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OpenXcom => Open Feedback => Topic started by: fjura on June 24, 2013, 11:55:09 am

Title: Game over?
Post by: fjura on June 24, 2013, 11:55:09 am
So i played the game and had the best ranking when it camed to monthly council reports and even so i all of a sudden had a game over "you failed, the aliens took over the planet etc", is this normal?
Title: Re: Game over?
Post by: Volutar on June 24, 2013, 12:57:36 pm
savegame please?
Title: Re: Game over?
Post by: 54x on June 25, 2013, 08:29:24 am
So i played the game and had the best ranking when it camed to monthly council reports and even so i all of a sudden had a game over "you failed, the aliens took over the planet etc", is this normal?

There's a hard time limit, so that's one possibility for what happened, iirc.
Title: Re: Game over?
Post by: moriarty on June 25, 2013, 09:01:20 am
...hard time limit...

I hope that's not a hardcoded time limit... :)  anybody here who can confirm this? is there a time limit? where can we change it? :) :)
Title: Re: Game over?
Post by: Warboy1982 on June 25, 2013, 10:02:23 am
there is no time limit.

game over conditions:

last remaining base destroyed by alien retaliation.

council gives you a terrible rating two months in a row.

you go into debt for over 2 million dollars (due to base maintenance, etc.) 2 months in a row.

you fail on either of the mars missions.
Title: Re: Game over?
Post by: pmprog on June 25, 2013, 10:06:57 am
council gives you a terrible rating two months in a row.
What are the conditions for countries leaving the council? ie, is it possible to have all countries under alien control without getting two Terrible ratings?

I always thought the condition was that you had no world funding left, as opposed to two month rating. But then i haven't checked ufopaedia
Title: Re: Game over?
Post by: 54x on June 25, 2013, 10:08:27 am
there is no time limit.

game over conditions:

last remaining base destroyed by alien retaliation.

council gives you a terrible rating two months in a row.

you go into debt for over 2 million dollars (due to base maintenance, etc.) 2 months in a row.

you fail on either of the mars missions.

Really? I could have sworn we were talking about a hard game end happening if you didn't eventually go to Cydonia. Maybe I just misremembered it though =/
Title: Re: Game over?
Post by: Warboy1982 on June 25, 2013, 10:29:43 am
technically speaking....

once all possible countries are infiltrated, you have to make enough money to be self sufficient, which can be near impossible with 8 bases.
Title: Re: Game over?
Post by: fjura on June 26, 2013, 11:55:13 am
savegame please?

My bad :) nevermind, game works great, awesome job
Title: Re: Game over?
Post by: Nightwolf on June 26, 2013, 03:25:56 pm
Could be possible to have some Custom difficult or Custom Scenario? Like the special options, but more like a window where to change the rules for the metagame. Where you can choose, for example, very hard AI for Aliens on battlefield, but countries will be never defected to aliens? Aliens that never will make bases on earth, or just to add how many bases from aliens are build at the beginning of the game.
Title: Re: Game over?
Post by: moriarty on June 26, 2013, 04:01:55 pm
a more differentiated game setup screen like in civilization? that would actually be nice, I think. a screen where all those custom options that people have been creating for themselves could be toggled ("only one xcom base", "cannot use alien weapons", "cannot sell alien weapons", ...) and also custom win/lose conditions. I wholeheartedly support this idea!