This is what I was thinking about this whole espionage enhancement, espionage should result in 3 actions;
1. Research Terrorism (evil empires only) = This enables your spies to gather enough info on a particular building on a particular planet so that your terrorists can blow it up.
2. Research Theft (neutral empires only) = This enables your spies to gather enough info on a particular ship so that your space pirates can steal it.
3. Research Destablization (good empires only) = This enables your spies to gather enough info on another neutral or evil empire's planet and it's government to expose and cause revolt by pushing down it's approval rating. But you will no longer need influence starbases in the game...
The way it works is that you either ...
1. succeed or succeed and get caught and war will ensue...
2. fail or fail and get caught and war will ensue...
*The way to succeed will be on your espionage rating and also on how much of that rating your using from the amount your spending which will in turn be compared on the targets ratings and spendings. The AI will also show the number of turns it will take until the action takes place, so the more your rating is higher then the targets the shorter amount of time it will take and thats how you will know if your going to be successful. If the AI dosn't show how many turns it will take, it means that your target has higher ratings and it will be impossible to infiltrate and will most likely fail and get caught.
For example if you have a 70% espionage rating and the spending limit is from 0bc to 500bc and your spending on the target is 100bc, then your overall rating is 14%. If your target's espionage level is 30% and he's spending 450bc on you, then his overall rating will be 27%. This means that you fail and get caught against him because his rating is higher with a 27% vs 14% for yours.
>5% difference lower = fail and don't get caught.
<5% difference lower = fail and get caught (war).
>5% difference higher = success and get caught (war).
<5% difference higher = success and don't get caught.
*Note you can only use the special ability on one target at a time, this also means one empire at a time. And to use your special ability, you cannot use up your general espionage spendings on multiple other targets. You have to focus on your primary target. If you don't use your special ability, then you can allocate your espionage spendings on multiple targets like usual to get the general intels on the other empires.
