Changing Slot Usage of Espionage Probes

Toxicterror · Sep 19th 2011, 4:01am

Original Idea on board.ogame.de:
Slotverbrauch von Spios

Short & without details:
Changing the way probes work, so they dont use any fleet slots.

Possible impacts on the game:

Less time to invest for searching "victims"
Possbile unknown impact on the admiral officer
Probe spam à la extreme
Alot more fake activity stars in the galaxy

Suggestions from other users:

Link the amount of probes that can be sent to a variable (eg. espionage/computer technology)
Have a fixed amount of espionage missions at the time
Only allow a fixed amount of missions per minute/hour or per planet

Often Asked:
No, only missions that only exist out of probes and are on espionage mission wont use any fleet slots

I may also tell you guys, that the most of the responses in the original thread were positive :)

HodyCall · Sep 19th 2011, 6:13am

So... probes wont take up a fleetslot on an esp mission, they will take up an espionage slot?

can we still send battleships with a probe on an espionage mission and hope for counterespionage? hehe, no, im sure it would be quite simple to make sure this isn't abused.

i get frustrated sending out probes and having to wait... if a fleetslot is just a mission that can be monitored by your computers, shouldnt it be less demanding on the processors to monitor a wee espionage mission? maybe an espionage mission could take up one half of a fleetslot.

i like the idea +1!

Cyber Smoke · Sep 19th 2011, 12:31pm

Personally I'd see this as a modification of Esp. Probes speed so that it would allow two players to fleethunt multiple-based DF saves without extra probes-dispatching assistance. :gamer:

The original idea will certainly reflect on Comp Tech balance in a negative way. :thumbdown:

Caprica Six · Sep 19th 2011, 1:06pm

maybe espionage technology should give you extra slots for spy missions only? so for example computer technology 17 and espionage technology 15 will give you 18 fleet slots + 16 extra slots for spy missions => total of 34 slots for spy missions.

don't think it's good to have a unlimited amount of spy missions. so this would give you a limit, that you will still hit. but you can spy much much more in a shorter time then now.

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