Does anyone know how to influence abduction site locations

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Pretty simple question I can't find an answer for.

Basically, I manged to eek out a good start on Impossible, handled the first abduction and UFO interception, but now the second abduction is hitting the worst possible combination of countries, so I'd like to force a "reroll" of those abduction sites, but can't seem to figure out how.

I've tried rerunning the UFO raid the happened a few days before, selling different things in the Gray Market, changing research projects, building new items and/or facilities and hiring new soldiers, but to no effect.

At the same time, I know they're not set in stone, because if I go back to the beginning and just ignore everything unit the second abduction, the sites are different.

Anyone know how to change the abduction mission site locations?

Best Answer

One thing that I have noticed is that you can only get abduction missions in countries that are still in the XCOM program. If you focus your panic-reduction efforts on continents which you want to get the bonuses for (usually North America, Europe and Asia for me), and allow the others to leave the program, you get to the point where you frequently get all abduction site options on the same continent, meaning that it doesn't matter which you choose, provided you are successful, you won't get a panic increase.