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[Burnt Pies]

As I recall, Laser Cannons were the best in Xcom, but for whatever reason they decided Xcom needed a nerf to their income and cut the selling price in TTS.

I don't recall what's best in TTS, but when my Engineers weren't making stuff for my squad, they were making Motion Detectors.

[Flying Dice]

I'm not certain, but I believe Laser Cannons are still the most efficient product that doesn't use exotic materials in TTS, even with the selling price cut. Could be wrong, though.

[GlyphGryph]

It may have been laser cannons, actually. One of the ship weapons. I don't think they were all that much better than motion scanners, though obviously you could switch over if you had them, but I rarely bothered researching lasers at all

That time could be spent getting a better ship I could fit more mooks onto!

[frostshotgg]

Vanilla XCOM had Laser Cannons as the most efficient cash cow, excepting Fusion Ball Launchers due to a bug in how they were produced. In TTS, I find that it's always a decent idea to keep half of your engineers making motion detectors, as those are just as efficient, and you get them right off the bat. And I never tech heavy lasers until they start chucking mutons at me.

[Orb]

I've been meaning to do the updates, but I've gotten lazy. 

On another note: Burnt Pies and I have switched roles, to see if it truly has to do with balancing. I appear to be in the lead, and we are in early February. Appearances can be deceiving, though.

[Hanzoku]

We welcome our new alien overlord!

Also, you need to post the terror mission still.

[The Scout]

Orb, when I get to combat as the aliens, I cannot select or move my aliens. Saving and reloading doesn't help.
And this is the UFO TTS help thread. 

[Orb]

Orb, when I get to combat as the aliens, I cannot select or move my aliens. Saving and reloading doesn't help.
And this is the UFO TTS help thread. 

Ah yes, you have come to the right place for assistance. We here at the UFO TTS help thread pride ourselves in timely assistance in matters we will probably be unable to assist in.

Have you waited for your human opponent to end his turn?

Have you considered that you have encountered a repeatable bug, and will have to finds ways to not end up in the same situation again?

Have you considered clicking with the left mouse button, instead of the right?

Have you considered hitting that button that switches between people/aliens, at the bottom of your UI?


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Also, finely working on the update.

"Edit" Change of plans. While I was able to upload the images, getting the direct links is painfully slow, since my internet is currently, you guessed it, painfully slow. I will try to do an update later today when its faster, and do the 2nd half tomorrow.

[Orb]

Sorry guys, the update will have to pend for a while. My AP classes are demanding more and more of my time. Perhaps tomorrow, but probably not. May have to wait until the weekend.

[GlyphGryph]

My "willing to take over people" aren't working out - one isn't willing to accept any sort of commitment with their schedule, though they were intrigued by the idea (expected) and the other, more likely candidate, has been impossible to get a hold of.

Stupid brother, never returning my phone calls...

Regardless, it sounds like you guys have sort of worked something out anyway?

[Orb]

My "willing to take over people" aren't working out - one isn't willing to accept any sort of commitment with their schedule, though they were intrigued by the idea (expected) and the other, more likely candidate, has been impossible to get a hold of.

Stupid brother, never returning my phone calls...

Regardless, it sounds like you guys have sort of worked something out anyway?

No. He just doesn't want to continue the game. He doesn't believe he can win. While I do think he can, I can see why its so grim.

The problem lies, I'm pretty sure, in his control groups. He told me my medium(abductor) ufo escaped him 4 times even though he had interceptors above it. Likely, he had one interceptor above it, and the other was refueling or some such, which prevents interception. Which is why it got so one-sided so quick. Abductors, if gone not intercepted, are very powerful.

What we ARE doing is switching sides, and just to see if it has more to do with balance, or more with skill levels. While I will admit my opponent has far more technical knowledge of the game(I've asked him quite a few questions), he seems to forget vital things that will cost him the game. Little things like grenades, proxies, HE, and how control groups work have put him behind. Mainly, it was those control groups. Without that uninterrupted research, we would likely be equal, or even myself being a little behind.

Right now your brother is the only option I know of to continue the game. No pressure, with AP exams coming up this will likely be put on hold for a few weeks. I do plan to get the updates out before I put this on hold, however.

Here's a minor update, since I have about a half hour:

Spoiler: Update 5.5: Abductors <3 (click to show/hide)

Harvesters. Woo~. Also, Supply Ship for the soon to be new base.



I'm starting to think these supply ships are random. Nevertheless, a welcome shipment.



Drat. He landed at my UFO. Fully equipped medium scout. Could be interesting.





Two down for the count. I swear, I never get good initial placement.



Defensive Positions! More of an aggressive positioning. I expect my opponent to be a bit more cautious.







I was wrong. Got one human though.



I don't remember why I was shooting(probably reaction fire), but somehow I destroyed the nav system. From outside. Buuuug. And kind of set me up in a bad position.





Lose another Sectoid to Long Range fire. A human enters the UFO and takes out another Sectoid. I also take out a human who was probably surprised to see that Sectoid there.



Why herro...







Opponent was fairly aggressive this time around. Pretty good trade I'd say.



Load 'em up!



Lands at one of my harvesters(which is acting more like a scout now, with the surplus food)



Pretty good positioning.



I take that back. I lost a Sectoid I didn't notice due to bad positioning. Again. 



Retreat! I will use the sand hills to my advantage(my 2nd favorite terrain type as Aliens).



Using my plasma pistol Sectoid as a scout, I snipe a human with my plasma rifle Sectoid.



A flurry of fire kills my scout.



Sneaking around the sand hills, I am eventually killed.



Ok I suppose.





Research Complete! Now to work on those improved base buildings for my new base.





A light scout is disposed of. =/



A Harvestor! Finely, some good news.





Now to start working on that terror tech...







My Abductor! Noooo! 

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I'll leave it at that for today. Next time: The tide changes.

[thobal]

posting to watch

[Orb]

...and now for part 2!

Spoiler: Update 5.75: Shorty (click to show/hide)

Here we go ~



Hm. Well, at least the ship is trashed. No resources for him.   





Two instant deaths. To be expected.



Interesting...well that solves one mystery.



I didn't even realize he existed. Welp, that's one agent down.





The traps are set.



My clever plans fails due to terrible aiming.



Twice. You miss twice. You Sectoids are failures.



Welp. That didn't go well.



Bah! Never catch a break.





At least I have an engineer this time. Maybe I'll catch a break?



Nooope. ~





Ooo. I love forests. So much cover.



The ceremonial instant death.



Defensive positions! Also I snipe that 'grunt'.



Oooooo. Now that's nice.





My Sectoid on the left moves up and gets Reactioned. However, I do take out two more humans.



Eh. Ok.

Sorry for the short update, but I'm going to have to piecewise it.

[Flying Dice]

Still enjoyable to read. 

[Hanzoku]

I'm not certain, but I believe Laser Cannons are still the most efficient product that doesn't use exotic materials in TTS, even with the selling price cut. Could be wrong, though.

My simple profit divided by engineer hours spreadsheet says that laser tanks are slightly more profitable then laser cannons.

I'm also amused by the thought of X-Com as the world's arms dealer in laser-based weaponry. How the funding nations must hate me as I liberally sell laser tanks and plasma rifles by the truckload to every arms dealer in the world to have a real working budget.

Serves them right, those penny-pinching idiots.