ArtificerProdigy

Just thought of something else. PJI's are particularly effective if you're vasari late game. You can put up gates at all your border worlds so as long as you aren't on the offensive you can respond with your whole fleet to any single threat. With the addition of PJI's and subverters this spells certain doom for attacking fleets unless they can overpower yours in its entirety. Any assault on a border world means that attackers will probably lose the majority of their fleet even if they begin

Personally I think PJI's are rather undervalued on the forums. They are my counter-intel of choice. While not particularly useful in small games (though I have had occasion to use them) I find them more useful the larger the game gets. Though, when they are used in smaller games, the counter-intel aspect just isnt worth the investment. As far as larger games, unless your opponents research the scout jump drives, which they almost never do, you can put a stop to scouting without too much diff