I find it a lot of fun to pause my store progression at the Gollop chamber and just pass the in-game months fighting aliens, minmaxing my soldiers and experimenting with different teams; however I am finding that the game is missing something – I am no longer offered alien abductions to deal with. The Wikia site for the game says that abductions don't happen in countries with satellite coverage and stop altogether when most countries are covered with satellites, which is a good lead, but not nearly specific enough. What exact conditions stop alien abductions? Can I get alien abductions back after getting rid of them?
How to get the aliens to start doing abductions again
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Best Answer
If you let a UFO go by without intercepting it, it's likely a battleship will come by later and shoot down a satellite.
If you have at least two countries uncovered by satellites, you'll get abduction missions.
So, you can wait for the aliens to shoot down two of your satellites and then abduction missions should start appearing again.