

And I don't know about the passenger thing.

What IS a carrier alien, someone please give me a link to one or describe it in detail other than just "uhhh duurrr it carries stuff durrrrr"

what does what mean. You need to start being more descriptive in your posts.

It doesn't say you are in my lo-ri-duh.....

So did you do what you needed to do WAR?

When in a vehicle you will see the driving and riding exp bar in your posts on the left.

Once that bar is full, you get a payout of exp and the bar resets. The amount of exp is based on some skills, mainly age and game level.

So you can think of it as a mini exp bar that once it levels, it gives exp to your main exp.

Most experience I have received from it was 12.

I realized the exp gain was simply your speed skill+1.

I tweaked it so it is multiplied by your game level now so it will be more exp. That way the higher level you are, the more exp you will need and thus the more exp you will get.

it's bonus exp remember, it's NOT meant to be the only way to level up. Thats why it's not 10000000000000000 exp.

never knew vichicles are in this game cool news though.