Covert Operations - General (2101 - 2124)

[DeathByTheSword]

if we say in public we are medium but in private talks we say we are very strong we contradict ourselves to much...which of the 2 will they believe....confusing is always good...but not in away that they take steps to be prepared for us...FEAR is a good thing except is they take steps to remove that fear

[DeathByTheSword]

so we found forests....what to do if it is a faction?

[Googlie]

Prolly Yang

Here's what we do know of them:

[Googlie]

Covert Operations Report - 2121

No change to report. Still marginally trailing Morgan and marginally ahead of the Angels

No change in populations

No change in leaders by category

We still are the only team with Doc Mobility and Doc Flex

[Zeiter]

Micha said this in the turnrate thread in the general forum:

btw, we have a tie on an important decision, that´s what causes the delay. But I´m sure it will be ruled out soon.

Now, what could this be? I can think of only a few possibilities:

1. Morgans have met another faction
2. They are discussing something like a base location or production decisions, which for some reason is very contentious
3. They are bickering over who stole cookies out of the cookie jar.

What do you guys think?

[Googlie]

Hmm - and their current turn has been downloaded 13 times

That's a lot of players simultaneously opening the turn (and I hope the mods/gods are being diligent in ensuring that no-one is exploring/playing ahead - or if they do accidentally, that they are ziplipped about what they might have seen and abstain from commenting on further movement)

So my guess is that they've met someone (AI prolly) and they're internally polling what to trade, etc. If it's a human faction we'll know soon enough as we'll see spikes in the powerbar graphs

[Kassiopeia]

I doubt it's playing ahead, anyone doing that certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to actually download the save a dozen times. That'll attract attention, just like it has now.

[Googlie]

I was thinking rather than 1 person downloading 12 times, 12 players downloading once each

G.

[Googlie]

Breaking News

Angels and Morgan have already met the Hive - Gaians yet to do so

Gaians have discovered (or traded for) Planetary Networks - and have changed SE setings to Planned

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Googlie
Angels and Morgan have already met the Hive - Gaians yet to do so

Unexpected for me. I can understand the Angels as they have a probe team to start with, but the Morganites: this early!

Some other info about the Hive:

17 population
They have at least the following technologies:
Industrial Base (they have synthmetal garrisons)
Doctrine Loyalty (starting tech & running Police State)
Planetary Networks (they're running Planned Economics)
Information Networks (prerequisite of PlaNets - or did they trade with the Angels or Morganites? )

[Kassiopeia]

How would you evaluate the defensive capabilities of the Hive so far? Should we concentrate on being builder for the time being and wait for a better occasion to go hybrid?

[Zeiter]

We can see that they already have sythmetal sentinels. From there it's not far to plasma sentinels, which would really wreck our war plans, IMO.

We really need to find Zakharov or Lal. Oh, if we found them next door, how sweet that would be!

Perhaps the Morganites had an exploring scout patrol pop a pod and fall through a dimensional gate, transporting it near Hive territory?

[Googlie]

'Course now that we know Yang has the Angels and Morgans commlinks, we can buy them off him (he won't offer them in a trade, but is able to trade them if we ask)

And possibly Zak and Lal's as well

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Googlie
'Course now that we know Yang has the Angels and Morgans commlinks, we can buy them off him (he won't offer them in a trade, but is able to trade them if we ask)

Darn, I thought AIs couldn't trade human frequencies.
Perhaps this could mean the reason of the Morganite turnplay delay was because they were negotiating a tech trade deal with the Angels, who they had met via the Hive.

[Googlie]

he'll sell Angels or Morgan for 25 ec's apiece: