Aliens killing transports without a demand is bad for gameplay

[Lythrilux]

They can, doesn't mean they should. It's silly, and would only neuter the image of a big bad scary aliens even further. It's been years since I thought of nomads as an actual threat, and for once I don't think this is going in the right direction.

People cracked the same jokes (myself included) about Nomads making demands against POBs, and that was also a change that was necessary for the sake of gameplay.

You can be big bad scary aliens without harming gameplay. This is 'scaring' people to the point where they don't want to play - which is what's happening right now, there's no mining. As someone who played Wild, you don't create fear by just dropping instant-yeet engagements on defenceless transports (that's just lame). You construct a narrative that shocks and entices players, like infesting a player in view of another. /l1 and /l1 on transports is bottom of the barrel. It's no different to LNS-BlackScorpion.

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