Talk: Satellite

Abduction Missions[]

Obviously, the "No Abduction mission with full coverage" info is not quite correct, as I am having an abduction event with the whole world being covered by satellites (all of them active). Interesting enough, two of these events are on the same continent (making it an easy choice). Anyway, it seems that there can be abduction events even in covered countries. Irian (talk) 18:41, November 6, 2012 (UTC)

I have to concur. Abduction events do occur in countries with satellite coverage. You can't forestall the inevitable. - MA4585159 (talk)

What system were you playing on? It could be a glitch as I can't say I've ever seen this happen while playing on the XBOX 360. I have had two abduction events on the same continent before but never with any of the countries having satellite coverage. Monkeybite (talk) 16:48, September 10, 2013 (UTC)

Well, during the current Normal playthrough I didn't notice abductions with full covergae. Objection withdrawn. I'll be more careful to observe this on my first Enemy Within playthrough. - MA4585159 (talk)

Well, I managed to do so on my third. Just off the XBox; had an abduction event, but here's the trick: It had occurred two days after I ordered the last three satellites deployed, and it happened in the three countries which hadn't have satellite coverage before that last deployment. However, I had a base in Africa, and the countries were SAR, Egypt and France, so while the two satellites over Africa had already been "in position", the one over France was not. - MA4585159 (talk)

I've seen this too. I *think* that if a satellite is not deployed over a country before the 1^st day of the month, an Abduction can occur there during that month -- even if a satellite is launched and operational before the mission actually begins. I've had Abduction events with only two location choices instead of three, both were the only countries left that did not have a satellite at the beginning of the month, but had them before the event begun. Eganogard (talk)

Satellite Default Cost[]

For those who doubt, the default cost of satellites before any additional Engineers is §100. This was true at XCOM: Enemy Unknown's release:

And remained unchanged with the release of XCOM: Enemy Within:

Suffice it to say, the base cost has remained constant for years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoHO40GZt94#t=31m01s

- Monkeybite (talk) 06:27, February 24, 2016 (UTC)