Hubert Cater
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ORIGINAL: Sugar So the correct and not "misleading" text would be: Each new level of Spying & Intelligence increases your own research bonus by 1%, while your opponent's bonus is cancelled? This actually wouldn't be true either because the effect goes both ways, i.e. if you are cancelling your opponent's S&I Bonus, then your opponent's S&I Bonus is also then technically cancelling yours. quote:
It should also be mentioned in the same sentence that each new lvl only increases your own research, if your opponents lvl isn't higher or equal to your newly achieved lvl. Agreed and this is what we were hoping the following sentence in the Manual would have suggested, and again only because the effect naturally goes both ways. If the enemy’s intelligence level is higher than yours, then it will just negate your own Spying & Intelligence. quote:
Sorry to be nickpicky, but the sentence in the manual is simply not true; the opponents research is not decreased, and actually your own research is only increased under certain circumstances. This is a tricky one because in terms of only increased under certain circumstances we do mention when your S&I bonus can be negated, and since the effects of achieving general levels of S&I research goes both ways, it is technically possible that an S&I bonus can actually be decreased without being cancelled. For example, Germany has S&I Level-1, and the UK has S&I Level-2, then the UK's S&I bonus will have decreased from 2 to 1. * * * The issue in my mind with that particular sentence in the Manual is we tried to describe what Spying and Intelligence actually does for you in general, i.e. the impact it will have for the research calculation for your country when you've achieved a level > 0, while at the same time suggesting what kind of effect it can potentially have on your opponent if they too have a level > 0, perhaps too compactly. An improvement would be along the following lines: Each new level of Spying & Intelligence increases your own research bonus by 1%. However, this can be impacted if your opponent is also researching and achieving Spying & Intelligence levels of its own. The impact can either be to decrease or to negate your research bonus entirely. For example, if the enemy’s intelligence level is higher than yours, then it will negate your own Spying & Intelligence. But if your intelligence level is higher than your enemy's, your Spying and Intelligence bonus will be the difference between the two levels, e.g. Germany has intelligence Level-1, and the UK has intelligence Level-2, then the UK's research bonus will have decreased from 2 to 1. If both you and your enemy's highest Spying and Intelligence levels are the same, then they simply cancel each other out until one or the other achieve a new higher level. I'll coordinate with Bill (he'll likely have his own suggestions/tweaks for improvements here), and we'll look into rewriting this section accordingly.
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