Intel Comms Mimic Question

[Fyron]

The empire that you target the project against (first pick) is who's CI you have to defeat.

[gravey101]

thanks!

[dogscoff]

Ppl complain about how comm mimic is too powerful against the AI (And largely useless against humans).

Maybe you should have to defeat *both* sets of CI for the operation to succeed? (A bit late to be suggesting hardcode changes I know, but what the hey)

[Baron Grazic]

I have to strongly disagree with your comment about it being "largely useless against humans".

In 1 PBW game, I used a "Communications Mimic" against an Empire to declair War on his Partner. They then fought a devistating War, never knowing that I started the entire War.
The result. The lossing Empire surrendered to me, and I easily polished off what remained of the 2nd.
It was all I could do, not to brag to both of them.

[PvK]

Comm mimic is extremely powerful, and yours isn't the only game PBW it's decided.

It made a huge difference in the Paranoia game, and who could forget the tale of the alliance which was destroyed when Comm Mimic removed the trade between two partners, causing a maintenance chain-reaction. The afflicted partner tried the "fire on ship" order to eliminate many of their ships (I'm not sure if they were too far from shipyards to mothball, or if the player didn't think of it), which backfired and caused most of their planets to revolt (upset at all the lost ships!), which sent them into a real resource disaster.

PvK

[Fyron]

Anyone that does not sufficiently garrison their planets with police troops is just asking for trouble. 100 is sufficient in most circumstances, 120 in the most dire.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

what, exactly does comm mimic do?