The Cost of Espionage

Spying on aristocrats was pretty much a free lunch. As soon as you started meeting aristocrats you ended up spying on them all the time just because you could. Furthermore, a significant portion of them were pretty easy targets.

In order to fix this, I made them a little harder to spy on average and put a flat cost on the act of Investigating/Stalking a target, much like the one of visiting territories you don't own but more expensive. In this way, you are to spend 0.2 Merit to spy on a target or, if you have no Merits, you'll get an increase of 10 in the Local Tension. After all you'd be a meritless scoundrel, surely up to no good.

Other than that, testing goes on. All new systems seem to work more or less as expected without bugs so far. I enjoyed baiting Rhodeghass into wrecking an aristocrat's assets in order to buy his land myself and getting aristocrats of enemy lobbies involved in alcohol smuggling operations to destroy their reputations and damage their lobbies.


As for available time for Anamnesis, July is turning out to be a busy month (I'm also a volunteer firefighter during summer, heat waves and whatnot) but August or September might see an Anamnesis release if everything goes well.