Yes that's what I'm saying, if you use 10 leaders you have 60% security which is the highest possible and then you can still lose three techs in one turn! In GC 3 you can prevent everything else but it is not possible to stop tech stealing and when it is stuff you have bust your balls to get and the AI won't even try on their own, it's game ruining.
Overall i like the changes with crusade and i'm actually having a great game apart from the broken espionage and it's just killing the whole thing for me. The most you can do for security is have 10 leaders focussing on it which gives you a boost of 60% but at that rate it is still possible to lose three techs some turns. Furthermore, they start working on you when you get to unfriendly it seems and once they have started stealing your techs, they don't stop so your only option is to just kil
Yeah i'm done with this game because it's just not fun this way. I just researched a 26 turn tech and i can't do anything more to protect myself against tech stealing and it was taken and there is nothing i can do about it. I can defend my planets against enemies and culture, i can increase research & production but i am simply unwilling to accept that there is simply nothing you can do about tech stealing and just have to put up with it. Sadly game breaking.
I have put everything I can into security and some turns I'm losing three techs. It's game and heart breaking.
I hate espionage, I'm sick of working my ass off to get the techs I want for the AI to just steal them.
I have it set to max and it still keeps happening.
Sometimes i do and sometimes i don't, i just know its annoying as hell and makes me want to not play the game.
It seems once you have ultra you don't even need spies, you just steal techs anyway and it seems to work both ways. I have put everything i can into security and i'm losing techs like mad.
I find it game ruining to be honest. I'm trying to get on and enjoy the thing but losing a tech every turn or two is just driving me mad.
How do i stop people stealing them apart from getting your security up to 54% which is the highest possibnle and what level of espionage do you need against someone before you can identify them as the thieves?
I'm literally losing a tech every turn and espionage is showing no spies on my planets
I killed him, there are none showing now.
how can it be possible for a race to steal techs from you when they have no active spies on your planets? i killed the spy and they were still stealing techs from me?
The opt in patch fixed mine!
There is a race trait that says you are time travellers that gives you mad tech straight out the door. Thalan empire can start with star federation. Also the game I feel has been made to screw over anyone who plays the old way, citizens completely knock out the balance.
Yeah all this time and the game still doesn't work.
The whole expansion it seems is designed to throw off the usual strategy. For instance i had played 9 hours before today messing around and trying to learn how things worked after the changes. I played the same way that on gifted, i can be at the top and miles ahead of the tech rush by turn 100 and i find i am screwed all over. Even to the point where i have 20 planets and i'm ranked bottom (out of all races discovered) at turn 100 and even by turn 200, i am still at the bottom and the only c
Funnily enough, i properly hated crusade yesterday but having gotten used to it, i think on balance i prefered it until this.
I've gotten used to the changes and 12 hours in, the game is stuck. I cannot save, cannot go back to the main menu unless I click retire and the turn won't complete. If I hover over either save, load or main menu, it says please wait until ship movement, battle, invasion and colonisation are resolved. I've tried the same turn a couple of times and even rolled back a couple of turns and it doesn't help. I'm really pissed off at losing 12 hours of game time. Since origina
I didn't know what to do with them. Are they not supposed to protect you from spies?
This is what I'm wondering and is there anything I can do about it?
They won't give me a refund because i played over two hours. Looks like i'm stuck with it.
yeah i just found it. Kinda sad really but it's been so fundamentally changed and after two years they hadn't even managed to fix the original game. I just don't think i have the patience to wait for these guys tio fix it. I've loaded the old game and it's just far superior to this rubbish.
How do you go about getting a refund?
So how do you upgrade them?