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I am pretty sure that you can type in 200k. When you sab someone you lose 10% of your spies so you want to figure out the least amount of spies that you can send with failing.
"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."
John Stuart Mill
You won't like the answer... but it is simply the cap that is in place on how many spies you can send for a sab mission. A choice was made and put into the programming.
It keeps angry weaker players who want to quit quantum from throwing massive amounts of spies at someone much stronger to hurt them before leaving. Whether you consider this a good thing or a bad thing... that's your opinion.
Personally I think that's a pretty stupid measure to have in place, especially in a shorter-term game.
"Perserverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."
Actually Pung, I think it makes more sense in a shorter term game. There is no time to rebuild and having this unlimited gives too much power to weaker players to hurt stronger, more developed players.
This wave it's the worst for such a thing. You can trade turns in for miners at the rate of 120k:1k right now. Without that limit, someone who has done nothing but sit on their hands until this point could trade in 5k turns for miners, use their income for the remainder of the day to buy covert levels and farm with the 6 turns/tick they get after that trade... By the end of the day they'd have maybe level 17 covert and 600k spies... That could hurt all but the top few at ths point... And that's with a few hours work against all wave of development.
Well there is such a thing as a Kamakazi . As you put it yeah I dont think you should put all your troups inas spies and sab a person and quit. But with the growing number of armies in this game it should be unlimited. last wave the up was over 40k a day see how it would make sense to raise it?