Peeping at Minors?

You cannot spy on minors.

If you trade techs you can usually get virtually all their techs for your most pointless and useless one. Other than techs, I can't think of any reason you'd want to spy on them.

I like to flip them and i need the influence datum.
They usually have some mondo systems.

Yours in Cultural Plasma,
Star Dagger

they are un-flipable

They don't produce any influence (which is odd since they seem to build more influence starbases than anything else) so you can't flip them. You can ally with them, destroy them, or watch someone else destroy them. That's about all.

You can also trade with them, which can be very lucrative if you start with a minor race in your area (or one moves in there).

they do produce influence, but lack influence radius and get no UP votes from it. they cannot be influenced or influence others. matter of fact i have seen them with planets COVERED with embasies, lol. don't think i have seen this since 1.2 tho.

Thx guys.

SD

This message title sounded like something illegal and dirty. I expected talk about a news story (i.e. Michael Jackson).

Minors are good for three things: 1) Early in the game you can get techs that you haven't researched for cheap. Sometime they steal all the techs of a major and you can pick them up cheap. 2)Trade with them when they are in your sector so that when you are at war with the majors you don't lose all your trade income. If the Minor is allied to a Major, you could still lose it. 3) When they have no more techs and you are not trading with them, conqure them, as their planets are usually PQ15 or higher and make a good addition to you collection

in IRL it's illegal to peep at minors.

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