pineappledan
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I don't see how?Partly to balance the sides, but also partly because having the Level 3 Gold connection sort of exposes the fact that you're spying on them, but there's no consequences for that anymore. It would make more sense if you were doing it through the legal channels.
I'm going to lower that to 15%. 20% is pretty strong, and having that lineup comparison does sort of drive home that Diplomats are relatively strong vs spies.I guess I didn't really think this through, the Tourism is only the 20% value, so to mirror that you'd have just 20% gold coming in -- there's no reason to have the Luxury for free.
It's a %



The luxury you get from this is an imported luxury. Functionally, it's like a trade deal that you have with that other civ, except they don't lose a copy of that luxury, and you don't give them anything in return.That said, the free Luxury might have weird knock-on effects with monopolies? Is that a concern?
Imported luxuries don't contribute to monopolies unless you are the Dutch.
You have vision of that spy's host city, so you already know exactly what that city is building. What the notification does is it tells you if ANY city in that host empire has started a wonder.The wonder notification just feels like nice QOL if the city you're spying on starts it anyway, no need to hide it under a Level 3 global effect.
Yeah that was my general impression too. The Diplomat lvl 1 and 2 both are strictly better than the spies, doing everything the spy does and more. The nice thing about spies is you have a lot of choice about what permanent end-bonus you get from them (until you move them), they give you a nice extra piece of intel, and you can have more than 1 of them in the same civ at a time.do you think the spy ones are stronger? Honestly they seem pretty piddly. the diplomat bonus is WAY stronger for CV play, the only thing that makes it not the strongest period is that any war can boot your diplomat and lose all of the xp.
Also not mentioned here is that Diplomats level up faster, because they ignore security ratings in the host city. So they will reach their lvl 3 bonus faster than spies will.
Statecraft also gives 1It's a little bit less of of a concern, but it's also weird that for example spying for science has a big swing if Korea is in the game.

You will have vision of that city, so you will have access to that city's yield source breakdown. You will be able to make an educated decision about what yield is the biggest/best for you at the time.