Civilian Deaths should affect X-COM mission rating #410
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An issue relating to something in the battle overview part of Apocalypse
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This is a bug in OpenApoc. It will need resolving when time allows. It does not always cause a CTD
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Currently, along with issue #305 making ALL civilians become X-COM targets civilian deaths do not affect X-COM score in all instances - AND THEY SHOULD NOT ALWAYS AFFECT SCORE (See https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Population_(Apocalypse)#Civilian )
To fix this, firstly there needs to be a mechanism to make civilians hostile / neutral / friendly according to building owner relations as per issue #305
Once it is established if X-COM will target civilians in a building then a system for scoring their deaths needs to be implemented into the mission accounting that regular civilians do not normally affect score.
NOTE: "Civilian" is a separate organisation to the building organisation in vanilla apoc; this is important as relations with this "invisible" organisation affects X-COM recruitment. So the issue with scoring is two fold. ALL civilian deaths need to affect the "civilian" organisation NEGATIVELY, but the hostility of civilians in a building should be dictated by the building owner.
Ideally, we want X-COM to NOT target civilians, even if hostile, by default (as it is in vanilla game); but how their deaths affect the building owners organisation and hidden civilian organisation relations needs to be sorted nonetheless.
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