The guy is obviously new. He had something he wanted to get off his chest, a question he wanted answered and he got that. There is no such thing as a 'more important' or 'less important' thread. Everybody has the right and freedom to ask their questions, make their points, and participate however they see fit, so long as they remain within the forum rules when doing so. Just because something is important to you does not mean it is important to everyone. Just like not everythingI feel is important makes any difference to you. Besides if the thread you want to see has fallen to page 2 or beyond, then it most likely wasn't that great in the first place. GJ to those that gave good answers and tried to help this guy out. I think the nids would be a horrible race to play for all the reason previously stated, but that is jut my opinion.
I love tyranids, been playing them for over nine years now, would have loved for them to be playable, but I realise that as much as I want to play them, there would be other people wanting to play whatever I suggested as an alternative and 'nids as NPC's does make sense. That being said, I would love for them to eventually become a playable race, maybe in an expansion that uses a different NPC race. The devs have said they would like to eventually add every race, so I'd be pretty annoyed if they added everything else without making nids an option eventually.
Nids are very very hard to do though. They are THE Horde race much more so than Orks or Imperial Guard, No one will want to be canon fodder and you can't have nids without them. NPCs tagging along with the players wouldn't really be feasible either just because of how much stress and resources it would take.
i think the main problem is that nids have no free mind they have no personality they are animalpuppets to the hivemind the only scenario i could imagine that after some time the hivemind get killed by something, flying to close to the sun or what ever and the nids would have no leader anymore and all acting for them selfs but they would still be animals offtopic: btw do you know that there is something like an hivemind for animals in reallife? if an animal race at a specific place faces a new problem which they have to solve, they will evolve themselfs over several years AND at some other place of the world the same race without this problem evolves to, even if it has no reason to do it at they location sorry but im amazed by that
All the races aside from nids can work great as player races even the necrons since aside from their lowest tier units have some form of independant thought so that's where players come in but nids are mostly mindless drones so it makes puting players in a lot trickeir if you put it in as more of an rts style faction that would work but since that isn't part of this game they just make a lot more sense as NPC I mean which other faction can spawn such a variety of challenges in no time flat and contiously
Thanks all of you guys for the great answers I have surfed the forums a bit more and sadly ( for me ) everyone wants nids to be NPC Im ok with it just there are ways to due nids but the devs don't have the reasouces or technology to pull it off so ill just play my second favorite race ORKS but back to topic I really would be sad if nids will remain NPC forever but some must sacrifice for the greater good.( I went from nids to ORKS to tau in one post wow )
ORKZ ARE DA WAY TO GO MATE'! We getz da SHINNIEZT lootz anywhoz. And a CHOPPA beats a claw any day of da Gorky week!
