thothkins Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 First UFO spotted. 2 Condors sent to intercept. UFO lands. I send the Chinook. Then I completely forget my own advice and don;t send it to a waypoint. UFO takes off just as the Chinook approaches. Quite a few survivors from what I could see before the reload Second time out.. Use the waypoint for the Chinook. UFO takes off and lands again. Chinook intercepts without a problem. Pretty daunting for a new player though, I'd imagine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishantil Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Ouch. Looking forward to giving the SC a spin. What are your thoughts on the money balance? I have a feeling I'm going to have a lot less money available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StellarRat Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Ouch. Looking forward to giving the SC a spin.What are your thoughts on the money balance? I have a feeling I'm going to have a lot less money available. Even with the 50% increase in your starting cash? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted August 22, 2013 Author Share Posted August 22, 2013 you lose out on the sale costs though? that's reduced 50% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StellarRat Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 (edited) you lose out on the sale costs though? that's reduced 50%True, but I haven't looked at the numbers isn't the additional 50% starting a very big chunk of change? Edited August 22, 2013 by StellarRat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted August 22, 2013 Author Share Posted August 22, 2013 I spent it quickly enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StellarRat Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 I always put some in the bank in case I get an expensive upgrade, like Wolf or laser weapons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted August 22, 2013 Author Share Posted August 22, 2013 I'm now saving pennies in a large alien headed piggy bank for a Foxttrot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishantil Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 So it looks like you start with 750K. And a full Light Scout mission nets you about 50K. So it still takes you 2 missions to pay off that loan on the scatter laser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GizmoGomez Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 We start off with 1.75 million, I thought anyway. That's what I remember from my started game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishantil Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 You start with 1.25, and pay for your first base, thus 750K, if I'm not mistaken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GizmoGomez Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Well, the bases only cost 250K, so 1.25M to 750K would be a 500K base. I'll just have to check my game just to make sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GizmoGomez Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Okay, you still start off with 1 million, and you still have 750K left over after your first base, but all of the funding nation's initial funding has been boosted. Although, they've been boosted kinda oddly. North America-150K Central America-225K South America-150K Northern Africa-150K Southern Africa-150K Middle East (plus Greece )-225K Europe-150K Soviet Union-150K Indochina-150K Australasia-225K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Are those the actual numbers you got out of the game or did you calculate them from funding nation "scores"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GizmoGomez Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Those are the actual numbers. I started a fresh normal difficulty game on SC1 and moused over each funding nation and recorded the funding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted August 23, 2013 Author Share Posted August 23, 2013 Are those funding levels standard across all games, or do they change each time. Also the relationship sees to be different depending on the funding zone too. Mind you that could have been there fore ages, and I'm just noticing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GizmoGomez Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 The funding and relationship levels are constant for starting new games, and each funding bloc has their own relations and funding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted August 23, 2013 Author Share Posted August 23, 2013 interesting values considering the cold war setting. Although I appreciate they have to balance across the number of blocs a well placed base can cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoFourDelta Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Okay, you still start off with 1 million, and you still have 750K left over after your first base, but all of the funding nation's initial funding has been boosted. Although, they've been boosted kinda oddly. North America-150K Central America-225K South America-150K Northern Africa-150K Southern Africa-150K Middle East (plus Greece )-225K Europe-150K Soviet Union-150K Indochina-150K Australasia-225K These numbers look a little... odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svidangel Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 interesting values considering the cold war setting. Although I appreciate they have to balance across the number of blocs a well placed base can cover. This. Looks like either north or south america base will cover central, so central is boosted, though you could try to cheat that and half cover north or south and central. Australasia is hard to cover with anything other than indochina, then you have the large clump of 150s for africa/europe. If they really wanted to balance it they would probably have to drop all of those to around 100k to make any starting position equally viable. Makes sense from a gaming perspective if not an economic one. Oh, missed that the middle east was 225. That still makes the Mediterranean by far the best starting spot. Ah well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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