What makes AI immune to espionage?

[sabrewolf]

Originally posted by Mad Bomber
You seem to be targeting the wrong cities. target the smallish cities, and cities without many culture improvements, if the cost is above 250g for the mision it will iusually fail. Cities that are isolated are also good targets. Never target a civ in Communism as the chance of succeding is very small due to their expert spies. If you happen to use communism, propoganda is considerably more effective.

exactly that's the problem.
by the time you can do propaganda, there aren't hardly any size 1 cities without any culture. specially the big civs won't have many of those.

but you can get these small villages of weak civs in a cheaper way: renegotiate peace and demand one of those puny villages. you won't be popular, but you've got a nice entry point on that continent/island to move in all your troops after rush-building an airport.

[player1]

Balance issue.
Democarcy is barely better then Republic (better workers and silghly lower corruption).
On the other hand higher war warriness hurts a lot.

[sabrewolf]

simple way of triggering a war without attacking:
- espionage mission without success
- honeypot: a small, undefended city near his units.

you won't suffess weariness if you are attacked.

[sabrewolf]

comment on espionage: of course the others won't like you after that

[Mad Bomber]

Originally posted by sabrewolf


exactly that's the problem.
by the time you can do propaganda, there aren't hardly any size 1 cities without any culture. specially the big civs won't have many of those.

but you can get these small villages of weak civs in a cheaper way: renegotiate peace and demand one of those puny villages. you won't be popular, but you've got a nice entry point on that continent/island to move in all your troops after rush-building an airport.

The AI NEVER agrees to part with a city unless it is at war and getting its a$$ kicked, the idea of a propoganda mission is to get the city without having a war. True your target list is limited, but if you beline to nationalism/spionage then you should be able to build the IA before all the civ's have found demo (regent or below) which helps your chances. As for the relations, eventually they will hate you anyways so that is not really an isue.

[Panag]

Originally posted by Keeper of Hell
Except that propaganda works very rarely. So basically, it's like throwing away about 5k gold.

hi ,

not when you spy around a bit first

have a nice day