What about spying ?

At the moment, it looks identical to GC1. You set your espionage and destabilization sliders in the galactic affairs window. The more money you pour in, the faster things happen and/or the bigger the things are when they happen.

Tbh I think Stardock are leaving espionage as is from GC1 and concentrating on other areas. From what they've said I think they're hoping to develop it a bit later on but its not a major priority atm.

Anyone got thoughts on what they want to see?

Well, for one thing you could add additional techs to increase espionage. Perhaps a tech that allows you to set up an advanced spy school. Advanced bribery. Advanced subversion. Advanced propaganda. Advanced disinformation.

More information at the higher levels. In GC1 I saw no change after a certain point, even though it kept saying I had reached of new level of infomation gathered.

Espionage should be able to deliver information besides technologies. It'd be interesting if, for example, you could get a pop-up event that said that Drengin were planning to attack the Kwilas system, or that the Torian defenses were very weak in sector 2,2.

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More information at the higher levels. In GC1 I saw no change after a certain point, even though it kept saying I had reached of new level of infomation gathered.

That was also my proposal in GC1.
With first level you'd also see where their planets are (but only that, nothing else about planets).
With second you'd get info on planets' general statistics and positions of their fleets.
With third detailed planetary stats and composition of their fleets.
With fourth you'd see planet's structures, what a planet produces and detailed info on each of their ships.
I'd also like to have a counterespionage to decrease those effects, as now it looks like those are just compounding.
BR, Iztok

I find your idea very nice jmgarth. Althgough the AI would not get much info about our aggresive choices, the information that we would from them would be very cool.

What I'd like to see: an intelligence as an army.

1- Send spies
2- Let them "gain territory" and control it over counter-intelligence (networking...)
3- Let them use their territory to the extent possible (missions or general objectives)