thothkins Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 (edited) Suddenly I starting thinking about ID4... Never a good sign Yay! I couldn't believe I was being too vague there. Cheers Peterwalgreens. Mutually Assured Destruction can be part of a Geopolitical thingy Specifically 'Pre-emptive strike This really only applies to the two superpowers. Should one of the big two succumb to the alien threat, there is an increased chance that the other will simply nuke it out of existence. Better that, than let its defence capabilities fall into alien hands. Mutually assured destruction Beyond the point of losing the game, with the invading hordes about to reach their goal, the superpowers decide there is only one way out. The missiles fly, and hopefully humanity will one day emerge from their secret caverns where the survivors have been placed. This decision of last resort could appear as the funding council picture with the mission briefing details and an accept or decline option. Much like the Launch on Cydonia option screen from EU.' Any fun ones Racing to stop the alien doomsday device would be a tense, if not fun, mission. Imagine it coming after you've stopped them on their home planet. You return to see that they've left you a little present. Edited May 23, 2012 by thothkins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sectoid Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Well, yeah, I'm suggesting that there should be easter egg that comes if you shoot down all ufos of alien fleet how about asking you "Please insert Microprose UFO: Enemy Unknown installation diskette #1, Abort, Retry, Fail?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoMask Posted May 24, 2012 Author Share Posted May 24, 2012 how about asking you "Please insert Microprose UFO: Enemy Unknown installation diskette #1, Abort, Retry, Fail?" I don't really get that joke. Is that like Fission Mailed thing in that one game where you get game over for doing something you aren't obviously supposed to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sectoid Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 I don't really get that joke. Is that like Fission Mailed thing in that one game where you get game over for doing something you aren't obviously supposed to do? well, finishing Xenonauts, UFO: EU follows (supposed timeline). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorlom Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Well, like some kind of alien planet destroying bomb mission? Or aliens getting reinforcements so large that they can't be defeated ending in game over? Or war taking years so aliens decide to screw it and bombard earth from orbit? The reinforcements and war takeing too long will already be covered by 4 I think. The aliens wÃll just use ovrwhelming numbers to swarm you. I thik it will be difficult to make available if Chris does as he planned with UFO spawning after endgame mission becomes available. I guess the planet destroying bomb could be done. Although wouldnt it be more fun if it was toxic or biological rather then explosive? If its chemical it could be some kind of advanced terraforming (xenoforming?) method. If its biological it cold be a way to clense the earth of humans without destroying the planet. That way it would atleast make sense why they didn't just load the bomb onto a ship and crash it into earth and detonate it on impact denying humans any chance to stop the bomb. You would need more precise control of the situation in which you detonate the bomb for maximum spread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoMask Posted May 24, 2012 Author Share Posted May 24, 2012 (edited) The reinforcements and war takeing too long will already be covered by 4 I think. The aliens wÃll just use ovrwhelming numbers to swarm you. I thik it will be difficult to make available if Chris does as he planned with UFO spawning after endgame mission becomes available.I guess the planet destroying bomb could be done. Although wouldnt it be more fun if it was toxic or biological rather then explosive? If its chemical it could be some kind of advanced terraforming (xenoforming?) method. If its biological it cold be a way to clense the earth of humans without destroying the planet. That way it would atleast make sense why they didn't just load the bomb onto a ship and crash it into earth and detonate it on impact denying humans any chance to stop the bomb. You would need more precise control of the situation in which you detonate the bomb for maximum spread. Yeah, no need to for the bomb to explode, I was just giving an example Heck, technically it doesn't need to be bomb at all. It could be some kind of alien energy device that when activates wipe out all life on the planet or region. Just have there be explanation why it can't be used from orbit or space. That way you could have mission be destroying the object instead of disabling it(though I guess there still could be a way to disable it in order to get alien tech. Maybe blow up power generators or figure out how to shut down alien power generators), I mean blowing up a bomb of any kind doesn't sound safe. If "Losing this mission leads to auto game over" is too drastic then losing mission could just lead to everyone in that region dying resulting in that you lose one of funding countries permanently. Speaking of which, one of ways there being special game over could be that casualty rate gets so high that everyone/majority/99% of humans are dead leading to that you get auto game over. Though I suppose that you would most likely just lose your funding before that happens resulting in game over... Which brings us back to "Alien device wipes out all life" idea. If alien device is activated in all regions and everyone on world dies, you get game over because there is no humanity left to save Edited May 24, 2012 by XenoMask Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 your new well adjusted poll... In an alien doomsday scenario would you prefer:- - Explosive air burst detonations melting the flesh form all life and turning the planet into a glowing amber ball of fire. - Choking gas bomb suffocating everyone and forcing them to watch their loved ones eyes bulge & skin blister - Biological bomb that melts the flesh form the bones of everything it touches. - an extinction event with a large asteroid/battleship cleaving the planet's crust and piercing it's core. - neutron blast that wipes life from the planet in a blink, but maybe leaves the buildings. - the nano bomb that reduces everything to it's component parts, and perhaps reforms them as something else. - the Astley bomb that plays 1980s pop music from above until everyone's ear drums explode - Mutually Assured Destruction. The earthlings are infiltrated and destroy themselves in a nuclear inferno - the cheap option. For $100 000 they simply promote our own research until we manage to kill ourselves when it escapes. - Nova bomb. Destroying the Earth isn't enough,They hate the inner planets too. looking on the bright side- Gypsy Rose thothkins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoMask Posted May 24, 2012 Author Share Posted May 24, 2012 Wait, can polls be added to created threads?*is actually tempted to create that poll even if it means creating new thread for it * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauddlike Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Maybe they form an alliance with some of the higher primates and give them the tools they need to take over the... Oh no wait that one has been taken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorlom Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 You forgot igniting the troposphere (or whichever upper part of the atmosphere that could wipe out all life it it started burning). There's also the xenoforming event/bomb that drastically alters some aspect of our enviroment. The new V series has a "red rain" event that saturates our world with some kind of phosfor compound supposedly to help them breed or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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