Markus Armbruster
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Spies assaulting a foreign sector have only a 10% chance to evade detection, regardless of efficiency. With odds like that, players basically don't bother. All the other spy detection checks use LND_SPY_DETECT_CHANCE(eff), which gives 100% spies a 90% chance to evade detection. That's perhaps a bit to good here, so let's try LND_SPY_DETECT_CHANCE(eff/2). A 100% spy now has a 40% chance to sneak ashore undetected. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
38 lines
1.6 KiB
Perl
38 lines
1.6 KiB
Perl
.TH Concept Spies
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.NA Spies "How spies work"
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.LV Expert
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.s1
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There is a land unit type "spy". These can be very valuable land units
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to have wandering around the planet...
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.s1
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Spies are very special land units. They are able to march into any sector
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(owned or unowned) and look about. Of course, if you are marching in unallied
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territory, there is a chance you will get caught.
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.s1
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If a spy is caught by a friendly or neutral country, the country will get a
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message that a spy was spotted in their country. If the spy is caught
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by a hostile or at war nation, the spy gets shot on the spot. The chance
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of getting caught while marching about is inverse to the efficiency of the
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spy. So, at 100%, a spy has a 10% chance of getting caught. At 10%,
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a spy has a 100% chance of getting caught. Thus, you want efficient spies.
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.s1
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Spies are also very fragile. If they are caught in any kind of combat,
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shelling, bombing, etc. and take ANY damage at all, they die.
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.s1
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Spies may also be snuck on shore via ships using the "assault"
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command. If you assault a sector using just spies, a 100% spy has a
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60% chance of getting caught, which increases to 100% for a 20% spy.
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If you mix spies and mil,
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the spies must fight just like normal units. And, since any damage they take
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kills them, this is very risky usage of spies.
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.s1
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You may locate spies using the "llookout" or the "spy" command.
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.s1
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Use your imagination on how to eradicate errant spies. ;-)
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.s1
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Submarines may carry up to two spy units.
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.s1
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When unloaded from a ship, spies are not given over to the owner of the
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sector as other units are.
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.s1
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.SA "lboard, bomb, fire, spy, llookout, LandUnits"
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