The Agency

-The Agency-
A full rework HOI4’s Espionage system

• Larger Pool of Operatives
• More Opportunities to Gain Operatives
• Re-worked Agency Upgrade System
• New Operative Traits
• Re-Balanced Operations & Missions

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Wasn’t happy with how the espionage system turned out. Always seamed to lacked effectiveness, too much effort for too little gain. The limited number of operatives, the crippling effect of suffering an early capture or injury, the grueling volume of work needed to build a worthwhile agency, all made the ‘Spy’ system a bit ‘Lackluster.’

This mod is a major re-write of HOI4’s espionage. An attempt to make it something more than a ‘Trivial Waste" or a ‘Useless Time Sink.’ That said, great effort was put into balance as well as content, nothing should be overpowered and the AI has been modded to use this new system effectively.

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• “Revolutionary”

  Boost Ideology, Stage Coup, & Prepare Collaboration, Effects +25%

• “Insurgent”

  Sabotage, Strengthen Resistance, & Resistance Contacts (Risk, Cost, & Efficiency all +/-15%

• “Web of Lies”

  Intel Network Strength Gain Factor +30%

• “Spyhunter”

  Operative Capture/Detection & intel Network Gain +/- 10%

• “Scientist”

  Capture Cipher & Steal Blueprint (Risk & Effectiveness) +/- 15%

• “Linguist”

  The vanilla trait is fixed and now works properly

20 new espionage, resistance, or special forces themed advisers, several with new traits.

• “Spy Hunter”

  (UK only) enemy operative detection/capture/intel extraction rate +15%

• “Spymaster”

  (Turkey and All Majors except USA ) enemy operative detection/capture/intel extraction rate +15%

• “Spec-Ops Instructor”

  (UK only) Spec-Ops Attack +10%, Spec-Ops Capacity and Operative Commando trait chance +20%

• “Heart of Iron”

  (GER only) various effects themed to fighting resistance and gaining more from conquered territory at the expense of stability and population. (it’s possible some effects require the BoTB DLC to function)

• “Sniper Adherent”

  (FIN & SOV) Army attack/defense & Spec-Ops attack/capacity +5%, Army Recon effect +15%

The agency branch upgrades are completely redesigned. Nearly everything is changed, the most extensive of which, are AI weights to convince a computer controlled nation use the system intelligently

All existing operations are redesigned. The costs & effectiveness of most are reduced by 20~50% to balance an increased mission tempo against a larger operative pool. Most operations are now chained with other operations or upgrades. Agent Missions now require a fair amount of build up that, once done, can be completed with great frequency.

Operations first require an appropriate infiltration mission, each infiltration mission requires the appropriate Agency upgrade. Infiltration missions do have a larger than normal time investment (~120 days on average) subsequent ones, (fake intel, sabotage, etc…) average around ~45 days. A “Prep Sabotage Operation” must be completed to perform sabotage operations.

• Additional agent slots gained per 4 agency upgrades (to max of 8.)
• Max number of agents raised to 16, possible via Industry, Faction members, and advisors.
• Max agent level raised from 2 to 5
• Increased chance new agents will start with traits
• “Regional Training Centers” no longer requires the “Local Training Centers” Upgrade.
• Balance changes – effectiveness of agent missions -10~30%
• Strength of contribution agents add when Stacked (working together) +10~20%
• Agent XP gain +10~20%
• Agents gain XP (a small amount) from maintaining a quiet intel network
• Network Strength Loss Rate -10%
• Slightly Increased the effectiveness of overlapping radar & recon planes for gaining Intel.
• Economy and Industry Laws now effect Intel revealed to other nations.
• Russian Localization
• CSRZ’s ‘Realistic & Immersive Intelligence Agency Emblems’ is fully integrated into The Agency
• A “Foreign Assets” Tracking window added that lists completed infiltration missions. (From “Black Ice” mod)

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Chinese Localisation by IndelibleGlacier
secondary Russian Localisation (I think) by Skaor

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Donald Mc’D – Inherent Russian Localization
CSRZ’s – Allowing the incorporation of his mod Realistic & Immersive Intelligence Agency Emblems. into "The Agency." wonderful work dude.
Several other members of the community that have offered help and support but wish to remain autonomous.

You guys are awesome, thank you.

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A: YES! Be my guest. All only ask that you credit me in your mod and send friend request, then message me via Steam chat to let me know, I would love to see your work.

A: This is basically done at this point. If something new strikes my fancy, I may come back to this. But other than bug fixes and DLC comparability updates, this should be the last content release.

A: Don’t know. Make any suggestions in the discussion section below. I may if I spot one I like.

A: Its listed above but is easy to miss. In order to activate operations you need to a)Have performed the appropriate department upgrade and b)infiltrated the appropriate branch. (IE: to perform a collaboration government you need a Civ/Industrial department upgrade and a successful civilian infiltration. To steal Naval blueprints you would need a naval upgrade and infiltration, etc…)