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Originally posted by LoneWolf@Apr 23 2005, 10:44 PM
I have a question, can you capture and use alien ships thhat are undamaged and if so how???, I really like that tinny one this is 1 square big its looks cool and somehow held 5 aliens??? also I am doing good and got some good vetrins, niceshots, but I am at a big lack of Elleriam and $$$ my base is in the USA, your biggest finacial contibutor, and have attacked many undammaged ships, successfully but am still at a loss.
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You can't use alien ships, even if they are undamaged.
You should never have any money problems... Recruit engineers, then build laser cannons in order to sell them. In my current game I've got 100-150 engineers, and I've always had more money than I could spend. Each engineer makes a net profit of some $44000 per month when building laser cannons, if I remember well.
There's been a lot of advise on elerium in the past few pages of this forum. Just to repeat some of the main points:
- If possible, focus on the largest ufos you can take on. Small ufos usually end up with destroyed engines if you shoot them, whereas larger ufos have multiple power sources. It's even better if the ufo has landed, so try to get there before the ufo takes off again.
- Use laser rifles until you've got enough heavy plasma clips you've captured from aliens. When disarming MC'ed aliens, remove the ammunition from their heavy plasma if it has been fired before: incomplete ammo clips are lost at the end of the battle, unless you've removed them from the weapon before.
Stick to skyrangers, they don't need any elerium.
@ Lizard: your method will work, but it's a bit risky if the ufo flies faster than your interceptor/firestorm: there's always a chance that the ufo will outrun your craft before the second one gets there.