Uwe Johnson

The idea of a versatile dropship is very nice! I like the idea of a slot for functional equipment: that would mean the equipment would get better with more research, but you still have to produce it (costs in resources and money) ! And with better dropships you could have more slots available. I'd strongly advise against the dropship as moveable unit. If you really want something like that you go with a hover tank / drone instead of a couple of soldiers... dropship one - one slot, dropship two - two slots ... slot options: stationary heavy machine gun (default): firing from the doors / energy cell locator: giving the location of energy cells=energy weapons at the beginning of the mission only, as buildings block detection, so the reading is taken while touching down in a perimeter of xx tiles/ emp burst - stunning mechanical units for one round, suppressing biological (half movement points) in perimeter of xx tiles at first round only/ ecc range and effects could get better with advances in research but resulting in new constructible equipment available (choices: do I really want to spend money to have a more secure Landing Zone?)

Solved, great! Thanks.

Thanks for working on it.

Same problem as in v.1.60 (see here ) After hitting "play" I get a garbled screen. Using the "Steam version" this time.

Hi as soon as I hit the "Play Game" button: 1. a black screen shows up (windows or full screen makes no difference); 2. Music starts; 3. A garbled screen appears (windows or full screen makes no difference), which is mainly white with some garbled image fragments (see attached screen shots); the images semm to be consistent through relaunches of the game until I change resolution settings. The screen/image seems selectable/clickable as I can see the mouse cursor (as an arrow) and can hear the nice retro click sound when selecting. Couldn't say if you actually can select anything. Once, while random clicking the window closed: maybe I hit the quit button (if there is any) or the game crashed (without error message). Any suggestions would be more than welcome. PS: I tried to disable the antivirus software (Sophos), I trashed and reinstalled the game as suggested in the frequent bugs thread. game version: 1.60 for MacOS X, OS version: OS 10.6.8 machine: MacBook Pro, 15 inch, early 2008, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, $ GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, GeForce 8600M GT 256 MB VRAM Yes, I know: it's a very old machine.