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Jef Reynders wrote:
> 
> Got a few questions here.
> 1. I heard that carrying an item in each hand, for example a rifle and a
> motion scanner, decreases the accuracy of the rifle. Is this true? Or does
> accurary increase when nothing else is being "used" ?

	There IS a penalty for carrying things in your off-hand, but I don't
remember if it applies to all weapons or just rifles.  Whether it's a
penalty for carrying extra or a bonus for NOT carrying extra is pretty
meaningless though since the effect is the same.

> 2. If you quit researching something, and later on restart researching it,
> do you have to start all over or do your scientists pick up where they left
> of ?

	Good question!  I don't the answer either.  My gut reaction is that
you'd lose all progress and would have to start over with whatever you
choose.  You could test it fairly easily: from a savegame position
research something and see how long it takes (just crank the speed and
ignore all events), go back to the save, research it halfway, research
something else, then go back and try the first one again.

> 3. Somebody told me there's an 80 items limit on the skyranger. Does this
> affect the amount of alien equipment recovered from a mission or not ?

	No, it only affects the equipment you can take with you (which I must
say was a pretty lame, low, and arbitrary limit to use even given the
state of game programming and limits of computer power at the time the
game was released).

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Jef Reynders (jef.re...@unicall.be) wrote:
: Got a few questions here.
: 1. I heard that carrying an item in each hand, for example a rifle and a
: motion scanner, decreases the accuracy of the rifle. Is this true? Or does
: accurary increase when nothing else is being "used" ?

Decreases accuracy. It should either be in the readme or in the manual.
For some reason, 20% penalty leaps to mind.

In article <6uoi0o$oa$1...@trex.antw.online.be>,
  "Jef Reynders" <jef.re...@unicall.be> wrote:
> Got a few questions here.
> 1. I heard that carrying an item in each hand, for example a rifle and a
> motion scanner, decreases the accuracy of the rifle. Is this true? Or does
> accurary increase when nothing else is being "used" ?

Yes, this is true. The only weapons that do not suffer from this rule are the
one handed weapons ie all of the pistol type weapons, grenades, etc.

> 2. If you quit researching something, and later on restart researching it,
> do you have to start all over or do your scientists pick up where they left
> of ?

I think they start over. I have done this on occasion and it seemed to me that
it took just as long the second time around as it did if I had not interrupted
their research. ]

> 3. Somebody told me there's an 80 items limit on the skyranger. Does this
> affect the amount of alien equipment recovered from a mission or not ?

No. You return to base with everything that survived the ground mission.
Alien weapons, artifacts, corpses etc are not included in the 80 item limit.
The limit exists only for your troops when you go on missions, not on what
you bring back. NOTE: The same 80 item limit also exists for the Avenger as
well. What a bitch this is since the Avenger carries almost double the
soldiers, so you have to carry weapons platforms since you do not have enough
storage space on the Avenger to reasonably equip a 26 man squad. About a
month ago I requested that the remake of UFO do away with this ridiculous
limit.

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Jef Reynders wrote:
> 
> Got a few questions here.
> 1. I heard that carrying an item in each hand, for example a rifle and a
> motion scanner, decreases the accuracy of the rifle. Is this true? Or does
> accurary increase when nothing else is being "used" ?

Yes, one handed weapons like pistols don't suffer, tho...



> 2. If you quit researching something, and later on restart researching it,
> do you have to start all over or do your scientists pick up where they left
> of ?

???

> 3. Somebody told me there's an 80 items limit on the skyranger. Does this
> affect the amount of alien equipment recovered from a mission or not ?
> 
> Jef

No, you can haul all the stuff back.  Additionally, you can overload
your base storage with the loot.  But if you take something out of an
overloaded base, you cant put it back, so you need to keep the inventory
pared down.