So this I wrote already on XCom Reddit:
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?
I'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?
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