Talus Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Proposed changes: Gather intel op does not consume an offensive spy slot. Gathered intel is automatically shared with the alliance. Alliance intel can be shared with other alliances depending on the treaty. When viewing a nation for which your alliance has intel, show the extra information along with a timestamp for when it was last gathered. When attempting to perform a spy op on a nation, display success percent based on spy counts from the last gather intel op. These changes will help put other alliances on the same playing field as those who have created their own intelligence sharing platform. It will also get rid of the issue of slamming the server to calculate spy estimates. The number of spies a nation has is supposed to be a secret anyway, right? So why do we even show "Greater than 50%" or "Less than 50%" odds at all right now? Basing odds on the last gathered intel makes far more sense and would also make the Gather Intel op more useful. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgiumFury Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Number one and five are interesting but i don't have my mind made up on it for now. Number 2-4 though sound really good to me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacob Knox Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 I'm going to say no to #1, because unlimited gather intel ops is/sounds overpowered. Especially during a global war. As it stands, you have to weight whether gathering more recent intel or wiping spies/military is more important to your tactics and imo that's a good thing. #2-4 sounds interesting and I don't have any protest, really. I'm on the fence about #5, but I'm not seeing any immediate drawbacks rn. Quote Federation of Knox Enlightened of Chaos, Event Horizon QA Team and API Team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgiumFury Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 12 minutes ago, Jacob Knox said: I'm going to say no to #1, because unlimited gather intel ops is/sounds overpowered. Especially during a global war. As it stands, you have to weight whether gathering more recent intel or wiping spies/military is more important to your tactics and imo that's a good thing. #2-4 sounds interesting and I don't have any protest, really. I'm on the fence about #5, but I'm not seeing any immediate drawbacks rn. Would it be reasonable to seperate Information spy op slots offensively from other spy ops? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talus Posted August 4, 2022 Author Share Posted August 4, 2022 19 hours ago, Jacob Knox said: I'm going to say no to #1, because unlimited gather intel ops is/sounds overpowered. Especially during a global war. As it stands, you have to weight whether gathering more recent intel or wiping spies/military is more important to your tactics and imo that's a good thing. In the 300+ wars I've fought, it's very rarely made more sense to Gather Intel rather than do a destructive op in a war. If unlimited gather intel is too op, just raise the cost of the op and/or decrease the odds of success. Or as @BelgiumFury suggested, you could just limit the number of Gather Intel ops to something like 1/day or 2/day if you have the intelligence agency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spukey Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 If #3 was implemented then PIAT would have an actual use and Sheepy knows that it desperately needs one. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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