[geoschmo]

DavidG, that's like asking if warships are useful cause they get destroyed by the other guys warships. If you don't have intel you can see how useful it is.

When trying to figure out why your intel atacks are failing, keep in mind a couple things. You said you are producing 3 times his intel? Do you really know how many intel points he has avaialable? Keep in mind if you are looking at the score screen that intel number is only the intel points he is producing. Any intel points he gets from allies in trade don't show up on that screen, but they do in the intell screen.

Secondly, do you know how many points he has stored up? You have been attacking for ten turns, but he could have been storing them for 40 turns before that.

Thirdly, you are producing 3 times as much as him, but are you using every point you are producing against him?

Finally, there is the rumored "defense multiplier". I don't know if it is correct or not, but some people claim that each point of CI accounts for 1.5 points of attack points. If this is true it affects calculations greatly. Has anyone confirmed this or not?

Geoschmo