Proposal: The coup button begins inactive with a tooltip noting, "you have not yet completed an election rigging in this city state". Once one election rigging has occurred, the button activates, and coups can proceed as normal. Anytime you move the spy into a new CS, you must complete a new rigging to start coups again.
Rationale: Currently coups are far too strong. It is easy to spam them, and they activate in relative short order, that it makes all other spy activities look like child's play in comparison. It is trivial to control massive numbers of CS through coups at the moment, there needs to be a nerf. This proposal maintains the strength of coups but also greatly increases the time it takes to activate them. This prevents players from just moving spies around constantly couping, you now need to "invest" some time in the city state to get the benefit. Thematically this also makes sense, you have to rig some elections and get your spies situated before you can pull off a coup.
Rationale: Currently coups are far too strong. It is easy to spam them, and they activate in relative short order, that it makes all other spy activities look like child's play in comparison. It is trivial to control massive numbers of CS through coups at the moment, there needs to be a nerf. This proposal maintains the strength of coups but also greatly increases the time it takes to activate them. This prevents players from just moving spies around constantly couping, you now need to "invest" some time in the city state to get the benefit. Thematically this also makes sense, you have to rig some elections and get your spies situated before you can pull off a coup.
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