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[another_guest]

Originally posted by jimmy7512@Jun 4 2005, 01:53 PM
:blink: Wow, Is there a monthly cost for using avengers, Lightnings and Firestorms ?

No monthly costs I think. But of course they need elerium as fuel. If you've got a decent numbers of engineers, money shouldn't be a problem.

Personally I still keep some interceptors to take on the slower, smaller ufos, since I've got plenty of money after a few months. And I stick to skyrangers to transport my troops to missions, in order to save elerium, even if a skyranger has a monthly cost of $500000.

[Sharp]

Once I can get Firestorms, interceptors go bye bye. Skyrangers are keepers though, albeit they cost half a mil a month they do have an incredibly long range, they are the best way of finding alien bases, they can transport HWP's/More soldiers then the Lightning.

Engineers are an easy source of income, motion scanners are good first, then laser cannons, then fusion ball launchers, although laser cannons will be the majority as they are relativly low level research. Its good just to have a base consisting of a few workshops (and labs for research) just producing laser cannons to make cash, however nearing the end of the month dont forget to transfer the engineers and scientists to another base to save money by not paying thier salary

However selling Alien Artifacts will get you a lot of initial income, just be sure to keep one of every item until you have researched it, the only alien artifacts you should not sell should be Alien Alloys, Elerium-115, Alien Grenades, Heavy Plasma Clips, Heavy Plasma Rifles, Blaster Bomb's and Launchers, Stun Launchers and Bombs.

You might want to keep a Mind Probe or two but they sell for an incredibly amount of cash each (around 300k if I remember rightly). You can also sell excess Stun Launchers, mabye even Blaster Launchers, but you should not sell the ammo as that is expensive and can be hard to come by.

[PrejudiceSucks]

Yep, mind probes are totally excellent for selling, one engine of elerium (50 units) will net you around $15 million - Ker-ching!

[jimmy7512]

Does anyone know how to get a Excellent on the monthly report because most of the countries are signing pacts with the aliens even U.K. :blink: .

[Kearnsy]

There is no easy way. Just try to take out every alien you see and hope you dont mess anything up to bad.
If it all goes well, you should win them back in no time!

[jimmy7512]

Originally posted by Kearnsy@Jun 5 2005, 01:11 PM
There is no easy way. Just try to take out every alien you see and hope you dont mess anything up to bad.
If it all goes well, you should win them back in no time!

The problem is I don't see any even when I try to look for them I don't see any and end up getting a bad report and no funding.

[Havell]

Buy lots of radars and blow everything you see out of the sky, maybe build another base of the other side of the world to monitor alien activites there, just blast the UFOs and once you get down on the ground systematically kill everything in sight.

[PrejudiceSucks]

What you need is 5 bases. One on Antarctica for research and engineering (has a guard of 24 soldiers, I can't afford to lose it) and 4 dotted around the world. Mine are in:

Prague
Ecquador
Australia
South-east Russia

That way with a Hyperwave thingummy I can see pretty much the whole globe.

[Kearnsy]

Ive got mine in:
Antarctica
China
Australia
(extreamly)North Africa
Columbia

and rather stupidly: South Africa

[PrejudiceSucks]

5 bases is hard enough to manage, 6 must be a total nightmare. Oh well, different strokes for different folks I guess.