[Baron Munchausen]

No. This is another 'out of bounds' situation like whether guessing passwords is cheating or not. While it's not as blatant as password cracking it's using factors external to the game within the game. There are a couple of unimplemented intelligence operations in the executable at present, "Combat Logs - Steal" and "Log Reports - Steal", which I hope don't get implemented. While you might argue that a combat log is a 'report' that you could get access too, it's such a total record of a combat session that it really shouldn't be available in a single location where it would be 'stealable'. It's the equivalent of reading all the officer's battle reports and reviewing all of their sensor logs. The same goes for log reports. While some of the information owuld be stealable, the log represents the sum total of your incoming information about your empire. Intelligence operations should have their frame of reference within the game and not be able to access the player's own information.

I am a bit ticked off that 'Covert Recon' doesn't report the current happiness status of the population, though. If your agents can run around and count Troops and WPs on the ground, assess facilities, and report this back, why can't they notice if the people are rioting or grumbling or happy?

And it should be possible for any operation to succeed so totally that the 'victim' dosn't know it occured. Instead, you are informed of every single intelligence operation that succeeds against you.

[ July 10, 2002, 23:33: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]