Where do you send your spy to steal technology from?
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My spymaster visits the university in Bologna..and always seems to work rather good a slong as it is an OPM.
Theoretically, if he has 2 provinces and you spy in the non-capital, shouldn't it be somewhat easier? As in not only a likely poor spymaster but also watching over the capital whereas you spy in that other province?
It does depend on the start date. I usually pick places that actually have the techs I'm focusing on. So if I'm studying bows I send my spy somewhere that has more bow technology than I do. Usually this ends up Kaneia (Western part of Crete), but sometimes it ends up being Atheniai (little piece sticking out the east of today's Greece) or Baghdad (about halfway between the Mediterranean and Persia).
I generally plop my spymaster on Constantinople at the start of the game. I generally don't use my spymaster for much else, as I'm not big on assassinations.
Early game i am always using my spymaster's 2nd option (the one that grants +% of assasination sucess/-% of assasination discovery), because it occasionally provides you with +50 gold, which at the start is pretty much needed specially as a count.
Once i am big, i am always using my spymaster to prevent vassals from entering "factions" against me.
I only "spied" when i started playing, and i always spied venice.
Either that, or when i want my wife to get killed and i dont got the money for the deed - putting your wife as a spymaster and sending her to someone with a great spymaster is a great way of getting a new chick.
Once i am big, i am always using my spymaster to prevent vassals from entering "factions" against me.
I only "spied" when i started playing, and i always spied venice.
Either that, or when i want my wife to get killed and i dont got the money for the deed - putting your wife as a spymaster and sending her to someone with a great spymaster is a great way of getting a new chick.
Wow, thanks for the great tips. I was tired of using Constantinople and losing my SM all the time!
I pretty much always just send them to Constantinople, no real reason why, it just seems like the obvious choice seeing how advanced it was and how it was meant to be such an important city.
Either of the two provinces next to Granada, by the coast. They are usually part of small realms, and have amongst the highest levels in the techs I prioritise.
Is the random chance for a tech boost really worth the chance of imprisonment and losing the potential benefit of scheming in your own realm?
I do find that you can have a lovely game of russian roulette by placing a hated rival in Constantinople and hoping they get caught. Since LOR the emperor will imprison and most likely blind them. If vassals are giving you trouble I recommend this, for a while in my court being spymaster was the worst job in town.