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Included the SuperSpies mod component:
- Spies can now get experience from successful missions or intercepting other spies
- new Spy promotions to improve their abilities
- Spies do not start with Commando anymore
- Intelligence Agency now also gives +2 experience to Spies
- Security Bureau lets all Spies start with the Security promotion, increasing their chances to intercept other spies
- Interpol gives an additional +3 experience to Spies
Changed Spy specialists and Great Spies:
- Spy specialist has been removed from the game
- Great Spies are now created like Great Generals: a new Great Spy is born as soon as enough Spy experience has been accumulated
- adjusted the interface so that Spy experience until the next Great Spy is displayed
- Great Spies cannot start Golden Ages anymore
New specialist: Statesman
- generates +2 commerce and +3 GPP (Great Statesman)
- can be hired with Palace, Courthouse, Castle, Jail
New Great Person type: Great Statesman
- represents politicians, political philosophers, political scientists and political activists
- can discover technologies (new Civics flavor associated with a number of appropriate technologies)
- can start a golden age
- can build Administrative Center (requires 8 Courthouses): counts as a government center for city maintenance
- can resolve a crisis: immediately ends anarchy and removes unrest from all cities
- can reform the government: allows to change civics this turn without anarchy
- can conduct a diplomatic mission: EITHER immediately make peace with a civ you are at war with OR improve relations and reduce past transgression penalties with a civ you are at peace with
- can join city as a Great Statesman (+4 commerce)
- some wonders now create Great Statesman points, especially those which previously generated Great Spy points
Further espionage related adjustments:
- reduced the amount of raw espionage from Intelligence Agencies and Security Bureaus
- reduced the Espionage modifier of Jails from 50% to 25%
- Instead of double Spy specialists, Totalitarianism now gives +1 espionage per specialist
So I kind of won because nobody expected this
Some remarks:
- I haven't really played with this so I have no idea how this balances out, but I thought your combined feedback would be more valuable than my limited experiences
- I have included everything from the SuperSpies mod except the ability to convert production to espionage (you're powerful enough if you can outproduce your enemies imo). Some of the new promotions seem rather powerful, but at the same espionage has been limited in several ways so I'll wait how this balances out
- Great Spies require the same amount of experience as Great Generals do, since generally less spy experience will be acquired this means that there will be less of them, which I think is okay (their counters are still separate of course, so when the GG threshold increases the GSpy threshold stays the same). Actually even then I might have to reduce the amount of espionage from the infiltrate mission or let it scale with era like Great Works do
- the Resolve Crisis and Reform Government missions seem to have very similar effects right now (either avoid anarchy or remove it afterwards), however note that Reform Government also works when the "recent revolution" timer is still up. I have some other long term plans that will make these two missions more distinct though.
- not sure if I keep the instant peace effect for Diplomatic Missions in, I'll wait if it will be involved in some cheese going forward
- the AI does understand the new Great Statesman missions to some extent, and will make use of the Diplomatic Mission to peace out before capitulating for example
- graphics still need to be done: currently, Great Statesmen use Great Artist unit graphics and the Citizen icon in the city screen. These are just placeholders of course and I will look around for substitutes soon.
- there also need to be civ specific names for Great Statesmen, I will coordinate a community driven effort to find them soon, please wait with opening any threads if you are already interested
. I'm really glad to see this implemented!
