I will admit, I chuckled a little at the above...
... But mostly because it didn't end with "And when everything goes fantastic and you chase down that UFO after it landed... You find out its a Civilian and almost everything you do to it nets you
negative points, so you should have just let it go, anyway..."
I find Piratez to be supremely refereshing in regards to the Standard X-Com Game.
I don't need to chase and shoot down everything. In fact, once I get aerial interception, 85% of the time, I fly out, find out its a civilian, and fly back... Burning all the Hellerium while I'm at it
So picking and choosing battles - and understanding that, some times, your gals are going to be sitting on the couch and boozing up for a month . It just happens.
Hell, with the Pachy, even after getting the research to the point where I *do* need to care about Pogroms, I take a few seconds to decide wether its still worth it to even attempt or not... Especially when its going to end up at night.
X-Com disabused me of the notion that there is a perfect way to play a game.
Piratez disabused me of the notion that games are built to be won at all
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