Diplomats and Spys

[nazareth]

Can more than one civ have diplomats and spies on a planet?

[Thom]

The limit is one diplomat and one spy on a planet. When the game was first designed and programmed there could be up to 4 different empires spies on any planet along with 4 different empires insurgents. Not to be confused with Guerrillas which were still allowed on the planet. However despite all the programming and such the spy routines were never used, or at least used for very long. When I went back and looked at the spy code it was apparent that although there was a lot of things spies could do to each other there was little else they did. And a planet that has 4 different empires knowing the location and having any kind of interaction without fleets and marines and missile ships being involved was slim. Diplomats I briefly considered being able to have more than one on a planet but came to the same conclusion that a planet where several empires know the location of a planet and nothing but diplomatic actions taking place is remote to say the least. So one spy and one diplomat allowed on a planet.