Extra mney and nothing to do but burn it :)

Okay I have seen on a number of threads the complaint that after you have researched your teck tree and built your fleet there is nothing to do with your money but place bounty. I have a few sugestions.

Add, in the top teir of the reasearch tree, an intelligence agency. You could then spend your money and resources spying and formenting probems for your enemies (or allies). You would also have to spend money on counter intel.

It could work a bit like the culture system. Lines of infiltration slowly advance acording to how much you spend and when your intell reaches a system you can see whats in there. I dont like just spending money and getting all their info at once once you reach a certain level against them. For the real time game a slower planet by planet system would be better.

Or you could make spy ships that infiltrate. Once it infiltrates, if it gets that far, the ship is used up. Depending on the enemies spending on counter intell there would be a chance every min or so of the spy getting discovered. Make the ships very expensive. Maby twice as much as a KoL. This would be an entirely late game diversion for all the extra money you have for the last few hours of the game.

There are a few more ideas I am working on but I havent thought them out yet and I promised not to make too many long winded posts hahaha.
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Or you could make spy ships that infiltrate. Once it infiltrates, if it gets that far, the ship is used up.


You already have a ship for gaining remote vision of an enemy planet, though. Just send a scout and deploy a remote sensor, which will give you vision there for a limited time.
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Extra mney and nothing to do but burn it

Its because you dont waste alot of units, just wait for the better AI or beta 3 for multiplayer, THEN you will need it

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Fortify, fortify, fortify. Oh, and did i mention Fortify? Why?.. Because you KNOW sooner, or later the AI will research Insurgency. The AI may not attack you, but those damn pesky pirates WILL
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Fortify, fortify, fortify. Oh, and did i mention Fortify? Why?.. Because you KNOW sooner, or later the AI will research Insurgency. The AI may not attack you, but those damn pesky pirates WILL


At the end of my last 12 hour game, the five AI in the game was set to Hard, and were no where near researching all techs, much less insurgency.
It's not much of an issue presently.