Also possibly to get to Mars.
Or recovering alien artifacts from civilians, competators. Or research. Or arms caches
And how's about linking to this: Human vs humans - massive alien infiltration missions?
eg capture (stun) the president to reacquire a lost country. or somesuch. Maybe by several missions where one can't use alien/ advanced weaponry or civilian deaths have to be avoided.
And this:
20) New XCom mission type: Rescue Mission.
Alien team can also send UFO to the XCom crash site. They gain points if they do and there is a combat mission, but this time XCom has to defend (with few soldiers and some injured soldiers before the rescue XCom team landing, with the rescue crew and crashed crew if the alien come during XCom rescue landing).
When an UFO is shot down, the alien can sometime send UFO (Battleship or a new UFO type) to rescue the survivors and recover material (Weapons, Alien Alloys, Elerium-115, etc.), they gain points if they do.
If XCom send a troop transport during the alien rescue mission (the rescue UFO has landed (only for 4-5 hours, to be determined)), they have to fight the 2 crews, the crashed UFO crew and the rescue UFO crew.
Sometimes the Aliens make Ambush Missions, these are exactly the same as the other missions exept they land for more time (to attract XCom team) and there is more troops in the UFO (and some special strong troop like Muton Commando, and/or Terror Units, to be determined), thus XCom has to face much more troop during combat if they land on the site.
There is no info on the Ambush Mission with the Hyper-wave Decoder, the mission appears to be a standard mission (ex: Alien Research, Alien Supply, etc.).
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=2279.0
I was just commenting on some of the other suggestions threads, and then realised I may have upset the display order. Wont happen again.