Thread: COVERT OPs fix
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Unread 9 Jan 2019, 22:20   #5
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Re: COVERT OPs fix

How about adding a new scan after AU - "Anti-Government Subversion Broadcast" - which if amps>distorters allows the scanning planet to broadcast subversive messages to the target's population, thereby reducing alert level. The idea would be make it prohibitively expensive to carry out, but also incur some benefit when the cost analysis proves worthwhile in the case of top planets under heavy attacks, etc.

Each scan costs 9000 MCE. Each scan (broadcast) reduces target by 1 alert (-1). When broadcast is successful, scanner sees message "The target's alert has been reduced by 1 alert, currently total alert subversion is -1. The maximum is 15. (currently 1/15)" The scanner (broadcaster) can then carry the scan out for a maximum of 15 per tick with desired effect, otherwise "The target's maximum subversion has been reached. (15/15)" The effect would reduce at +5 alert per tick, so the following tick the level would have dropped to (10/15) and another 5 broadcasts could reinforce the maximum bonus. Of course these values are all inserted for illustrative purposes and can be tweaked accordingly.
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