[lokken]

From watching Ascendancy's military operation, changing up tactics, deliberately ****ing over prelaunch attackers and using nailed on trusted people for attacks that really mattered pretty much made spying a pretty futile activity.

One because you couldn't possibly work out where the **** our attacks were going to turn up and two because when well executed, it's planetarion play to a standard where your spies don't mean shit.

Add on the fact that if you are up against competent BC's that are pretty much totally against crashing and use scans to calc a worst case scenario what is a prelaunched defence going to achieve if it even happens after that? Not much beyond a recall and a longer recall ETA for the defenders, which runs the risk of you being on the back foot later on.

In the end the tactic becomes totally defunct and you're back to more traditional methods. But at that point you should probably have worked out that your enemy is playing to a very high standard of planetarion and that you are in bundles of trouble.

I am sorry to bore people with the idea of "play solid planetarion" but I feel it needed to be said!