The Global Defense Initiative (GDI) is an organization which enforces the rules of war between member countries. All countries are members of GDI and cannot revoke their membership. GDI membership is free from any monetary costs.

Definitions:

* A "standard attack" is a standard strike or planned strike.
* A "special attack" is a guerilla strike, bombing run, artillery barrage, or missile launch.
* An "informational spy op" is spy, spy on alliances, market spy or military Spy.
* A "stealing spy op" is bomb banks, raid food stores, or raid oil reserves.
* A "harmful spy op" is any other type of spy operation.
* An "offensive action" is a standard attack, special attack, FAILED stealing spy op, or FAILED harmful spy op.

Rules of War:

* During the final 3 days of the round, only informational spy ops are allowed unless the target has already engaged in one or more offensive action against you. All offensive actions are otherwise banned.

* You may perform standard attacks, informational spy ops, or stealing spy ops against a target that is within 25% and 400% of your networth.

* You may perform informational spy ops or stealing spy ops against a target that has performed one or more offensive actions against you without any networth restrictions.

* You may perform special attacks against a target that has performed two or more offensive actions against you that is within 25% and 400% of your networth.

* You may perform harmful spy ops against a target that has performed two or more offensive actions against you without any networth restrictions.

I'll probably add a table at the bottom to make it easier to understand. I also plan to include lists of countries that have forfeited GDI protection both for and against your country.

Good change! Thanks Slag!

b o o m.

The list of countries will be a great add. This looks like all upside from my angle.

Nice

Does steal tech actually steal tech or nah?

Yeah but it got classified as a harmful spy a number of years ago because there was too much complaining from Primary players about constant tech stealing throughout the round.

Changed final 6 hours rule to final 5%.

I'm changing only failed spy ops to count as breaking GDI to close the loophole where players could figure out who spied them even if the aggressor never failed an op.

Hmmm, is this to promote having more spies?

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No, the scenario was:

Player A does bomb banks twice against Player B without failing.
Player B then tries to AB every country from top to bottom. If the AB isn't blocked by GDI then player B can deduce that Player A was the one who did the bomb banks.

Yes that's how I killed Ratski many times in express, now he and other suiciders get a free pass with your change.

Ah, I see what you meant now. Yes, if you want to punish countries who do ops against you then you need to have enough spy defense to make them fail once.

So 1 failed op will void GDI, I like that, it means they'll have to be diligent or else get caught.

Also, is the spy DR still the same or got changed?

If a country fails 1 stealing op against you then the game will calculate their offensive action count as 1. You will be able to do a landgrab against them. If they retal against you then they will have 1+1=2 offensive actions against you and you can then AB them or whatever.

Spy DR is the same as before.

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Got it 👍

While the issues with farming and GDI need to be addressed, I don't actually think these changes will have the desired effect, if any effect at all, some people wont even need to change their playstyle at all and will continue to farm smaller player, and others will just need to adjust slightly. Basically as Koh said, all this does is just make people have more spies, that literally it. Doesn't solve any underlying issues, and in my opinion just harms the game.

Well, if it has no effect at all it certainly wont harm the game.

I will be interested to see how it goes. Spies are not cheap to maintain. And just how many do you want to have. I tend to think coming from me (or a lot of people) playing a country I could definitely be quite the pesk with spy ops.

So I will have to assume, while a lot of countries wont be that much of a pesk, odds are if one does enough farming, they will run into one who may. Seems there is dynamics that minimize the damage ops do anyway from smaller countries vs larger ones? Like if you only have a few jets you wont take out too many airbases etc. I would have to look into that further. Just winging it here.

Most of the people, most, who are getting farmed are probably still too weak to worry about.

My plan is if LB has hit them 5 times I will hit them 3 and move on...

Haha. You see some of those players. The ones who rarely crack a player first but just wait to see that someone else had already made the move before they do.

Dictator thief spy country for the win. Watch out n00bs I’m coming to steal your tech.

I think it’ll be a positive change

Just from a common sense perspective of what’s allowed and what’s not allowed

Practically it makes sense for gdi to block a small country from attacking a large one, but at the same time to allow the small one to still try spy attacks

Not perfect by any means but I intend for the game to give more actionable advice whenever a country attempts something that isn't allowed:

https://imgur.com/a/UjAdO6D

damn bro, dont attack a homie!

You supposed to love and cherish your homie!

well i might try breaking gdi just to trial this out next set then. I generally dont cuz of the incoming missile and AB threat

Am I missing something? haha. They can still AB and missile you ? as long as within the usual range? PLUS they can spy you regardless of that range. Seems worst time ever to try it out. lol. Though, had you taken that path this set you may have been getting a W.