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Originally posted by laiocfar@Jan 23 2006, 07:15 AM
I donīt agree with rbell.
the elirium that a firestorm uses is residual with 100 elirium stock a firestorm could make regular flyes by many years. About the fuel capacity, its true that a firestorm canīt be on air by many time but they can make long trips* cuz they are twice faster than an interceptor.
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It turns out that for substantive reasons, laiocfar and I are both wrong. I am wrong because one point of elerium is really worth five points of fuel. So when I thought that you should budget ten elerium for each flight, it is really only two. Laiocfar has got it wrong about the range. An interceptor based in New York can try to attack a UFO buzzing around Moscow. I have even done this when I have bases in Europe and North America, and I need to down a large ship. The nearer interceptor softens up the UFO for the one that must cross the ocean. As I had a base on the line between Montreal and Vancouver, I had a firestorm fly from the base to Montreal, then to Vancouver, and back to base. The whole trip required half of the fuel load, or two points of elerium. Firestorms do not have to cross a continent three times to catch up to a UFO, which is just as well, as it has nowhere near the fuel load.
In terms of the money paid to support the engineers, and materials that could be sold, each firestorm costs about $1,700,000, so it takes three months to pay for itself. If selling stuff that your engineers produce covers a significant amount of your maintenance, it costs even more.
I use the ClarkWeyrh (sp?) Enterprise' s editor. If you stick 'xcom editor' into google, it shows up on the first page. It only edits the saved game files, but it will edit both Enemy Unknown and TFTD saved game files. You can edit the contents of your base stores, what kind of aliens are in containment, what facilities are at each base, how much money you have and how much money each country gave last month (which will be the base for next month). I believe that it also edits soldiers' statistics, including gender and appearance. I only use it to give myself a lump sum to ensure that I do not have to save humanity on a shoestring budget, but it is very powerful.