Balancing Intel

[spoon]

Geo - the point is not to completely overhaul the system, because for the most part like it. It's the troublemaker projects I want to deal with, and I think these changes would make a significant difference:

Resource Procurment -- Increase cost -- 30,000; Decrease effect 5000 of each --> this increases cost by 50%, and halves the effect

Food Contamination -- Decrease effect to killing 5M population (instead of 100M). Or increase cost: 100,000. --> this reduces the effect by 95%

Puppet Political Parties -- Remove --> reduces effect 100% (hehe)

Trade Distruption -- Decrease effect to -5% trade, or remove --> reduces effect by (up to) 75%

Crew Insurrection -- Remove, or give it a chance of failure (50%) --> reduces effect by 50%

Graeme Dice - What level would you suggest? Note how effective it would still be against new colonies and colonies with abducted alien populations that you can't easily replenish.

[Will]

Originally posted by spoon:
Crew Insurrection Remove, or give it a chance of failure (50%)

It doesn't have a chance for failure already?

[Baron Munchausen]

You didn't even address the biggest balance problem in the intel system: You can 'attack' someone the instant you meet them. There's no need to learn the culture, establish an intelligence network, or anything like that. You just start pumping out 'intel attacks'... hrm?

After that of course,is the har dlimit of 12 projects. You can be a bigger 'intel power' than all the other players in the game combined and you are still bound to 12 projects at a time. Yech...

If these problems could be changed than many of the other 'problems' in the intel system could be balanced out.