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Toying with my enemy, lol

not what I meant...

Anyone else have any more ways of toying with an apponent?

I am fond of sending a large force of Command Cruiser IIs, Defiants, and Galaxy Xs into an enemies territory into the middle of an enemies territory and do absolutetly nothing until after they have begged for treaties for a few times, then I decide whether I would rather hunt down and destroy all enemy ships and leave their systmes alone, accept a treaty and get more creds, or simply conquer them and stop the annoying squeeks that are their demands and treaty plees.

I did something like this whith the Klingons before and didn't accept their treaty that they offered until they offered over 3000 creds to go along with it. I accepted until a few turns later I recieved a war pact treaty from the Federations to attack the Klingons. And then I tore the Klingons apart!!

i enjoy toying with other empires diplomatically, i find the cardassians are particularly good for this.

i once extracted 500,000 credits from the ferengi just to declare war on the klingons, because my military strength would swing the balance either way the klingons were eager to sue for peace too. The ferengi subsequently went on the offensive and offered me an affialiation treaty to boot, which i accepted. I built starbases between the ferengi/klingon battlegrounds and placed a large portion of my fleet there (about 36 destroyer II`s, 45 War ship III`s, 27 Battleship III`s (Bmod game). Starting hitting ferengi with intel, this raised klingon opinion, ferengi declared war, klingons offered affialiation. Brought reinforcements through handy dandy wormhole from the romulan border, Wiped out ferengi who were mostly in Klingon space, mopped up, then attacked severly weakened klingon empire. This constant chain of victories even raised the morale of the conquered worlds to loyal!!!.. Needless to say romulans went down very very quickly afterwords, galaxy was turned a nice shade of purple

another favourite is just putting massive fleet on an enemies border, you can get some seriously good multiplayer laughs

"i dont like those ships on my border"
"im just putting them where i can keep an eye on them"
"but there in striking distance, you said we were friends"
"we ARE friends, there just training there"
"but bajor doesnt have a ship academy"
"....... erm"

this sort of general behaviour, using intel to weaken any united front is just so evil

That does seem like it would be fun.. But actually leaving your ships inside of their territory would be even funner like I would do (if I don't like the other player of course)

ahh ships inside another human players borders is a bit sledgehammerish to me, i prefer the subtle yet threatning approach with my toying. Leaving them even 1 sector into their space is red alert, all that serves to do is have him pull lots and lots of ships to meet me, and probably get his intel targeting me too. I like the indecision created "ooh should i build more ships? he sure has a lot. maybe i can get away with continuing research. there is a awful lot of ships there though. Wonder is he has any TT`s waiting?

oh btw my preference of subtle threats in this instance is not an indication of any romulan preferance in my play or in my mind, they smell

i like to move in and take out an enemy home system, then mess about occcasionally taking other systems whilst they recollanise their home system.

then knock it out again, this really damages their moral.

I'm a bit like you xir_ - I take out their home system, then completely surround it with outposts or even starbases if they are really advanced.

I love watching them squirm as they try to take back their Homesystem - and if they were to manage to take out my Bases...well, let's just say my fleet hasn't yet found a match for it's power...

Catch a ememy fleet off gurad and heard em if you can..... make em move to an area where your set up for a major battle then unlease.. LOL