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KeTcHuP:
Issue with lincolns suggestion is you will get countries droppping to 1k acres to be immune to spy ops because noone will have a higher SPAL, and be able to destroy any other country in war.
yep, and if a country is getting killed and drops most of its land, its already hard enough to get a spy op on it. Lincoln's idea would make that even worse.
And no, spy DR has NOT been a large impediment to the growth of this game. Its a very minor issue related to the growth of the game. How many people quit/leave because spy DR once a country has had 25+ spy ops done on it makes spy ops much harder?
How many leave because of topfeeders, bottomfeeders, suiciders, and people who do multiple harmful spy ops or farm excessively without provocation?
Lincoln's excessive use of numerous harmful spy ops without provocation has probably been a greater cause of people leaving/quitting than has the difficulty of doing spy ops on a target that has already been hit by 25+ harmful spy ops in the last day.
At least SR is a powerful enough spy op to be worth using. Stealing tech, food, or cash is barely worth using, to the point that one has to do 10-20 ops on someone to get a decent amount. But seeing someone do 10-20 ops on you without provocation is not something that's good for the game, it will cause many people to leave if such extremes are allowed.
While we need to change spy DR, we also need to make it so that doing a long string of spy ops on a country is not excessively damaging, probably meaning that the initial spy ops need to get a boost, but the gains need to decrease fairly rapidly to being similar or less than what they are right now.
