Sabotage and Subterfuge: Obfuscation
This mod is an addon for Sabotage and Subterfuge that hides a character’s troop count and gold by default, letting the player learn that information as a game mechanic. It directly iterates on the excellent Immersive Realm Espionage by Father_MaGGus, making gameplay and balance adjustments to it and integrating it with the spy network from Sabotage and Subterfuge.
There are a number of ways to learn this information now that it’s hidden:
- Spy Network: If you have a spy in a character’s court, it will always be displayed in full detail in the various UI elements
- Home Advantage Seduction Perk: If you have taken the Home Advantage seduction perk and are lovers with a character’s spouse (and they aren’t in prison), that character’s information will always be displayed in full detail in the same way.
- Relationships: If you are allied with the target, they’re a vassal or otherwise beneath you, your best friend, your lover, or your spouse, their information will be visible.
- Request Realm Information: You can use the Request Realm Information interaction to directly request the information if the character is willing. This costs prestige, and you may also need to befriend, bribe, or use a hook on the target to get them to agree. Their traits and relationship with you can also affect this willingness. Once they agree you’ll receive a letter detailing the state of their affairs at that moment. It will not show anywhere on the UI.
- Realm Espionage: You can use the Realm Espionage Spymaster task, again courtesy of Father_MaGGus. The task targets a county, and if successful you will receive a letter detailing the state of their affairs at that moment. The detail will range from vague comparisons to specific numbers depending on your spymaster’s intrigue. If your spymaster is good enough you may get an additional snapshot ahead of schedule, and if they’re poor enough your efforts might be discovered, incurring an opinion penalty and either a prestige cost or the inability to target the same character again for some time depending on how you handle the situation.
I’m sure there’s some UI element I have missed, and if so do let me know!
Note that this addon does not change anything about the systems in Sabotage and Subterfuge, so if you do not want to play with this information obfuscated, you aren’t missing out on anything by just using the base mod. It exclusively integrates obfuscated information in the ways discussed above.
Load this mod after Sabotage and Subterfuge!
– Father_MaGGus’s Immersive Realm Espionage
– stealkillx’s Hide levies mod, which was a really helpful reference
– Jp78’s obfusCKate, for inspiring all of us!
I do not plan on making or maintaining compatibility patches for this mod. It has to touch several UI files, and I’m not interested in solving those conflicts repeatedly across several different compatches. I’ll keep it compatible with vanilla and the base mod, but that is all I’m intending to do.
Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoy the mod!
