Trake, on 03 July 2013 - 02:43 PM, said:
Nimander Golit, on 03 July 2013 - 02:31 PM, said:
Hmm, it's possible, but I have a different theory. I think each Vord alt increases the infestation counter of its current location by +1, but either the Keepers or the queen(s) increase it by more. So on day 1 the/a queen/keeper moved to Shuar, making it increase by 5 at the start of day 2. By the end of night 2 we had Alkend, Tiam, Rashan and possibly other vord alts, most if not all on Shuar, so that's easily at least +3 infestation point but it could've been more since Shuar was already at 8/11 (it could have increased to 15/11 for all we know, but once it went past 11 it just became infested). As we saw from the listing of players by faction+location this morning, there was one vord alt on the Elinarch at the start of today, and the Elinarch went up by +1 infestation.
IMO, it would make sense for the keepers to increase the infestation counter a lot, as that is pretty much what they do - they're spider-like creatures that expand and maintain the croach. But I'm not ruling it out as a possible queen ability to have a high infestation increase, either.
This sounds fairly realistic to me. My other guess is that they may have to choose between passive abilities or attacks, too, like furycrafters; they can probably choose to increase the creep or to attack.
I think that's why there's different types of vord spawn alts. I'm speculating completely here, but could be something like this:
Takers - low health, weak or no attack, but have recruit ability
Keepers - low/medium health, weak attack, but can infest more or do some other support ability
Mantises - high health, high attack, no other abilities (those "high"s in relation to other vord, but could still be low compared to most aleran roles)
Vordknights (if they are a thing in this game) - medium health, high attack, better move rate due to flight
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