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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 6447790" data-attributes="member: 1879">Why would you run? They just want to hug you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />And hey in the original x-com civilians were so stupid they would literally walk through fire and die. Not gunfire, wall of napalm fire. Well, I don't think there would be any successful concealment of the Alien invasion in the modern world. It would be all over social media within seconds. X-com being public vs clandestine would certainly effect to what degree the success or failure of X-com operations alter the panic scale however. With a public X-Com there would be a greater panic hit from a mission gone south, but it would be distributed wider, moving individual countries less. If X-com was clandestine the total panic hit would be less, but also more localized as people lose faith in the ability of their country to resist the aliens. Control of public information and misinformation will be affected by the scenario as well. A public X-com will be able to put the truth out there, but would be vulnerable to taking a big credit hit if they fell prey to an alien deception and had to own up to it. Of course the players may not be interested in that aspect of play.</blockquote>