Long Range Wepons

[rdouglass]

Originally posted by Puke:
if out-of-contact empires counted towards a 'peace' victory condition, you could set it to peace after 10 years......

IIRC they don't count towards that victory condition. All empires must have contact....

[Puke]

"if" being the operative word...

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Undertakr:

We attacked 2 or 3 planets per system to start riots. The riots caused his intel centers to stop producing. Even though he has about 4 gazillion intel points saved up, his production is currently 0 so he can't use any of his stored points to stop us.

- takr

I'm confused. Are you saying that intel points must be produced before any the stored up counter-intelligence points can be used?

[Wardad]

I think he means using Intel to offensively stop the attackers ships or economy.

[tbontob]

Yes, I thought that is what he meant...but wanted to be sure.

[Undertakr]

No I mean if player A has 50,000,000,000 stored counter intel points and I kill player A's intel facilities (or cause riots) and he creates 0 intel points a turn, he CAN NOT stop ANY intel attacks against him even with his 50,000,000,000 stored counter intel points. You MUST have more intel points generated on that turn to use your stored counter-intelligence.

Now, if he could get 10 points a turn and had spread points evenly, he could use 10 of his stored counter-intel's (becaues they each get 1 point each) and he'd probably stop 10 of our attacks. If he generated 1 point of counter-intel it would allow him to use his first counter-intel project only against us.

So, to reiterate, if you go to your Intel menu and you see Intel = 0, no matter what you have saved up, you will not stop anything at all as far as intelligence attacks against you. You can ask your opponent who has lost about 30 ships, had bombs go off on the ships that were making his sphere world, riots on tons of planets and he can't do anything to stop us because of the riots we have created.

- takr

[tbontob]

Hmmmmmm..........

I always thought that your stored intel points could stop any number of multiple attacks, so long as there are enough counter-intel points to do so.

If what you say is true (and you seem very certain of it ), then this is another dumb bug MM has to look at.