Guest soloalien Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 (edited) 1. Is it better to capture a live alien (with no alien containment facility) or to kill them?2. Is it better to capture a live alien (with an alien containment facility) or to kill them? (suppose i already have the hyperwave/psi researches)3. Can capturing too many aliens cause that bug where the leader doesn't appear for research? Like if I capture 13 aliens in a single mission while already having 5 live inside the facility with a leader among them? Edited December 19, 2010 by soloalien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[NKF] Posted December 20, 2010 Report Share Posted December 20, 2010 I don't think it matters if you have a containment or otherwise - I imagine the game stuffs the aliens in containment after the score is calculated and updated. According to the notes gathered on the wiki, the higher score for capturing an alien is only for the first instance of that rank/race combination. Further captures will earn a lower score than a kill. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yarrow Posted December 21, 2010 Report Share Posted December 21, 2010 (edited) not only score that counts in xcom! dead alien still gives you money, 20K for each corpseso is your 20 points more score worth it? compare it with points you got for destroying very small ufo ( see ufopaedia.org )not to mention shooting down larger ufos as for alien containment, its the alien rank that countscurrently I have7 sectoid engineers6 floater engineers4 muton soldiers2 sectoid leaders1 sectoid commander as you can see its more than 10 aliens, but only 5 alien ranks tip: if your containment is fullstart research on alien than IMMEDIATELY abort itone alien is removed from containment Edited December 21, 2010 by yarrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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