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[jimmy7512]

Does anyone know how to get a Excellent on the monthly report because most of the countries are signing pacts with the aliens even U.K. :blink: .

[Kearnsy]

There is no easy way. Just try to take out every alien you see and hope you dont mess anything up to bad.
If it all goes well, you should win them back in no time!

[jimmy7512]

Originally posted by Kearnsy@Jun 5 2005, 01:11 PM
There is no easy way. Just try to take out every alien you see and hope you dont mess anything up to bad.
If it all goes well, you should win them back in no time!

The problem is I don't see any even when I try to look for them I don't see any and end up getting a bad report and no funding.

[Havell]

Buy lots of radars and blow everything you see out of the sky, maybe build another base of the other side of the world to monitor alien activites there, just blast the UFOs and once you get down on the ground systematically kill everything in sight.

[PrejudiceSucks]

What you need is 5 bases. One on Antarctica for research and engineering (has a guard of 24 soldiers, I can't afford to lose it) and 4 dotted around the world. Mine are in:

Prague
Ecquador
Australia
South-east Russia

That way with a Hyperwave thingummy I can see pretty much the whole globe.

[Kearnsy]

Ive got mine in:
Antarctica
China
Australia
(extreamly)North Africa
Columbia

and rather stupidly: South Africa

[PrejudiceSucks]

5 bases is hard enough to manage, 6 must be a total nightmare. Oh well, different strokes for different folks I guess.

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but isn't there a fairly major bug in X-Com that means after you shut down and re-load a game, it is re-set to the simplest difficulty level? I think I remember hearing about a patch for this, thought you might want to know about it (of course, I could just be a fistful of wrong on this!)

Originally posted by Sharp@Jun 4 2005, 10:50 PM

Engineers are an easy source of income, motion scanners are good first, then laser cannons, then fusion ball launchers, although laser cannons will be the majority as they are relativly low level research.

Fusion balls ?
Ive never got that !
How can i reasearch the thing.
I only got the, laser weapons, med kit and, scanner (on the beginning).

[another_guest]

About the choice of base locations: my first picks are always Europe and USA. That way my radars cover most of the best paying countries. My third base should cover Japan, which is usually the second biggest sponsor after the USA.

I'm not sure (it's been a while since I played UFO) but I think researching heavy plasma and everything it leads to (like plasma defense and any new research items that show up after you've finished researching heavy plasma) should allow you to research Fusion balls.

And yes, build small and large radars in each base at first, then switch to hyperwave decoders once you've got access to those.

Last time I played I had "excellent" rating virtually every month (with the exception of perhaps the first two months), though that was at an easy level.
Like R Havell said, down every ufo you can take on, finish as many missions as possible. And don't ignore terror sites! It's been said 100 times here, but I'll still repeat it: even touching down and taking off again is a lot better than simply ignoring a terror site.