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I think it is the Puppet Political Parties that I have the most trouble with. Sometimes it has worked but instead of the target planet joining my race, it goes off and makes its own race. I would like to know more about how Intel works,... seems to be a strange beast!  [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_NewZeland.gif[/img]
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Read section "10.1 Intelligence" in the FAQ for the rundown on how intelligence works in general.
PPP is a special exception to the all-or-nothing rule of counterintel. It has a chance to do nothing, a chance to make the target planet form its own empire, and a chance to make the target planet switch sides to join you. If there are already 20 empires in the game, including any that may have alread been wiped out, the possibility of forming a new empire disappears. I don't know what effect this has on the probability of success. A new empire formed by a rebelling planet inherits all aspects of the empire design of its parent empire except name, population picture, and planet and atmosphere types. Somehow, all the population on the planet will spontaneously mutate to breathe the atmosphere of that planet, which can be quite useful for undoming planets without waiting for atmospheric modification plants. The new empire will also inherit all of the parent empire's technology, which may make it an attractive target for technological espionage, since it will only have the resources of that one planet and will not have any counterintel built up.
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As you have pointed out, a planet that has rebelled is an easy target for PPP and other projects. The other information is going to be useful so thanks for your comments.
Another issue I wondered about was to do with counter Intel. Lets say you have 4 slots of Counter Intel and you loss them all in one turn to multiple Intel Sabotage attacks. So you add another 4 slots of Counter Intel. I have done the above but suffered loses the next turn, such as resource procurement and crew insurections, which previously were kept at bay by the original 4 slots of Counter Intel? So it is my observation that any new counter Intel projects take one turn to actually start working. Would this be correct?,... Gee, maybe I should take a look at that FAQ thread you mentioned,... before asking these sorts of questions,...lol [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Fish.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_NewZeland.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_Checkered.gif[/img]