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Increased Expensive Agents

Salve Citizens,

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TL;DR: Saves agents by increasing both their cost and offensive actions cost to a high level, one that the player can use from time to time, but will bankrupt with multiple uses, and will entice the player to use agents properly as before you drop that kind of money you want to bring up your best agent. With the increased cost AI offensive action spam is reduced to manageable and more realistic levels. Increases agents and armies along imperium levels up to 20. Spies as scouts!

This mod started with my desire to return some of the mystery to the campaign map and value of spies as scouts, since we never got anything resembling scouts or a scouting system in the game, instead we've seemed to just increase the field of view to the point you really don't need spies, or scouts, but to maybe go out and scout foreign lands to see what's out there. My ultimate aim is to reduce campaign map visibility down to the Rome 1 levels, adding to the strategy and potential of the map, requiring you to scout the land before moving your armies around, while increasing the number of agents you can have, but increasing their recruitment costs as well as making all offensive actions more expensive.

What this mod does:

It increases Spies, Armies, Edicts, Veterans, Dignitaries, along with imperium levels to these rates: 5, 8, 10, 13, 15, 18, 20. I was reading that anything above 20 can introduce bugs into the system, so I've capped it at 20 for now till I can do any investigation on how to implement it stably.

It also increases the base cost of recruiting agents to:

- Champion: 4000
- Dignitary 2000
- Spy: 3000
- General: 250 (I didn't want to make recruiting a basic governor expensive because of this)

Also, offensive agent actions are now more expensive. This is a highly modified variable by the system but let me know your feedback on how much offensive agent actions cost keeping in line with the overall design direction of the mod. We want more spies and agents, but their recruitment cost is more, balanced, but expensive, as well as offensive actions, balanced, but expensive. So any and all feedback is welcome. Please let me know what your experience is and if you feel the rates are too expensive, or not expensive enough to make that decision important enough, that you're going to bring up your best assassin before spending that kind of money on an attempt. That's the premise or soul of what I'm looking for here.

Also, a few extra levels will provide 2 skill points instead of just one. Not all, but about 35/40% more do.

The Terminator did a Divide et Impera sub mod review where he reviews and recommends Increased Expensive Agents, check it out along with his awesome channel! His review of this mod starts at 4:52.

https://youtu.be/Sw6beb76t_Y?t=292

This is made as a sub-mod for Divide et Impera, I have no idea if it works on any other platform, vanilla or otherwise. Save game compatible.

Best way to reach out to the dev is by discord, you can find us here: https://discord.gg/ZRVXDB7KFh

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See also Ultimate Upkeep and Recruitment: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2497659872

Part of the Ultimate DEI Collection: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2523773724
and Roma Modius Maxmius: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2388375679

Thanks everyone, I hope you enjoy and this helps you experience all this amazing game has to offer!

Cives vale...
Roma est Urbem Aeternam!

Ave Caesar!
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Increased Expensive Agents 1.2

- Reduced Offensive Action costs 15~20%
- Increased Base Success Rates 10~15%


This will have the effect of reducing the costs of offensive agent actions, some of the higher level agents on big missions would get very expensive so in order for balance, I reduced their costs a bit more to try and hit that sweet spot more often, as you're probably well aware by now, the offensive agent action cost is a highly modified variable and is practically different for everyone even those in very similar circumstances. This mod aims for the averages in selecting it's targets.

I've also increased the base success rate. This is not to be confused with critical success chance. However, base success chance has been increased upwards of 10~15% resulting in more successful actions, both for you and the AI, BEWARE and Plan Accordingly.

As always we love to hear your feedback and thank you for reading this and enjoying the mod! If you are enjoying our work, do us a favor and hit that thumbs up button. Thank you!

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