Intel useless?

[Suicide Junkie]

How long had the guy been building up his defense projects?

58K takes 85 turns to fill up to the maximum counter intel storage of over 6 MILLION defense points (including the 20% bonus for defenders)

Spend 6.5 Million points in offensive projects (combined among all your allies) in the next year (10 turns) (add 1/2 million for each additional year it takes) and you will have depleted his defense storage.

At that point, he will only block the first 70K worth of projects (20% bonus to def) that hit each turn, and all subsequent projects will succeed.

PS:
If he has any partnership treaties, his actual intel available for defense will be higher than shown for his personal score.
Add 20% of any allies' intel production to his ouput, and multiply by 1.2 for the defender bonus.

[ 08 January 2002: Message edited by: suicide_junkie ]