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Re: Flint's 007 and Raistlin Guide!

Spec Ops Ops make or break a family. Between intel, destroy, and utility ops a lack of coverage will cost you dearly.

A good family needs to be prepared to destroy cash, iron, and units. You also need plist, vision, infil, spy on target and estorm. Kill Scientists (both agent and wizzy) Forcefield and sab portal round out the needed group.

Optional ops include hypno, nuke, investigate portal...

Some ops are far easier than others. There is four tiers:

Planet infra, spy on target, vision, and investigate portal are the easiest Infiltrate, estorm, kill scientists, forcefield, and sab portal are next. Destoy cash/iron/units fills the next slot. Nuke and Hypno are hardest.

Sense defense Station and other non named ops are utility ops and are not needed.

Octo Hurricane and the Quantum op are new to me and I dont know their difficulty.

I cover fleet estimates elsewhere so I will cover other uses for intel ops here.

The obvious exists... find iron,gc,food producers. But it can tell whena player is online, who gets bank, who is forgotten a lot, what infra plan they are using and more.

For the record it takes 1% of your NW in wizzies to cast No Fear or Space Amazement... though sometimes you may fail.

There is a randomizer in the system which means sometime you fail even guaranteed ops, and sometimes you can do impossible ops.

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Re: Flint's 007 and Raistlin Guide!

I believe dc and di are easier to pull off than du and sab portal. I've always seemed to have nice succes rates with those ops and have always been a huge advocate of giving bankers a few extra agents or wiz solely for the purpose of using dc/di in unison with my (oh so beloved) raids.

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Re: Flint's 007 and Raistlin Guide!

For wiz ops there are some safety checks you can use to get an indication of whether you will be able to pull of an op. i always used the following:

Es: vision with 20% of your wiz
Cpff: vision with 25%
Oh: with 25%

best is to have your wiz building in such a way that you can at this moment attempt a vision with above mentioned %s of what your total wiz will be after they come in. have someone get an infil or keep track of nw to exclude the possibility of your victim having wiz come in (optional). get the vision the tick before your wiz come in, this will give you an indication of whether you will succeed the next tick when your wiz are in. this way you will not have wasted an op.

of course these indications arent fool proof, so using them may give false positives/negatives and may be tricky. However, they may very well save you thise wiz you would have lost tying to op that target with more wiz than you expected.

there are tricks like these for agents as well, however i've never put as much time into perfecting those numbers as i have trying to find these, so i am reluctant in posting those.

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Staan wetten in de weg en praktische bezwaren,
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Re: Flint's 007 and Raistlin Guide!

RD is correct, Sab Ports and Nukes are the hardest agent ops to pull off. CPFF and Hypnos are the hardest Wizzie ops to pull off also.

"Octo Hurricane and the Quantum op are new to me and I dont know their difficulty." I would say OH and WC are classed as a mod-hard op IMO.

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Re: Flint's 007 and Raistlin Guide!

I honestly doubt cpff being that hard an op. It is definitely easier to pull off than hypno, which has broken succes rates and is just a waste of your wiz.

in my eyes cpff is about the same level as es, perhaps a tiny bit harder than oh (es is at least) but not by much.

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Re: Flint's 007 and Raistlin Guide!

k new quantom op what?

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Re: Flint's 007 and Raistlin Guide!

There is definitely differences

Hypno > Cpff = Estorm > kill science > vision = find targets planets

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