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So after losing my last campaign horribly on the strategic level, I decided to change my strategy in the new one. I planned to rapidly expand and favor quantity over quality in regards to tactical missions, meaning taking on nearly every mission presented with as few soldiers as i can possibly imagine completing the mission with and setting nearly all resistance guys on intel for first few months. So after a crap ton of missions I am sitting now on 3 havens with resistance radio nearly done and enough intel and supplies to continue to expand. I just opened up the Network Tower mission in my starting region but something isn't right: In all 3 Havens Advent Strength remained at 1. First I discarded this to applying my new strategy of doing missions in all 3 Havens. But now I am concerned I encountered some kind of bug because in my experience, completing Liberation missions always increased Advent strength. I even did a "Get Advents attention" in another Haven which is still at 1 too. So any idea what happened in my game?

lilyophelia wrote:If you're playing on Rookie, I noticed (from one of my many previous experimental games) that Advent forces don't seem to ever rise above 1 (or it just happens extremely slowly).

All other difficulty levels do gain Advent Strength over time.

'm at the end of April now, just finished Network Tower mission and still all 3 Havens on Advent Strength 1. Playing on second difficulty level. Is that a possible very lucky outcome or is it a bug?

Two of the biggest differences between difficulty levels is 1) The initial number of "legions" (strength level) in each region and 2) the rate at which the aliens land UFOs to add more legions to the Earth.

wei270 wrote:

Two of the biggest differences between difficulty levels is 1) The initial number of "legions" (strength level) in each region and 2) the rate at which the aliens land UFOs to add more legions to the Earth.

wait if this is the case can you interrupt those UFOs? do those reinforcement UFOs have relations with the UFO missions i am getting cause there is this month i got like 3 UFO mission i am like what? and then i never got them again lol

AvengerXP wrote:I've done some extensive testing with ADVENT strength and youll notice it being stale for a long while and then it's just going to ramp up. I've been sitting on 1-2 for like 4 months and on the 5th month everywhere is 3-4.

Sir_Dr_D wrote:What does advent strength mean exactly. Is this the type of enemy troops you will find on missions. Does it effect the number of aliens on missions, or both?