Caesar22

Agreed... Gauddlike's image fit surprisingly well. Chris, I know you said that images don't git in with the atmosphere anymore, but please reconsider... after having a look at Gauddlike's 2 images I think there is a lot of potential. You know it would be a pretty good idea if there were 15-20 of these images and they would be random generated after each mission completion.

For me it wouldn't be much of a motivation to search for a random guy... Yeah it's fine and all, but I can just hire another one What is the benefit of saving a pilot? Do I get some kind of a reward?(and please, no medals)That's the skeptic in me talking... So I can see 2 ways of getting past this while making the game a lot more exciting. You ready? 1.Give stats to the pilots(just like to your ground troops) I mean we only have planes, as if in drone. No pilots, no stats.... I mean come on... When they graduated from the academy shouldn't someone have better skills, reaction, wit or something... They are live human beings, not robots... And the stats will serve as a motivation to either save or abandon the pilot. For example, if I had a pilot with 50 accuracy... meh, can get another one... but if my pilot who had 100 kills and had 90 accuracy was downed, I would summon everyone to his rescue... Strike teams go go go... take out that grey scum If you win, you get your badass pilot back. If you lose, well you just lost a valuable member of Xenonaut Task force. 2. Change pilot rescue to plane recovery missions This mission should be available for custom built airplanes like MiG - 31 or X-37 Corssair. The implication is really simple... the aliens downed a MiG or X-37(or other custom built airplane). Now they landed a commando crew to take capture it for analysis. Your task is either to locate hold the plane crash scene for 5-10-20 turns(depends on the game balance and difficulty balance) or eliminate all the aliens for extra cash. I didn't include the Condors, as they are Factory built and aliens should have enough data about them from reconaissance. The Mig 31, the X series are new models so they should trigger the alien interest. If you succeed, you get your plane back(well, the damaged part atleast). If you fail, you lose your planes or the aliens should be a lot more effective in taking down these planes(more damage, etc)