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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 1.7: Market Corrections

« on: February 02, 2021, 12:47:50 pm »

Not that I think it belongs to a game thread, but the reason would be that cancer does not spread from person to person, so raising alarm about it would mostly be meaningless.

Of course not, becouse cancer has got it's environmental origins. So, there are ways to reduce sickness that could be spread through massmedia. Just there is no will in establishment to do this. We can assume that current state is expected to be as it is.

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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 1.7: Market Corrections

« on: February 02, 2021, 12:33:02 pm »

Wait-wait-wait, what is your country? Facts do not match. The worst country by Cancer Death Rate is Mongolia, there are 210 deaths per 100 000 people per year. Your picture is fantastic.

See https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/all-cancers/by-country/

That's why it's always good idea to choose proffesional source of knowledge.

See WHO/GCO report : https://gco.iarc.fr/today/data/factsheets/populations/616-poland-fact-sheets.pdf

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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 1.7: Market Corrections

« on: February 01, 2021, 09:40:57 pm »

Just my two cents, but I don't feel like having a reference to COVID in the mod would be a good idea. It seems a bit tasteless to parody/poke fun at a pandemic that is still actively killing people as we speak. I feel like a "four horsemen" sub-arc with Apoc would be cool, and I don't have any issues with a bioweapon plot line in general, but tying it to COVID directly or indirectly through a parody name like RIDER-19 feels disrespectful to people who've been affected by the virus.

Lot of games directly reference to real tragedies like WW2 and there is no problem. Why COVID is different ?

I don't take COVID presence in game as a parody. In this game are many occultistic and paranormal cases, that are speculated or examined in real life. COVID is another mysterious case, with many questions without answer. Example, in my country there is 1 million registered people with cancer disease (my country population is about 37 millions). And every year more than 100 000 is dying from cancer. But nobody is speaking about this, there is no lockdown, no investigation, nobody raises alarm in TV. So why plague is more important than cancer for establishment in my country ?

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The X-Com Files / Re: The X-Com Files - 1.7: Market Corrections

« on: January 31, 2021, 11:16:01 pm »

I think it would be good idea to add COVID-19 event to the game. Of course not literally.

Let the Cult of Apocalypse spread virus cousing people to change into zombies (game missions). Motivation for Cult to do this would be invocation of false first horseman, false prophet - plague. False becouse first horseman should be the conqueror, according to st.John's Revelation. As investigation proceed player get information that virus is called RIDER-19. Next, there would be a clue that Syndicate could make this virus for Cult of Apocalypse. Final stage could be destroying Syndicate Lab that produces virus. Last message for this mision would be that there is vaccacine for this virus produced and delivered to countries all over the world

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Released Mods / Re: The Endless war, A total conversion for Openxcom.

« on: June 17, 2018, 10:51:05 am »

Hi !

I'm getting game crash when I'm viewing some of UFOpaedia entries, like missiles. Game cannot find sprite/graphics file.

Here's log message about problem:

[15-06-2018_22-58-23]   [FATAL]   A fatal error has occurred: Sprite UP052.SPK not found
[15-06-2018_22-58-23]   [FATAL]   Unfortunately, no stack trace information is available
[15-06-2018_22-58-27]   [FATAL]   OpenXcom has crashed: Sprite UP052.SPK not found
Extra information has been saved to openxcom.log.
If this error was unexpected, please report it to the developers.

Little investigation and I found, that entries causing crash, has got "extraSprites: > files:(filepath)" section missing in rule sets, in game/standard folder.

If it's much work to fix it, I will try to do it on my own.