Author Topic: Is there any way of dealing with multiple mining missions spawning at once?  (Read 1567 times)

Offline BATTLEMODE

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First off, love this mod, probably one of the best games I've played in years!

I do keep having to restart though, which is usually no problem for me but this current run was going incredibly well until April 2601 when I'm suddenly getting -1500 Infamy by the 10th... This is on difficulty 3 (I really like the amount of battlescape enemies on this difficulty but somehow the strategic side is pretty fierce even at the very start of the game). Had a look through the forum here and tried a few things but I'm still not sure I'm getting what's happening here.

alienMissions:
  - type: STR_MISSION_RETICULAN_TRADING
    region: STR_EUROPE
    race: STR_RETICULAN
    nextWave: 5
    nextUfoCounter: 0
    spawnCountdown: 3030
    liveUfos: 0
    uniqueID: 31
    missionSiteZone: -1
  - type: STR_MISSION_MINING
    region: STR_SOUTH_AMERICA
    race: STR_FLOATER_INDUSTRIAL
    nextWave: 1
    nextUfoCounter: 0
    spawnCountdown: 3750
    liveUfos: 0
    uniqueID: 38
    missionSiteZone: -1
  - type: STR_MISSION_GDX_SEARCH_2
    region: STR_NORTH_AMERICA
    race: STR_SECTOID_NONCOM
    nextWave: 1
    nextUfoCounter: 0
    spawnCountdown: 840
    liveUfos: 1
    uniqueID: 39
    missionSiteZone: -1
  - type: STR_MISSION_MILITARY_SUPPLY
    region: STR_NORTH_AFRICA
    race: STR_GOVT_SECURITY
    nextWave: 1
    nextUfoCounter: 0
    spawnCountdown: 4350
    liveUfos: 0
    uniqueID: 40
    missionSiteZone: -1
  - type: STR_MISSION_CIVILIAN_TRAFFIC_3
    region: REGION_HELLO_WORLD
    race: STR_CIVILIANZ_1
    nextWave: 2
    nextUfoCounter: 1
    spawnCountdown: 4890
    liveUfos: 1
    uniqueID: 41
    missionSiteZone: -1
  - type: STR_MISSION_MILCONVOY
    region: REGION_WORLD_MILCONVOY
    race: STR_SPARTANS
    nextWave: 0
    nextUfoCounter: 0
    spawnCountdown: 6669
    liveUfos: 0
    uniqueID: 42
    missionSiteZone: -1
  - type: STR_MISSION_MINING
    region: STR_ANTARCTICA
    race: STR_SECTOID_INDUSTRIAL
    nextWave: 1
    nextUfoCounter: 0
    spawnCountdown: 30
    liveUfos: 0
    uniqueID: 43
    missionSiteZone: -1
  - type: STR_LOC_DEATH_AND_TAXES
    region: REGION_DEATH_AND_TAXES
    race: STR_BANDIT
    nextWave: 0
    nextUfoCounter: 0
    spawnCountdown: 15691
    liveUfos: 0
    uniqueID: 44
    missionSiteZone: 56
  - type: STR_LOC_RATLING_VILLAGE
    region: REGION_LOC_RATLING_VILLAGE
    race: STR_RATMEN
    nextWave: 0
    nextUfoCounter: 0
    spawnCountdown: 13955
    liveUfos: 0
    uniqueID: 45
    missionSiteZone: 31
  - type: STR_LOC_WHOREHOUSE
    region: REGION_WHOREHOUSE
    race: STR_BANDIT_TOWN
    nextWave: 0
    nextUfoCounter: 0
    spawnCountdown: 17486
    liveUfos: 0
    uniqueID: 46
    missionSiteZone: 56
  - type: STR_DISTRESS_CALL
    region: REGION_DISTRESS_CALL_DESERT
    race: STR_GOVT_INDUSTRIAL
    nextWave: 0
    nextUfoCounter: 0
    spawnCountdown: 26832
    liveUfos: 0
    uniqueID: 47
    missionSiteZone: 10
  - type: STR_LOC_HAUNTED_FOREST
    region: REGION_HAUNTED_FOREST
    race: STR_ZOMBIE
    nextWave: 0
    nextUfoCounter: 0
    spawnCountdown: 26676
    liveUfos: 0
    uniqueID: 48
    missionSiteZone: 13
  - type: STR_LOC_ACADEMY_OUTPOST
    region: REGION_ACADEMY_OUTPOST_COLD
    race: STR_SECTOID_NONCOM
    nextWave: 0
    nextUfoCounter: 0
    spawnCountdown: 2715
    liveUfos: 0
    uniqueID: 49
    missionSiteZone: 2
  - type: STR_LOC_CHURCH_OUTPOST
    region: REGION_CHURCH_OUTPOST_TEMPERATE
    race: STR_CHURCH_NONCOM
    nextWave: 0
    nextUfoCounter: 0
    spawnCountdown: 15374
    liveUfos: 0
    uniqueID: 50
    missionSiteZone: 16
  - type: STR_LOC_MONSTER_HUNT_SHAMBLER
    region: REGION_MONSTER_HUNT_SHAMBLER
    race: STR_MONSTER_RACE
    nextWave: 0
    nextUfoCounter: 0
    spawnCountdown: 17149
    liveUfos: 0
    uniqueID: 51
    missionSiteZone: 10
  - type: STR_MISSION_BANDIT_ZEPPS
    region: REGION_WORLD_BANDIT_ZEPPS
    race: STR_BANDIT
    nextWave: 1
    nextUfoCounter: 0
    spawnCountdown: 21
    liveUfos: 1
    uniqueID: 53
    missionSiteZone: -1
  - type: STR_MISSION_NINJA_ESTABLISH_BASE
    region: REGION_WORLD_NINJA_BASES
    race: STR_NINJA
    nextWave: 1
    nextUfoCounter: 0
    spawnCountdown: 990
    liveUfos: 1
    uniqueID: 54
    missionSiteZone: -1

I've reloaded this one several times, trying to send out expeditions to find these missions that are causing the drastic score loss but by the time I have the month seems totally lost.

I had a look through the forum and seems people know how to deal with this, can anybody give me some help? I'm probably going to reduce the difficulty a bit but it seems a shame because other than these random score drops I think it feels about right.

Offline Gremlion

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Click on the graphs tab.
Compare the change of score in different countries. Score would change in the country where UFO resides.
Looking at the mission list, I would call a culprit "establish new base" ninja mission. It's excruciatingly slow moving (50 or 75 speed) UFO which you will not down in april 2061.

Offline BATTLEMODE

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Yeah seems like that and the mining missions all at once. I'll probably just have to take the loss this month and hope I can recover it next time around.

Thanks for the help!