Skirmish Suggestion: Ability for Aliens to steal human buildings.

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I think it should be possible for the Non-Human aliens to steal the technology 
for human buildings by claiming human planets.

This is very important in Skirmish as many races have severe limitations, such 
as the inability to build a Stronghold for many of the races.

Obviously, they'd have to use the Human graphic for the building if the race 
doesn't have one, and this is why I think that tehcnology should be stolen by 
taking a human colony.

Lets come up with an example.
Lets say that a Garthog player takes a Human planet with a Fusion Plant, 
subsequently, the Garthog player can build Fusion plants in their colonies.

I hope you can understand what I am asking for, and obviously it should only be 
for Skirmish, and be optional. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by gurl...@hotmail.com on 8 Sep 2012 at 11:24

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The Issue should be an Enhancement, not a Defect, this was a mistake.

Original comment by gurl...@hotmail.com on 8 Sep 2012 at 11:26

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Aliens were never meant to have those buildings and no asset is drawn for 
non-human species. The best you can do is to enable the same building view for 
all other races. The upgrade system was put in to help in these situations 
(e.g., have a lvl 3 power plant for about the same cost).

Technology stealing and utilization should already exist. Garthogs can take 
your colony and build a fusion reactor from then on even if the can't do it on 
their colonies. If they find a trade center, they will be able to build it.

The original game was highly constrained among these lines. Some have asked for 
the ability to build alien vehicles as human if you capture a planet with a 
factory. But there is no room on screen to reliably manage such situation, 
although the model is not restricted.

I'll think about this, however, the solution might not be embedded into the 
skirmish settings but made possible by the campaign editor.

Original comment by akarn...@gmail.com on 9 Sep 2012 at 7:05

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The idea was that they'd take a human colony with the building, and then they 
could build it on their own colony, with the human asset(graphics)

It should be optional(an option in Skirmish) but I think it would add some 
extra fun for the aliens who are really limited like the Ychom, and who would 
be easy targets for other races due to their inability to advance to the same 
state of technology that Dargslan and Humans have.

Original comment by gurl...@hotmail.com on 13 Sep 2012 at 8:09