Thread: COVERT OPs fix
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Unread 11 Jan 2019, 20:13   #11
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Re: COVERT OPs fix

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That makes no sense to me at all.

That's messy...
Look at it as there are two options to block or counter the subversion broadcasts, the target can either continue to hoard distorters to limit the number of potential broadcasters or increase alert sufficiently to counter subversion broadcasts. Since the number of distorters imposes a significant cost opportunity in resources and non-distorter structures, it makes sense to raise the cost of the scan according to the number of amps possessed by the scanner, or at least by the minimum penetration ratio required to overpower distorters.


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That could potentially make sense...
Well at least we agree on something...

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Sure, so you'd like to take the existing formulae that you consider too complex and add "unless they're recovering from budious's special scan, in which case their alert will increase by an additional 1-5, depending on how many budious scans had been performed on the planet in the last 3 ticks". That really simplifies matters
Sorry, I was just being facetious... this is the least important aspect, so hammer out the actual impact details and we can discuss the alert recovery later.
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