Counterproposal to:
Proposal:
Reduce the cost of the Kidnap Specialists mission from 1000 NP to 750 NP.
Why capital-only stays:
Like tech steal and treasury steal, the main effect of this mission (+1 GPP in your capital) is agnostic to where you perform the mission. Removing the restriction means you can easily achieve this by putting a spy in a puppet city (security 0).
Even if it's really strictly weaker than tech steal (debatable), the tech leader can't steal tech and will still go for this mission.
(7-14) Kidnap Specialists Spy Mission: Cost drop to 750, remove Capital Only [Spy Update 4]
This is one of a series of proposed tweaks to the Spy system to polish the new version. Proposal: Reduce the cost of the Kidnap Specialist Spy Mission from 1000 to 750. Remove the requirement that this can only be done in the capital. Rationale: This mission suffers two problems. 1) Its simply...
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Proposal:
Reduce the cost of the Kidnap Specialists mission from 1000 NP to 750 NP.
Why capital-only stays:
Like tech steal and treasury steal, the main effect of this mission (+1 GPP in your capital) is agnostic to where you perform the mission. Removing the restriction means you can easily achieve this by putting a spy in a puppet city (security 0).
Even if it's really strictly weaker than tech steal (debatable), the tech leader can't steal tech and will still go for this mission.