#26 Smarter 'spy' BTU use

[Geoff Cashman]

If you issue a wide area spy command, such as 'spy
#31', the command will use BTUs when there is nothing
available to spy with. The amount of BTUs used is the
same whether there is something to spy with or not.

[113:635] Command : spy #31
SPY report
Mon Sep 1 15:34:04 2003
old sct rd rl def
sect de own own eff eff eff eff civ mil shl gun pet
food bars lnd pln

[113:620] Command :

Note empty results set.

[Markus Armbruster]

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BTU cost of spy is based on the rectangular area. It
considers neither implicit conditions (sector owned, has
mil) nore explicit ones, like ?mil>5.

`spy *' can be devastating.

[Markus Armbruster]

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Works as designed and documented. A case could be made for
a BTU rule that depends on the number of *foreign* sectors
you *actually* spy into. But that's a (valid) feature request.