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[Sonlirain]

3. A mixture of the first 2. You claim a UFO. When you crash, I assign you the most important looking unit(be it engineer, medic, leader, ect.). You can have very limited control over the behavior of this unit. The reason I say its limited is because this IS a competition, and I can't be restrained by "Will only fire human weapons". 

Seeing how the aliens are equipped in a standarised fashion... roleplay is very limited anyway.
How can anyone have a stark raving mad sectoid commander with a blaster launcher spraying death in random directions sans turn 1 if you cannot customise any alien in a individual fashion.

As for the game itself...

It's kinda boring so far since all you have (for now) are scouts and sectoids that get cut to ribbons in 1 or 2 turns.
How long till interesting things start happening?

[Orb]

Seeing how the aliens are equipped in a standarised fashion... roleplay is very limited anyway.
How can anyone have a stark raving mad sectoid commander with a blaster launcher spraying death in random directions sans turn 1 if you cannot customise any alien in a individual fashion.

True true. But I never underestimate the ability of B12 to twist my words and put me in a world of hurt. Safety first!  .....I suppose I'll reverse it back to just claiming UFOs then, unless anyone else feels otherwise.

As for the game itself...

It's kinda boring so far since all you have (for now) are scouts and sectoids that get cut to ribbons in 1 or 2 turns.
How long till interesting things start happening?

Hmmm. Depends on what you mean by 'interesting'. A medium scout will likely go down next update, meaning a battle that could last a bit. I am also going to start switching production into medium scouts, to capitalize all the research I've done. Anything bigger won't be happening until I start researching larger ships, which will come after I get my sweet, sweet plasma rifles.

However, it takes a bit to ramp up as Aliens in TTS. It won't be until February my base is in full production mode and I have larger ships...if I don't get unlucky, anyway. Right now its been pretty standard, but my opponent could take out my two medium scouts in one swift strike...which would be really, really bad.

[Jacob/Lee]

On the upside, all of your ships are capable of outpacing those pieces of garbage the humans try to pass off as fighter craft. I think, at least.

[Orb]

On the upside, all of your ships are capable of outpacing those pieces of garbage the humans try to pass off as fighter craft. I think, at least.

The first generation of fighters, anyway. The only way a human can intercept UFOs early game is by getting lucky(converging pathways) or by attacking the UFO when it launches after a mission.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Posting to watch. This game looks fun, too bad it was taken down.

[Orb]

I completely forgot about claiming ships. Alas, you probably would have been shot down anyway.

Also, this update has about 75 images. So brace yourself. 

Spoiler: Update 2: Knock out 6 agents, only kill one. Stupid plasma pistols (click to show/hide)

Our current research %s. I wasn't too far off.



...and my current construction queue. Going to use the medium scouts to exploit the research I've obtained.



UFO is still crashed in Australia.



I'll send a scout towards South America. Test the waters, so to speak.



In the mean time, I'll capitalize my high research in central Asia.



No breaks for an alien conqueror.



...and its South America. I'm moving my guess to somewhere in America for his base location. He, actually, rarely intercepts me in central asia.



Another light scout to replace the last one, to serve our cause.



Current ship spread. Sneaking ships into Australia here and there.



Oh. He decided to finely attack that downed UFO.



Do I need to say more?



He grouped his interceptors!? Blasphemy. No medium scout, noooo! D:



Aw.



Yep. Figured he go for that right away.




An ok position I'd say. He blew up most of the ship, so no salvage for him.



Just hide behind this here wall...



He fires a (light cannon?) continually at this wall for several turns. Not sure why.





Movement through the doors....Now is the time to strike!



Booyah. Kill it with plasmassss



One down.



Another is on the roof. I take a shot and destroy the flooring. Er...is she floating?



Blarg.

At this point I see lasors. LAZORS. The humans are researching fast.



Oh. Hes on the roof. Better hide....



Here's the embarrassing part. I reminded myself to check to see if the smoke was stunning my Sectoid at the beginning of the game, yet I forgot. So this happened.



..and this. Live alien capture.



Got a new medium scout at this point. Changed the construction queue a bit to reflect recent losses.




Yep. That was the scout that originally scouted South America.



Hehehe. Time to start dropping X-com's funding.





Bah. He attacked it while it was landed. Getting daring.



And instant kill, as usual.



I queue up large scout(though maybe I will change that to abductor, can't decide). Plasma Rifle research is almost done!



Another infiltrator, this time, Australia.



New ship, the usual.



What.



WHAT!?



Bah. I left cloning 0% somehow(I swore I set it to 100%). Welp, got to wait a day for breeding to kick in.



Two new light scouts ready for duty.



I send them to East Asia. Its a good place to have as a back-up.



Oh? He landed at one of my medium scouts harvesting/abducting from Australia. This should be interesting.



I'm not too sure about this positioning.....



Somehow he doesn't spot me. I run that little Sectoid away as fast as I can.



I set up the following defensive positions. Let him come.




Why hello there....



Defensive sand hills are perfect cover. 



Its not enough, though.



Since everyone last turn spent TUs firing at the poor Sectoid in the sand hills, I figure it was the perfect time to strike. TUs * Reaction Fire ability is what determines if reaction fire takes place. I figured I had a free run to kill them all. And I was right




Pew pew.



The 2nd Sectoid had run out of TUs. So he dies.



Finish off another two humans.



Then I finely bite the bullet, taking out 5 humans for 3 Sectoids. Very good results.



Wait. Only one was a fatality!? What!? Stupid plasma pistols. 

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Summary











Plasma rifles are so close to being done. Just one more abduction mission...

Note: Only new ships will get plasma rifles, unfortunately.

I'm managing about a week per update. Which is pretty good. However, its probably going to slow down from here.

Comments, suggestions, posting to watch, witty jokes, complaints, some other things, are welcome, as always.

"Edit" Also, I know this is obvious, but I wanted to point it out. If you want to give me advice, please do not use info from the Human thread. It makes it unfair for both parties.

"Edit2" Before I forget, was the pacing better in this? I tried to slow down a bit.

[Jacob/Lee]

Damn, I need to find someone to play this game with sometime...

[Delta Foxtrot]

I liked it. How do you generate organs/alloys/elerium? I'm not familiar with TTS so I don't really know any of its intricacies. If you get alloys & al. through a magic chute from Cydonia, there's no way for X-COM to really bleed you dry?

[Jacob/Lee]

From my limited knowledge of TTS, you get organs by harvest/abduction missions, I think Cydonia sends you alloys and elerium (maybe concrete, too) and you make concrete using base facilities.

[GlyphGryph]

I loved this update.

++good job

[Orb]

From my limited knowledge of TTS, you get organs by harvest/abduction missions, I think Cydonia sends you alloys and elerium (maybe concrete, too) and you make concrete using base facilities.

Somewhat(not really) spot on.

Alien Alloys/Concrete are made in buildings. The purpaly one(automated rig I think?) for Alien Alloys. Concrete is made in the gray building(construction rig...or something).

Organs/Alien food are obtained from Harvesting mission in equal amount. One mistake I made in previous games was to hover low on alien food. This was devastating when my medium scout, which was harvesting, was shot down. I try to hover between 10-20 now.

All four resources are supplied by supply ships from Cydonia once a month. However, these -can- be intercepted(though I believe its a glitch, it's completely unfair part of the game. A human player has to simply hover his Sky ranger over my base to intercept them). I will probably discuss this feature/glitch with my opponent at some point to decide if we are going to allow it.

"Edit" The amount of supplies is dependent on how aggressive you are. Sit in your base all day, no supplies.

"Edit2" Discussed it with my opponent. In order to give supplies, the supply ship has to land for like a day. During this time he can do a ground attack. However, he can not intercept it when it leaves, meaning he can't leave his interceptors on top of it while its landed. 

[Jacob/Lee]

Thanks for the explanation.


It's kind of silly to ask, and I would assume otherwise, but... Can the alien offensive get shut down by Cydonia if you don't do anything for long periods of time? >.<

If not, then you might actually be able to camp in your base producing half your resources while sending out some ships to harvest the rest and then just overwhelm X-COM once you have an army built and armed.

[Delta Foxtrot]

But would that then be any fun?

[Orb]

Thanks for the explanation.


It's kind of silly to ask, and I would assume otherwise, but... Can the alien offensive get shut down by Cydonia if you don't do anything for long periods of time? >.<

If not, then you might actually be able to camp in your base producing half your resources while sending out some ships to harvest the rest and then just overwhelm X-COM once you have an army built and armed.

While no, the operation can not get shut down, you are forgetting about a resource.

Electrium.

It can only be gained from supply ships, and its used to build ships.

You also forget, in order to abduct(I assume this is the 'other' resource you're talking about), I require high research. In order to do research, I require harvesting for alien food. And bam. Thats already three missions. The fourth mission I have left is infiltration, which I suppose is optional. The last 3 missions are only unlocked after March.

So yes, I could hide in my base, but my opponent would just get waaay too ahead of me. Its like turtling in an RTS. Doesn't work too well.

Also:

But would that then be any fun?

[IronyOwl]

Pacing seemed fine. Very nice in general.

Also, how does scouting decay work?