Rosstoid Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 Ok, I'm 4 months game-wise in X-Com and my new "no frequent loading" tactics have given me a rewarding feeling, but have left me with little Elerium. I read that you can keep and alien base around so you can constantly raid it so that weapons, fine wine and elerium can be taken at will. As a fan of kidnapping aliens from bases, I'd like to steal elerium in addition to ethereals and sectoids. So how do I steal elerium from alien bases and landed ufos? By the way, I'm sorry if I put too many posts here in the X-Com games forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 And the new holder of the newbie posting record is............ It is best to have psi ability to do a raid, but it is still possible to kill a buch of aliens and get their elerium without winning the mission (just harder). Find the 20x20 section of the alien base that has the four rooms upstairs. 50 Elerium is in south room. Use a Heavy Plasma to destroy the reactors (No HE!). The elerium with not be destroyed by the plasma. Then pick it up and get out of there. As for the UFO missions, only get the elerium if it doesn't look like you will win the mission and you are already inside the UFO. Get it on your way of of the ship as you retreat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psy Guy Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 I though the thing about keeping a base around was so you could raid the landed supply ships (with there 150 E-115). -PSY GUY- (If raiding a supply ship was any easier then the aliens would just deliver the goods directly to your base) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alitorious Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 Well, you know the elerium power units, right? They're the circular glowey orange thingy on all ships except for the tiny scout. (Think inside of medium scout: that's the unit in the dead center) Laser and plasma weapons can fry these things, without damaging the elerium inside. Once the top of these things are shot off, walk on top of it and pick up the elerium. Of course, the units themselves sell for 250k each, so if it's a supply ship you're raiding it's often advantageous to capture the whole ship instead of grabbing elerium and running. (Note: there's no elerium in those red flashy pods with blue legs; they just explode.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 I agree with Psy Guy. I always believed that the idea of leaving a base around is to assault the landed supply ships, which are very easy missions, especially with flying suits and blaster launchers. I have only "raided" an alien base once to get the elerium, just to try it out. Honestly I found it to be terribly too much of a pain for the payoff. While you're in there, you might as well just destroy the base. If your elerium-115 supply is so low that you feel you need to do this, you should probably rethink your resource management strategies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 Sometimes you just don't see any supply ships. Had a time when I didn't have one land at a base that I was leaving around for that purpose. I had even built one of my bases nearby to do assaults on it. Had to wait about 4 months for one to finally land and in the meantime I had run low on elerium. At about the two month mark I got desparate. I started doing raids. I had a Lightning and was using about 3% fuel to get there. I go in MC everyone, take anything I could carry off, and leave. Three hours later, I would come back and do it again. It got me lots of resources, and really built my troops up. After a few months the ships came back and I got them, along with the base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 What about your other UFO missions? I mean, there had to be other assault missions elsewhere that you were getting Elerium from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 They were all crash landings. Rarely got elerium from them. With that base I had about 1500 elerium by the time the UFO's came back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovechamp Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 Just a dumb tip from me =) When it comes to blasting down Ufos to crashland, it is best NOT to use the weapon (sry, I forgot it's name") which has only two Ammo-shots. The AA missile for Ufo interception I'm talking about can take down an Ufo v e r y fast, blasting it into many pieces, loosing the precious Elerium *g*The best anti-Ufo weapon is not the best, hehe. (Don't use the gatling rail gun for 2km rang now ) Groove Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squaddie01 Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 Groove, I think you are referring to the Fusion Ball Launcher. It's range and damage though is more useful against battleships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Demi-Godly One Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 Well using the cannon isn't really that bad, if you are after a small scout or medium scout. But I wouldn't suggest using it for anything larger. (Well maybe a large scout, but that's pushing it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kernel Posted July 24, 2003 Share Posted July 24, 2003 If I recall, in the old dos version of UFO (version 1.1?) you used to get about 500 elerium if the aliens attacked one of your bases. I used to set up a single base with a huge number of scientists and mechanics and soldiers with no defences. It used to get attacked about 2 or 3 times a month meaning that each month I had a fresh supply of 1000+ eleruium to send around my other bases. Shame they took it out of the later version of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Demi-Godly One Posted July 24, 2003 Share Posted July 24, 2003 Actually I think it's fixed by a patch, I'm sure I remember my game previously giving me 500 elerium when I was attacked. But then it stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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