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[another_guest]

By the way, it is possible to reclaim countries that signed a pact with the aliens. Though it looks like you need to destroy an alien base in that country; one is enough, even if there are more alien bases in the same country.

[Spookyfish]

By the way, it is possible to reclaim countries that signed a pact with the aliens. Though it looks like you need to destroy an alien base in that country; one is enough, even if there are more alien bases in the same country.

But... If there aren't any bases in the country of interest... Then what :blink:?

Originally posted by Jman4117@Apr 5 2005, 08:57 PM
You probably made the bomb move vertical. They put a bug into the Windows version that makes the bomb go back south if you set the points for it to go straight up. But....if you are sneaky with it, you can make the bomb fly off of the screen then it will reappear at the next waypoint. :P

Hmm. I think I did, but not at that point. It went like this:


2 2
SS
SS
SS
SS

1
E 2
2

If I remember it correctly. S is the skyranger, E the ethereal and 1 & 2 are waypoints for the corresponding altitude. Or something.

[another_guest]

Originally posted by Spookyfish@Apr 6 2005, 11:46 AM
But... If there aren't any bases in the country of interest... Then what :blink:?

Apparently such countries can be reclaimed as well. Though it happened to me after I built an own base there, I'm not sure if that has any influence or not...

[Rogue]

You don't have to have a base in the country to have high revenue.

Just shoot down all UFOs and don't allow to destroy them, as that brings negative points. (Not sure, but I believe that if you shoot UFO over watter, it will bring also negative points)

Also make sure you got all landed UFOs and all Terror sites.

[another_guest]

I don't know for all ufo types, but shooting terror ships over water will still get you a net +500 points.
Shooting down small ufos doesn't get you anything (or at least hardly noticeable, certainly less than 100 each, maybe 50).
Letting your base's defenses blow up a ufo doesn't influence your score either, whereas I got a few hundred points from shooting it down on its way to my base.

And indeed having a base in a country doesn't get you any points, but I wondered whether it helped reclaiming a country. I remember I'd built a base there, still without any detectors, radars or hangars, and kept attacking ufos like I'd always done... Surprisingly enough the next month that country started paying me again.

[Rogue]

I got points too, but country stoped with paying me. Not sure if there is any connection between those two, but I've read somewhere that they programmed so that country is not happy with destroyed UFO, and they cut support. BUt as I already said, it might be not wrong...

[lethe]

:blink:

Never got one country back. Not playing UFO lately, but just last time I did, had a excellent month, the game is so controlled, destroyed 4 alien bases, yet by the end of the month, the very own country which hosts my main base signed out. And no, there isn't any base in this country, I didn't leave any UFO land or do anything in the country. Blah

[efthimios]

Damn it, I lost the game!

For like a month or two after having India abandoning me the xcom project was cancelled! Damn it I could have funded it on my own LOL.

[another_guest]

Originally posted by lethe@Apr 6 2005, 03:02 PM
Never got one country back. Not playing UFO lately, but just last time I did, had a excellent month, the game is so controlled, destroyed 4 alien bases, yet by the end of the month, the very own country which hosts my main base signed out. And no, there isn't any base in this country, I didn't leave any UFO land or do anything in the country. Blah

I just started all over again, after about 10 years... All this discussion about ufo made me want to play it again.
I've been shooting virtually every ufo for a few months in a row now, landing at all the large or very large ones, etc. Monthly scores above 12000, and still every now and then some country decides to quit. I'll see if I can win them over again

And efthimios: it's not enough being able to finance the whole project, I think your income from sponsoring countries must exceed your monthly costs (I believe I've read that somewhere). And of course the overall score at the end of the month should be positive. It probably doesn't hurt if one month isn't that bad, but 2 months in a row could be too much.