First very frustrating game

[ein]

Hi all,

I picked up the game in the bargin bin (having liked but been very frustrated with the pace of TFTD). I have lost the first game I started and am a little frustrated. I must have been missing something because I did not seem to have any chance to win.

 

Start game in US on easy.

Had bases as far down as mexico and all of northern Europe (some of russia).

I did retrieval missions for both Area51 and one in russia.

Then the biomass came.

I collected plasma, laser and psi weapons, both energy cells and power cells (ie red ones and green ones).

I have killed/incapacitated every type of creature where such a thing is possible (since some are only alive or dead).

I have succeeded in every mission type that was presented to me.

I have performed many missions on biomass (I ended up with a lone base in the Azores) so I had plenty to chose from.

 

In the end my total R&D screen contained the following:

Ready For Development - Empty

Ready for manufacture -

Collapsible Railgun

Not ready for development -

Energy Cells - Alien Energy Cell [White]

- Project Dreamland files [White]

- Energy cell principles [Red]

Power cells - Alien power cell [White]

- Energy cells [Red]

Developed Technologies -

Laser weapon operation

Plasma weapon operation

UFO detection

 

That is all, inspite of having numerous psi weapons etc I was never given the opportunity to reasearch anything else. No mission over biomass ever yielded a sample nor could I ever make use of all these corpses I must have been collecting.

 

I am running 1.4.

 

So the question is... what could I have done wrong?

 

Thanks

Ein

[Blehm 98]

you have to shoot down a planter UFO and win the ground mission

[ein]

you have to shoot down a planter UFO and win the ground mission

 

And that blocked everything? (or is that how you get the biomass sample?)

[Blehm 98]

thats how you get the biomass node, which is needed to get anti-biomass base