Hide military counts at all times except from espionage.

[popnfrresh]

Military counts should be hidden except for espionage cases. You should be able to run espionage missions to see the military counts.

 

1. Spy recon - Low % of military revealed, average % success

2. Spy Infiltration - High % of military revealed, Low to average % success

3. Spy plane - Middle % of military revealed, middle to high success - cost resources to send. ( Gas )

 

4. Spy satellite project - middle % of military revealed, 100% success - cost resources to build and operate ( money, Gas, Electricity) 

[Fox Fire]

Sounds terrible.

[TheNG]

This is a really bad idea. Spies can get pretty expensive, in both upkeep and use, so your suggestion would basically ensure small-midsize nations have no idea what any nations around them have for a military since maintaining a decent number of spies and using them would be prohibitively expensive. In addition, you only get one spy use per day, and I can't think of anyone who would want to waste that use, and spend a good chunk of cash ($10,000 per spy at the most basic level) just to find out what another nations military is. If you wanted to keep an eye on someone for a couple days, you would never have any spare cash, just be spending it all on spies. To make it worse, your idea would only allow for partial army counts or a high chance of failure, ensuring you will never get a full picture. I mean, say you are in a war, and want to see your opponents army. You will send a spy raid over, and either see a random percentage of their troops, or fail completely. Either way, you will have no real idea of their strength, and will have wasted the money you could've used to support your military, leaving you with less than you started, and easily crushed. Of course, your opponent will have the exact same problem, meaning war will suck. To restate, this is a really bad idea, and shouldn't happen.

[Shellhound]

No.

[Atzuya]

Haha... might as well hide your improvement setups, infrastructure, bought NPs, and your trade history while we're at it.

[Jodo]

I'm indifferent on the idea.

[Brooklyn666]

nope nope nope nope nope

[Despartainian]

This just makes things needlessly difficult. For one, I want people to know the size of my army. It might keep them from attacking. I know I'm not the only one who feels that way, and second:

 

 Spies can get pretty expensive, in both upkeep and use, so your suggestion would basically ensure small-midsize nations have no idea what any nations around them have for a military since maintaining a decent number of spies and using them would be prohibitively expensive. In addition, you only get one spy use per day, and I can't think of anyone who would want to waste that use, and spend a good chunk of cash ($10,000 per spy at the most basic level) just to find out what another nations military is. If you wanted to keep an eye on someone for a couple days, you would never have any spare cash, just be spending it all on spies. To make it worse, your idea would only allow for partial army counts or a high chance of failure, ensuring you will never get a full picture. I mean, say you are in a war, and want to see your opponents army. You will send a spy raid over, and either see a random percentage of their troops, or fail completely. Either way, you will have no real idea of their strength, and will have wasted the money you could've used to support your military, leaving you with less than you started, and easily crushed. Of course, your opponent will have the exact same problem, meaning war will suck. To restate, this is a really bad idea, and shouldn't happen.

[Alex]

In the end, if you knew the score formula you could estimate a users army size. You wouldn't know what units it was composed of, but you'd have an idea and it would just create an extra difficult step users would have to calculate manually.

[T Servo]

I like this idea.