New guy questions post.

Big Game Hunter · #1 April 15th, 2002, 03:20 AM

Hello all. Yep I'm the new guy on the block. So ic come to you vets with humility. I'll probably keep this post going for quite sometime until i'm on the right path. I give hardy thanks for everyone's help in advance.

Q1. I am getting my newbie arse kicked by the AI in the intelligence field. Every other turn. It's something from snafus to rioting to muntiny. I've tried doing counter-intel Lv.3 it stops it about 75% of the time. What's worse is that i can't accomplish anything back. Can someone show me the light. This is my number grievance at the moment.

Atrocities · #2 April 15th, 2002, 03:22 AM

You will need to build many Intel Centers. Keep using Counter Intel lv 3, and soon you won't be bothered by the other guys intel attacks.

Another way to stop intel attacks, although its cheating, is to switch the AI players that are intel attacking you to Human control, and then when you play their turn, you turn off the INTEL minister, and clear the intel attacks against you in the Intel Options window. Then switch them back to AI and that should buy you a few turns.

[ 15 April 2002: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

Puke · #3 April 15th, 2002, 09:21 AM

it helps to have a counter intel project running at all times, and to be paying as many intel points into it as the enemy is throwing at you in projects. if you do that, it should stop them 100% of the time.

dogscoff · #4 April 16th, 2002, 01:25 AM

If you know where the enemy's intel production planets are (which you probably won't, because you can't do any intel on them, but never mind), try to conquer them with troops. That will boost your intel output while reducing theirs. Also, researching industry / computers gives you the citizen databank facilities which, if used carefully, will boost your output considerably.

A good way to guess at enemy intel worlds is to look for planets with low resource values. These are less likely to be for mining / farming/ rad extraction. If a planet seems to be producing ships then it is less likely to have intel facilities on it, and in any game which started at low tech, intel facilities are likely to be on worlds a few systems away from the homeworld, because most empires will have expanded quite a bit before they research the intel tech.

Big Game Hunter · #5 April 15th, 2002, 02:54 PM

Atrocities, Puke, & Dogscuff many thanks for your for your tips and tactics. I will try and implement these in my new game.

Q2. Those planets that don't have a breatheable for your race, is there anyway to terraform them to one that you can? ex. for terrans carbon dioxide to oxygen.

dogscoff · #6 April 15th, 2002, 03:24 PM

Yup, if you build an atmosphere converter on the planet the atmosphere will (eventually) be converted to the preferred atmosphere of the largest population on it.

Can't remember offhand where the atmos converter is in the tech tree...

Of course it's usually a lot easier to just steal someone else's population and put them to work. Troops are a good way to get alien populations, as are ship captures via boarding parties or alliegence subverters (steal colony ships & pop transports), crew insurrections (ditto) and Puppet Political Parties.

Of course not everyone wants a bunch of dirty aliens running around in their empire...