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Just as a reminder, all grav survey locations are beyond Saturn's orbit, so, while extremely difficult unless we can get sensors covering Mercury to detect the enemies survey craft, it is possible to try and keep them from gaining an way out of the solar system. Could I thus suggest that the message we send this turn be non-aggressive (and a massive lie), and try to ask them to share Mars and/or Earth, so we'd be able to easily cover Mercury with sensors? It's rather unlikely they'd accept (no way in hell I would in their shoes) but it's worth a shot.

Edit: Actually, if two seperate factions survey the same survey locations, will the results be the exact same? If faction A surveys a location and it reveals a JP at location X, will faction B locate the same JP at the same location if it surveys the same location and that no other locations will reveal that JP? An alternative if that's true would be to survey all the locations before them, noting which spot reveals which JP (at Sheb's expense, sorry), and thus blockading any survey locations that reveal JPs (or alternatively to that, JPs within say Saturn's orbit). I reckon this wouldn't be too hard to achieve actually.

AHA! Takenta was what I was looking for, thanks Bremen!

Japan orders draft 2 (all changes from before in bold):

Something I'd suggest we'd need to determine is what their policy towards us is. It would do well to guage how aggressive the other side will be towards us, and in their own expansion. It would be prudent to try and place at least one tracking station on Jupiter (use a waypoint and take a roundabout route to avoid the inner solar system), as I could see them attempting to grab it while it's on the opposite side of the solar system, and we don't want to let them build up a strong presence there without a fight while we wait for it to move.

In addition, we could also send a small suicide ship (this can double with the suggestions of sending spy teams in) to guage how far they'll let us go into the inner solar system before they open fire. It's well worth knowing in advance if we can colonise Earth/Mars/the asteroid belt without a fight.

I agree that the lack of war at the moment is simply that it'd cost too much at the moment for too little gain, though I reckon there's quite a bit more tension than is being openly shown. One thing I'm looking forward to most is how many systems are connected to Sol. If we have 4 decent systems connected we might end up with this situation continuing for a while, less will mean there'll be some conflict rather quickly, and more might lead to fighting over the remaining systems.

Also, so many mentions of deleting me while I was asleep.  And I could have sworn the US had another player besides Sirus, but I can't remember who/what happened to them.

They don't carry from year to year? Well that'd explain something, I was under the impression that they did when you said a while back not to copy and paste from previous orders, whoops.

Bremen: I realise my orders have been minimal lately but nothing major has happened for a while (and the mines and such I've ordered ages ago still aren't done, so there's no great point in expanding more just yet). There isn't really much to do except keep research on track and watch everyone else cautiously, it'll change once I finish the next level of jump efficiency.

I suppose if you want to rename it we can, I don't really care that much (I can't name for crap anyway).

More potential spies... 
What's the highest rated spy team I can assemble?

Quote from: Bremen on July 12, 2011, 01:55:17 am

Quote from: Sirus on July 12, 2011, 01:50:29 am

Cursed Chinese, stealing mah ship designs!

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Seriously, do I even have an espionage team yet? I've requested one at least twice by now 

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 Yes, but in accordance with the orders, it isn't doing anything

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I thought that leaving a team at home prevented foreign teams from causing mischief.