Do you need to spend more bc on Espionage when you have acheived maximum infiltration?

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Or have you acheived a "threshold" and can now move
your espionage spending slider to 0?

I would guess "destabilization" spending would never
go to zero..as you would just keep pumping money to
destabilize more and more.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Well, when I've achieved advanced in it, I've always set it to zero. Espionage is fairly useless in the game, and needs beefing up.

~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Yeah. Has anyone gotten technology or something exciting
from espionage? :notsure:
Star Control: Origins
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Yeah. Has anyone gotten technology or something exciting
from espionage? :notsure:
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
it tells you if setain races are supplying other races with money to keep peace with them i think.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
There is a random event that destablizes relations, if you don't have sufficient espionage on the empire. Something like "the X diplomat inadvertently insulted the Y ambassador; if only they knew more about the culture, this might have been avoided..."
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I've tried espionage in a couple of games and I have never gotten anything out of it. Does anyone think that this feature is broke?
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
Well, *shrug* it does provide you with information such as how all their ability scores are. On the other hand, in one game I spent approximately 500 BC a month for decades on destabilizing the Drengin and yet their average morale ~80%, without morale resources and without going anywhere near bankrupt or slowing their ship production.
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
There are certain events that only occur when you have a high investment in espionage, and others (bad ones) that occur when you don't have a high investment.

I gained some tech one time through an event that I believe was possible because I was continually investing in espionage against the @#$% Arceans.


RR
Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top
Solely WRT your knowledge of their empire:
The amount you need to have spent on espionage varies with the population (and I suspect the government type) of the AI player. Once you achieve a level of espionage, you only need to make additional spending to match/overcome their population growth: if you have their population declining (grin), you don;t need to spend more.

~SDC~