On some real shit though its something I’ve thought about ever since I first started playing. Plenty of servers die off, and like spores a hundred other servers pop up using their source code to make their own servers. However, these splinter servers are often smaller and more obscure than where they originated from and we all know how shit low pop CM is.
As much as I like to bitch and moan about the current state of the game it really is fun as fuck to come back to every couple of months to play. There is nothing else that captures this magic, even still.
I like to think CM wont meaningfully die anytime soon - its been popular for a good while now, and it’d be a shame for it to end. Its been fun being in this community, you folks are pretty cool.
I think if we were to lose population en masse, we’d see a few things happen: Forks, a population uptick of RMC-SS13 (The SpaceStation-14 CM-like.) and/or TGMC.
On the topic of what else you’re meant to play, Aliens: Dark Descent is pretty good.
The best thing you can do is try to have it not die in the first place - recommend the game to friends, be nice and don’t grief people on the game, don’t quit just because something you didn’t like happened with a player/staffer/pull request (instead, report it or leave feedback), apply to be staff yourself if you’re into that, etc.
But if all that fails and it does die, there will be other things to enjoy - try not to worry about it.
Want to blast bugs? Play Helldivers
Want to blast bugs? Play Aliens: Dark Descent
Want to blast bugs? Play Alien Fireteam Elite (never played it, heard its good)
Want to blast bugs with a touch of RP? Try out PvE
These are all the games that I played excluding fireteam, so give them a try
It’s that simple. Okay seriously, as people said, there’s plently of Alien-related content. If CM13 really died, I figure I’ll start playing the Alien RPG cause the lore is cool.
i would genuinely go outta my way to do what i could to keep it alive if i think it’s close to dying, maybe develop, maybe off b yond, it’d be shit but it’d (maybe) work if i could figure out how. But i’d leave it up to the other people who care about devving this game if they get to it first… which is a lot of people!
Mostly here just to offer that Aliens: FTE is pretty good if you don’t care an awful lot about game polish and just want a cool gameplay system. Recommend if you like XCOM and the banality of this very server’s rounds.
Uhhhhhhh, otherwise, you move on; humans are very adaptable when it comes to interests. Though I, too, wonder from a curious-researcher standpoint what happens with the immeasurable amount of digital detritus we make. I guess there’ll be a new job called “digital anthropologist” in 50 years, and that’s a question for them to answer. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Cm will die one day, everything does. I would get sad.
But i hope when it does happen. I hope we will know about it. So we can all have the last round togheter.
This is roundID:xxxxxx and this is the last round as you know about. Lets go out with a blast for the last time together.