Civvies outside Terror Missions

[Sectoid_Soldier]

Civvies on farm missions might be appropriate.

[luke83]

Plenty of weapon holding civies here https://www.openxcom.com/mod/lukes-battle-sprites If someone has some Example code on How to bring these into game i would be very grateful

[Hollow_Fang]

So for this idea! The idea of deployment on a harvesting mission with no one in sight to harvest except in terror missions makes no sense.

[Dioxine]

Civilians can be spawned on each mission, and you will get score for them exactly as in the Terror mission. This is tested.

No armed civilians are possible (even if sprites are plentiful nowadays), no one has coded that. Yet. Someone step up, because the main dev team is busy with TFTD

[smexyvami]

when is armed civys 

[Solarius Scorch]

when is armed civys 

Yeah, when are the armed civies at? When are they, eh?

[RSSwizard]

Id like to see Dead Civvie Corpses.
Those farmers be dead long before you show up or they ran the hell away.

As for a terror mission its quite clear from the Intro Cinematic that the aliens get dropped out of the ship by some kind of grav lift and then the ship just takes off and leaves them. Having the ship sitting there on the ground in some giant parking lot just makes it a target for multiple Cruise Missile strikes anyway and the ETs would know better.

[smexyvami]

Id like to see Dead Civvie Corpses.
Those farmers be dead long before you show up or they ran the hell away.

As for a terror mission its quite clear from the Intro Cinematic that the aliens get dropped out of the ship by some kind of grav lift and then the ship just takes off and leaves them. Having the ship sitting there on the ground in some giant parking lot just makes it a target for multiple Cruise Missile strikes anyway and the ETs would know better.

but thay dont know what are military cappabilitys are as thay just came in to invade the pore blue mother earth

[Random Commander]

You remember those cars that sometimes appear in luke's extended terror, right?

What if they were like civilian HWPs? Still needed to be saved, just bigger targets and have more health/armor?

They should also be shrunk to be 2x2, of course

[HelmetHair]

Personally, as a backwoods redneck I giggled at the thoughts of a terror mission in Dallas. The civilians all running around being like "Oh NOES"... Nah, It would be an Alien blood bath, seriously. Even in '99 coming off the tail end of the Assault weapons Ban there was a shit ton AR-15s pre-ban magazines, and all kinds of goofy shit. Not to mention that the largest gun show in the Western hemisphere happens less than four hours away by car in Tulsa. Soooo yeah, Aliens would get their shit pushed in by folks like me screaming "YEEEEEHAW!

I also wondered why there were never any police officers on a terror mission. Big F'ing UFO comes out of the sky and then 911 reports start coming in. Reminds me of the line in Big Trouble in Little China. "Shouldn't we call the police?". "Police got better things to do than get killed, Jack". Although,  it would be awesome to see Civvy police officers with pistols and shotguns blasting the crap out of aliens.


-HH

[Arthanor]

I think you can in fact give civilians weapons, but they only use them in reaction fire (against aliens, or both XCom and aliens? Not sure...) instead of firing during their turn.

If it is possible to select which civilians get weapons, a class of police officers could work. They'd only reaction fire, since they would be too scared  to go and look for aliens. Only XCom operatives dare to seek out the enemy unknown