A thread for little questions

[vadracas]

Just curious, how do you guys play the game? I'm weird, i wanna attack all i can, which means that i spend MANY MANY hours doing all missions and downed ships i can, even though the rewards for them are irrelevant.
So how do you guys do, focus on specific types of missions, or kill all?

It's a game, do it however you want.

What I do is very much based on how I'm feeling, but I will generally do everything except a few UFO's that I'm too lazy to try and shoot down or track in a month. There really is no reason not to do everything because even if the loot is irrelevant the experience, and, depending on where you are in the game, money is.

[Rubber Cannonball]

Just curious, how do you guys play the game?

First off, I think this question really deserves its own topic thread.  To do every battlescape mission possible really takes a huge amount of free time that most people don't have.  I've tried this approach and it has taken me over a year to do around 800 missions in 3 game years.  And the first game year was mostly pink mission sites as I didn't have interceptors that year.  I'm guessing it would take another 300 missions or so and another game year to complete my game with this approach.  I'm around 85% research completed and currently bottlenecked on a couple of missing vip interrogations.  However, real life has intervened and I haven't played much at all in the last month.  I think a better approach would be to focus on the higher scoring missions and the missions that can advance your progress in the game.  Instead of trying to maximize the booty collected in the game, try to maximize your progress through the game per player hour spent.  That way you will have more time to play through multiple times trying different codex's for example.  Or trying other mods.  Hopefully those who have finished this mod multiple times will take the time to answer your question.

[vadracas]

First off, I think this question really deserves its own topic thread.  To do every battlescape mission possible really takes a huge amount of free time that most people don't have.  I've tried this approach and it has taken me over a year to do around 800 missions in 3 game years.  And the first game year was mostly pink mission sites as I didn't have interceptors that year.  I'm guessing it would take another 300 missions or so and another game year to complete my game with this approach.  I'm around 85% research completed and currently bottlenecked on a couple of missing vip interrogations.  However, real life has intervened and I haven't played much at all in the last month.  I think a better approach would be to focus on the higher scoring missions and the missions that can advance your progress in the game.  Instead of trying to maximize the booty collected in the game, try to maximize your progress through the game per player hour spent.  That way you will have more time to play through multiple times trying different codex's for example.  Or trying other mods.  Hopefully those who have finished this mod multiple times will take the time to answer your question.

To do every battlescape mission would take a long time in early game, but as you gain tech and stats, most missions can be completed in just a few turns(anything from 2-40 minutes depending on how hard it is). And the ones that can't, well, if you feel like it, do them. If you don't, don't. However, most of those are important missions that can be very bad to miss.

[Alex the KatanaCutlass]

Just curious, how do you guys play the game? I'm weird, i wanna attack all i can, which means that i spend MANY MANY hours doing all missions and downed ships i can, even though the rewards for them are irrelevant.
So how do you guys do, focus on specific types of missions, or kill all?

Yea, nice question. I've been UFOing since 2000 and always, as well as now, I had my own strategy - Build one (or maybe two if can't fit all buildings, more bases later to cover ALL the globe) bases and research like mad, get as many eggheads as possible, get to have the best craft and weapons possible (NOW!) etc.
As for attacking, well, we are X-Piratez, so what does a Pirate do? ATTACK! Damn right! So I attack anything I can or, at least, intercept, F5 and try to attack. At the beginning of my last campaign, for example, I was tracking a Merc Battleship, landed, and attacked the Gorillas. Crazy, IK. BUT, we fought with hearts of heroes (what you'd expect from Serbia born ppl, even in a video game, razumeš?), so we've bagged TWO Mercs (like, carried them in our Aircar) and , seeing that they're gonna kill us (our doors blown, NO COVER, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck), we reluctantly took off (BAH). We had the captives meet our big strapons, etc:)

But that's it, simply. You fight regardless of the odds and, if you can't win, loot what you can, kidnap who you can and just go.

Spoiler:

Although... IF we had some blowpipes and hunting bows with poison arrows... We'd bag many a Merc...

Yes... But their HWPs...

[Alex the KatanaCutlass]

So, gamble and win a Crate o' Rusty Cans. YAAAAAY!
Ahem...

Uh, do ALL the warships chase me like in the Battle if Britain? It was fun yesterday, heheheh;)

Which Codex gives most out of Voodoo?

[Ashghan]

Sorry but that's a stupid question. Each Codex's voodoo is matched to it's specialty. If you want healing, then Grey Codex is a poor choice, but if you want big explosions - Red is the way to go. They all have their uses, but your playstyle defines "best" and "most out of". Think what you want the most of in your voodoo and the answer will be obvious.

[Alex the KatanaCutlass]

Sorry but that's a stupid question. Each Codex's voodoo is matched to it's specialty. If you want healing, then Grey Codex is a poor choice, but if you want big explosions - Red is the way to go. They all have their uses, but your playstyle defines "best" and "most out of". Think what you want the most of in your voodoo and the answer will be obvious.

heheheh, ya know ya right?

Sooo, dooooh, which do I chooose. Yoh, a BANG will do...

[Alex the KatanaCutlass]

MY DOGFIGHT TACTICS

Spoiler:

So, the prob is coordination of an attack by 2 or more crafts. As I have tested, one way to have 2 craft with same speed attack the same target is like this. First, have the both craft fly close to the target's radar range. Use their movement, QS and QL as necessary. Then, set your Timescale, Dogfight Speed and Eart'hs zoom so as to be able to adjust the fly patterns and/or to turn on all the weapons in dogfight screens (you need all of them for a big one, right?). Now, have the both craft ATTACK the target. You will, of course, get the intercept message, but both your craft will attack. With little luck, they'll both fight simultaneously. There. This should also be feasible with more than 2 craft. Wanna be an X-Pirate? It takes patience, man:)

This way, we should be able to take on any ship with up to 4 of ouw own craft. I say "should," because I did it ONCE with two toy craft:) I am only at the beginning of my 1st L1A1 playthrough, so I still fly Sopwith Camels, not F-22s.

So, what's your take on this?

TALLY-HO!!

[sanyaskillpro]

you can escort your own ships and they will fight at the same time, if they are of different speed then escort the slowest one and attack with it.

[Gremlion]

you can "intercept" your own ships, so when this intercepted ship gets into a fight his escort would participate.

[Alex the KatanaCutlass]

Well, whaddyaknow?

Been playing X-com since 2000 and never ever thought of that. TYVM, friends, will try that out.

[CPLT-K2]

It is relatively new addition, been in game since the ability to engage combat with player vessels was given to AI.

[vjmdhzgr]

Is it possible to just cheat to unlock every special research from codexes? I just think since this mod is already really long there's no way I'm doing multiple playthroughs with different codexes and I probably won't even use everything I can get. Choices like these are difficult and I'd like to just be able to try out everything the mod has to offer.

[vadracas]

Many things are based on codex choice and will break if all 4 are enabled due to the fact that the researches are both enabled by codex a and disabled by codex b. You'd have to find every instance of that in the .rul files and resolve it.

[RolandVasko]

i had (got) just every research, too, from all four Codex Sides..choices,

(..but i made it for me, in such way, long before this currently, recent version..
my "all-4-Codexes game is from time of "I", or "J" version still, or even earlier, *F, or *H  )