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XPiratez / Re: How to get points?

« on: March 06, 2017, 02:24:28 am »

Maybe I should go to landed ships then immediately abort them if I dont feel confident. I can go for mass radar coverage but I should probably get an interceptor in the americas, europe-africa, and asia-australia before I get the rest of the radars up so I can be sure I can splash them all

Does splashing civvia ships definetly give negative points?

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XPiratez / Re: How to get points?

« on: March 06, 2017, 02:10:47 am »

I already lost my first game that way. I researched everything I had available except mutant alliance, kept skipping progroms and only did warehouse, temple, crackhouse and save sister missions. I got 2 months in a row of -2000 points and the game ended. I assume either my base points a month is -2000 so I need to find a way to get points somehow, the missed progroms were giving me a massive point loss, or there was some heavy UFO activity that screwed me

I've already had quite a lot of those months so far in this run and I still havent researched mutant alliance. There are 2 bases, I've attempted and failed 1 progrom, and succeeded in another progrom but skipped all others, and I've been doing help Lok Narr, hunting and Ratmen Rodeos as well as the other missions. I think I would've lost this run already if I hadn't done some of those +1000 point missions on a month following a negative score a few times, but I only have 2 of those left now which is why I'm doing progroms and saving them for a merc progrom bailout.

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XPiratez / Re: How to get points?

« on: March 06, 2017, 02:00:14 am »

So looting civilian ships for engines and captives is the main way to make money?

I just unlocked 50mm cannons because a civilian passenger ship landed and there was an airman there. According to the bootypedia it hits like 3x harder than the 25mm one so maybe I can even splash the small ships now. Thing is, there's a lot of maintenance costs, will i really make that much money? And what about the point penalties?

I just got eurosyndicate and they sold me 8 laser rifles for 4M. This should deal with those armorued enemies effectively right? What armour should I be trying to get? I attempted some landed mediums and had to leave them, but on one I killed like 8 out of 12 reticulans just with mortar fire. Pretty lethal. I also got a landed goon ship and they were using laser guns and some kind of invisible armour. Killed 2 of my guys but I ended up retreating to the ship and just nuking the entire site with mortars. It was the only way to be sure. I want that armour XD

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XPiratez / Re: How to get points?

« on: March 05, 2017, 09:03:23 pm »

I play on difficulty 3

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XPiratez / How to get points?

« on: March 05, 2017, 09:01:04 pm »

I've been avoiding researching mutant alliance til I get enough research to reliably do pogroms. I did manage to successfully do one for the first time earlier today, the previous attempts were total massacres for me. Humanists who were like terminators tanking tommy gun fire to the face, spartans pulling off 180 no scope headshots on my peeps when they shoot them in the back. Today I got some kind of nighttime demon invasion so I went with the new tech I got, smoke, flares, grenade launchers, a mortar, heavy shotguns, frag grenades and tac vests.

Sadly we lost someone when a enemy ran up, tanked some shotgun fire to the back and then point blank rapid fired one of my best soldiers with an autocannon. We also all got some severe wound healing time from fireballs, and we didnt save a single civilian. I got lucky with building placement so we fought as best we could to get off the pachy, got hit with a fireball so everyone was injured for half their health, but we got smoke and flares everywhere, took all the buildings in a line down our side of the map then just peaked out and took out everything that wandered forward into the lit up no smoke killzones with shotgun fire, grenades and mortar shells

Really I'd like a way to just keep my points up while I research but its not so easy. We're 1.5 years into the game, the enemy has two bases up, one has gauss cannon users and tanks who can see in the dark and OHKO us, and the other has chrysalids who can storm across the map and OHKO us, take an ungodly amount of damage to drop, and we've got to deal with psi attacks as well, so both the bases are untouchable

So now I'm getting a lot of point loss each month, every other month I research 2 of the +1000 point techs. I want money but I can't make more stills for money bases. The shark jetbike with 25mm cannon is only good for downing v small civilian craft which I've been told makes me actually lose points, and the pachy seagull/ramjet missiles usually miss and cant down a small ship before the ammo is out.

This is my second game, I got to this point last time and ran out of research to do, but I didnt have the cash for explosives/flares/smoke and the pogroms were just destroying me so I lost from low points. I really need a good way to get more points, or some tech I can reach soon which will make progroms much easier and allow me to take out these bases. For now I'm trying to clear the research I've got before I research mutant alliance and am forced to do every progrom, and hopefully I can survive those progroms

Is there anything better I should be using than heavy shotties/tac vests? Is there a better way to make money than to convert apples into wine, make x-grog and take lots of captives on temples/warehouses/academy outposts?