I built 3 labs in Base 1 to prepare for all the research that is required... 30 Scientists still make a slow job of their tasks-in-hand.. especially when, at this stage of the campaign, only 25 are available. Are you of the opinion that that is also bad practice?
yes, this is exactly what i am saying, probably about 5-th time now, and you seem to have made progress, at least you now noticed it.
so, why did you not notice this before?
this is probably the same reason why you don't see anything in the screenshot.
the nations are smart enough to realize that your phalanx management style is such that the nations would prefer being properly killed by aliens rather than being insulted like that by their own kind (= killed civilians in south america are an investment in your phalanx business).
and not only that, but it seems your phalanx commander is also self-righteous while doing so.
the whole thing seems to be about unlearning what you might have learned in different situations in other games.
from the style of your post it seems that the unlearning is too much to digest right now, and after the shock you might need some time to come to terms with yourself, and anything i write as further explanation would rather lead to useless arguments until then.
i mean, in my opinion, you base management is
that much off.
it is like 'all the civilians got killed while phalanx soldiers were running for the best sniping position'.
edit:
oh, i certainly forgot the demagogic rule: overkill is better than "just about right".
i am going to correct this mistake now.
so, you are not protecting people as fast as you could, which is not as fast as some ordinary construction worker could issue the orders to build those 8 buildings, because you are making a strategic investment that is beyond the comprehension of mere mortals.
indirectly, the strategic investment comes from dead latinos.
so, you are saying that the latinos should not count.
maybe it is because you think that all that the latinos do is carnivals, cutting down rain forests, and growing cocaine anyway, and such investment would be reasonable.
let the latinos die.
then, maybe you would think that dead chinese should count less, because there are so many of them anyway.
what about dead black people, they have strange customs and way of life, they might not count as real humans.
what about dead muslims, they are terrorists anyway.
what about women, they might be inferior, you know, it might be appropriate that they counted as half maybe.
jews would be complicated--on one hand, nazis thought they would make the world a better place by killing jews, on the other hand if it comes to financing, jews might count twice.
i think it is good that you cannot play with this attitude in ufo:ai, at least on very hard level.
and i think that being able to play the game with just one base like in x-com: enemy unknown was an artifact, and ufo:ai is better at least in that point.