Spies keep defecting

[Myrmidon]

Playing as Cao Cao, ive lost over 7-8 spies who just defect to the enemy faction. Is there a way that I can have more control over them? I really enjoy the system and its quite fun to mess around once your spy reaches a good rank in the enemy faction. But, its quite annoying that my spies are guaranteed to defect at some point.

[IceFire]

When they are close to defect, have them steal some items or revolt or disown if he doesnt have any points to use.

[Myrmidon]

Originally posted by IceFire:

When they are close to defect, have them steal some items or revolt or disown if he doesnt have any points to use.

I usually end up doing a bunch of actions before they defect. As for disowning, won't that just guarantee that you lose them? So there is no way for me to convince them to stay loyal to me?

[McG]

It's best to find someone who is willing to spy for you and has a good satisfaction. Anyone recruited to go straight into spying will likely defect.

[Myrmidon]

Originally posted by McG:

It's best to find someone who is willing to spy for you and has a good satisfaction. Anyone recruited to go straight into spying will likely defect.

Oh thanks for this info! I didn't know that. I saw that one of my characters has the "willing to spy for you" modifier but I didn't really pay attention to it and made him a general in my army.

So does that mean that characters with that modifier will not defect? or just have a lower chance of defecting?

[McG]

Originally posted by Bitter End:

Originally posted by McG:

It's best to find someone who is willing to spy for you and has a good satisfaction. Anyone recruited to go straight into spying will likely defect.

Oh thanks for this info! I didn't know that. I saw that one of my characters has the "willing to spy for you" modifier but I didn't really pay attention to it and made him a general in my army.

So does that mean that characters with that modifier will not defect? or just have a lower chance of defecting?

Lower chance. It also helps if they have a grudge against the faction you choose to spy against.

[Elite665]

must be how your using them none of mine have defected yet
infact they are doing great

[Wraith]

Pretty much. Having someone with good satisfaction and willing to help out in the spying business is key.
It also helpful to send someone good not just someone useless like a level 1 spy.

[Valekrin]

I've had people with 100 satisfaction defect, it does seem to happen pretty often. Like others mentioned, I usually try to have them steal an item when they get close to defecting. A few times I've had them run risky missions hoping to get them captured and executed, but nope, just my luck, they succeed!

[easytarget]

This does have me wondering how to improve satisfaction of a spy while they are embedded, because one of the easiest ways to improve satisfaction is to promote them, but I can't because that's not an option while they're in the field being a spy?!

[Buttadeus]

Use Discredit Faction if you can, it will bring satisfaction down and prevent defection.