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10 engines out of 160 is not 25%, not even close. 
I'll see how it behaves on other ships if I have the time (and patience). Maybe the Cruiser just has some secret self destruct thingie added in XPZ to make the Hellerium payout much smaller.
I haven't played XPZ, but exploding UFO_POWER_SOURCE object types has been hardcoded to 75 % in BattlescapeGenerator::explodePowerSources() - not sure if this can be modified by scripting (obviously ship design or using other object types might also influence this).
Also see:
https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/UFO_Crash_Recovery#Power_Source_Explosions_and_Elerium_Recovery
FWIW, I noticed that the description for TFTD Ion-Beam Accelerator explosion in ufopedia is different; https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Ion-Beam_Accelerators; not sure where this comes from but based on a brief look it isn't implemented in OXC.
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Well, I suppose you're right... tho that only works if the amount of books you have is high enough to occupy the workspace (more than runts/12). Nevermind then.Well, you can have less runts working on this project to match a low number of books. With the rest doing something else - like for example making more books
Personally, I'm not in favor of events that are month-based, and believe that it's better game design if events are primarily based on the pace at which the player progresses through the game (tech tree).I'd disagree. With the tech tree complicated as it is now, you'd probably miss a lot of things due to how RNGesus works. And besides - the world is evolving around you regardless of what your Brainers are working on. Having the entire world stuck at "Tech level 1", just because you havent researched the "Tech 2 Unlock" is preposterous, while at the same time universally present in modern games. Becasue balance reasons
There's one small annoyance with OnlyRunts and that is, it requires too much micromanagement. If you have 100 pillow books and 100 workers, then producing 100x OnlyRunts will complete in 12 hours. So you gotta keep replacing the project over and over, several times per day, and the less pillow books you have, the worse it gets. Compared to Chateau de la Mort, you put in a production for a 100 and you're good for half a month.
I feel like Cleopatra's Challenge event comes way too late. By the time it shows up (October or later) and the missions chain is finished, most of the rewards aren't relevant anymore, at least for expert players who, by then, are already in the space age.I agree with that sentiment. But early on you'd most likely not have a crew good enough to attempt some of them (Shamblers and Werewolves are pretty hard). And the rewards are pretty mediocre. Since this is a short despawn time mission done with a very slow 'craft', you can't really choose the time of day (unless you use #43 trickery) which also adds to the 'fun' factor.
Edit your savegame with any text editor and change value in lines:
STR_TINY_DRILL: 1
STR_MENACING_HULL: 1
to
STR_TINY_DRILL: 4
STR_MENACING_HULL: 4
This will give you 4 Tiny drills and hulls, so you can use each on a different codex.
You will have to edit Piratez.rul. Find instances of "disables:" relating to the codexes and remove it. Basically, you have to re-make the research tree so that one codex choice does not block off others. Having all codexes unlocked will not crash the game or anything, unless you make errors while editing the file. Just don't complain about difficulty or weird interactions that wouldn't be possible if you were limited to 1 codex.