How to plant Spies????

[zulu9812]

The more advanced the target civ is, the less likely any espionage will work (particularly incite propaganda). Thus, when you're going for space race, espionage is all but impotent.

[nato]

Wow that is kind of backwards, if you ask me. I would think that the possibilities for espionage increase with technology. I think that in higher tech places one person can do more and have more of an effect than in low tech places.

I think a spy in a modern industrial states technocracy could do a lot more than in a medeival feudal barony. Certainly spies seem more prevelant in WWII and the Cold War than say the Hundred Years War.

[AJ Corp. The FAIR]

Only spy when you're at war with the civ you're spying on.

Might take several attempts.

No diplomatic penalties.

AJ

[player1]

You know what.
Steal tech misison actally pays off in modern era (if only one or two civs have that tech), while being bad choice in medivial age.
It has to do someing with way how is it calculated.

[asleepathewheel]

Once you have a spy in place you have to be careful though, if you are building for war and your spy fails in his mission, you will lose knowledge of his military, which has happened to me in crucial situations.

I'm glad that spies aren't what they were in civ2, buying a civ city by city, I thought was pretty crazy. I just wish there could have been some solution that would lessen their power but still make them fun to use.

[ChaotikVisions]

spies

Yeah, spys in civ2 were overpowered. I remember all the games I ended via mass nuclear war, spys were a cheap way to nuke since I was at war with everyone anyway. Pump out a bunch in one turn, toss em on transports, and boom, nuke half his citys at very little expense.

[Grrr]

And the old fundamentalist with JS Bachs and Michelangelo's would be able to buy all the cities.