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Hi all I don't know if this has ever been brought up, or even if its too late too even think about, but has anyone considered that these could be an interesting addition to the game? You could garrison them with a small number of troops and aircraft and use them to patrol areas that are out of your radar/base range, and launch ground/air operations from them. They could be attacked by aliens under certain conditions too. It would add some flexibility to the game without being a necessity. They would take a long time to produce and a lot of funds too, you could even add submersible vehicles if you wanted to introduce a nuatical alien threat like TFTD for some additional variety. Maybe troops that get transferred to them become marines and get some kind of perk/stat/rank alteration? I think part of the X-COM/Xenonauts fantasy is feeling like you are in command of a proper military organisation, which means thinking about air, land and sea in some capacity. The sea is often overlooked unless the setting is specifically the ocean, but it could be useful in any earth setting. Just an idea!

I have to admit, I've been a little disappointed that X2 seems to be on a path to being X1 with a new lick of paint. I think that there needs to be some more emphasis on making the gameplay a bit different, especially with tactics in the combat missions (e.g. I really wish you would bring in crouching and prone position that affords greater bonuses for use of terrain and positioning, i.e. lower chance of getting hit and higher accuracy, at the expense of TU), some more tech like claymore mines, proximity mines, and individual additions to weapons like night scopes, grenade launchers, thermal imaging that you have to develop earlier in the game. In the strategy view, it would be great to turn the strategic op missions into a playable mission in their own right (including dealing with human collaborators). I'd also like to see bigger base maps with more tech like base defences, interrogation units etc.