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tweaked the source code here and there - it works
perhaps some day i will make a PR or find the time to make abetter sea/land icon
Does anyone think this has potential, or is it just a bit goofy?
but, yes this has great potential!
You need also to add penalties for not taking those missions.
Mission Bonus-Malus:
UFO ignored: -2000 points.
UFO destroyed: 100 points.
Landed UFO assaulted: 300 points.
Weapons recovered: 100 points, 100 weapons --> sell them, use them.
New Alien Technology to research.
UFO crashed and assaulted: 150 points.
Weapons recovered: 100 points, 100 weapons (random, 10% chance to recover weapons, random weapon number).
New Alien Technology to research (only if at least 1 weapon recovered).
Here's an idea: if a country is infiltrated the 3 closest countries will be targeted for infiltration missions right afterwards, and the aliens will keep sending missions until you've eliminated those bases. That way, if you choose to ignore those missions then you risk a domino effect of countries leaving the council in the following months.
i would rather need a reason not to do the mission like
if mission fail 5%*difficulty chance that a random (non russian) country also falls to the aliens
so i would do that mission for usa but not for a smallerfunding nation assuming i am not desperate in money trouble
I think this mission's probability should be extremely low if the player takes appropriate measures. What measures? well, for starters I suggest some sort or number of aliens vs. number of X-Com soldiers in the base (after all we can assume they're actually doing something between missions, including prisoner supervision and guard duty). Wounded soldiers and incoming soldiers don't count, but soldiers on away missions do, for the sake of simplicity.
The idea is, if you have 10 captured aliens and 30 active soldiers, the chance should be really slim, like 1:250 that it happens this month. If you have 10 aliens and 20 soldiers, let's make it 1:100. If it's 10 aliens vs. 10 soldiers, let's make it 1:50. However, it should never rise about 1:20, even with no soldiers in the base at all. (This is just an approximation, not a real function of course.) This can be further modified by alien type (Ethereals pose greater danger than Floaters) and soldier rank (experienced alien hunters are far better guards), but that could be overthinking things. And of course we can (and probably should) have other factors besides troop numbers, which I don't have ideas for yet.
As you can see, this would be an extremely rare mission, and actually unlikely to happen throughout your campaign. However, this is precisely the point: you make prisons to keep the prisoners inside, and prison escape is very unlikely. Still, it would be nice to feel the threat, and since it doesn't seem to be hard to implement code-wise, why not?
However, your idea to make it time-based made me think, and I actually like it, with one small change:
You don't have a month. You have 24 hours. (Much like with a normal terror mission.)
I like the idea of how the map should be designed but the objective behind the mission isn't really appealing. Players in no doubt would try the mission until the novelty lasts but afterwards my personal choice would be to rather ignore the lost country than having to play 3 missions to liberate it.
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You know it already works with the R key, right?
Hmm, and maybe a Muton could use his awesome muscles for seduction...
Here's the additional ruleset with Alien Base and Cydonia alienDeployments with Elerium Bomb armed engineers. I am not sure will it break the balance or not, so i'll post this as additional "addon". Drop it in the "data/ruleset" and make sure it is loaded after the Small_Launcher_elerium_bomb.
why am i still discussing this i dont even care about this missiontype