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About the hivemind!

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Tamanfodder:
To all of you who expirience a HORRIFFIC spoiler here: Sorry `yall, it was an accident, sorry!

BUT! I feel that the hivemind consept is a bit...  ...how to say it...  ...annoying! Maybe because the tamans are so cute, maybe because of the diversity of the alien species or maybe because i like to think with my feet on the ground! But that is my opinion! I let you UFO fanatics loose here to argue about this! And if admin asks: I didn`t started this topic!  ;)

Tamanfodder:
Well i might just kickstart a discussion here myself: Considering that the alien`s hivemind`s intellect is depentent on the amount of aliens present, wouldn`t that mean that on a tac mission the last remaining alien is rendered to a imbesil??? So the last alien standing wouldn`t in theory even be capable of firing a gun (or walking???).

Kaslak_CG:

--- Quote from: Tamanfodder on December 16, 2010, 02:44:26 am ---Well i might just kickstart a discussion here myself: Considering that the alien`s hivemind`s intellect is depentent on the amount of aliens present, wouldn`t that mean that on a tac mission the last remaining alien is rendered to a imbesil??? So the last alien standing wouldn`t in theory even be capable of firing a gun (or walking???).

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It depends how does XVI work. If XVI is the network, the brains should still be working, even if subject to the netork for the "highest function" (decision-making from the Network, individual skill such as firing and walking shaped in the individual brain, it is convenient... can you immagine the LAG of aliens if everythng would be handled by XVI?). So the last alien would not be a XVI puppet, it would be XVI itself.
I am currently working on it. (Plot proposals)

Hertzila:
It seems to me that the XVIs use of brain power is lossy, so it can't use every bit of brain power it has, hence why it needs a few infectees to come sentient/conscious. On the other hand, when in a big group, it can best even the smartest of humans.
I think a single infectee would stay capable of action such as walking and firing. It would have the necessary brain power for such low-level actions. Every bit of using tactics and cover, however, goes right out of the window. I think the alien would either hide in a corner or charge like a mad rhino (fight-or-flight).

This would be easily emulated, IMO, if the alien morale was a shared pool instead of independent from each other. When the aliens start dying, everybody's morale lowers and they would start showing it's effects like before. This would put the alien hivemind into a gameplay aspect instead of just the story aspect.

Tamanfodder:
The problem here is: That when the last alien is rendered to the intellect of an ameeba (or civ) How would he know what are he doing on the mission zone? What is the big blue thing he holds on his hand? What are those guys with big yellow things pointed at him? And if he manages to fire his weapon by accident, at this point he reacts with the most basic insticts AKA freacks out and runs away!

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