spy reports

cooldude20

why can you only see a spy report for an hour before it goes out of date its way too short of a time. please vote on which time you should be able to see a spy reort for so i can show ggs

FamousZack9

2 days seem fair to me.

cooldude20

cool but i think the origainal one was 3 days

Peabianjay

They should be permanent. If I want to base an attack on a month old report, isn't that my problem?

Kinda like checking the weather in a newspaper from 1974. Foolish to do it, but "outlawing" it is moronic.

EpicZachary128

i got upset at GGE for changing the spy report from a day or two,to a really short spy report because it used to be there for a long time and now if you are not watching the screen right when it happens you can hardly send an attack.

007Ben (US1)

Just my opinion, but espionoge reports are BEST used against RBs and players who are not currently online. (If you don't see anything building, they probably aren't online) Online players will adjust their defence to counter your attack, so you know what units they have, but not where they will be.

Yossarian

cooldude20 wrote: »

why can you only see a spy report for an hour before it goes out of date its way too short of a time. please vote on which time you should be able to see a spy reort for so i can show ggs

It's a bug, came with the new update.

I'm surprised that this thread hasn't been moved to teachnical problems and bugs.

cooldude20

okay i thought it was somthing ggs did just to limit atacking which is weired

keep1

I liked the longer lasting stuff and besides I adjust my defense
every time I'm on

therealsporer (US1)

Sometimes it is nice to compare spy reports to battle reports and see what changes someone has made. It doesn't seem like there is a reason for them to ever go stale. It could be inaccurate the moment you get it, so why would there be some arbitrary cutoff?

slvrdvl

It would be nice to see them at all. It seems the minute they come in, I cannot see a report, it is out of date. I may not be opening them immediately, but for sure within an hour. What happens when you send spies long distance, do you need to set your alarm so you wake up and read your report before it's gone? Doesn't make alot of sense. Makes it really hard to do attack planning when I cant use a spy report.

theginjaninja09

spy reports go out of date when your enemy changes something in their castle or adjusts they're defence or trains more troops

therealsporer (US1)

That is also a bad feature -- it means that I can spy, and then tell if someone is online or not. This is not a feature change, it is a bug.

theginjaninja09 wrote: »

spy reports go out of date when your enemy changes something in their castle or adjusts they're defence or trains more troops

sucmfic

should be 2 days. They've said nothing about it being an update so I expect a fix soon. Getting fed up with there being so few announcements on all these problems.

icepika

2 days is sufficient. It's quite annoying when you are going to have a mass attack but you can't send spy report to other because by the time they opened it, it has already expired

Yossarian

theginjaninja09 wrote: »

spy reports go out of date when your enemy changes something in their castle or adjusts they're defence or trains more troops

I know that this is not true, spy reports used to last for at least one day, probably two, whether or not something changes in their castle. I have read espionage reports, gone to send an attack and the castle was on fire, someone beat me to it and the spy report was still able to be read.
You can verify this by sending espionage on an alliance member checking the spy report after they change their defences, you will have to do this very quickly given the bug that is deleting spy reports in under an hour.

Skib0b

I hope its a bug, what happens when you send out a report that's going to take hours....do I need to sit at my computer or make arrangements to be back in time to see the report. Spy reports are only just a bit of insight and may change all the time, but it's nice to have some idea going in. Enhancements are supposed to better the game not make it worse, if it keeps going on like this I'll think about packing it in...also can't understand why the message board bug hasn't been fixed as of yet, seems like a long time for such a small issue!!!!

cooldude20

yes i have to spy aobut 7 times before i lanch as i keep leaving the spy report to late

007Ben (US1)

Yossarian wrote: »

I know that this is not true, spy reports used to last for at least one day, probably two, whether or not something changes in their castle.

What I think he means is the report doesn't change when the player changes. If a player changes their defence, it is now out of date whether you can see the report or not. A three-hour report is no good if the player moved troops, trained troops, got support troops, pulled tools out of storage, etc. before you attack. It can give you a rough idea (VERY rough sometimes) but it isn't perfect.

Molson Beer (US1)

I think one day (24 hours) is good enough.

3 days and up..that's just useless by than

007Ben (US1)

Espionoge bug is fixed! I left one overnight and it was there when I got on today! Thanks, GGE.