Ophiuchus wrote: ↑Mon Nov 08, 2021 10:33 am
"should not get an indication" is probably not feasible/hard to do
I meant something like this in the list of effects that a player can see when hovering over a planet's PP icon:
- Piracy: -1.25 PP
The idea is that piracy is performed using false flag. You can know who is doing it but cannot have a proof. If the empire doing it is going the stealth way successfully, the robbed empire won't see the planets from where the pirates are attacking.
Knowing what policies are in place for all other empires is weird, the same we know enemy techs as soon as they are researched. I expect that in a future version of FO all that information will require actions and investment from the interested empires (e.g. espionage).
On he other hand, the Letter of Marque would make clear who is robbing you:
- PLAYER's empire Letter of Marque: -1.25 PP
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Although my first idea was about getting resources without needing actual warships (much in the way of other policies to get resources from unowned planets), one of these two flavours could be based on actual ships.
Piracy could use stealth (non-detected, and also non-supply-blocking) warships planted on non-allied supply lines to get resources over time (discounted from e.g. the nearest planet of the robbed empire) and put a percentage of it into stockpile.
With Letter of Marque, warships could steal directly from enemy planets they attack.
Edit: these effects based on actual ships maybe make for a different-fluff for the policy, since Letter of Marque implies using civil/non-state warships and not the actual army of the empire. Something like Rading Parties to steal resources from planets you attack. Or an internal ship part to get that effect.