Assassination Engine Rebalanced

A good morning from London. Eston, Director of MI6, at your service.

The Directorate has noticed many Spymasters concerned about their losses in battle to those who are of a much lower level than them and we have decided to address this in a change we are rolling out within the next few hours. These changes will rebalance the assassination system such that those at a much lower level will have a much lower chance of being able to defeat a higher level spymaster in an assassination plot.

Note that this rebalance also runs the caveat of possibly having a smaller sample of people to fight: whilst those with greater attack and defence multipliers may have been able to win with some regularity previously, great disparities will almost always result in the loss of the lower-level player. If your friends are at a lower level than you, they will stand a lesser chance of being able to beat you in combat. This may have social ramifications for you outside of your work as a spymaster.

The Directorate is not changing the post-assassination payout balancing at this time. Many level 25 and higher spymasters have also been concerned that they have lost their luxury items such as M107 Sniper Rifles and Armored Luxury Cars in battle. This is a consequence of how the battle engine operates: your best items will be equipped in battle (please see the Black Market's How attack and defence multipliers are calculated section for more on how items are auto-equipped by the assassination engine.) For those that currently have looted items that they are currently incapable of buying or using as a spymaster, these items will be removed from the system.

We will be watching the forums closely for feedback on this new assassination engine.

On a side note, we are aware of spymasters having their assassination rewards partially saved or not saved at all when they are done with their assassination plot. The Directorate is aware of this problem and is actively engaged in repairing it at this time.

An encrypted message for Spymasters in the field follows.
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