Hello I have been playing the game on the most recent version and found that after building my third base in the second month by income dropped drastically, due to a combo of:
1:rising costs for said bases and staff(any advice on how to manage this would be helpful)
2: having trouble in taking out UFO's (I saw several posts about air combat but still would like some tips on dealing with the fighters and medium UFO's that appear around month 3, also what is your favorite load out of aircraft per base? I use the condor, condor, foxtrot per base) leading to dropped funding
Because of these reasons my income would drop to around 300 thousand a month making it very difficult to make a 4th base which leads to less air coverage and that means less downed UFO's which means less money, etc.
I have played about 3 games so far all of them end in stagnation in the third month as I lose air superiority(the UFOs come in waves and I cant handle them all due to refueling times and refitting times)
Also where do you place bases to cover the globe the most? currently I place my starter base in north east egypt, following with a immediate 2nd base in Hong-Kong area, then when the 2nd month happens i make a third base in america, at this point i get into a money problem as the costs for crew,planes, and facilities in all bases makes it very expensive(i keep a bunch of meat shields in each base for base assaults).
i usually rush buy more labs and scientists to get faster tech (sadly you cant manufacture laser cannons for money anymore).
I am asking for a criticism of my strategy, and how i can do better in any of these, either in links to other informative posts or helpful posts.
Thank you in advance( and sorry for the long post)
EDIT: Forgot is there anything upgrades for the foxtrot? I did some file diving and found none
I was file diving a bit and found that the storage room does advance in "tech levels" however when i ran my game it stayed at the default level the entire time, Same for the army organizer at the barracks he stayed at his 1st stage of tech all game to no matter how far I got. Is this intended?