Adding to my list, I would like to see som pre-destruction before landing on a terror site. If you land a day after a terror has started, it shouldn't look like the aliens had just landed a minute ago. Think about what it would look like after a day of uninterrupted reaper terror in a city full of people. You woould have to deploy your soldiers in a zombie/reaper swarmed region. And you wouldn't be very popular showing up late at the party.