As you can see, we have a nice shiny new forum, and this posting serves as a test of it…

There may be a few problems, e.g. avatars haven't been transferred (and, short of some Amazing Insight, don't look likely to be).

We definitely need clan (and, for GT, clam) tagging, much like we have admin levels.

Perks (or base abilities) and different types of armour could also confer resistances and weaknesses, e.g. an alien with an electrical attack is resistant to electrical attacks but could be weaker against fire.

Could be interesting. That said, I don't think that we want to lose it being instant-effect.

Well. Let's just say that, playing on the human team, I've tended to rush without upgrades at stage 1…

Team votes for unlocking wouldn't be hard to do. We'd want to allow the vote even if the item isn't unlockable yet: prerequisites would be unlocked first (in some pre-defined order). Also, I think that a default unlocking order would make sense alongside this.