What sabotage facility does exactly?

[Anna]

I'm on admittedly stupid crusade to keep everyone except me on earth, I constantly monitor boost income and organisations of every faction to prevent it, but I can't still take all the space ready nations in my hands or crackdown them constantly. I was successful so far with the first mining base on Mars and have almost all of the Mars taken before the moon research.

Now main source of the boost income for my competitors are countries, and I would like to damage all of their spaceports, but it's a very hard mission, requires significant ops income, and I wonder what it actually does before going this way.

Is it permanent or temporary and how much damage could I expect from successful mission? I know it's not worth it in meta game, I'm just having some weird fun doing it.

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

It is permanent in the way of they will need to go through with investing into boost to repair it, if you ever see the aliens doing orbital bombardment you can see the same effect.

With how cheap boost is it isn't worth it, unlike destroying mission control.

[debott]

This sounds like such a fun idea. Keep us posted on how it works out, if you like, I'm curious what will happen. ^.^

I don't know an exact answer to your question, but from the few times the AI sabotaged my launch complexes, I do think it does very little. Most nations will be able to rebuild Boost faster it can be destroyed by sabotage, making this councilor mission quite superfluous, imo.

Can't armies also destroy infrastructure? Maybe that's more effective? 🤔

Just now, I was trying a similar thing, but more in-line with the current meta by strategically blocking both 'Mission to the Asteroids/Jupiter' and Moon/Mars/Mercury mining sites.
The AI won't build massive space infrastructure as long as they can't supply both water and volatiles, even if they have >1000 boost. I messed up, though, and forgot Phobos&Deimos. 😅

In any case, for maximum effective plays, I can't recommend blocking the AI from space entirely.
a) anti-alien factions can draw some flak from you
b) sometimes you can buy resources/mining sites from AI
c) AI space research also contributes to global research

[Anna]

Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia lähetti viestin:

It is permanent in the way of they will need to go through with investing into boost to repair it, if you ever see the aliens doing orbital bombardment you can see the same effect.

With how cheap boost is it isn't worth it, unlike destroying mission control.

Thanks for the info, and suggestion about MC. I would try both probably.

[Anna]

debott lähetti viestin:

Just now, I was trying a similar thing, but more in-line with the current meta by strategically blocking both 'Mission to the Asteroids/Jupiter' and Moon/Mars/Mercury mining sites.
The AI won't build massive space infrastructure as long as they can't supply both water and volatiles, even if they have >1000 boost. I messed up, though, and forgot Phobos&Deimos. 😅

I just recently realized that "Missions to Mars" includes a significant bunch of asteroids as well on near-Mars orbits. Should be ok to claim them as well if MC would be enough.

[debott]

Anna lähetti viestin:

I just recently realized that "Missions to Mars" includes a significant bunch of asteroids as well on near-Mars orbits. Should be ok to claim them as well if MC would be enough.

Indeed, but those have no water (at least in my game) so they don't help supplying the AI.