Deadstarre
Expert
I hit a few unexpected payloads of gold last game, and it wasnt until later on i noticed what was going on -
when my spies were set to "thief" in non-capital cities and the turn timer to thief completes, if they have no available GW to steal, you instead steal gold and science- right?
my rank 3 spies were all sent to cities with 2 star rating or below; on average it was taking 15 turns to complete their action and in the late game the completed actions each granted me 16,800 gold and 16,800 science.
the techs at the time were only costing about 17k beakers. here I was, already the tech leader, effectively found a much better way to "steal" techs than if I had sent spies out for such (which wouldnt be possible as i was already ahead in tech)
so what exactly is the formula for spy "thief" action completing? is this working as intended or are the values way too high? it seems like it puts tech stealing to shame and makes rigging elections an even worse choice than it already was. not to mention, how upset would I be if instead of getting 16,800 gold and science I got one of their artifacts
when my spies were set to "thief" in non-capital cities and the turn timer to thief completes, if they have no available GW to steal, you instead steal gold and science- right?
my rank 3 spies were all sent to cities with 2 star rating or below; on average it was taking 15 turns to complete their action and in the late game the completed actions each granted me 16,800 gold and 16,800 science.
the techs at the time were only costing about 17k beakers. here I was, already the tech leader, effectively found a much better way to "steal" techs than if I had sent spies out for such (which wouldnt be possible as i was already ahead in tech)
so what exactly is the formula for spy "thief" action completing? is this working as intended or are the values way too high? it seems like it puts tech stealing to shame and makes rigging elections an even worse choice than it already was. not to mention, how upset would I be if instead of getting 16,800 gold and science I got one of their artifacts