MISCELLANEOUS
Despite their dependence on
X-Com to protect them from the alien threat, the civilians are not totally
useless.
Several civilian 'tech' buildings exist which can aid you in your fight by
providing additional resources and equipment:
Elerium Stash
Working with local authorities, X-Com Engineers have built
storage silos for Elerium-115 harvested from UFO crash sites. These silos will
not only give you a large boost to your current resources but will also provided
a steady trickle of Elerium over time. The silos can also be sold to recover the
resources that went into their construction but bear in mind that you will lose
the steady income.
Machine Shop
X-Com research has been made available to private
companies in the hopes that new technologies can be researched more quickly.
Despite these companies' aversion to sharing their achievements, the Machine
Shop can give us access to new weapons that would otherwise require us to steal
from our X-Com allies. The Machine Shop's assets can be sold to generate
resources but we will lose the ability to construct the new technology provided
by it.
Crashsite
After being shot down by our elite Interceptor pilots,
some alien vessels have crashed on Earth without being destroyed or recovered by
their leaders. Such crashes often leave their technology intact to be recovered by our Engineers. Further more, alien vessels are often
armed with powerful weapons which we can now turn against them.