It Seems to me that all these strategies work against the computer but playing a live person it seems these strategies do not work as well. I have experienced personnel getting killed when looking for reb diplomats in neutral systems etc.

Master Xan, I would defintely play and save and come back later. I just joined Game Ranger and it works!

Does anyone know of a way to speed up selections from drop-down menus in the game? I'm talking about build queues, missions. You have to scroll with that little sidebar via mouse click, then click the object from a list, but any alternative method would be very handy. Hopefully someone knows one.

Likewise is there any keyboard control for scrolling down battle lists instead of clicking (and Holding) that NARROW sidebar?

It's possible my mouse scroller simply isn't fully functional.

That is why I try to stay away from mouse scroll use. They differ from manufactures, and do not always work without a in game calibration.

Do spec forces contribute to detection on a planet (or fleet)? Do characters?

spec force doesn't. characters can if theyr'e either general with troops or commander with fighters or sensitive to the force trying to detect another sensitive to the force.

Thanks for the response. Next up in this catalogue of issues: of issues: reb ed. Run windows 7 home edition premium 64 bit (virtual machines but no xp mode for this version). Got the game to work to work thanks to instructions posted here: http://viewtopic.php?p=542563#p542563

But after installing numerous editions of rebed in different locations and even transplanting the rebellion game to programs files instead of program files(x86), rebed still displays the same message "Rebellion not found. Bailing Out." For those of you not familiar with windows 7 issues, 64 bit processors can only install the game by moving the files manually and downloading a new d3drm.dll file.

I mostly want rebed just to see the probability of mission success, ship stats, etc. right now, but I'm sure I'll get around to using it.

As always, any help would be appreciated

Still, i would have thought spec forces would help detection. Why else would they assign an espionage value to probes? . I will test this.

Still, i would have thought spec forces would help detection. Why else would they assign an espionage value to probes? . I will test this.

 

If I remember correctly, the espionage value has no passive effect. Meaning that a character with 500 espionage that is sitting duck in a system would not detect anything. You'd need him to have a leadership value to get some detection and some units to lead. Otherwise, the espionage has an active value, meaning you can take your unit to make a mission, either probing or espionage and might then find an intruder. However, this is no good, as you'll have to always restart these missions and it gets long...

I can confirm that the above post is correct. Detection value seems to be the way to foil enemy operations. I only tested with spec forces, but presumably non-jedi, non command characters cannot contribute to detection in any way.