ambianz Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 Hi, I have bases in Africa, North America and Siberia but want to get your input before building any more. The ships currently flying around are the Large terror ship, the Small cross-shape ship and the occasional Small-but-looks-like-it-should-be-called-Very-Small square ship. Should I leave a continent X-Com free so they can build a base? Should I not patrol/shoot down their ships so they can build it? ambianz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 If you are going to let a base be built it is generally best if the base is not inside a funding nation (it counts as alien activity in the area). On the other hand if you attack the supply ships and raid the base regularly, Xcom activity will offset alien activity by a good bit. So if you are equiped to do weekly attacks, go for it. If not just destroy the base ASAP if it's near a major funding coutry (US, Europe, Japan, etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Demi-Godly One Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 Let them build a base in Antarctica, no one cares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 The aliens sometimes send out a survey team for scouting the base construction site. Don't shoot these down and eventually a battleship will come along with the base construction crew. It'll land, and an alien base will be built next to it. You might need to do a bit of patrolling to reveal the new base. It's hard to tell which ufos are on what missions until you have the hyperwave decoder. When you do, the ships on 'alien base' missions are the ones you want. Alien bases also sometimes appear in a country after it has withdrawn its funding from X-Com, even if no ships on 'alien base' missions were spotted flying near that country. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bevan Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 if you manage to miss the battleship that builds the base there are regular supply ships that go there, the dead giveaway is they land in the same spot, sending an intercepter to patrol near where the ship landed should reveal the alien base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellyfishGreen Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 Skyrangers make good patrollers too, slower speed so more time to look out the windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 Having an alien base on the side to raid weekly is one of the best ways to make huge money... but it's a dirty job. Im surprised you don't have to pay your mercs more for those missions, Mind you it get's a whole lot easier with MC. Once you get more than one skyranger team on the go you can attempt to capture all of the alien ships ( 5 i think, usually anyway) when they drop in to persuade a countries government. Timing is crucial for they don't stay to long. as i havn't done it in some time i can't remember exactly how much you can make.. but it's over 5mil im pretty sure. [2 battleships, 2 large , and one terror ship ] = $$$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 Quite a bit:alloys 150-200 x 6500 = $975K - $1.3milpower source 3-4 x 250K = 750K - $1milnavigation around 500K - 1milentertainment about 20 x 20K = $400Kheavy plasma 12 x 180K = $2.16milsectiod corpse 12 x 20 = $240Kelerium 150-200 = priceless You can make $25mil and have about 900 elerium. Base raids make much less, but you can do them several times a day. The 5 ship assault will probably only happen once or twice in the game. sectiod corpse 12 x 20 = $240Kheavy plasma 10 x 180K = $1.8milblaster launcher 2 x 200K = $400Kblaster bombs 6x = pricelesselerium 0-100 = priceless Can make $2.5mil anytime you have nothing to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambianz Posted June 26, 2003 Author Share Posted June 26, 2003 Thanks everyone, building Hyperwave decoders now and hopefully will be base raiding soon. ambianz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouse Nightshirt Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 The way I make money in the game is basically to sell Heavy Plasmas. Especially on the higher levels, where they appear much earlier, you can just sell them off. In a month, you can make well over $25 million, or if you sell them off every once in a while, a lot more. The most I ever made in one sell off was a whopping $150 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Demi-Godly One Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 I once made about ½ of a billion sellng heavy plasmas and their clips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jh316 Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 Gah. How many did you have to have for that? I know the gun's 171,000, but I don't remember about the clips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 That about 3,000 guns! Did you sell all of those at one time? :o I don't remember if clips are 7000 or 14000. Nothing compared to the gun. Were the stores at about 900% capacity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jh316 Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 He must've had a few bags of holding on hand for that arsenal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Demi-Godly One Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 I forgot to sell any heavy plasma's for the whole game, until that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Posted June 28, 2003 Share Posted June 28, 2003 LOL, I always do that. Start a new game, and forget about selling stuff until like, June, when I start having monetary problems. I go into Sell/Sack and I'm like, "Oh... yeah" Make like, 200 million, heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Demi-Godly One Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 I get a LOT more money from items then I do from other countries support. :hmmm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 Salvage is what usually keeps me out of debt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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