SPeD

Also while on topic, if you try and fire scientists and technicans and you don't have enough money to pay the new wages, it doesn't let you fire them. Found that quite annoying and it made me sell a tonne of alloys just to fire a couple of techs.

I've noticed this too. Call me crazy, but I think the civvie AI tries to purposely block your LOS so you shoot they instead of the aliens. I know if I was a farmer during an alien invasion, I'd be heading for one of my barns.

I had a similar issue with out-gunned alien fighters. When an alien fighter detects that it cannot win a fight (Out manned, out gunned) it retreats. This I can understand. So why does it re-engage after it has just retreated, forcing it to retreat again in a never ending cycle of engaging and retreating. This causes you to lose your interceptors because they ran out of fuel due to constantly entering air combat. It's almost like the AI has found a flaw and is exploiting it for it's own gain.