Slander Merchants: requirements espionage and trade ideas: allows slander merchants Rumourmongering: requirements espionage and diplomatic ideas: allows sabotage reputationĬorrupt officials: requirements espionage and economic ideas: allows corrupting officials. So for example finishing espionage ideas makes a bunch of new decisions visible, these decisions, when requirements are fulfilled will unlock the ability to perform an espionage action no matter tech level. My idea was to have them not directly in the idea group itself but rather as decisions based on having espionage and other criteria fulfilled. I want to bring back the concept of covert actions being accessible earlier to countries choosing espionage ideas. Now first things first, originally espionage was partly about unlocking different covert action, and nobody picked it because why infiltrate when you can blob? then they put covert actions into technology, but still, just blob. Espionage is quite an offensive group focused on making conquest easier especially after the corruption from territory was introduced. Now this was barely true even then and less true now. Johan, ages ago, in the dev diary of 28th of April 2016 wrote Now I want to discuss ways of making espionage as a whole more useful, and thus increase the relevance of espionage idea group (and also slightly buffing it).
I have wanted to try espionage ideas out, in blobby campaigns where I rely on cavalry heavy armies (mughals among others) to get the +20% cav CA from policies but as said, there are always a better option when picking your ideas (the beast that is mughals with diplomatic, humanist and administrative ideas) Having a spy network also adds some passive benefits like increased siege, all in all there are some decent bonuses there but jumbled together so you don't really know when to take them and there always seem to be better options. 0.1 corruption is really good in the current meta once you reach the point of going over territory limits. Its a jack-of-all trade idea group making it easier to use espionage (something which I only use for fabricating claims) and some other bit of random bonuses with varied use. Espionage is a system few ppl cares for and espionage ideas are one of the least picked ones, I doubt the tweaks to it in 1.25 (rule britannia) changed much.
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