Diplomats/Spies and stealing technologies.

Hello everyone.

When I play Civ 2 I often go for a science city, thus I am technologically more advanced than my enemies.

But as these enemies are not the dumbest (human players) they tend to steal the crap out of my cities.

I know that Diplomats in a city can foil such an attempt, but is there any formula or any number to calculate the odds to whether a tech-stealing-action will fail?

Are the numbers/odds different for a spy?

Thanks in advance.

The odds are better if you have multiple Diplomats in a city to try and foil the attempt. The odds go up much more if you have Spies doing the same thing.

Is there a way to calculate or estimate the chances of a successful stealing attempt?

A diplomat inside the city has a 20% chance to foil the attempt.
This grows to 40% with a spy and 60% with a vet spy.
It is also cumulative:
For example, with 2 vet spies inside the city, your chance to steal the tech is reduced to 0.4*0.4 = 0.16

Thanks.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Dips & Spies:

http://home.tiscali.cz:8080/~cz045662/civ2/dipspy.htm