Mission Generation??

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Blathergut
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Mission Generation??

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Can anyone explain/does anyone know:

1. Are missions generated by region? Or are they generated by world and drop down in regions? I'm wondering if I have 5 havens, are there piles of missions being generated in each one, and I uncover them depending on how much intel each haven produces? Am sitting in mid-August right now, 5 havens, with 14 different Dark Events active. :( I know I missed finding many of those missions, but are they being generated in regions I don't even have control of?

2. Does anyone know approximately how many missions are generated per month? By region? By world?
justdont
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Quite a few missions - liberation chains, aggressive COIN, prisoners, invasions, etc - can happen only in contacted regions. On the other hand, reinforcements, passive COIN (dark events), facility construction, etc - can happen everywhere no matter it was a contacted region or not.

For each contacted region, the volume of generated missions increases quite a lot.
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Hobbes
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Any Region
- Reinforce (max 1 per region)
- Scheduled Offworld Reinforcements (max 1 per world)
- Emergency Offworld Reinforcements (max 1 per world)
- Super Emergency Offworld Reinforcements (max 1 per world)
- COIN Research (max 2 per world, cannot happen in region already with Dark Event or Research Facility)
- COIN Ops (max 1 per world, cannot happen in region already with Dark Event or Research Facility)
- Build Research Facility (max 1 per world, cannot happen in region already with Dark Event or Research Facility)
- Regional Avatar Research (only in regions with Research Facility built)
- Liberation Stage 1
- Liberation Stage 2 (if Lib 1 completed)
- Liberation Stage 3 (if Lib 1 and 2 completed)

Uncontacted Regions Only
- Repression (simulates ADVENT repressing Resistance activities on the region - can't be detected)

Contacted Regions Only
- Protect Data (1 per region, max 2 in world, max 2 General Ops in every region)
- High Value Prisoner (1 per region, max 2 in world, max 2 General Ops in every region)
- Political Prisoners (1 per region, max 2 in world, max 2 General Ops in every region)
- Troop Maneuvers (1 per region, max 2 in world, max 2 General Ops in every region)
- Propaganda (1 per region, max 2 in world, max 2 General Ops in every region)
- Protect Research (1 per region, max 2 in world)
- Snare (1 per world)
- Foothold (1 per world, all regions liberated)
- Counterinsurgency (only 1 RetalOps per region)
- Supply Raid (only 1 RetalOps per region)
- Intel Raid (only 1 RetalOps per region)
- Recruit Raid (only 1 RetalOps per region)
- Rendezvous

There are more requirements for specific activities to be spawned such as month, Vigilance/Alert levels and number of Rebels in the Haven but I haven't included those on the above list.

In a worst case scenario, where the conditions are satisfied for all of them (with the exception of Foothold), you could simultaneously have:
* A max of 7 activities that are happening anywhere in the world (and all of them with really bad results for XCOM)
* A max of 13 activities taking place only in contacted regions
* 1 for each built facility generating Avatar pips
* 1 RetalOps and 1 Rendezvous on every contacted region
* Liberation missions on all non-liberated regions
* Repression missions on all uncontacted regions
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What are the cooldowns on mini-retals? Is this per region?

Also I didn't see invasion on your list. What is the limit on this? Per region/world? What is the cooldown?
wei270
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- COIN Research (max 2 per world, cannot happen in region already with Dark Event or Research Facility)
- COIN Ops (max 1 per world, cannot happen in region already with Dark Event or Research Facility)


if these two are mutually exclusive per reason how are they assigned, what i means when it comes to dark events which one is assigned to a region first? the tactical or strategical, also i know that COIN Research can happen in uncontracted region what about COIN Ops can it happen out side contacted region?
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Hobbes
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trihero wrote:What are the cooldowns on mini-retals? Is this per region?
The cool-downs for the mini-retals are regional - 18 to 24 days to Supplies/Intel and 14/24 days for Recruit Raid. But they also require passing a RNG roll before they are activated
Also I didn't see invasion on your list. What is the limit on this? Per region/world? What is the cooldown?
There are no limits to the number of Invasions, only a regional cooldown of 36-45 days. However, Invasion requires a region being liberated for more than 21 days, an adjacent region having a strength of 8 or greater, and an RNG roll. I didn't include it on the list above because of all the conditions, specially the strength requirement, which makes it highly dependent on specific situations.
wei270 wrote:
- COIN Research (max 2 per world, cannot happen in region already with Dark Event or Research Facility)
- COIN Ops (max 1 per world, cannot happen in region already with Dark Event or Research Facility)


if these two are mutually exclusive per reason how are they assigned, what i means when it comes to dark events which one is assigned to a region first? the tactical or strategical, also i know that COIN Research can happen in uncontracted region what about COIN Ops can it happen out side contacted region?
COIN Research requires 'Alien region at most 1 link away from a contacted region; strength >= 3 and vigilance <= 8; at least 4th/3rd/3rd/2nd month (by difficulty)'. COIN Ops requires 'Contacted alien region with strength >= 3 and vigilance >= 3; at least 4th/3rd/3rd/2nd month (by difficulty)'. I'm quoting from the Excel file about Missions posted by sectoidfodder
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