Let's Replay X-COM UFO Defence #10: By the Numbers... Mostly
296Fighting missions in the hours of daylight can make all the difference, doubly so when terror missions are concerned. The aliens have a longer visibility range than your soldiers which makes fighting them hard enough, but at nighttime their visibility isn't impacted unlike yours. This makes exploring that much more dangerous, forcing you to slow the pace of your advance and when innocent civilians need saving that's bad. I can't attribute our current success in this mission to it being day alone but it surely isn't hurting our chances to be able to see the aliens we're shooting at from a significant distance. With luck and some careful tactics, our squad may yet emerge victorious with civilians left alive to show for it, which would do wonders for our end-of-month score.
Regardless of whether our mission is successful or not we need to think on the future of X-COM. Our efforts may not be going terribly so far but there's only so much we can do with just a single base - trust me on that, I know from experience. To better detect aliens across the globe we're going to need to build more bases which also makes the whole organisation able to survive the loss of a base to an alien attack. You can make your additional bases as large as your original one and there are certainly advantages to that, but it's more economical to make it a base dedicated to detecting alien UFOs and shooting them down so your troops in the original base can then deal with the crashed vessels. A small garrison of troops will help protect it from alien retaliation if it occurs, leaving your maintenance costs low while dramatically boosting your UFO detection areas.
It takes a while for a new base to be set up but in general if you can afford it, it's better to get them going as soon as you can, before things get worse in places where your original base isn't.
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