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Post by hschuster44 on Jun 13, 2017 16:44:34 GMT -6
What are your experiences with high intel efforts? Do they produce any significant advantage? Thxs!
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Post by bcoopactual on Jun 13, 2017 16:52:18 GMT -6
I don't know if you would call it advantages. In my experience, the higher the intel effort the more tension generating events you get with that nation. If I want to fight one nation, I'll shift that nation to high, if I want to avoid fighting a nation, I'll set that nation to low. I doubt it's foolproof but it seems to work pretty well. As far as stealing tech, it's a pretty rare event for me no matter what. My latest game I stole one tech and purchased 11. Similarly, in guns, I've stolen one design and purchased 4. Other nations stealing tech is somewhat hidden from you so I'm not sure how much good it does to be in high as far as counter-espionage goes, maybe others have a better answer.
[Edit - I forgot that enemy espionage is included in the intel reports. I went back and counted the intel reports. There were 35 reports of my tech being stolen with 13 of them being traced to a specific country. My Intel levels have been all over the map this game but in general, if I wasn't fighting or about to fight someone, I had the intel level at medium or low. Maybe someone who left their intel levels consistently high or low can check to compare notes.]
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Post by JagdFlanker on Jun 13, 2017 18:42:08 GMT -6
same as bcoop - high if i wanna fight, none if i don't wanna. once you'r at war the chances of bad incidents with other countries dramatically decrease so it's actually a good idea to spy on all the countries that have that nice juicy tech you want to steal since it's (almost) calorie-free
i recently discovered you can look at what tech you'v researched and what the enemy has in the almanac so sometimes i'l base who i spy on by what i'd like to steal. not that you can cherry pick, but worth a shot lol
and from what i'v seen, high intel or no intel it doesn't seem to protect tech from getting stolen from you any differently
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Post by Airy W on Jun 13, 2017 21:26:40 GMT -6
What are your experiences with high intel efforts? Do they produce any significant advantage? Thxs! I dont have any hard numbers but I am pretty convinced that I get more favorable battles when I have high intel against the enemy. For this reason I always set intelligence to high when a war starts. Assuming it wasn't already high because I wanted to provoke the enemy.
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Post by director on Jun 14, 2017 7:49:00 GMT -6
Has anyone noticed a correlation in position - that wars seem more likely against nations to the left of the list and less likely for nations to the right? Could be I am noticing that because I'm expecting to see it...
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Jun 14, 2017 9:01:44 GMT -6
I have not, and its a shame we only have 5 save slots or we'd all have reams of data for just such a statistical analysis. I will start watching this when I get back to playing!
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Post by bcoopactual on Jun 14, 2017 9:56:05 GMT -6
Has anyone noticed a correlation in position - that wars seem more likely against nations to the left of the list and less likely for nations to the right? Could be I am noticing that because I'm expecting to see it... The game does seem to roughly line the nations up left-to-right in order of the intensity of the historical rivalry prior to and during the game's time frame with some exceptions. i.e. Italy listed third in a German game as opposed to Russia which seemed a bigger historical rival to me.
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Post by Airy W on Jun 14, 2017 12:00:16 GMT -6
I dont notice such a trend. As France I'm fighting with Italy and Japan as much as anyone but Germany and they are located fourth and fifth respectively.
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Post by Noname117 on Jun 14, 2017 16:18:21 GMT -6
I have not, and its a shame we only have 5 save slots or we'd all have reams of data for just such a statistical analysis. I will start watching this when I get back to playing! It's very easy to copy and paste old saves into a seperate folder.
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Post by klavohunter on Jun 15, 2017 0:48:03 GMT -6
I suspect the "Sabotage enemy ship in harbor" event is only possible at High Intelligence spending.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Jun 15, 2017 8:39:03 GMT -6
I have not, and its a shame we only have 5 save slots or we'd all have reams of data for just such a statistical analysis. I will start watching this when I get back to playing! It's very easy to copy and paste old saves into a seperate folder. Yes, but it is not "practice", and hence I am robbed of the vast pool of data that would have here been relevant. I will start doing that though, as right now I have 4 saves that I do not went to lose, leaving me in trouble when the PLC AAR finishes.
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Post by aeson on Jun 15, 2017 9:08:18 GMT -6
I suspect the "Sabotage enemy ship in harbor" event is only possible at High Intelligence spending. I've had it offered when my intelligence spending is set to "none" for all possible opponents. I don't recall ever approving the attempt so I can't speak to whether or not it can succeed when the intelligence effort is set to none, but it's certainly been offered.
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Post by vonfriedman on Apr 26, 2020 11:41:56 GMT -6
I would like to know if by increasing the level of spending on intelligence one also gets more precise information on the consistency of the enemy naval forces that he must fight in the next battle.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on May 20, 2020 9:03:41 GMT -6
I would like to know if by increasing the level of spending on intelligence one also gets more precise information on the consistency of the enemy naval forces that he must fight in the next battle. Yes, this is correct. I don't think the RTW manual has been updated, but in the RTW2 manual Fredrik specifies that intelligence spending helps with raider intercepts, ASW, and enemy forces estimates.
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