Operation Slick Weasel

[Atrocities]

Operation Slick Weasel

Operation Slick Weasel is a sneaky bastard maneuver that will allow you to gain technology for a fraction of the cost of researching for yourself. In addition, it will cost you next to nothing, and allow you to gain valuable technology within 5 to 10 turns. This is how OSW works.

1. Set up the AI bonus to LOW.
2. You must establish a PARTNERSHIP with the target race.
3. You must then design the most worthless low-cost POS ship you can.
4. You must mass-produce these POS.
5. You must then offer to trade 5 or more POS for a single TOP of the line AI ship.
6. If the AI accepts, and it usually does, send the ship to one of your shipyards.
7. Analyze it.
8. WELLA! You just gained tech.

Be sure to research something like Planetary Utilization and Applied Intel while spending your time negotiating with the AI.

When I tested out OSW, first known as Operation Sneaky Bastard -or- OSB, I only researched applied Intel, energy weapons and Temporal Technology. By turn 60, I had two Partnerships, one with the Ferengi, and the other with the Narn. I traded them each 10 ships for one each of theirs. It took me 6 turns to get each ship to a shipyard. It only took me 10 turns to make the POS ships to trade with. Total, 16 turns to gain Quantum Reactor, Quantum Engines, Wavemotion gun, Ship class through Battleship, shield V, Computer combat, and armor.

All in all, OSW and OSB worked well. Best of luck to you.


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"We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats! They invade our space and we fall back -- they assimilate entire worlds and we fall back! Not again! The line must be drawn here -- this far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!" -- Patric Stewart as Captain Picard
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[raynor]

WELLA?

Sorry. Nothing better to do than wonder what part of the world you must be from if Voila! comes out Wella! :-) (With my heavy Texas drawl, I draw out the Well and then say the A as in Wellll'-a. Versus, pronouncing Voila as Vwa-LA'

Once again, sorry, just picking on you. I forgot where that thread about the cool DS9 videos went. Thanks again for the link!

[This message has been edited by raynor (edited 12 April 2001).]

[rdouglass]

Yeah, I do this all the time. There are some things I just NEVER research 'cause of this. For instance, I NEVER research other colonizing techs - it's too easy to trade ships and I'd much rather use the half mil R-points towards weapons and Intell....

[Nitram Draw]

That is too easy, almost like cheating, taking advantage of the AI that way

[Atrocities]

I wouldn't have any othe way Raynar. Thanks for the spelling check. Voila!

[capnq]

I know people who deliberately mispronounce that as "VOY-luh". It might have been someone like that who named North Versailles, Pennsylvania. (pronounced "ver-SAYLS")

[This message has been edited by capnq (edited 13 April 2001).]

[dmm]

What prevents you from doing this to human players? (Well, once.)

[Suicide Junkie]

Basically, its an exploit of the AI.

I still trade ships with the AI, but I make sure its a fair trade. A fancy repair/resupply ship, or a warship that I can't afford to maintain anymore.