Puppet Political Parties

Slick · #1 December 18th, 2003, 04:48 PM

I'll clear that up in the next revision (coming soon). It could be worded better. CI will stop all projects until it runs out of stored points. If a PPP gets through, it still has a 50% (reported) chance to fail.

Slick.

spoon · #2 December 18th, 2003, 06:35 PM

And it doesn't work on homeworlds, I think. Though that might be an old wives tale.

Fyron · #3 December 18th, 2003, 07:54 PM

I've used PPP on homeworlds. Not sure if it works on the homeworld, but it definitely works on "homeworlds" in a multi-planet start.

Nice how 2 people repeated exactly what I said.

AMF · #4 December 18th, 2003, 10:31 PM

Related question: I just got a "war breaks out" log event. "civil war has erupted across planet X..."

Is this a PPP or a random event? And, is there anything I can do beside dump lots of troops on it?

thanks,

Alarik

Baron Grazic · #5 December 18th, 2003, 11:33 PM

It sounds like it could be the 'Anarchy Groups' Intelligence Operation.

Was the message "Anarchy Groups on planet [%PlanetName] have risen up and caused civil unrest. They may be backed by foreign powers"?

You need to increase the planets happiness from Rioting, and Yes, dropping troops should do this.

[ December 18, 2003, 21:35: Message edited by: Baron Grazic ]

Parasite · #6 January 23rd, 2004, 05:49 PM

I have now hit a weak AI player twice with about 10 PPP Projects each. Both times one (and only one) project was successful, all the rest failed.

I have started splitting the projects up so I hit him every turn with 3-4 PPPs and hope to get one planet each time.

I have heard of the 50% rule, but is there something else that lets only ONE be successful per turn? Is it one per empire attacked? Did I just get unlucky (twice)?

Fyron · #7 January 23rd, 2004, 06:07 PM

Are the PPPs targeting specific planets, or random planets? It is possible, though I am not sure how likely, that SE4 decided to target them all against the same planet, so all projects after the one that succeeded would naturally fail, as you already own the planet... I would hope that this does not happen, but it is a possible explanation other than the unlucky one. Or maybe some had targeted planets that you conquered with troops on that turn? There is no other factor besides the 50% rule that will cause a completed PPP to fail (other than the usual CI issue).