Alright, I’ve a bit of time to address this now.
I’ll break this into two different parts,
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PMC HEAP
- The PMC were not spawned with any HEAP magazines, they rather managed to get them from the equipment vendor on the Weyland-Yutani station. Apparently this is not supposed to be possible, regardless the HEAP magazines were deleted and the Queen that died was respawned, though there was already a Queen.
- The new Queen was matured via admin intervention as the previous Queen was not supposed to die, at the very least not to HEAP and that was unfair for the Xenos.
- The PMC were not spawned with any HEAP magazines, they rather managed to get them from the equipment vendor on the Weyland-Yutani station. Apparently this is not supposed to be possible, regardless the HEAP magazines were deleted and the Queen that died was respawned, though there was already a Queen.
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Foxtrot Intervention
- Contrary to your belief, staff reserve the right to intervene at the 2.5 hour mark if combat has stalled, and at the time was made there was little to no progress.
- Of course Xenos are not going to get “compensated” for an intervention to end the round. The whole point is to end it not prolong it.
- Informing Xenos of a surge of incoming marines is pointless and meta information that is not needed or required for them to know.
- I’ve hopped into a VC with @smellyhippie and @Daman453 to do a wheel spin as Marines had around ~66 and Xenos had about ~23 alive - something omitted from this report for whatever reason.
- At the time we’ve determined that Xenos were not close to winning whatsoever, rather while the wheel was being spun Calhoun announced to prepare for evacuation. Regardless, the marines kept on fighting and few if at all boarded the Alamo.
- The fact that xenos were not close to victory is evident by how they got pushed back to half the map during the marine counter-attack before Foxtrot even got on the Alamo let alone set foot on the planet. After 30 minutes Foxtrot landed at the other LZ and reinforced the marine push before eventually decimating the remaining xeno force.
- At the time we’ve determined that Xenos were not close to winning whatsoever, rather while the wheel was being spun Calhoun announced to prepare for evacuation. Regardless, the marines kept on fighting and few if at all boarded the Alamo.
- Contrary to your belief, staff reserve the right to intervene at the 2.5 hour mark if combat has stalled, and at the time was made there was little to no progress.
We try to give the clearly winning side the advantage during the 2.5 hour mark if a staff intervention where to take place. However, it was not evident which side would have won or had a clear advantage, which is why we spun a wheel to decide on which side were to get help. Marines had enough manpower to hold FOB for an extensive period of time and potentially turn the tide or get decimated and pushed back by the xenos.
Regardless, Xenos got pushed back to half the map before a single Foxtrot set foot in the Alamo/Planet. This just shows that things were not in favor of the xenos to begin with and while the order to prepare for evac may have made it look like the marines were going to lose in hindsight, that was not the case as stated by the CO himself.