Base defence - lights out

[djemon_lda]

well... riddick didn't need big eyes to see in the dark

[Danny]

...outsmart a muton, outmanoevre them and hit em' from behind.

That's what I tell my (smaller) female troopers when they need to fight a Muton...
"Its a big boy, you need to take him from behind" ^^

[kharille]

Yeah, they've been surgically altered so kicking them in the ...  won't work....

[moriarty]

Well... back on topic... 
AFAIK, the light in xcom bases is generated by the "xbase" floor tiles, so perhaps it would be a start to make those floor tiles more squishy? Is that externalized to the ruleset already? I'm on my smartphone right now so I can't check easily. Maybe add a tile that looks the same but doesn't emit light, so an explosion turns off the lights?

EDIT: according to the UFOpaedia, those two floor tiles emit light:
XBASE1[06]   Base Floor Tile #1
XBASE1[09]   Base Floor Tile #2

apparently, tiles are currently taken directly from the xcom source files, if I read that correctly. I don't know if it would be possible to read additional resource files, but that would also involve modifying the mcd tilesets to actually use the new tiles in the game...

[kharille]

Hm...   I think I was looking at the xcom wiki, and it mentioned that some alien objects emit light.  So in the xcom base its pretty much emitted by the tiles themselves eh?  Wonder whether these glowing tiles could be separated out.  Don't have the time to go into the coding part but I'm sure you guys are doing an amazing job....