Most useful Intelligence Projects

[Tomgs]

The only ones I usually bother with are the various counter intell, the crew insurrection, and the puppet political parties when I use them at all. The rest aren't worth it in comparison with those in my opinion. I have used the tecnology stealing one and the star maps one but I like to research and explore a lot myself so those usually aren't needed as much. I don't usually research Intell very early except if I need it to protect myself from the other races.

[This message has been edited by Tomgs (edited 04 January 2001).]

[evader]

Ship bomb and crew insurection are good for sabatoge.

I have also found that recon is helpful before a frontal attack.

[rdouglass]

I use intel a lot. I almost always have at least 1 of every Counter-intel levels I can going all the time in repeat mode. If I'm at war with 2 empires, 2 of each, etc.

I personally love the PPP - It works about 98% of the time for me. The only downfall it seems that if you PPP too much, the planets start rioting instantly - at least thats what happens to me. At least the enemy can't use it!!! I have brought Mega Evil Empires to their knees using this!!!!!!

I also use Crew Insurrection a lot. It gets me a lot of techs I don't regularly research. Like colony types, propulsion, beam weapons, and resupply (I use stellar harnessing instead of resupply). The only downfall is getting them to a Ship Yard to analyze. If too far to get 'em to a SY, I get a perverse satisfaction wasting unprotected colonies with their own ships deep inside their territory untill their out of supplies and an AI sends a fleet for 'em.

I also have used the one that steals the resources (I'm at work and can't remember the name) with limited sucess. It seems to steal a certain percentage of an empires resources. Usually doesn't benifit me directly, but they don't have the points to use.

[This message has been edited by rdouglass (edited 05 January 2001).]

[Tampa_Gamer]

I like and use intel a lot too (spoiled by IG2 in this respect). I really enjoy stealing resources when I'm short on minerals. Unfortunately, I wish the AI did not have such a draconian approach to the selection of their intel projects. I posted a possible solution in my bugs/wish list thread and forwarded it on to MM.

[SunDevil]

bump

[Sinapus]

I used Crew Insurrection for the first time and came to like it. I got the ships back to my territory since I already had cloaked ships with solar collectors in the target empire's systems and basically made a fleet to bring them back.

I was moderately surprised at the results. I ended up with a few of their most advanced dreadnoughts. Got about 5 levels of High Energy Discharge weapons after I got enough back for analysis.

What was I doing with cloaked ships in their systems? Oh, a large satellite, a long-range scanner III, Hyper-optics III and cloaking device III makes a nice picket.

Are nebula systems supposed to keep ships from being detected? I strung one system with a few sats equipped as above and they found ships quite easily. Oh well. Maybe it's some types of storms that do that.


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[Tomgs]

I can't remember for sure but I thought that with level 2 detection you can see into nebulas. But without detectors you will not see an enemy ship in that system.