Author Topic: Scouting - Instant Info or Gradual?  (Read 1776 times)

Offline Bud Backer

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Scouting - Instant Info or Gradual?
« on: June 24, 2013, 08:36:10 am »
Hello everyone :)

I hope the questions I'm asking are ok for the strategy sub forum, and not the general one.

Re: Scouting - when I send a scout to an AI controlled planet, it often gets killed. I know there are strategies to avoid that but that's not the point of this question. What I wanted to know is if the knowledge gained is complete when it arrives, or does a scout glean further details if it were to stay longer? Will it instantly see everything at a planet, or does it learn more as time passes?

Offline keith.lamothe

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Re: Scouting - Instant Info or Gradual?
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2013, 08:56:36 am »
This would be fine in the main forum or here, really, since it's more of a "how does this even work?" question rather than a "how do I best make use of this?".  But either way we're not too persnickety about the line between the main forum and the strategy forum.  Anyway.

The info the scout makes available is complete as of the time the scout is there.  Leaving a scout "picket" lets you maintain updated information on the planet, which is often very helpful.

Particularly, if you have lots of threat ships flying around (as in a Cross Planet Attack, for instance), having pickets on all planets adjacent to yours will let you use the Detected Threat galaxy map display mode to see where the AI is in position to hit you.  Though if the threat is a couple planets back you won't see it unless you've got pickets out that far or it advances to a planet that does, etc.
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Re: Scouting - Instant Info or Gradual?
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2013, 08:57:48 am »
You see everything the moment it arrives. If you have no scouts there that information stops updating, but you get to keep what you had when it first arrived.

You don't learn more by sticking around longer. (But if you can stay on a planet you can see the ships there always updating, which is handy for border worlds.)

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Re: Scouting - Instant Info or Gradual?
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2013, 09:24:56 am »
Thanks, guys. I suspected that it worked the way you both described but it's nice to be sure.  :)

 

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