possible intel bug

Says intelligence defense/offense had a bug. That may be part of the problem.

When I played before, I was just going to next turn and checking the log. Now I am playing for real, recording what is happening. What I see is 16 failed intel attacks per turn. Apparently, from looking at the script the list of scheduled attacks is 16 entries long. If the attacks are cheap ones, then that is about 32k per turn of defense used up. So I will make little or no progress against an AI with 32k intel points. What I am going to do is look at the script to find the most expensive class of attack and do that one until I break through or lose patience. I will report here on what I find.

Look in Utilities.ScriptParser.SE5Mainscripts search for Execute_Intel_Attack in file Script_Main_Intelligence.txt

The average of random pick is 2k for sabotage empire wide and doing 16 is therefore a maximum of 2k * 16 in list or 32k per empire, or if you want to be absolutely sure of pressing 16 of the most expensive it is 5000 * 16 per turn per empire attacked.

What I have done in the attacks to date is spend far more than necessary per empire, which has accumulated a huge pool of unspent intelligence attack points. So that is why I get attacks reported after cutting current spending to zero or one percent. For example, in the last three turns attacking the xiati I allocated 165k + 186k + 206k but spent only about 96k on the limited number and cost attacks I was permitted. So now I know that I can attack several empires simultaneously and get the maximum benefit per turn from my intel points.