XCOM EU What am I doing wrong?

[TheOriginalParanoidJack]

First off thanks to the modders, awesome work. Thank you!

 

I am new to the mod but not X-Com. I have the latest version of Long War. I know it is very hard on normal and meant to be so. I love hard games. The Souls games are some of my favorites. I use to be a long distance runner. I have masochistic tendencies, ok? I know I am meant to lose men/ships/mission. I get it... this is not vanilla. I have a lot of the Second Wave options on to include that Interceptors are more accurate, supposedly.

 

Ok, here is the problem and this may be a bug. I started in Russia. In my first month I had four Interceptors. I immediately began manufacturing three satellites which takes twenty five days with the normal process. A few days later I was spammed by two countries asking for satellite coverage so I started two more on normal manufacturing. Soon after UFOs began flying over Russia. I sent up an Interceptor and it was severely damaged. No problem the game is meant to be hard. I am suppose to play cautiously and even avoid encounters and skip/abort missions, cool. But there is no way to speed up the scan timer while a UFO is flying over. So I tried to intercept them all. After four encounters I had lost one bird with the other three in repair status. I was forced to watch as UFO after UFO flew over Russia at one second of real time equaling one minute of game time for days on end, repeatedly. Until they downed my satellite. So I launched another...

 

So, my questions are... am I missing something? Can I bypass the tedious fly overs while my birds are all mending? Why do I have four interceptors at game start while they are worthless to even shoot down a small UFO? Can several birds launch at once with this mod?

 

The second issue. Satellites take twenty five days to build with the normal process. I was eleven days into the second group of satellites before I realized I never received any funding after the first month ended. So the satellite being shot down had happened beyond thirty days of game time yet I never got a briefing or the funding that goes with it. Thanks in advance for any help/advice you can give.

 

Update: I restarted the game and this time I took the first UFO on the second avalanche fired? Is the game just that random?

Edited August 22, 2015 by TheOriginalParanoidJack

[dubiousintent]

Discussion about Strategy for Long War has it's own thread in the "forum section" of the LW download page. You'll have better luck getting answers there.

 

-Dubious-