Planet/ship capture bonus.

[Coal]

Jimbob, I think your right about the Czechs and the enigma. I watched a show sunday, i think that talked about the enigmas. I think they said it was hand delevered to British intel, but can't remember where.

JB also has a good idea about the change codes thing. Didn't even think about that one.

Also, just to make it more real, you or the AI shouldn't be informed all the time about captured ships files. Like the enemy's comm system are jammed and they can't tell anyone that they were captured.

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[nerfman]

Jimbo, that is a good idea. You can bet our guys are considering what needs upgraded now that the Chinese got 'em one EP-3. Well, at least we got our people back.

[Coal]

Ok, can I just ask that this post go back to the original purpose. I don't want to decrease anyones desire for history, but I just want to put this back on track. I really want too get peoples opinions on my idea. Lets just turn this into a poll post. Anyone have an idea to add, please do so.

Hey, I got promoted! It took just one month.
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[This message has been edited by Maverick (edited 05 May 2001).]

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[Taqwus]

To a limited degree... An attack fleet deep in enemy territory is largely on its own; the fact that communications and reinforcements would both take massive amounts of time due to distance implies a greater degree of autonomy, and I'm not convinced that one fleet would necessarily be aware of the disposition of other fleets that aren't in the same general area. On the other hand, they will likely have information about that particular region.

In addition, any society that can travel between star systems probably has better computing technology, which would allow for such things as the use of OTPs specific to a link in a hierarchy, or alternately strong public-key cryptography or other methods by which compromising one link might not affect others... that is, the "universal code book" vulnerability wouldn't necessarily exist.

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[DirectorTsaarx]

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Originally posted by Taqwus:
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In addition, any society that can travel between star systems probably has better computing technology, which would allow for such things as the use of OTPs specific to a link in a hierarchy, or alternately strong public-key cryptography or other methods by which compromising one link might not affect others... that is, the "universal code book" vulnerability wouldn't necessarily exist.

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They've probably also mastered the use of "quantum cryptography" (see http://www.qubit.org/intros/crypt.html). Quantum crypto may make it more difficult to decrypt enemy communications, even with a captured ship on hand.

A side note on the captured E-3: SE4 needs dedicated EW ships. Yeah, we can model spy planes & spy satellites with small ships/satellites loaded with sensors, but we should be able to create a ship that gives sensor bonuses to the fleet (both offensive and defensive). Unfortunately, the AI would need to figure out how to use them .

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[nerfman]

For someone who's signarure includes:

"Rules? What Rules?"

Someone seems to be making a lot of rules

[Coal]

There, I changed it nerfman. Happy?

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