Official: Policy toward Morgan

GeneralTacticus · October 22, 2002, 03:55

You have three days.

EDIT: Discussion thread is here.

Mr. President · October 22, 2002, 04:05

He's useful to us right now. I suggest we make nice, get what he has to offer, make nice some more, use his economic power for our own gain, repeat. Also get into his datalinks and keep an eye on him, just in case.

Pandemoniak · October 22, 2002, 04:11

All His Bases Are Belong To The Proletariat
All His Techs Are Belong To The Proletariat
All His Credits Are Belong To The Proletariat

GeneralTacticus · October 22, 2002, 04:19

You didn't vote, it would seem.

GeneralTacticus · October 22, 2002, 04:24

Mr. Prez:

Archaic · October 22, 2002, 07:25

What Mr. President said. I agree on all points.

lucky22 · October 22, 2002, 11:11

We should probe him in any case.

DeathByTheSword · October 22, 2002, 15:41

voted MR. prez style

Archaic · October 22, 2002, 19:49

Quote:

Originally posted by lucky22
We should probe him in any case.

Agreed, but only infiltration, or untraceable bribing of military personel.

GeneralTacticus · October 23, 2002, 06:52

Quote:

Agreed, but only infiltration, or untraceable bribing of military personel.

Would you also agree to executing any of his probes that are headed for our bases?

Pandemoniak · October 23, 2002, 09:14

Quote:

Originally posted by Archaic

Agreed, but only infiltration, or untraceable bribing of military personel.

A failed bribery could result on diplomatic incident, IIRC.

Archaic · October 23, 2002, 09:23

Indeed. Which is why I'd hope whoever's in charge of that wouldn't try it when they thought there was a good chance we'd be caught.

moomin · October 23, 2002, 12:31

Embrace the joys of a pact with a wealthy neighbour! Probe for justice! Embrace and extend the techs!

GeneralTacticus · October 24, 2002, 03:09

Archaic, I'll repeat my question: would you be in favour of executing Morganic probes that are headed for our bases?

AdamTG02 · October 24, 2002, 03:40

GeneralTacticus: To clarify, do you mean expelling them, destroying them with a military unit (which provokes Vendetta), or destroying them with a probe (which will not cause Vendetta but risks losing a probe)?

I believe that you meant the third option, but if it wasn't completely clear to me, it might not be to others as well.

GeneralTacticus · October 24, 2002, 03:44

The first two aren't options if we Pact, so yes, I meant the third one.

Archaic · October 24, 2002, 05:14

Sorry, didn't see your question before.

I wouldn't support "Seek & Destroy" missions that could leave a base without its probe defence for more than a turn at most. Let them get close, them kill them. Don't just attack them because they're passing through our territory (Say, towards another faction for instance).

GeneralTacticus · October 24, 2002, 05:18

I agree with that. I'm only talking about ones that are headed for our bases. Attacking those that aren't would be a waste, for both of us.

Archaic · October 24, 2002, 05:32

Indeed. So long as we keep a tight probe defense (And why wouldn't we?), we'll be fine.

GeneralTacticus · October 24, 2002, 05:53

Wouldn't it merely be an extension of keeping a tight defence to target foreign probes that are going for us?

Archaic · October 24, 2002, 10:40

Yup. No special precautions against probes from Morgan should be necessary. The only change might be that, now we know he's there, that we'd have probes in the bases closer to the border sooner than we might have otherwise.

Hercules · October 24, 2002, 21:40

Yep understood all that .you're doing good job keep it up