destabilization effects

There is no longer a "destablization" option in GC2.

so with intelligence can you try to destabilize another civilization or u can only gather information about other races?

There is no longer a "destablization" option in GC2.

You can get info about them.

Only info gathering. Destabilization is no longer covert.

(I was never quite sure how or if that worked anyway .)

thing with destabilizing is that it is hard to balance out, lets say your playing on a huge galaxy with all civs in it and for some reason you make all of them or maybe just 3 or 4 really made at you and they decide to put destabilization money all on max one turn later your whole empire is revolting and planets are switching sides left and right, not a good way to make a fun game in any respect

You can get info about them.

But that's not destabilization. That is espionage.

Perhaps they could bring it back, but only one planet at a time or something. Make it cost a pretty penny to destabilize just one planet, so that unless you had a really huge amount of money you could efficiently destablize several planets at one time. And then throw in the other values like race attributes (+loyalty, Moral bonuses, ect.)

That is odd since I bielieve the races still say they should have a covert war against another.So if there is no destab---then what are you doing in a covert operation?

talking about them behind their backs

"have you seen the shoes the Drengin are wearing? ugh.. how last year can you get?"

Stylin compared to the Torians.

I was reading the final draft of the manual and it does discuss both espionage AND destabilisation. I know the manual can sometimes be outdated because it has to be sent off for printing before the game goes gold.

It doesn't bother me too much anyway as I never found too much use for it in the original GalCiv. I'm not that kind of player. I only use espionage until I have enough info on them to know how big a threat they are.

I always found that it was too inconsequential. You put money into lowering morale, they lower taxes or build social projects to nullify it.

That is the point needystranger. If they lower taxes and divert funds to social projects you are slowing them down. I loved destab if I was playing form behind militarily but I had a good economy. It helped me force them to play my game of diplomacy and economics instead of war. I guess I will have to find a new way of doing it if it isnt covert.

When I played through the games (GC1), I rarely fought a single battle. I almost always won by building up my culture, and destabalizing the enemy. I only built up an army at all to protect myself incase I was attacked. The strategy worked almost every time, although I needed to get a couple of infuence resources first. (If someone else started mining them before me, I would pay them whatever they wanted for it, because in the long run it would help me.)