
Alien Allies Anyone(AAA:P)?
#1
Posted 22 November 2009 - 05:02 PM
This got me thinking - if that's the case, then they must be subject to the same "enemy of my enemy is my ally" rule as organisations are. Would it be possible to get non-hostile with aliens then?
Example:
X-Com allied with Megapol
Aliens hostile towards X-Com
Aliens hostile towards Megapol
X-Com attacks Megapol doing a helluva lot damage
Megapol hostile towards X-Com
Aliens allied with X-Com
I haven't seen such a situation yet, but if such a situation arose, I probably wouldn't even notice it, because UFOs and Aliens are probably always marked as hostile, even if they are not(like rent-a-cops during raids), so I probably would have shot them and went hostile again.
#2
Posted 22 November 2009 - 08:56 PM
I think it's only a coincidence that they're hitting those organizations, and those organizations had their property damaged by the aliens to shift them away from neutral
Are you searching the enemy organizations' buildings manually? They don't report aliens if you're hostile if I remember correctly
Edited by Mustang, 22 November 2009 - 08:59 PM.
#3
Posted 22 November 2009 - 10:42 PM
Have seen it happen with the Cult of Sirius, although that was thanks to the aliens dropping an Overspawn near the Temple of the Apocalypse during an Overspawn run. The thing's so dimwitted it didn't realize it was destroying the cult's temple. (Well, technically its AI can be summed up as randomly selecting any of the four compass directions and walk one tile - ignore and destroy whatever is in the way. Lather, rinse, repeat. )
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Edited by NKF, 22 November 2009 - 10:49 PM.
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#4
Posted 23 November 2009 - 01:46 AM
You can use an editor to make the aliens allied with you, but they're still totally hostile in game.
I think it's only a coincidence that they're hitting those organizations, and those organizations had their property damaged by the aliens to shift them away from neutral
Are you searching the enemy organizations' buildings manually? They don't report aliens if you're hostile if I remember correctly
Totally hostile as in "UFOs shoot you in cityscape withouth you shooting them first, and Aliens shoot you in battlescape without you shooting them first"?
If so, then they probably can get allied to you at some point in the game, but it just won't make any difference.
I don't mean them beaming aliens down - it seems random. What I meant was cityscape bomber attacks. Before wacky politics jump in they attack pretty much only you, Megapol and Goverment. Later on they start to attack other organisations, but still only seemed do attack enemies of your(or Megapols or Goverments) active enemies.
Haven't seen it work with the aliens since they do not generally favour many organizations, and those that do like the aliens (a lot) have a very one sided relationship.
Have seen it happen with the Cult of Sirius, although that was thanks to the aliens dropping an Overspawn near the Temple of the Apocalypse during an Overspawn run. The thing's so dimwitted it didn't realize it was destroying the cult's temple. (Well, technically its AI can be summed up as randomly selecting any of the four compass directions and walk one tile - ignore and destroy whatever is in the way. Lather, rinse, repeat. )
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Well, the Overspawn does seem to be random, just like beaming aliens down, and I suppose it's not an attack per se. I meant only bomber attacks in the earlier post. Overspawns suck BTW... they mostly die as soon as they are dropped down thanks to "falling buildings".;/
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Posted 23 November 2009 - 05:43 AM
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#7
Posted 23 November 2009 - 04:10 PM
Yes, but that rule is not direct; it relates to how relations are updated when you damage their enemies.In my recent game I saw aliens only attack me and my allies on purpose, but leave my enemies be.
This got me thinking - if that's the case, then they must be subject to the same "enemy of my enemy is my ally" rule as organisations are.
Well, that works quite well for the gangs vs. MegaPol (the three games start out hating each other moderately, but usually MegaPol only hates one of them enough [-50] to attack. That rapidly improves the other gangs' opinion of MegaPol.Would it be possible to get non-hostile with aliens then?
Example:
X-Com allied with Megapol
Aliens hostile towards X-Com
Aliens hostile towards Megapol
X-Com attacks Megapol doing a helluva lot damage
Megapol hostile towards X-Com
Aliens allied with X-Com
There seem to be three fixed-points in the relation update system:
* Civilians start out at zero to everyone. This never changes.
* The 100 with respect to yourself never changes.
* I've never seen any other organization pair that operates at mutual -100, so I don't know whether the immutability of this rating pair for X-COM/aliens is hard-coded or not. I do know that inadvertently destroying police cars doesn't improve the aliens opinion of X-COM. [Generally, rating -50 is enough to qualify for enemy-of-enemy adjustment; +15 is enough to qualify for enemy-of-ally adjustment, and is why Transtellar always goes hostile (Transtellar starts out at 15-20 positive view of aliens).]
Edited by zaimoni, 23 November 2009 - 04:14 PM.
#8
Posted 23 November 2009 - 05:01 PM
Seems Mustang pretty much aswered my question. I tried attacking Megapol, but couldn't get them to not fire at me. If setting them to allied via editor doesn't help, then it means I probably was allied to aliens, but it doesn't change much in the game. That's a shame, it could allow for some pretty funny games;).
Would you guys happen to know what are the random changes to the relations done when starting a new game? In my last playthrough I didn't experience Transtellar's hostility at all, but in my current game they got hostile after I shot down the first two waves of scouts and probes(no excessive damage to roads, or other properties). I'm asking, because the difference seems huge.
Edited by Ylenard, 23 November 2009 - 05:02 PM.
#10
Posted 23 November 2009 - 10:26 PM
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Edited by NKF, 23 November 2009 - 10:38 PM.
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#11
Posted 24 November 2009 - 03:30 AM
For example in my current game, in the beggining of week two Aliens started sending Transporters and FASs. I downed a Transporter, and captured it. Anthropods were armed only with Bransucker Launchers. The other Transporter successfully dropped it's payload into a police station. I went to clear the mess up - Anthropods were already armed with disruptors - the same week, game time difference of ~10 minutes.
Edited by Ylenard, 24 November 2009 - 04:15 AM.
#12
Posted 24 November 2009 - 11:40 PM
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