Decryption vs Encryption and Focus tree

[821]

This doesn't make much sense.

So British decryption is too low to see what have Germans already achieved in the past, but good enough to know what is currently going up in Hitler's mind?
Never mind that you can simply check twice a year the diplomacy screen and have a decent overview about enemy focus tree.
This should be quite opposite. Current focus of enemy should be hidden until you have better decryption than target encryption.
Not knowing what is currently going on in the enemy faction could also increase surprise(and fun) in MP games.

 

[Gort11]

Yeah, you've got a point. Bad decryption should mean you only have information that's years old.

 

[Finski]

Good point, totally agree.

 

[77Hawk77]

yeah that's pretty nonsensical

 

[Jmland]

Bad decryption should mean that you get either nothing or completely false/unreliable information.
hmmm...could be a subject for a mod discussion. If your decryption is less than the enemy's encryption, then % chance of a random event screen about the enemy (which is not really happening, just triggers the screen for you and your AI to see). Something like "Germany has increase Pzr IV production to 125 units/day" or "Nazi sympathizers are planning an armed uprising in San Francisco"
But it would have to be something believable. Something that could or does happen in the game.

 

[eddyill]

I agree but think it could be improved further with various focuses having varying secrecy so research, nuclear effort and secret weapons etc are only known about if you have high Decryption vs enermy Encryption but political actions like the Munich Agreement and Vienna Award would have been in the news and even the most incompetent intelligence service would know they had happened. All the other focuses would fall some where in between.

 

[LordOfWar16]

If your decryption is too low and theirs is too high, you wont even see what their current National Focus is.

Other than that decryption/encryption influence how accurate intel you get about the enemy like numbers of divisions, planes, ships, factories etc. You will only see something like 205-456 divisions if your decryption is very low. You will never get 100% accurate numbers of course, but the estimate gets better the better you can decrypt.

 

[Secret Master]

So British decryption is too low to see what have Germans already achieved in the past, but good enough to know what is currently going up in Hitler's mind?

Maybe there's another tech that gives insight into the actions of other major powers....

 

[Loke]

Considering radar and encryption/decryption levels, will we be able to as Germany do a "surprise attack" towards Western Europe -40 or Russia -41 and in late 1944 another Ardenners offenisve?(with the pre buildup concealed/secret/hidden)