Quote Originally Posted by Madchess View Post
well if you all just want to be sour about science and not do a thing to increase or protect it feel free to do so. Rather than get stuck with a lot of resurces at home I prefer to use them to improve my province. That means I focus on abducts while my kd fellors pump wpa, it means I've sucesfully abducted 12 scientists so far and most of them within the last week. It also means I've recently hit 50 scientists while most of my kd fellors is 10 or more behind, and I'm increasing the number on a daily basis.

It is easy to gain from 31-35 scientist people on no protection, make sure they are in range for max gains and their kd is a few hundred k nw above or below yours, also check for sage and gb protection and proceed with SoS, should the target have a lot of scientists, say 38 or more check their survey too as those could have protection. Attackers are easiest to get intel on, but as they could likely retal and mess up your province you'll need to prevent re abducts with Universities and protect against land gains with GS. I've only been attacked twice, once from someone whos intel I took, and that was trad march for crappy gains, so I ambushed, once I got dubbeled for 0 scientists by someone I abducted from before, and I took two more on my return hits.
and how is running endless abducts exactly any more fun or any less time extensive than the science pump that it was supposed to get rid of?