best i've done so far is about 7 months in game... there are a few days in there giv or take... the thing is I have got to cydonia in under 6 months but not enough resources to deploy an attack...
Man... im back from the dead! its Venom... and its been a while, fortify your base man... and if not at least keep a few soliders and a lot of tanks in a base in case they come in... you get a lot of weapons out of a base attack... i intentionally make a base of psi troops to attract attention and salvade
ive been reborn, actually im still dead hmm... how rude, id clearly knock on the door and then say... "Little Alien, Little Alien.. Let Me In!" and would assume to get a reply of... "Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin..." but would probably recieve a few plasma shots my way... :X
Have you tried pressing the end turn button and then tried moving your men, see if this works, other wise what i would recommend; if its a pc version re-install it, if its a playstation version, hit your playstion a bit and also use the method of placement that Playstation stole from me; which is placing the playstation on a vertical angle. Try shooting at a target such as the wall, or throw a grenade on the ground, not primed. Do a few things besides walking to see if this still triggers the action of unstabilism, otherwise the best thing to do is to re-intall the game... Your computer may be corrupted by some kind of alien activity.
I blame GST, and any other intergallactic taxes that make it hard for large intergallactic companies that try to fight life threatin aliens to make a decent living.
Another determinant could be skill setting of the game, initially wen i played the game on verteran i would be able to pull of reaction shots before aliens got outside of the door, however, wen i play on superhuman (cauz its harder ) i find that the aliens will usually get out kill a man and then my troops will reaction fire... Once i had an alien who kept shooting the door of their UFO, duh! the door needs to be open first... It was the last one and it ran out of ammo and it started to panik and threw a grenade inside the UFO... Poor fella
If you see an alien using a stun launcher it will most probably be a medic or an engineer... All terror creatures such as cyberdisks, chrysallids, silacoids, celatids, etc. are not associated with ranks. An like mouse said BB carriers are most probably leaders or commanders, however, some solider classes do carry these weapons... im off to play games now
The best way to make money is through researching the alien tech and selling it off... alyways keep enought o arm ur men, but if the amount of guns u have are overstocking the clips then sell them, i frankly only keep laser rifles, heavy plasmas, stun launchers, BB launchers, and a few tanks (psi amps as well). By selling equipment off it also helps on reducing stores heaps! Also save ellerium, dont manufacture any alien weapon tech, unless u realli have to! I think everyone starts off from a point where u dont realli know how to establish urself, but trust me, u soon see patterns in the game that make u strategies before events occur... i realli need to go to bed, i got work 2morro!!!