Psst, over here, I got the latest patch status... shhhh

[Andrés]

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Originally posted by Dragonlord:
I am glad to hear that the Intel bugfix seems to be working OK. But I never understood in the first place how counterintel was *supposed* to work...could anybody please explain to me how it works now?

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--- In SE4@y..., e.kolis@j... wrote:
> Does level X counter-intel block only level X intel ops or level X
and
> below? (So you would need all 3 levels running to block all enemy
intel?)
> And it doesn't seem right that if you're spending 50,000 intel
points a
> turn on counter-intel that it should have the same effect (total
blockage
> of all enemy intel) as if you were spending 1,000... that would make
> intel way too WEAK!

It's a bit more complicated than that. As far as anyone can figure
out, based on actual game play and answers from Malfador, is that:

1) Counter-intelligence at any level can block intel ops of any level.

2) Blocking an intelligence project is based on points spent on
counter-intelligence vs. points spent on the intel project. For
example, if you have 10,000 points built up in a counter-intelligence
project, you can block an intel project that costs 10,000 points or
less. (Those 10,000 points of counter-intel may be able to block an
intel project that costs 12,000 points or less; there's an entry in
settings.txt that implies there's a 20% bonus on counter-intel).

3) If you "finish" a counter-intelligence project (i.e., spend all
100,000 points or whatever the cost is), without having to block an
intel project (either because no-one's using intel against you or
because they haven't completed the project yet), the counter-intel
project "fails".

The intent of the higher-level counterintelligence ops is to let you
build up more counter-intelligence points, which (in theory) should
let you block more intel projects. It also gives you a longer period
of protection, since you probably won't have enough points built up in
counter-intelligence to block an intel project for the first few turns
of spending on a counter-intel project.

Does that help answer your questions?


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