External Affairs Function's Office

[Maniac]

Sure why not. But do keep it mind that despite that it may look ages ago due to the slow turn cycle, I only contacted them three years ago, in MY 2132. I don't think we should contact them more often than once every five years, to avoid them losing patience with us, and refusing to accept our calls.

[Corellion]

Has it only been three years? Wow.

[Drogue]

I reckon go for it this time, but usually not that often.

[Drogue]

You have ordered the scout not to pop pods. Should the rover pop the pod it is near? And now the scout cannot move the way it's ordered without popping a different pod Why not pop pods too? Sure the benefit from somethign outweighs the cost of it maybe being a MW and losing a scout, when we have the rover nearby?

[DeathByTheSword]

i agree

[Drogue]

That settles that then

[Googlie]

Some thoughts to ponder:

Elsewhere I replied to Maniac that I had started the AI off with one being "friendly" and the other "unfriendly" to each faction. If you right click on Roze or Miriam in the commlinks box you'll see that one is "seething" towards the CyCon and the other is "obstinate" (tough love, I guess)

If you click on the PEACE icon at the bottom of the open box (just above the row of Function key logos) you'll note that both AI's are "seething" towards the Pirates. (I guess that the AI knows when it's infiltrated and inwardly "seethes" about it.)

Also, if you right click on Archaic in the commlinks button, then click on the PEACE logo, you'll see that the Uni have met no-one else other than the Pirates (and any other playing the game can do the same with Drogue, then PEACE, and see that you are pacted with PEACE and have truces with both the AI's. but have met no-one else

Note that this procedure is not a cheat, nor a bug, but was covered in one of the early Firaxis patches under the "pactmate restricted packet sniffing" protocols.

Useful information that other factions' Covert Operations Directors are checking on every turn.

Just thought I'd level the playing field, as the amount of PBEM experience varies by team.

G.

[Corellion]

Interesting... I didn't know that.

[Drogue]

Thank you Googlie. That is a very useful thing. If the Pact with PEACE breaks, no-one can see though can they? Presuming there is no-one who has infiltrated us? I will have to check this regularly.

[Googlie]

Originally posted by Drogue
If the Pact with PEACE breaks, no-one can see though can they? Presuming there is no-one who has infiltrated us?

That is correct.

[Drogue]

2140 Turn Questions/Information

DBTS: I have an idea about the upcoming war. An idea that could be interesting would be to raise land near their base that is close to us. That would both give us more land, and raise their base so that we can attack it with land units. It would also be a complete surprise move

Possibly going to far, but what do you think? Can we raise land there still being pactmates?

BTW: Have a look at the top right of our territory in the save. There's a bit of an issue with MWs

[Googlie]

Re: 2140 Turn Questions/Information

Originally posted by Drogue
Can we raise land their still being pactmates?

Unfortunately not.

G.

[Drogue]

As I feared. Well, maybe during war. It cancels their sea advantages, and puts them far from their supply lines.

[Googlie]

Originally posted by Googlie
Useful information that other factions' Covert Operations Directors are checking on every turn.

If you do consider breaking pact with PEACE, make sure you milk the relationship of all worthwhile data;

eg - here's your own "Profile" info on the PUT:



Now here's what you see when you click on that PEACE icon at the bottom:



Quite a lot - energy reserves and current tech being researched (at the top), techs that they have researched (bottom left) with asterisks denoting those that you don't have, and at bottom right a list of their bases together with the population per base.

You can collect similar info on all factions that PEACE are pacted with

G.

[Drogue]

Since we have the old saves, can't we do that anyway?