Hi guys. Love the forum and appreciate your help.
Playing a multi-player PBEM game for the Last few months, and I thought I had a grasp of how intel worked (by reading Messages in this forum). But I can't make sense of this:
I have a trade and research alliance with player #2. He snuck several fleets into my system, cloacked with cloaking armor. I detected them with gravitic sensors. I did not let on that I saw them while he clearly was staging for a sneak attack (the jerk!) Instead, I decided to pull a shocker and steal a fleet from him before he attacked.
My Intel: 40K
His Intel: 10K
I ran 5 simultaneous crew insurrection projects against a cloaked fleet, building points slowly to pop them off all at once. Only, after all those turns, to my aggrivation
they all FAILED! How?!? It does not seem likely for him to be running 5 simultaneous Intel II defense projects, and his intel points were not even close to be able to keep up! I can see some projects failed due to defense... but all?
Any ideas?