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Thought I'd be cool to instead of just fighting one enemy to have different types of enemies fighting each other besides the player.

For example : You'd have the flying type of enemies (like hornets or bees) that are mostly harmless and depend on plants as a food source, if the player removes their food source they become aggressive. Then you have the spider-like or mantis-like enemies hunting the others so to stop overpopulation.
The players objective besides just killing the aliens and managing the pollution is to keep a balance and NOT just killing all of the aliens. If all of the plants get eaten by the grasshoppers all of the bees will become more aggressive and (eventually) die out because of the lack of food thus increasing the grasshopper population. On the other hand if all the grasshoppers and bees get eaten, the spooky spiders start crawling over your walls and attack you instead. The idea is to create a simple ecosystem that the player has to take care of or else the difficulty increases. I think that this would add another interesting aspect to the game and wouldn't really demand a lot of resources from the development side of things.

Good point: more aliens, somehow pesky, prides, fighting against each other, determining their territory.

I suppose the "Simple" way would be to have Aliens wwith more than 1 "force". but then if Aliens are attacking other Aliens, that might push away from the reason why they're adding behemoth biters, to reduce the size of an attacking force, to reduce processing load. Although aliens vs Aliens would be cool, it's not a necasary thing to have, that would increase processing load.

Hornets or bees? Maybe wasps?

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=6&t=9419 An enemy that'll make a nest out of your base!
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=6&t=8927 Biter Queens and Ultra Queen
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=6&t=1945 little terraforming device
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=6&t=1234 Ideas for creeper types

And there are other really cool ideas digged in here, a longer search may reveal other ideas.

Another idea of a new kind of enemy that I just had recently was maybe hostile plants that grow into your base like tentacles or poison plants that grow in certain biomes.

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