Cost of stealing

[axehaxe]

What determines the total cost of stealing tech? Is it the size of the AI's capital city? The total culture they have? The number of cities? 3000 gold is a lot especially when I am behind in tech and can't be selling any for return cash.

 

[Chamnix]

Prices:
Parameters:
dist - distance from actual city or capital to your nearest city
pop - size of actual city or capital
level - level of settlement, 1 for town, 2 for city and 3 for metropol
opp_cult - opponents culture
your_cult - your culture
techs - number of opponents techs
units - total number of opponents units
shield - number of shields the opponent have invested

Factors found in editor:
base - base cost
mapsize - average of width and height
techrate - factor based on world size

[b][size=3]
Mission          Base      Cost formula[/size][/b]
Build an Embassy       20     dist*level + base + pop
Investigate City       10     dist*level + base * pop
Steal Technology       10     dist*level + base * techs*techrate/100
Steal World Map         1     dist*level + base * mapsize
Plant Spy              60     dist*level + base
Steal Plans            10     dist*level + base * unit
Initiate Propaganda   100     dist*level + base * pop * (1 + opp_cult/your_cult)
Sabotage Production    10     dist*level + base * shield
Expose Enemy Spy       80     dist*level + base

For the misson where there is a choice of risk, multiply by 3/2 for carefully and 2 for safely.

Espionage Missions.