Option to turn off ops points for missions?

[Sisyphean]

I'm 155 days into a campaign and i really want to get rid of this ops points for ground missions. i was able to work around it before todays update by just spending them before i went on a mission but now i can go negative that's not an option anymore. If i were able to edit the save file that would be no problem as i could just credit myself the ops for the mission but the save file doesn't seem to be accessible (yes i can read it but its just one long string of seemingly random characters)

on the whole i sortof like the ops mechanics, its another dimension of play even if certain costs don't make much sense (150 ops for +1.5 ops per day? even discounted it takes 70 days to pay itself back) but putting a tax on ground missions is i think a bad decision, the ground missions are 80% of the game. I'm already risking my transport and all my troopers by going on the mission so why do i need to pay an extra tax on top of it? 

This is definitely something that should be opt in, or at the very least an option to increase the number of each type of ship looted before it kicks in so we can turn it off that way.

anyone know how i can turn this off mid campaign or any way of editing the save so i can at least credit myself the ops points?

[Chris]

12 minutes ago, Sisyphean said:

I'm 155 days into a campaign and i really want to get rid of this ops points for ground missions. i was able to work around it before todays update by just spending them before i went on a mission but now i can go negative that's not an option anymore. If i were able to edit the save file that would be no problem as i could just credit myself the ops for the mission but the save file doesn't seem to be accessible (yes i can read it but its just one long string of seemingly random characters)

on the whole i sortof like the ops mechanics, its another dimension of play even if certain costs don't make much sense (150 ops for +1.5 ops per day? even discounted it takes 70 days to pay itself back) but putting a tax on ground missions is i think a bad decision, the ground missions are 80% of the game. I'm already risking my transport and all my troopers by going on the mission so why do i need to pay an extra tax on top of it? 

This is definitely something that should be opt in, or at the very least an option to increase the number of each type of ship looted before it kicks in so we can turn it off that way.

anyone know how i can turn this off mid campaign or any way of editing the save so i can at least credit myself the ops points?

There's a campaign option at the start to turn off UFO Delegation, but unfortunately you can't change it mid-campaign - you either do two crash sites per UFO and get bonus cash each month for delegation, or you don't get the bonus cash and you're expected to make ends meet by running all the crash sites. But we can't turn off the bonus cash once you start a game with it enabled.

It's opt-out rather than opt-in because most people find it really grindy and repetitive to fight loads of crash sites each month, but if you'd prefer to play it that way then the option is there to do so.

[Sisyphean]

Ahh, thankyou for the clarification, this is my first campaign, and i didnt understand the significance of ops points before i started so i didnt really get the tooltip. Makes a lot more sense now so my bad. 

[Chris]

10 hours ago, Sisyphean said:

Ahh, thankyou for the clarification, this is my first campaign, and i didnt understand the significance of ops points before i started so i didnt really get the tooltip. Makes a lot more sense now so my bad. 

No problem. To be fair, the tooltip that explains what that option does was missing until very recently!