TrashMan

Honestly, you can label everything as discrimination if you want to. If I have a game set in the mythical amazonia, would not including male amazon warrior be "discrimination"? OR would including them be even MORE discrimination? Frankly, trying to shoehorn every race/religion/sex/whatever into every setting can easily be interpreted as a even worse kind of discrimination (if you think about it). It basicly tells you "you cannot be reasonable and rational enough to accept this". It's an apporach that assumes poeple will be short-sighted, superficial, and frankly, it's insulting to humanity as a whole. Unfortunately it's not entirely untrue...remeber LOTR and how some people started to accuse it of racism because there weren't black people in it? To my mind, the writer/developer is the OLNY authority that matters. Everyone else can go SFTO. If the author made a setting with mostly women, then it 's like that. Period. If he made a setting where atheism rules, religious folk should shut up. If all the characters are black, white people should shut up. If the developers make all the characters asians of black females, it's their right to do so. And for me, accurate portrayl of human behavior is more important than any scientifical accuracy. I can accept FTL and plasma cannons. But humans acting non-human like is far mroe difficult to reconcile with. With that said, toggles sound nice, but like everything, they carry a development cost with them. Someone has to spend time to code it in. Resources. They arne't infinite.

No, you are nitpicking. You have nothing to do with common sense. (pot calling the kettle black?) It is you who tries to paint practical necessiteis as nothing and handwave them away with terrible, flawed and unsopported theories. You can go on and try to poke at me the whole day, but in the end it changes nothing. Not a thing. Now kindly drop the issue already.

It isn't. A tactical turn-based, squad-based games where you fight aliens has to have aliens. There is a difference ebtween necessary fantastic elements, and unecessary ones. So the goverments and the people involved in xenonauts lost all semblance of common sense? Every single recruit is listed as coming from an elite outfit. For you. Rule of cool can go die in a fire for all I care, since it is the leading cause of some of the worst moveis/comics in history. Also, rule of fun does not apply to pointless aestentics.

1. Xenonauts is not a X-Com game. It's a X-com LIKE game. Big difference. 2. Xenonauts are funded by the governments/militaries of the world. From where do you think they get their recruits, officer, leaders, etc..? Thin air? 3. There are no female Spec Ops. and for very practical reasons. Discussing this further is pointless, as there is nothing to discuss. The decision has been already mde by the devs, and no matter what you say you won't change my stance...besides, it's dangerously close to going off-topic anyway.

Weapons and aliens? What about them? That's a different kettle of fish completely. Apples and oranges. Aliens are a core factor of the game. You cannot have a x-com like game without aliens. Also, no one ever saw an alien in real life, so there's nothing to compare it to. Also, even if hte 1970's government would recuit women, you wouldn't be seeing them in elite units at all - and especially not days after the alines popped up.

Why the hell would you want it to be be LESS effective? Even know the enemy can kill you with one shot with it. Are you some kind of masochist?

Frankly, I see this hurting the game more than adding to it. I'm a sucker for atmosphere/setting and I hate anything that mars it needlesly with the itensity of a million suns. If there is one thing I hate it's this PC bs gone mad. In every type of media, equal representation of every race, sex, religion, creed, etc.. is enforced - regardless of the atmospehre, setting, conditions/circumstances or any other consideration. I find that far more insulting and condesending than not having a specific group present. If female soldeirs are not a selectable option, one of the first thing I'll do once the game is out is to mod them out. Not that I don't like female characters in games, but here they just don't fit.

Chinok is a transport chopper. It SHOULD be slow. However, it also should have quite a bit of range. Maybe the fix would be for the nations to be a bit easier on you at the very start, given that they know your limited resources?

I tend ot use guns to finish UFO's so it's not overkill. But most of them were fighters, so I guess that's it. For hte deviation, I propose a simple max value, that is enforced. So if the RNG decides your shot goes 61° to the side, and the max deviation is 30°, 30 is used. Accuracy and chance to hit are unaffected, and a miss is still a miss (anything over 20° wil ldefinately miss anyway), but it missed in a tighter area.

Meh...I'm not missing them. Fits with the game settings (1970). Heck, even today you won't be finding many women at the front lines, it's mostly support roles. And you won't find them AT ALL in Spec Ops units (which is what xenonauts are). And I suspect you never will given the redicolously high selection criteria.

Great game from the demo. Love it. But I do notice one thing that's waaay off. Namely the accuracy cone. It seems like there is NO limitation to just how badly you can miss. The way bullets fly around is redicolous. I end up hitting (and killing) my own guys who are no way in the line of fire. The shot goes 45° off it's intented trajectory. Burts shots also spray in redicolous deviations. I have two hiting the ground 10 degreees to the left of the target, and the 3rd one going 60° right. Just a idea, but you might want to put some limit there..like 20°-25° (on either side). And a small diviation between shots in a burst. Also, not sure if this is what you are going for, but 9 times out of 10 the UFO you attack will end up destroyed, it won't crash. Oh, and civilian AI. It ends up walking right into the fire (as in burning, smoking fire). I realise right now it probably just wanders around aimlesly, but i just tought I'd mention it.