Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-166.137.88.23-20130610185107/@comment-1971498-20130622103248

Weedle McHairybug wrote: Maybe, although the idea that "Liquid Ocelot" was faking it to fool the Patriots' AIs seems to contradict that the S3 Plan was a resounding success, of which the entire point of the exercise was to demonstrate how humanity's will was destined to be shaped. That requires a significant amount of fundamental understanding on how human nature works, otherwise the S3 Plan would have failed before it started. Heck, even Solid Snake, who was pretty much stated to be the wild card of the mission in both the game itself and supplementary materials such as the director's commentary, was easily manipulated by the S3 Plan, as strongly implied by the AI's speech to Raiden (such as claiming that the entire exercise was "a resounding success" despite claiming earlier that Solid Snake's presence alone was contaminating the project) and even the fact that they were able to leave a fake trace to them.

To be fair, the S3 Plan had been declared as a success even before "Liquid Ocelot" emerged, as dictated by Ocelot himself when he gave that full-blown revelation. So any sort of "contamination" would've been treated as being insignifact at best. In that regard, I doubt that the AIs really factored Ocelot into any fixed role as he himself was one of their spies, so anything that happened to him (or what he did) was outside of their priority (unless he intentionally screwed over their plot before the whole thing actually finished). Though I need clarification for this, but wasn't Ocelot kept in the dark in terms of what the S3 Plan was truly meant for. In that regard, it'd make sense why Ocelot waited before he could strike in MGS4.

That said, it makes sense why Ocelot would have waited until the SOP system was implemented, as hijacking GW actually gave him a huge advantage against the AIs and their control over military resources.