Covert Operations - General (2125 - 2149)

[Zeiter]

Yeah, if we don't sell it to him, someone else will (or Zakharov might give it to him if we don't hurry.)

[Googlie]

I've put it (selling PlanNets to Lal) in the suggested 2127 turn orders

[Maniac]

Darn. I've just opened the turn and tried to contact Lal, but he refused my calls. Let's hope he'll want to receive us next year, or else we won't be able to wsitch to Planned MY 2128.

[Googlie]

Similar result in the official turn - Lal won't answer.

but

Chiron Knights toasted a mindwrom for its 10 ec's (and got upgraded to Elite) so with next turn's 9 ec's cash flow we will be able to change to Planned as planned ()

We should still try and sell it to him next turn, though, before he gets if from another source.

[Googlie]

2127 powerbar charts

[Googlie]

2128 general update:

Population Stats:

• Hive - 23 (no change from 2126)
• University - 14 (no change from 2126)
• PK's - 11 (but 16 Council votes)
• Morgan - 8
• Sparta - 7 (but a colony pod in transit)
• Angels - 7
• Gaians - 6 (but a colony pod in transit)

[Googlie]

2128 powercharts

[Googlie]

2129 powerbar charts

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Googlie [*]PK's - 11 (but 16 Council votes)

How is this possible? Do you think buster has created a custom faction with only a 50% bonus to council votes?

[Googlie]

LOL - sorry, my mistake

s/b 8 pops with 16 council votes

(For some reason I was convinced that the PK's got a 50% council vote boost!! It's not like I've been playing this game for five years, or anything like that)

[Maniac]

I'm not sure this is the correct thread, but as there's no thread especially for the Hive, I'll post a screenshot gallery of important Hive infiltration information here. Prepare yourself for a whole series of maniacal posts.

First the Hive labs summary.
Looks like our perceived advantage in weapons and naval technology is completely non-existent. I hope this doesn't mean the other human factions could buy NonlMath or DocFlex whenever they have sufficient cash.

[Maniac]

The Hivean Security Nexus, with pasted into it also a part of the budget screen.

Oh yeah, from this we also learned we were the only ones so smart to loan money from the Hive.

[Maniac]

More Intel on the Hive's relations with other factions.

Thanks to GeoModder's knowledge about the switch diplo options, we're the only faction who have a treaty with the Hive. Even the Angels (with Geo) don't have a treaty, but I guess that's because Makahlua was turnplaying at the time they made first contact with the Hive.

Also note that Gaia is in vendetta with the Hive. Auch! I guess they met last year. This would also explain binTravkin's comment in the turn tracking thread:

Gaians know it, their turnplayer is almost done with doing the turn, there's just been very serious issues this turn - I'd say this was the hardest year since landfall..

[Maniac]

Now some useful info derived from the base screens:

Here's part of the base screen from Great Collective. In the unit support box you see a colony pod heading NE. And in Hole of Aspiration's base screen (the base closest to us - see next post for base screen screenshot) you see a colony pod will be completed next year. This means we could expect two more bases built towards our general direction. That further means our colony pod from SC4 could come too late to establish a base on (58.28), west of the Fungal Pass. What to do with that CP if this fear would come true?

[Maniac]

From the Hole of Aspiration base screen we learn they haven't yet explored any further in our direction.