[Fyron]

You just hit on the broken "all or nothing" behavior of intel in SE4. Regardless of this being a pseudo-RP game, intel is still not a good thing to have enabled.

But for this game its something else: we are encourage to roleplay our race and because of this all arguments against it are invalid.

Umm...... no. RP or not, my arguments are still perfectly valid for this game.

Like Geoschmo is saying, if you want to play the races of star trek the right way, then you have to include intel. If you like it or not.

There are plenty of options that are not related to intel for you to explore in your RP.

So Sorry Fyron, but if we want to make a star trek universe SEIV game we should include intel.

No, we do not have to have intel to make it a star trek universe. There is no ST equivalent to a lot of the intel projects in SE4. You can't really justify them in that manner.

We already have Stellar Manipulation disabled. There is some ST basis for some of the Stellar Manipulations, but that tech was still disabled. So, you can't hardly use the fact that there is a little espionage in ST to argue for the inclusion of intel in this game and maintain any sort of consistency.