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The difference between the two being the auto-resolve I was suggesting would give reasonable losses that a so-called "average" player would receive if they had done the air combat manually, where invincibility would result in no losses ever. I'm not advocating an outright cheat here. By 'penalty', I'm referring to losses above and beyond what playing it through would give. I've seen games where auto-resolve results in fights having moderate to heavy losses that, if the player had told it to play out manually but didn't actually do anything but watch, would have resulted in no losses at all. At that point there's not much reason to even have auto-resolve.

If they repeatedly go for avoiding that part of the game all together, I have a hard time believing they actually enjoyed it in the first place. I'm against pandering to those who need to be pressured by a penalty into doing something they supposedly enjoy anyway.

I've seen that done before, and it tends to result in few using the auto-resolve if it's more than a token penalty. A somewhat repetitive mini-game vs time spent at reduced strength and the cost of replacements tend to make auto-resolve unattractive to anyone beyond the lowest difficulty. That's not to say auto-resolve should never result in losses, just that there shouldn't be a heavy penalty to it.

Had the roof thing too, had to switch to a second or third unit that was also in the chopper to get the roof to disappear again.

If it was a standalone flash game or something, some combination of more abilities and changing up what you get to use more often would help I think. I haven't had a chance to play much with all the crashes, so take this for what it's worth, but I think the ships and weapons both you and the AI use are too static to be entertaining for long.

1920x1200, both full screen and windowed, from Desura. I've never turned AA on.

This struck me as odd as well.

Happened to me on my first mission, first alien turn after they became visible. Mission was in Greenland.