I am a BAD boy!

pathfinder · #1 February 18th, 2001, 02:24 AM

Markavaians, not sure about that. They only times I have seen a ship crew join me (intel wise anyway) was through crew insurrection. I got a modest size fleet that way too

rdouglass · #2 February 19th, 2001, 03:21 PM

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Originally posted by Markavians:
The idea behind PPP is making the planet believe that their own empire is wrong, and that they should abandon them, or join the instigating empire.

Yeah, this is how it should work, but I don't believe it does. If you read the description, its something like "install government officials sympathetic to your causes" or something to that effect. In my experience, PPP (if it succeeds) ALWAYS brings just a planet over to YOUR empire. Anarchy Groups (when successful) only SOMETIMES brings a planet over to your empire, most times makes it independant. Crew Insurrection (when successful) brings a ship over to your empire - I have never had this Intel op fail, it always seems to work.

IMO, there are flaws in the system. PPP is TOO EASY. I routinely take down sizeable empires in 10 - 15 turns using it. Crew Insurrection should NOT work on ships with a Master Computer - that should be a"Computer Combat" item instead of just a Computer Virus. However, all in all, it (Intel) is a pretty good aspect of the game. In fact, Crew Insurrection is a very popular form of "research" for me. There are some areas I never research - I just steal the ships and analyze them....

Markavian · #3 February 19th, 2001, 04:27 PM

I've not actually played SE4 enough to do that yet!

I'm not too good at organising stuff, so when concentrating on Research, I switch Intel off, and when I want to concentrate on Intel, I switch all techs on, and kick computer ***. . .

Do you have the latest patch? I'm sure PPP got harder to convert planets to your side after I installed it.