[Taqwus]

Finished up a game (deliberately drawn out so it took something like 95 turns, heh. Large galaxy, 3 starting planets, high resources/race points, everything else default) where IIRC only one of the AI players seemed to be trying intel ops -- at least, my Counter Intel 3 only appeared to affect that one race, and I got no reports of successful intel ops on me.

The other AIs didn't appear to have counterintel going on, either, as I was freely using 'Crew Insurrection' (usually I'd get a colony ship or transport; colony ship would simply be used to colonize a distraction, transport used to ram its former comrades), and that op never, ever, failed.

The AIs, however, may simply have been prioritizing -- my race had been customized for ship war (-50% trade income/-50% ground combat is a bit of a giveaway...), and my speed-10 DDs/LCs/CAs with Quantum Reactors and nasty organic weapons were a greater threat than my intel ops...


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