Planet hates me.

[Senethro]

The scene: 2150, Senethro playing as Free market morgan. A couple of independant unity rovers gather pods outside his territory, each pop more than 6 worms. Come 5 turns I've lost my rovers and some scouts. Come 10 turns and I've lost 6 bases. In another 2 turns I lose 2 more bases because a Fungal tower spawns which then hit me from the back.

Needless to say, I found this horribly embaressing. What I want to know is what are peoples experiences with popping pods and receiving NL and how they cope when it happens? Inside a base grid its pretty rare, inside territory its uncommon, far outside territory the chances seem to rise and 8 worm pods are not a surprise. Does a negative planet rating or the pod being in a fungus affect the outcome?

[Kataphraktoi]

in my experiance,they always just disapear.ive never seen those 8 worm pops actually do anything.

worms launched a full invasion? sounds cool

[Mart]

As for me, I recall as many uncensored words as possible on such ocasions

And well, if I have then a handy unit to kill the *** *** I am happy for the planetpearls.

[Mart]

Re: Planet hates me.

Originally posted by Senethro
... Does a negative planet rating or the pod being in a fungus affect the outcome?

I recall something like a summary of what makes NL appear from unity pods. Maybe even from game creators. There are many of such factors.

[xalien]

Wild mind worms (land units only) usually don't attack your own mind worms, so they are good pod poppers. If I don't feel like sacrificing my units and can't capture NL's I tend to limit my pod hunting activities and go after Centauri Empathy.

[binTravkin]

Worms advance to the nearest human installment, that should solve the mystery why they sometimes disappear..

..and you notice some AI doing slightly worse than usual..