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If reality is not needed in games, then let's add to the game: a weapon that increases all the characteristics of soldiers by 10%-200%. I also suggest adding magic, magic scrolls and spells to the game. "You want reality? Go serve in the army then. This game is entertainment." (c)

If you look at trading in general; supply and demand. The prices on selling items drop after selling ONE unit...we have a big world with hundreds of scientists who are looking for new objects to examine... the prices should as a minimum be constant for the month, or drop if a large quantity is sold at once. We are dealing with "Alien technology", not selling potatoes. The real killer is the expenditure on maintenance... how can you ever get a foothold on all continents, when the funding is so low, and the expences so skyhigh??? And it takes only 2 continents lost to loose the game... and we cannot even reaquire those, when lost. As my favourite example: World War 2. It took 32million tons of supplies a year ( convoys across the atlantic ) to keep Britain fighting... and that lasted for almost 5 years. "As a commander of a global warfare I must demand better support or step down as commander!!!" kindly Frank

The only thing that should keep up old fleet in place should be experience of these pilots. I don't know if it is implemented in any way, but should be, that those counters of downed UFOs, had some meaning, for example in auto-evade incoming shots/missiles, and (virtually) widening up cones of fire for cannons, or improving critical hits on alien ships (by critical hits, I mean, taking damage score from top of the table, rather than 50-150%). There should be however, possibility, to move pilots BETWEEN planes, as to use the most experienced ones, on already those in full readiness, rather than sitting in base and waiting 2 weeks for theirs planes to be repaired.