Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 (edited) This subject intrigues me greatly, so I'd figure I'd put it up for discussion. What's the biggest waste of in-game cash you've seen in this war so far? Personally, mine was been blowing ~24 million on an IRS infiltration spy op that didn't work :S As for the opposition, I've seen one of my opponents blow a fifth of his warchest rebuying 3k infra mid-round, which was swiftly nuked away over the rest of that round. Post your anecdotes about your own or others costly (dong-wise) mistakes during this war here. Edited February 12, 2013 by Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avakael Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 Eh, my opponents have all been rather conservative with cash. Nothing more costly than rebuying max aircraft before they get nuked on that day. My worst loss of cash at any one point has been poor luck with spy operations- I've had failures or spy fatalities on the last 8 straight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurunin Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 aircraft without a doubt. going against some tech heavy nations really is like throwing a paper airplane into a water fountain at times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mompson Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 It's turned out well for her so far, but Kestral of TLR blew 1.6 billion on tech after declaring. She's certainly got the WC for it though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HHAYD Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 Supposedly 50% spy opps, with around 10% to 20% sucess rate on average when it comes to DEFCON altering. :facepalm: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown Smurf Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 Supposedly 50% spy opps, with around 10% to 20% sucess rate on average when it comes to DEFCON altering. :facepalm: When it says 50% it just means you have greater than 30% and less than 70%, the number given is just a barometer. If you have 50% you should go to try to GA (but don't do it) and check to see if you have the land advantage before doing it. If you do, you probably have > 50%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeroofTime55 Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 (edited) DefCon spying is a waste of money. Destroy Money spy ops are where it's at. The value I have blown up so far this war far exceeds the personal cost to me. Mostly because I have been blowing up cash without mercy. I did buy back soldiers after receiving a defeat alert one day. That was pretty dumb. Edited February 12, 2013 by HeroofTime55 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Stuart Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 I have seen a spy op of an umb nation who had something like 3.4 billion and 5 days later had 1.6 after rebuying lost infra on a daily basis along with paying the normal costs of war. One sec whilst I go check our records for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Stuart Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 DefCon spying is a waste of money. Not always, it has its uses at the lower tier when facing tech turrets. Ask amossio ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vol Navy Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 Not sure how much they spent, but in the first round I had a TOP person re-buy from around 4 to 6k infra at least twice in an effort to do better on the ground. I noticed they'd bought from around 4k to 5k again the day our war ended. They were back in the 3000s infrawise last I looked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HHAYD Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 (edited) DefCon spying is a waste of money. Destroy Money spy ops are where it's at. The value I have blown up so far this war far exceeds the personal cost to me. Mostly because I have been blowing up cash without mercy. I disagree. Knocking someone from D1 to D5 is a great way to even the odds, espicially if you already nuked them. Edited February 12, 2013 by HHAYD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeroofTime55 Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 I disagree. Knocking someone from D1 to D5 is a great way to even the odds, espicially if you already nuked them. The infra damages at the lower levels are of near negligible cash value. I would gladly forego a few GA victories in return for blowing up $20 million. If the target in question does not have a warchest, then you should be reserving your spy ops for someone who does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vol Navy Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 My spy ops this war are almost solely targeting WMD. I've only fought people with full loads and wanted to run them out as quickly as possible. So far it's working well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
im317 Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 tomorrow i will waste more then $300 million to replace my mars base. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HHAYD Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 The infra damages at the lower levels are of near negligible cash value. I would gladly forego a few GA victories in return for blowing up $20 million. If the target in question does not have a warchest, then you should be reserving your spy ops for someone who does. And what if the target has over 10k of infra and an absurd amount of tech? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammykhalifa Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 I accidentally spied a guy's cruise missiles the other day. The Commander-in-chief may or may not have been drinking at the time. Officials will neither confirm nor deny that report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeroofTime55 Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 And what if the target has over 10k of infra and an absurd amount of tech? Idunno, I suppose. I'm not used to fighting at anywhere near a high level though :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HHAYD Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 I accidentally spied a guy's cruise missiles the other day. The Commander-in-chief may or may not have been drinking at the time. Officials will neither confirm nor deny that report. Welcome to the club, though 20 of my spies were killed. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvon Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 I accidentally spied a guy's cruise missiles the other day. The Commander-in-chief may or may not have been drinking at the time. Officials will neither confirm nor deny that report. I hope he at least had one to spy lol One of our members didn't have any when a Kaskus member hit him with a destroy CM And they have this extreme love for spying defcons daily AFTER running their GAs (in a couple specific incidences against my own nation, the spy attacks came anywhere from 10 - 20 minutes after the completed GAs) One of our members posted a pair of defcon hits yesterday; first one put him to D5 and then the second attack 5 or so minutes later put him back to D3 -- both GAs had also already been ran before this happened Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Longworth Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 My oponent tried to spy away nukes protected by my HNMS 3 times in a row. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eumirbago Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 Rebuying aircraft to hit my targets when they were already at the 1k infra mark :( Lesson learned :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anarquista Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 before my first war i had bought IAs instead of missile defenses/satellites wehn i didn't need/want a full 800 spies, luckily i was able to get out of war change improvements to collect and then get back into war with better improvements Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avakael Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 again with forgetting that the drop down menu on the spy operation page is not psychic and does not automatically choose the spy operation that I want to perform for me. @_@ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white majik Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 Surprised none of my targets mentioned me.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jraenar Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 Surprised none of my targets mentioned me.... You rebought like $250m worth of infra at least once while fighting me. Maybe twice, I wasn't paying close attention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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