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[Rolepgeek]

Food doesn't really seem to be necessary; after all, if the problem is that Specialist Worlds aren't useful enough compared to General Worlds, why add another cost to them?

I was suggesting it for if specialist worlds produced 5, since it would mean you'd need to balance it just right to be at maximum efficiency.

[Leafsnail]

The conclave still outnumber us almost two to one in the skies so they can probably take out any of our planets at will.

[GreatWyrmGold]

The Carrowspiel/Visarian/Dappernon faction's offer is 4 experts (presumably of your choice) over the next two turns in exchange for your 3 Psions, which they will use to create colony ships and expand in the Cluster.

In retrospect my offer was rather poorly made, so allow me to simplify it; for your 3 Psions, I'd gladly offer 5 experts of your choice whenever you care to take them, provided you allow me to construct an Intelligence Hub first (so if you want to turn your 3 Psions into 5, you'd have to wait until the Hub was constructed.)

The reason my initial offer was so byzantine was because I was looking at what Experts you might like to receive to complement your Engineers- Military sets you toward an Outpost, Labor toward a Forge, Psions back with interest toward a Shipyard. And if you do decide you want to try for an Outpost or Shipyard for our Quadrant, I'm more than willing to work with you on that.

Since the Early Phase is being written up, I don't know whether he already counted you as accepting the Cluster Bloc's offer, or if he will count you as having made no deal yet. If the latter is the case, I urge you to not make any decision until Q2; colony founding and specialization will be impossible in the Late Phase of Q1 (they only happen in the Early Phase,) and at the start of Q2 we'll be getting new specialists to make better trades with.

Understood. Making IC deal soon.

[Weirdsound]

The conclave still outnumber us almost two to one in the skies so they can probably take out any of our planets at will.

He said 3:1 is required to all but ensure victory. Wherever the fleet is has a fair chance of being defended.

[Ghazkull]

And how do you come to that conclusion Leafsnail?

[a1s]

And how do you come to that conclusion Leafsnail?

+1.
If you're going off the setup, the only reason conclave took 12 colonies from us, was that the fleet was at whatever the imperial version of  DEFCON 5 is. Now we're ready and butts will receive kicking in full measure.

[Iituem]

The new Phase has begun, and intelligence reports have been delivered to those whose agencies discovered something.

I have also shifted Imperial Data into a Handy Spreadsheet linked in the RP thread OP.  This should help keep tabs of things a little more easily.

Edit:  Also, that whole process took much longer than I expected.  Partly due to procrastination, mostly because of setting up stuff to save me time later on.

[Iituem]

Sorry, Alex, amended my end of turn post to clarify; Morale and Intelligence are for the Early Phase, the Late Phase is all about troop movements.  Unassigned Intel was assigned to Counterespionage against the Conclave.

[Alexandria]

Ahhh ok, darn. Did our intel man actually do anything to gather intel on the core?

[Iituem]

I've delivered his intel report to him via PM, as per the Emperor's request.  The Emperor will divulge information at his discretion.

[Alexandria]

I'm not asking for the details just if any of it is relevant to my situation. Otherwise no need to waste time on asking for what doesn't exist and I'll have to attack blind.

[a1s]

Iituem, did you intend to give us the base morale of planets? I thought that was supposed to be hidden.

[Iituem]

*ahem*  What Base Morale?  Tra-la-la-la-la, no, Iituem didn't forgot to hide that column, nope nope nope.

[a1s]

Also if shipyards now produce 4 ships, the imperial grant from imperial demesne is 20 ships, not 15. (which means there's a supply shortage.)

[monk12]

A couple Intelligence questions:

How variable are Intelligence operations? Is it a straight point per point comparison of Counterespionage and Intelligence, or are dice rolled in there somewhere? Does the defender have to beat a certain threshold to provide misinformation on a successful defense (e.g "beat Intelligence attack by 5 or more,") or is it a flat chance on a success (e.g "on successful defense, 10% chance to give misinformation,") or is it entirely at defender's discretion?

For that matter, how variable exactly is ship/army combat? Rule of thumb says 3x advantage is 99% victory; is 2x advantage 66% ?

I like the fancy new spreadsheet, by the way. Note to self, name rest of my worlds.