>>20658491Btw anon, you're discussing with two different anons in this reply chain, I'm the earlier one. But other anon's point is that in repeated confrontational exchanges, if one side has a successful strategy, the other side adapts. If deadbeat investigators get ambushed all the time they'll take measures against being ambushed, and if the raiders can't ambush the investigators they'll take measures against being investigated, and then the deadbeats will start opting for faster ships and then the raiders will camouflage their ships better, and then the deadbeats will start to focus on guarding raiding locations directly instead of catching the raiders in transit and then the raiders will come in with more militarily dangerous ships to fight the guarding deadbeats in stand-up fight but now these are harder to camouflage so the deadbeats can catch them in transit again and so on and so on. Such that you can't say "this or that matchup results in a win for this or that side" if we're discussing interactions over decades, we can only lay out behaviors and rules and assume they have an abstracted back and forth over the period.
