The Bigger UFOs

[bit5nip3r]

At what point do Supply Ships, Gunboats and Corruptors spawn within the Game?  I'm playing 2.4.  Does it depend on a certain level of research.  I'm about Aug/Sep 2084 into the game, and was wondering if it comes down to the length of game play or the research tree progressed, or neither.

[ShipIt]

It depends on time and difficulty level.

[Salvo]

What the hell are Gunboats and Corruptors? 
I'm at September 2085.
Easy Difficulty.

[Kildor]

Gunboat is WiP UFO, it will be in 2.5.
Corrupter is large ufo appeared in middle of the game (~500 alien interests)

[H-Hour]

Except that with current state of development corrupter comes at the very end.

[bit5nip3r]

At the moment, I'm playing it on an easy level to get a feel for the game.  It's current in Nov 2084.  So in terms of time and difficulty, can I expect to see bigger UFOs soon?

[Salvo]

At the moment, I'm playing it on an easy level to get a feel for the game.  It's current in Nov 2084.  So in terms of time and difficulty, can I expect to see bigger UFOs soon?

I have a game going on Easy difficult as well. I'm at Q4 of 2085. I have not seen a Corruptor or a Gunboat. Considering starting a new game at Hard difficulty.

[Jon_dArc]

On Easy, Interest accumulates at a rate of one point per day (24 hours). It looks like the game starts with 20 Interest for some reason, so you should expect 480 days before the 500-Interest benchmark mentioned earlier. If I can do calendar math correctly, that should be July 14 2085, so I'm not sure what's up with Salvo's game.

I've seen them in 2.4, but I edited aircraftmanagement.ufo to spawn them faster and also increased interest using the debug_setinterest console command.

(Have I mentioned that the game currently has pacing issues? )

~J

[H-Hour]

Gunboat is not yet available. Corruptor becomes available at 500, but it doesn't necessarily mean it will show up right then. I believe it is only possible to show on terror missions, XVI missions and maybe intercept missions (couldn't tell in the code).

[Jon_dArc]

Yeah, I should clarify that by "them" I mean "corruptors".

~J

[kurja]

borrowing the thread a little here - what different alien missions are there?

[H-Hour]

I believe this covers it:

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case INTERESTCATEGORY_RESCUE:
return "geoscape/icon_rescue";
case INTERESTCATEGORY_BUILDING:
return "geoscape/icon_build_alien_base";
case INTERESTCATEGORY_ALIENBASE:
/** @todo we have two different alienbase models */
return "geoscape/alienbase";
case INTERESTCATEGORY_RECON:
return "geoscape/icon_recon";
case INTERESTCATEGORY_XVI:
return "geoscape/icon_xvi";
case INTERESTCATEGORY_HARVEST:
return "geoscape/icon_harvest";
case INTERESTCATEGORY_UFOCARRIER:
return "geoscape/icon_ufocarrier";
case INTERESTCATEGORY_TERROR_ATTACK:
return "geoscape/icon_terror";
/* Should not be reached, these mission categories are not drawn on geoscape */
case INTERESTCATEGORY_BASE_ATTACK:
return "geoscape/base2";
case INTERESTCATEGORY_SUPPLY:
case INTERESTCATEGORY_INTERCEPT:

[geever]

Mostly.

INTERESTCATEGORY_RECON is split to ground and areial recon AFAIR
INTERESTCATEGORY_BUILDING is split to (alien) base building and subverting government
INTERESTCATEGORY_INTERCEPT is split to attack aircraft and attack installation

and ofc. INTERESTCATEGORY_RESCUE is special used for downed dropship missions only

Hmm.. I don't know why there is two alienbase interest category, maybe one for the base building and another for the "attack alienbase" missions...

-geever