How do you recruit more spies?

[rawrkitty2]

I know in civ5 they were periodically regenerated, but in my case i have the "cel cradle gives +1 covert agent" quest.

I have 4 spies and i never get any more recruited, but i have these built in 11 cities.

I've waited over 50 turns (on quick) and im not recruiting any more spies, what am i doing wrong?

 

[rawrkitty2]

I also have a feedsite hub, and command center in every cities, with both of those quests chosen to agents. im still stuck on 4 agents.

 

[Black Whole]

Opposed to civ5, you don't get spies over time. Every additional spy has to be earned either in form of quests or virtues (one virtue in knowledge tree, I think it was called "information warfare" and a virtue kicker, can't remember exactly which one)

 

[AriochIV]

The Cel Cradle quest gives you 1 Covert Agent, period. It doesn't give you one per building; that would be ridiculous.

The Information Warfare virtue in the Knowledge tree gives you 1 more, the Operative Extraction quest in the Culper Cell chain also gives 1 more, and the Tier II virtue synergy bonus gives you one more, so I think the maximum number is 7 Agents.

 

[Nelson Minar]

I had a spy get killed on a mission. Is there any way to get that one back, or is it basically losing one spy slot permanently?

 

[AriochIV]

I had a spy get killed on a mission. Is there any way to get that one back, or is it basically losing one spy slot permanently?

I'm not certain, but I assume the dead spy will eventually be automatically replaced, as in Civ V.

 

[joncnunn]

According to the manual, dead spies get replaced by fresh recruits in a few turns.

 

[Obbutemp]

Copy Pasting from my thread on surveillance web:

10 max spies:

3 from Spy Agency
1 from Command Center quest choice
1 from Feedsite Hub quest choice
1 from Cel Cradle quest choice
1 from Virtue Tier2 Width Synergy bonus
1 from Knowledge Virtue Information Warfare
1 from Dossier Delivered Quest (culper cell)
1 from //Redacted// Quest (succesful coup)

You cant get the bonus more than once from the building-oriented quests, so 10 is the absolute maximum.

 

[ggmoyang]

//Redacted// quest requirement is any mission with level 4 or higher, and also gives Culper Lodge wonder which makes all your agents max level.