I lost my first country last night - France withdrew from the XCOM project. Ryan tweeted out a photo when he first started playing when France quit on him, which got me wondering if they're jokingly more prone to leaving early.

So who left everyone's council first? My base, also, is in Europe FWIW.

Mexico.

It would have been better if it was an actual poll. USA

Mexico for me too.

Mexico and Canada were lost at the same time for me.

Canada, they left AGES ago and i managed to get everyone down to a manageable level now, so im feeling pretty good about where i am with the game, bit of a pity about them leaving, but my home base is in the US, so i still get the "all in" bonus despite them not being there, MWAHAHAHA!

France in my First game, Egypt in my second.

Russia

Mexico

Australia, something about space dingos spooking them and they upped and left. Then I lost Brazil, was achoice between japan and brazil leaving, I had one satellite, launched it over japan to save the bigger funding and then was promptly given a mission to reduce panic in japan right after... Fuck you game!

India

India and Germany

Argentina, who did not cry for me.

Brazil on my first Classic Ironman tries, now that I settled for normal I'm ready to use the Gollop Chamber and everyone's still pretty stoked.

@Freshbandito: That's the fucking worst. I had that happen right before I lost France with them and the UK. Lauched that satellite over the UK thinking they had greater funding potential...and immediately had the option to do a panic mission in Manchester with the bonus of 4 Engineers which I BADLY needed at the time. Life and XCOM are a bitch, but I'm really enjoying the later.

I lost South Africa and Nigeria at once.

France

Canada. I think either the aliens aren't actually going there, or the Canadians are just so friendly they didn't want to be involved in a world wide war effort.

China shortly after deciding in favor of the US vs. them in the very first choice the game gave me.

Wanted to go for the NA continent bonus, failed miserably. As of now Mexico (2nd) and Canada (3rd) abandoned XCOM as well but it sort of seems as if I may be moving towards the endgame now. I'm not sure and I don't want to spoil anything.

Australia. Going to fill it full of alien convicts when I'm done saving the world

Nigeria.

Haven't lost anyone yet, fortunately. Got passed the (first) alien base quickly and without casualty and it stopped India from freaking out. They were pretty close to pulling out but I pulled them back in.

Brazil

Brazil. South America was nearly always my last choice when it came up. (Sorry, Southies.)

Japan. I lost France second, just before starting the last mission. Only lost them because I wanted improved flight before starting the last mission, and then a terror mission came up just before and I didn't want to lose or injure anyone before the last big fight.

"Eh France, stop bitching I am going to save the entire world tomorrow. Have a little patience please?"

Haven't lost anybody yet and I'm near the end of the game. However, if I keep delaying the final mission, I guess Germany and Mexico would be the first ones to go (each one has 3 Panic Points(TM)

Poll without a poll, that's interesting. UK was the only country that bailed on my.

Nigeria

Mexico.

Also: Estimated time to "China Don't Care Mod", where China's panic never raises? I'd make it myself if I had any modding skill whatsoever.

Australia...

Russia I think.

Canada

I'm on my 2nd play through and have been lucky enough to not yet lose a country. In my current game, both India and Mexico are at level 5 panic, though. I think India also reached level 5 in my 1st game as well, right before my timely assault on the alien base cooled everyone down.

My first game, France was out in a heartbeat. Second game, France and England rolled out together. WTF FRANCE. Whatever, I don't need your funding to save the world from an alien menace, or anything.

Nigeria and Egypt. This was before I realized how long it took to build a satellite.

Germany.

What's the trick to keeping countries from booking besides reducing their panic levels during abductions? Do satellites help?

I lost France and Russia at the same time. I delayed the alien assault mission and kept running into engineer problems for building a satellite up link.

I should point out, there's no actual poll because I was trying to support the idea of emergent gameplay* and foster discussion in a kick-ass community**

*I couldn't remember all the countries in the council and was just asking the question to kill time at work

**I forgot we could make polls

I only lost Canada in my first game. My greatest failure.

Second game, Brazil and Egypt at the same time.

France

France and then shortly after the UK.

@rjayb89 said:

Haven't lost anyone yet, fortunately. Got passed the (first) alien base quickly and without casualty and it stopped India from freaking out. They were pretty close to pulling out but I pulled them back in.

Yeah, I'm a bit past the first alien base too and have not lost a country. Japan and China were on the brink for a while, then a Very Hard terror mission in Hong Kong appeared and I handily finished that, which caused panic to drop everywhere in Asia by 4. Only lost one soldier so far as well, so I'm feeling good :)

Mexico.

China. They don't care, apparently.

Canada and India

Mexico.

I've lost the entirety of Africa.

France and the U.K. left at the same time for me. Strangely there has been almost no missions in the N.A. countries.

Council Overseer, May 31st: "You're doing pretty damned good, XCOM! If this were school, I'd give you a B. By the way, Japan is f***ing OUT OF HERE, they are SO SICK of your sh*t."

Dr. Shen, June 1st: "Hey, that satellite you ordered for Tokyo is ready. Where'd everybody go?"

Mexico