How can I prevent alien pacts with founding members?
I mean, in geoscape I can see that funding is slowly decreasing each time I mouse over the continent.
But it is not clear to me which are the factors that increase or decrease the possibility of an alien pact.
In the last 2 game playthroughs, I went on for a couple of months without problems, then I lost a continent on the beginning of the third month.
The strange thing is that in both cases I was building a base on those continents; but the bases were still not operational. I was building hangars for the chinhook and the interceptors; while there was living room space, no soldiers were yet in the base. Also no operational radars, but 2 were being built.
If I'm building a base on a continent, shouldn't be that continent more eager to increase its funding? Instead they left the alliance.
I think that either
1)there there is something that is not working quite right,
2) or something that I have not fully understood.
Moreover, how can I find alien bases? I've patrolled a lot on these continents (using dropships and/or interceptors), but I could not find alien bases.
Am I doing something wrong?