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The X-Com Files / Manors and cult termination

« on: February 28, 2023, 10:29:00 pm »

Quick questions to make sure I understand how stopping the cults work and reading the mod files...

1. If a manor pops up before I terminate a cult, that manor will stick around even after I terminate that cult?

2. All termination does is prevent more manors from spawning correct?

3. Are there any other bad side effects letting manors linger for a while longer that I may not be aware of?  I ask because I'm still trying to tech up a bit.

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The X-Com Files / Re: produce for profit

« on: February 27, 2023, 09:42:29 pm »

Yes, this is precisely my goal. There are two main reasons:
1. Manufacturing stuff for money just doesn't fit a UN shadow agency.
2. Mass-producing hi-tech things in a manufacturing plant is cheaper and therefore more competitive than doing it in a workshop. The only scenario where a workshop is viable is when it has no real competition, which is arguably the case in vanilla. In XCF, not so much, because there are other parties with access to the same tech, which can support real industry.

All valid points thematically, and I can get behind. Thanks for the explanation.

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The X-Com Files / Re: produce for profit

« on: February 27, 2023, 07:43:39 pm »

I take it Chemoguns aren't as profitable anymore in the latest X-Com files (2.8+) based on looking at the data.   Are then any other earlier game items that are profitable? I'm attempting electro prods which claim to be profitable.   

Right now, money is so tight (Oct 97 -> just reached Promotion II), and I'm hoping for safehouse & outpost missions with loads of money briefcases to finance my operations during the month

EDIT: After searching the forums, it looks like manufacturing for profit has been removed, so that probably answers my question.  Either way, I need engineers for manufacturing things... so might as well make them earn some of their keep in between building useful stuff for the teams.  That at will at least stem the bleeding.

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OXCE Suggestions DONE / Re: [Suggestion] Manual Promotions

« on: February 24, 2023, 09:57:25 pm »

Just wanted to chime and get thread back on topic.

I think the Manual Promotions is a great idea especially if it is configurable  with a switch.   It fits the theme as 'you' playing the role of the commander of X-COM (or whatever mod has you in charge).  It seems logical that you would have a say in who gets promoted in your own organization instead of it being random. 

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OXCE Support / Re: [Question] Should the soldier bonuses stack?

« on: February 20, 2023, 06:47:45 pm »

Would it be better to add a rule to a commendation that can specify which commendation it supercedes (i.e. Commendation B supercedes Commendation A, so don't stack A+B)? 

If no rule is specified then commendations stack by default.

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OXCE Suggestions DONE / [DONE][Suggestion] QoL: Ability to sort Funding Countries list

« on: February 19, 2023, 10:26:22 pm »

Hey o,

Been a while since I played this game and getting back into some X-com files again.  Love a lot of the updates in both mod and OXCE and I'm glad to see some of my changes (jgatkinsn) still exist like the Research overview and hide items in purchase screen.

Anyway, I was looking at the Internation Funding list and found myself wanting a better way to find the countries providing the most funding.  I noticed that the list isn't sortable, and I wanted to request a feature to at least have the list sorted by funding amount (i.e. descending order).   Just to make it easier to find who are the top donators. 

Other plus would be to sort based on most change in funding.

Anyway, just a nice little option if it ever gets added.  Maybe I'll pull out the code editor and make a PR... who knows

Later

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OXCE Suggestions DONE / Re: [DONE][Suggestion] Craft max range indicator on the globe

« on: February 17, 2023, 08:27:54 pm »

 Been a while since I've been on the forums, but awesome! Thanks so much!

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Offtopic / Re: Looking for a new book series to read?

« on: June 21, 2018, 12:29:59 am »

A few questions:

• What is the allure in a series as opposed to an individual book? Kilopages in a single universe? Different author's interpretations of the same characters?
• Is a (single author) trilogy a series?

Allure for me is just new universe to explore and a different spin on similar characters.   There are even some overtones with events from the past 10 years the bleed over into the stories.   I think one of the authors is a former soldier, so it has a more military feel to it.

So far the series is up to 8 books and counting with two side stories.

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Offtopic / Re: Looking for a new book series to read?

« on: June 03, 2018, 07:19:33 pm »

The Gaunt's Ghosts Warhammer 40k by Dan Abnett is superb. Very cleverly written, has squad feel to it and plenty of different weapons in use. It has a good pace in its melee and non-melee sequences. Start from the beginning as it makes more sense. You love the characters straight away.

Mags

I'm not a big fan of the 40K universe, but I'll try and check these out when I get a chance.

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Offtopic / Looking for a new book series to read?

« on: May 30, 2018, 04:59:18 pm »

I've been enjoying this book series:  Galaxy's Edge for quite some time.  It's available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.  It's not quite XCOM, but it's really good.  It has a more of a Star Wars feel to it because there are some sarcastic references taking jabs at the SW universe occasionally.  The best parts are when they focus on "The Legion" and their exploits.

KTF!

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Released Mods / Re: [COMMENDATIONS] UFOPedia Mod 2.1 (Updated by hellrazor)

« on: May 12, 2018, 02:49:56 am »

The latest OXCE+ has integrated the fixes for the Commendations from the latest nightly builds.

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OXCE Suggestions DONE / Re: Hide items in the Purchase Screen

« on: May 08, 2018, 07:25:47 pm »

Merged.

Sweet!  I saw your comments in Github with the changes this morning.  Does that mean you "fixed" them in the merge? Or do  I need to do that?

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OXCE Suggestions DONE / Re: MEDIBORD IMAGES

« on: May 07, 2018, 05:30:14 pm »

Wow!

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Released Mods / Re: [COMMENDATIONS] UFOPedia Mod 2.1 (Updated by hellrazor)

« on: May 07, 2018, 06:11:40 am »

Okay, stupid question:

"Go to your Mod folder and delete the old "Commendations" directory."

Where is my Mod folder? I'm trying to install this mod

2nd question, having just downloaded the most recent nightly, I look at the list of mods in the base game, no mendition is made of "Commendations." Is this normal?

Thank you for any help give.

I am not very good manualy installing mods.

Hey Mr Frustrated,

I assume you're on Windows.  If so, there should be a folder in your Documents folder called "OpenXcom".    Extract the Commendations zip file under the "OpenXcom\mods" folder so that you have the set of directories like this "OpenXcom\mods\Commendations".  When you start OpenXcom, the program should find it under there, and it will be available under the "Mods" options where you can enable it by selecting "Yes".

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Released Mods / Re: [COMPILATION] Final Mod Pack (FMP)

« on: May 05, 2018, 06:45:00 pm »

Im using Oxce+ 3.10a which is based on nightly (v2018-04-03)
Afaik is the last version and it's a standalone mod.

I dont know if i can copy latest nightly files in the Oxce+ folder to get an updated version.
If that's not possible looks like I have to wait for an Oxce+ update by developers.

Okay, makes sense now.  The changes from the nightly have not been integrated into OXCE+ as of yet.   So, I would go back to Commendations < 3.0 for now until Meridian updates OXCE+.