The Cooperation, Alliance, FFA, Primary, and Express servers will be upgraded to Change Set 28 after their current rounds end.


Change Set 28:

* Spy DR will be shown in the results for the Military Spy operation.

* The end of round tightened humanitarians range introduced in Change Set 9 ("During the last 30 turns of a reset, the humanitarians range will tighten with ((turnsleft/31.7)^2+1.05) with a minimum of the range") will be removed.

* The trade pact turn bonus will be changed to granting a flat extra turn per day per active ally.

* On the Alliance and FFA servers, countries will no longer be subject to the rule where they cannot drop land recently gained from landgrabs. The prohibition on dropping any land during the final 25% of the round is still in effect.

* On the Alliance server, the NPC country count will be reduced from 350 to 300.

* On the FFA server, the NPC country count per player country will be reduced from 3.5 to 2.5.


Cooperation server only:

* The positive event boom bonus point cost for the Communist government will be reduced from 6 points to 2 points.

* Spy technology will also increase the 20% cashing bonus by the stated percentage. For example, spy effectiveness at 125% will result in a cashing bonus of 25% and spy effectiveness at 155% will result in a cashing bonus of 31%.

* SDI technology will now grant a guaranteed extra PS brigade slot for every 15% tech and will grant a percentage chance between the different cutoffs. Some examples:

- 1% SDI: 6.6% chance of an extra PS brigade slot
- 15% SDI: 1 extra PS brigade slot
- 30% SDI: 2 extra PS brigade slots
- 67.5% SDI: 4 extra PS brigade slots with a 50% chance of 1 additional slot
- 90% SDI: 6 extra PS brigade slots
- 99% SDI: 6 extra PS brigade slots with a 60% chance of 1 additional slot


Thank you for playing Earth Empires.

Was this a requested change? I thought this was primarily implemented to prevent griefers from grabbing land and then dropping to prevent retals from getting it back.

Out of interest, why tie the cashing bonus and PS brigade slot increases to Spy/SDI tech instead of the most closely related options (presumably Business and Military Strategy)?

Those changes only impact the Cooperation server which has very low demand for war techs. The intent is to make Spy and SDI technology useful even for netgaining countries.