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[USEC_OFFICER]

Wait, are you saying it sold for more than it took to create?

Of course. A lot of things in X-COM worked that way.

[Mech#4]

Wait, are you saying it sold for more than it took to create?

Of course. A lot of things in X-COM worked that way.

Like alien corpses.

[Lightningfalcon]

Of course. A lot of things in X-COM worked that way.

That is how it works in real life.  Not like there is much competition.   You still had to build them thou, so it was limited.
What was the most cost effective item to sell?

[USEC_OFFICER]

What was the most cost effective item to sell?

Laser Cannons, hands down, unless you exploited a bug with material use that made some other item more profitable. I forget which item it was though.

[GreatWyrmGold]

That is how it works in real life.  Not like there is much competition.

True, but I would have expected that basic game design would keep costs (including non-monetary costs) above selling price.

[Lightningfalcon]

What was the most cost effective item to sell?

Laser Cannons, hands down, unless you exploited a bug with material use that made some other item more profitable. I forget which item it was though.

How much is the profit?
Old XCom did have the difficulty on the geoscape.   If you cant maintain at least a few firestorms with plasma cannons, you will lose countries.   
I would fix that post, but I'm posting from my phone.

[USEC_OFFICER]

True, but I would have expected that basic game design would keep costs (including non-monetary costs) above selling price.

I have no idea, to be honest. I guess it's so that people could support themselves through manufacturing or something like that.

How much is the profit?

Let me check the wiki...

Laser Cannons would earn you $1,968,000 a month, and $29,000 per unit sold. But you can really crank out the Laser Cannons, so they're the best item to manufacture for a profit. Fusion Ball Launchers are the second-most profitable item, at $1,480,000 a month and $32,600 per unit. The only reason they aren't the most profitable item is because they use an alien alloy to manufacture them. If you don't care about alien alloys, or use a (very tedious) bug to not use any alien alloys to manufacture them, then Fusion Ball Launchers are the best item to produce.

[Mageziya]

Unless I'm mistaken, before you can obtain laser cannons, aren't medkits also a good source of income? I'm not sure, and I'm basing my information what I've seen of a TFTD let's play, but still.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Unless I'm mistaken, before you can obtain laser cannons, aren't medkits also a good source of income? I'm not sure, and I'm basing my information what I've seen of a TFTD let's play, but still.

According to the chart, Motion Scanners are much more profitable monthly, but Medikits are more valuable per unit. Actually, Motion Scanners are the fourth most profitable item to produce, with Medikits right behind. Mind you, per engineering hour, Motion Scanners are worth twice as much as Medikits.

[Mageziya]

Unless I'm mistaken, before you can obtain laser cannons, aren't medkits also a good source of income? I'm not sure, and I'm basing my information what I've seen of a TFTD let's play, but still.

According to the chart, Motion Scanners are much more profitable monthly, but Medikits are more valuable per unit. Actually, Motion Scanners are the fourth most profitable item to produce, with Medikits right behind. Mind you, per engineering hour, Motion Scanners are worth twice as much as Medikits.

*Insert ethical argument about how medkits are helping people and what not while  motion scanners are corporate evil.*
Huh, would there ever be a situation where the two would be inverted, or is that not mathematically possible?

[USEC_OFFICER]

*Insert ethical argument about how medkits are helping people and what not while  motion scanners are corporate evil.*
Huh, would there ever be a situation where the two would be inverted, or is that not mathematically possible?

Eh... I think it's mathematically impossible. Medikits sell for about 7k~ more, but you can produce almost twice as many Motion Scanners in the same time frame. So you're looking at 1 Medikit at 18k versus two Motion Scanners at 10k each.

[Hanslanda]

I remember when I got Blaster Bomb Launchers in Oldcom and when I got one in Newcom. Both were equally giddy moments.

In Oldcom, I had two soldiers with four bombs and a launcher each, plus the rest of my 14 man veteran squad, most of whom where in Powered Armor with Laser Rifles and such. (I had plasma weaponry, but I mostly just gave them to people with really good aim. I didn't bother to acquire a whole lot of them at this point, though that changed pretty quickly.) My two launchermen ran out of the Skyranger after the main squad secured a perimeter, and set up in the middle of the empty lot we'd landed in. My men started moving up slowly, and each time I spotted an enemy, I fired a Blaster Bomb at them. Blaster Bombs do the most damage of any hand held weapon in the game, IIRC. They're powerful enough to blow apart alien ship armor. So what we ended up with by the end of the mission was an entire city block completely leveled. Best terror mission EVER.

In Newcom, I got the launcher and gave it to Odin, my Psionic Heavy Colonel. We rolled into a crashed UFO and he finally unleashed it on an Ethereal that was deep in the ship, while he was outside. I clicked the Blaster Bomb Launcher and centered the reticule on the Ethereal. The path the explosive took weaved past two of my soldiers, within arm's reach, past three Muton Elites, and then detonated in the EXACT spot in the ship that wouldn't destroy anything of value, doing JUST enough damage to the Ethereal that I could taze it afterwards.


My one, major beef with Newcom is that the Aliens never use the Blaster Bomb Launcher on you. I think Sectoid Commanders should use them like crazy. Might make it more interesting.

[crazysheep]

My one, major beef with Newcom is that the Aliens never use the Blaster Bomb Launcher on you. I think Sectoid Commanders should use them like crazy. Might make it more interesting.

Well.. ingame lore for the Newcom blaster launcher suggests that blaster launchers are upgraded rocket launchers made by combining human and alien tech, so maybe that's why aliens never seem to use it against XCOM? :3

[GreatWyrmGold]

In Newcom, I got the launcher and gave it to Odin, my Psionic Heavy Colonel.

That's like the best soldier who could be getting that name. Well, unless scars get implemented and someone loses an eye.

[mastahcheese]

My one, major beef with Newcom is that the Aliens never use the Blaster Bomb Launcher on you. I think Sectoid Commanders should use them like crazy. Might make it more interesting.

Did they take out the Blaster Launcher in Enemy Within? I beat the game and never once got to build them, but I got them in Enemy Unknown.