How do the card games work??

[constantvitalrivet]

So I recently started doing more patrols and spying, and I’ve started to wonder:

1. Do my various attributes affect the hand that’s dealt? For example if I want to see more intel record cards in spying is there a particular set of attributes my crew ought to have? Or is it just a random selection of 5 possible cards?

2. Once the cards are dealt, and aftsr I make whatever modifications I want (like removing a risk card), once I go ahead with the spy or patrol or explore or whatever, is it equal probability for every card? My perception is no, the red cards seem to ‘win’ a disproportionate amount of time, even if say I have 3 green cards and 1 red card, I still end up up with a lot of red cards winning hands like that (often of not much consequence, other than time wasting).

[Aimstrong]

1.Yes captain attributes and other factors below impacts the cards dealt and their quality .
Fist link is mandatory reading imo. Second if the player wants more of a deep dive.
startraders.gamepedia.com/Spying
steamcommunity.com/app/335620/discussions/0/2260188150857903724/

IIRC(take this with grain of salt my memory is not bulletproof from reading forums posts) each zone has 50 cards in deck for each activity(patrol/spying/blockade).
Any change in factors seem to recreate the deck (+/-stats on captain, ship, zone rumors) while keeping the active(already revealed) hand of 5 cards fixed.
The number of positive and negative cards is determined by the risk reward factors and will try to give the player a 2 positive/3 negative or 3 negative /2 positive hand(if possible).
But I have seen in each run I played a 4 negative/ 1positive as well as 1 negative/ 4 positive(if player want to focus on being great at that particular activity and chooses to do it at the right zone)

2.if IIRC that equal probability is changed if the player has a mission success card (it adds a static +2% chance with each try => 10th try will have 40% chance to get the mission success).
I never got the impression that the equal probability is not respected(but I have no irrefutable proof for or against it -- large quantity of tries would be required).

Hope this helps!

[fallen]

Also wiki should be helpful:
startraders.gamepedia.com/Spying