

If you had already put the satellite down you've lost that opportunity. A nation that's at panic level 3+ might end up getting attacked, and you can reduce its panic level by responding to it. Unless you're finishing coverage on a continent, you don't get any immediate benefit, and unless you fail a mission a nation won't leave the council (they leave if the report comes in and they're at 5 panic).


It's actually "wasteful" on potential panic reduction to put up a satellite in a nation with less than 3 panic.When and in what nations you build satellites.The things that the player can affect are: Many of the events above aren't directly under the player's control. My justification for this is that I often have individual nations which haven't been targeted by specific activity being at a higher panic level than the other nations on their continent. I believe there are slight variations in a lot of these, and panic may even go up somewhat randomly in individual nations which weren't attacked. I haven't actually had this happen yet, but at the least it has no benefit and probably increases panic further than just ignoring the mission would have.The attacked nation leaves the XCOM funding council instantly.+1 (or 2?) panic in all nations on the continent which was attacked.I think this may depend on either a) the intensity of the attack or b) the panic level before the abduction took place. In some cases, I have seen +2 panic in the specific nations that I didn't respond to instead of just +1.+1 panic in every nation in the continents which had an abduction you did not respond to.NO panic change in other nations in the continent you responded to.-2 panic in the nation you responded to.Successfully respond to an abduction (the 3-choice scenario that happens frequently).-2 panic in all nations on the continent the terror attack occurred in.-2 panic in the associated nation (-3 or even -4 if the nation specifically requested a satellite).This may be different for other mission objectives.-2 panic in all nations in all continents.Complete a major combat mission objective (i.e.If it were random I would guess it's a panic reduction between 0 and 2 for each nation This seems to vary occasionally and may even be random.-1 panic in all nations in all continents?.Complete a council mission (VIP escort, bomb defuse, etc).-2 panic in the nation the UFO landed/crashed in.Successfully assault a UFO landing site or crash site.Please edit this post if you have more detailed or more correct information! Also feel free to fix my crappy formatting. There is still a good bit of uncertainty on some of the more rare cases. Here's my aggregated understanding of panic changes.
