General Air Combat Balance / Improvements
The air combat in V24 is probably the area of the game that needs the most balancing. Unlike the ground combat, there's probably also some conceptual issues to discuss here, so we may as well start this discussion now so I can include the first batch of changes in V25.
We'll be giving the air combat more attention (and a UI refresh) in Early Access, but we still want something that poses some kind of interesting challenge in the meantime. Here's a few key parameters for the discussion:
In the production of weapons and aircraft - not all the characteristics of one type of weapon and one type of aircraft should be the same. They should differ slightly in one direction or another (within some random limits). This will turn the production of aviation components into a small lottery game.
The characteristics of weapons, armor and engines in UFOs also deviate within small random limits (parameter +- random deviation). This will make UFOs almost unlike each other, even without u