Spy Priority appears to set priority for the enemy nation

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Traslogan
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Spy Priority appears to set priority for the enemy nation

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So I've been noticing when trying to do spying that if I set spy priorities on a target nation and tell it what kind of operations I want them to conduct, this causes the target nation to assign that priority to me and do said missions.

I first noticed this as Argentina, trying to do Espionage on the USA. Within a month or two, the USA was being caught in Argentina doing Espionage missions, and Argentinean spies were not doing the same to them.
Then I tried as Britain against the Germans in 1936, this time with high priority to sabotage. Suddenly the Germans were sabotaging me left, right and center.

I don't know if it's actually setting the priorities for my own spies at all, as during the times I noticed these, the AI hasn't been deploying my own spies (And I definitely have some available, I wouldn't set the priorities without having intelligence academies).

From what I can tell, the player's Spy AI will do espionage missions if it has the right assignments to do so, though whether or not espionage works is for another thread. It seems that when the player sets priorities for spying, it's accidentally setting that priority onto the player for the target-nation's spies to do instead. I think this might be like how using Strategic Control to nuke will cause the AI to nuke back, but manual nukes never does it back to you (However the AI will spy casually on its own anyway but much less)
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Re: Spy Priority appears to set priority for the enemy nation

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This is a known issue, previously reported on the steam forums. It was on the short list for the update we just posted but we ran out of time. It's near the top of the priority list for the next update.

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Re: Spy Priority appears to set priority for the enemy nation

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Ah okay, gotcha
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