svidangel Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 The whole air combat thing is a balance, and it's a lot easier if you keep ahead of it. It was still difficult around late december to early january in my game, but that was also because I didn't know I could sell so many things I was stockpiling. The more bases and planes you build early, the more stuff you can shoot down, and the slower the whole invasion progresses. It's kind of a rough system when you aren't expecting it, and falling a little bit behind just causes the whole thing to snowball. Miss a few UFOs, bigger UFOs come before you can deal with them, UFOs come closer together, etc etc. Might be a good idea on the easier difficulty levels to have absolutely fixed points the invasion cannot accelerate past in order to give people who fall behind a chance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PerfectDeath Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 One issue I'm having is I'm building Corsairs but they take 30 days each with 15 technicians (I had 20-30 scientists and only 15 techs) and a few days after I start building my corsairs heavy fighters show up, then the aliens dropped 2 landing craft, one escorted, one alone. The alone one drops a base (which I promptly destroy) and then it flies out of orbit after I pound it with 4 alenium torps... ]= I manage to shoot down the heavy fighter escort on another landing craft but it turns out it was looking to attack my base. O_o Base invasions... I save scummed this a bunch to see how the aliens would react. They play VERY defensively, only one batch (the ones who spawned in my medical center) which were properly aggressive. The others (4 batches each spawning from the hangars) where cowardly camping filth that just sat out of my line of sight and each could fire two 3-round plasma burst each turn! D=< They are supposed to be invading my base right? Why are they defending so much. ]=? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svidangel Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 (edited) I have never built a Corsair. Made it to Feb just fine aside from that rough spot in Dec-Early Jan. Put corsair money into expanding to 4 bases and stocking them with other stuff, one a manufacturing base with 75 engis. Haven't yet had the pleasure of a base defense, but from the sounds of the bugs I may want to wait on that anyway Edited June 12, 2013 by svidangel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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