Blamed Sabotage

[Gorgo]

Is it possible that the Messages your counter intelligence department gives you are wrong, or in other words, is there such a thing as blamed sabotage in SE IV, like it was in SE III?

Gorgo

[Dracus]

I think there is, but I am not going to bank on it.

[Suicide Junkie]

Comm mimic forces you to choose an empire to blame it on, but I can't think of any others that would work that way.

[Puke]

i think the question is not "can you intentionally frame someone for your hostile intel?"

rather, i think it is "is it possible that your minister is ever randomly WRONG about who they report the source of a hostile intel project to be?"

my answer is "i have no clue, whatsoever." But there are many here more wise than I.

[Suicide Junkie]

I'm pretty sure that they will either finger the correct instigator, or not mention any.

Still, I'm not 100% sure. A good test for this would be to start a 3-player game, and max out on intel production. Player 2 bombards player 1, player 3 is idle.
Player 1 uses varying amounts of counter-intel, and watches to see if anything ever seems to come from player 3.

[Andrés]

quote:

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Originally posted by Puke:
rather, i think it is "is it possible that your minister is ever randomly WRONG about who they report the source of a hostile intel project to be?"

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I've seen it happen. My minister tellimg me I'm sabotaged by someone I know has 0 intel points, he must be wrong.