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It'd certainly be much easier to essentially texture swap Earth into Mars and the Xenonauts into the Alien Defence Force or whatever, but I think it'd miss the fundamental opportunity that comes doing an alien campaign - which is that you're actually getting to invade Earth while playing a massively superior species. Finding yourself hugely outnumbered by the primitive locals and having to beat them before they manage to steal and reverse-engineer enough of your stuff to defeat you is a pretty neat idea, particularly if you can come up with plausible reasons why the aliens choose to attack Earth in a piecemeal way that actually gives the Earthlings a chance of victory... But whether it would actually be fun to play as a game, I don't know - would it be challenging to fight massive hordes of humans in every mission, or would it just be boring? Conceptually it's a nice idea but ultimately I don't know whether it would be enjoyable in practice.

It's something I'd consider, but it's likely to be a late-development balance change. That exact system of granting an accuracy boost to consecutive shots at the same target is used in JA2 and it works well there - but right now I'm reluctant to add anything else to the (already very complex) shooting calculation until we know what we already have is rock solid.

It's definitely something we can consider. It's pretty easy to change between both ways of doing it, it's just a question of whether more players prefer to have the alien gear sold automatically or whether they'd like to do it themselves from the base stores at a later date!

Yeah I enjoyed scavenging alien grenades. I remember there was a lot more of that kind of thing in the original games because you used the same ammo and missiles as the aliens so there was quite a bit of bounty to be had. But I can see why most objects get scrapped immediately - what is the point in holding on to ufo-entertainment if you're ultimately going to sell it anyway!