Possible change to Intel Center

posted on March 25th, 2010, 2:04 pm

That one should be rare, systems are easier to temporarily disrupt than demolish. Even more so with certain Empires.

posted on March 25th, 2010, 7:08 pm

Why?

posted on March 26th, 2010, 4:57 am

I've got it.  The bug's ramming speed has a chance to fail (I don't like that, but meh)  So... Why not give the Intel Centre a chance to FAIL?  (ie:  Agent is captured/defects, and reveals all of YOUR units to the enemy)
Those romulans are kina shifty to begin with...

posted on March 26th, 2010, 12:39 pm

Ääähm, hasn't the intellligence centre a 50% chance to fail anyway?

posted on March 27th, 2010, 10:10 am

I've got it.  The bug's ramming speed has a chance to fail (I don't like that, but meh)  So... Why not give the Intel Centre a chance to FAIL?  (ie:  Agent is captured/defects, and reveals all of YOUR units to the enemy)
Those romulans are kina shifty to begin with...

If that was implemented people wont use it at all.

posted on March 27th, 2010, 3:34 pm

As said before, it already can fail, the chance depends on the rank.

posted on March 27th, 2010, 11:19 pm

As said before, it already can fail, the chance depends on the rank.

I think there's a little difference between failing to achieve a positive result, and receiving a negative result instead.  Pavlov would have a field day. . .
and Skinner

posted on March 28th, 2010, 4:07 am

What if the failure means that the romulan operative gets caught and you have to train o new one so their is an increased amount of time until you can use it again.

posted on March 28th, 2010, 12:41 pm

Ah ok, this could make uning the intelligence centre more uncomfortable, but still doesn't change it's gameplay behaviour.

posted on March 28th, 2010, 2:11 pm

How about a new function upload: Counter-insurgency program - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki

Kills percentage of crew before anti viral software disable program.

posted on March 30th, 2010, 3:53 am

that's not bad... but, how about this? alter the function of the spy a bit... set a condition where "if intel center=yes" when you plant a spy, then there's a chance of a spy being captured, and instead of reveling your enmy units, your enemy instead gets a peek at you?

posted on March 31st, 2010, 6:54 am

Hmm, what an interesting idea.  Could be fun!

[Dave Denton]

posted on April 1st, 2010, 6:50 pm

Last edited by Dave Denton on April 1st, 2010, 7:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Ääähm, hasn't the intellligence centre a 50% chance to fail anyway?

  No, because in the end, all your ships get an agent. It's a 100 % for all stations and ships. Only the attempts to woke the operatives are at 50 %.

Conclusion: All stations and ships from all factions at all times have these sleeper agents, it's like a horror zombie movie waiting to happen.