I assume this was because someone manipulated something way back when? I don't know if anyone else has problems with this, but i've run out of spy ops 8 of the last 9 days. Shouldnt there be a limit to the number of attacks you can make, or turns you can tech, if there is a limit to the number of spy ops?

if you could do 120-126 spyops (or 130-132 with bonus turns) then at war you could really make country/ies lose alot troops (even if country/ies are spied out since some ops get thru still).

I cant really recall when the 50 ops thing came in or if it was in to begin with, but i would probably say it has something to do with in the old days you were able to stock steal via spy ops. But that would just be a guess.

I think harmful spy ops add another element of excitement to the game.

If you have 30k spies and 20k acres, I'm going to take advantage of your audacity. In a game where landgrabs are most of the time, not done as a result of consequences, spy ops (like espionage) add another way to profit by devious means, and you're taking a chance. It's pretty exciting to steal tech or destroy some jets and have nothing they opponent can do about it.

stealing tech is useless unless you yourself have same techs as opponent and high amount of those.

stealing tech is definitely not useless. ranging between 5k-15k tech a turn, in addition to whatever you produce normally, adds a huge amount of income to your coffers

Don't get caught :p

Thats where the rush is!

yea its not totally useless if your target is techer and you have alot techpoints but it isn't that good either.