Fireaxis had to make many hard choices while programming strategic/tactical rules-dynamics giving often priority to "simplification" by sacrificing "plausibility" because they had to remember that the vast majority of "paying customers" simply can't handle too many game aspects simultaneously and too complex game rules...

...but real life IS complex, and "realistic" games have to reflect such complexity to feel credible... so, for the rest of us who only love intellectually challenging strategy games, who love games not only when they are "difficult" (hard to win) but also when they are "complex" (with many rules/aspects/dimensions/controls to keep in mind simultaneously) and therefore not afflicted by the "Super Mario" or "Floppy Bird" syndrome (by the "Hard to win but mindlessly simplified, zero-IQ requiring, 1-button game" syndrome), who love science fiction not only when it has special effects but only when it is believable... for the rest of us here is my personal XCOM reprogramming fixing everything (I could) that in my opinion was ruining the feeling of "immersion" into the XCOM world by damaging plausible credibility (also known as the "Bat-Computer" syndrome)... ;)


BIRTH OF “REALISTIC WAR” COLLECTION
(ALSO KNOWN AS THE “MINE YOURS” COLLECTION ;) )
Long story short: One Megamod that rules them all… “Mutilated” into tiny little self-functioning Mini-mods ;)
Short story long: I always wanted to publish my millionaire Smartphone App super-idea but totally forgot how to program from my first University years. I tried to relearn with Youtube channels and online Tutorials but got bored to death after a week. One day, playing my favorite game ever (and the only one I have the luxury to have time to play) I asked the author of my favourite Mod to please apply a tiny little idea on his Mod for me. No answer… I got struck by the brilliant idea: relearn programming by making your only stress-release game more fun and the way I wished it to be!!! Modding was love at first sight. Not only I didn’t get bored relearning to program from zero, but I actually have became so enthusiast and obsessed by the constant intellectual challenge that it now keeps me literally hypnotised for hours, days, weeks, months… I now have 10 times more fun by reprogramming my only game than playing it! How crazy! Solving programming puzzles turned out to be for me much more fun than solving this strategy-game puzzles themselves! My first XCOM Modification starting from 0 took ages… literally weeks: to interpret the code of other Mods achieving a similar result and to understand what I needed to change (no need of reinventing the wheel, right?), to understand that it wasn’t enough to naively just “paste/edit” text inside someone else’s Mod files but that I also had to “rebuild the solution” with a “solution builder”, to discover Modbuddy, to find a way to run XCOM Development Kit on a Mac, to find a way to shrink it from 60GB to 2GB ‘cause I had only 8GB available (deleting the graphic/sound content), etc… But the gratification and earned experience was way worth it once finished. Then each next Modification, like a university exercise, once solved made me realise that I learned 1 or 2 new important tricks that allowed me to program the next one. An so on, modification after the next I completely changed XCom exactly the way I always wanted it with a SINGLE HUGE MEGAMOD that puts its hands everywhere in the game. Now, I can’t give you the Megamod because it has way too many modifications at once for another single person to have the chance to like them all (and God knows which other Mods it isn’t compatible with). Now I’m simply multitasking between making additional modifications (the hardest ones, now that I have the skill) and simultaneously “mutilating” the Megamod into tiny little self-functioning mods (dozens and dozens of them!!) to share with you guys… but mainly because the mutilation process is an additional superfun and challenging programming exercise (even making these stupid Mod Preview Images. Until yesterday I didn’t know how give a transparent background to pasted images) that pushes my skills every day one step closer to my future millionaire supersuccessful Smartphone App. Wish me luck! ;)

DONATIONS
Are you so full of gratitude for this RW Collection that you will just explode if you don't offer me a beer?
Need me to add an option you like?
Want to help to keep this mod “surviving” XCom updates?
You’d like me to make it compatible with your favourite Mod?
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XCom Modding is fun but doesn't pay the rent and free time is limited… Donations are NOT mandatory but if you want to "motivate" me to escalate this mod maintenance (or your suggested idea) higher on my free-time priority list… here is the Paypal link and I'll have a beer (or maybe lunch) in your honour. ;)
https://www.paypal.me/krumiro