Any chance of making Espionage an option?

[maggiecow]

I know I can fully automate it but I'd prefer the option to turn off Espionage entirely. That's all. If you enjoy microing the espionage, more power to you. I know it's highly exploitable, but it doesn't interest me.

[Omena]

You can edit policy-files ("Ackadarin.xml" ) in the "policy"-folder. Each file has rules regarding what intelligence missions they use:
<IntelligenceMissionAllowSabotageConstruction>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowSabotageConstruction>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowStealTerritoryMap>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowStealTerritoryMap>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowStealGalaxyMap>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowStealGalaxyMap>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowStealOperationsMap>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowStealOperationsMap>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowStealTechData>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowStealTechData>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowSabotageColony>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowSabotageColony>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowDeepCover>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowDeepCover>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowDestroyBase>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowDestroyBase>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowAssassinate>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowAssassinate>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowInciteRevolution>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowInciteRevolution>

If you set all these to "false", you will no longer get AI espionage missions.

(There are also various settings there that you can use to make AI empires harder.)

[maggiecow]

You can edit policy-files ("Ackadarin.xml" ) in the "policy"-folder. Each file has rules regarding what intelligence missions they use:
<IntelligenceMissionAllowSabotageConstruction>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowSabotageConstruction>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowStealTerritoryMap>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowStealTerritoryMap>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowStealGalaxyMap>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowStealGalaxyMap>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowStealOperationsMap>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowStealOperationsMap>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowStealTechData>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowStealTechData>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowSabotageColony>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowSabotageColony>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowDeepCover>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowDeepCover>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowDestroyBase>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowDestroyBase>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowAssassinate>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowAssassinate>
<IntelligenceMissionAllowInciteRevolution>true</IntelligenceMissionAllowInciteRevolution>

If you set all these to "false", you will no longer get AI espionage missions.

(There are also various settings there that you can use to make AI empires harder.)

Cool. I was thinking more along the lines of a tickbox but I do appreciate the answer. I might actually just do that. Though I expect I'll still have worlds full of spy characters taking up space, breathing my methane.