To be perfectly clear, I was talking about the
world map negotiating since you said that you think that increasing your SS help you there, and it does not.
On the world map the number of troops you face, and the negotiating costs of those encounters is determined solely by the cost to scout that province.
The methodology I used to test this after the devs stated this was the case on both the US and Beta Forums was to have
2 cities at the same number of scouted provinces, and SS techs.
City #1 scouted the next province
City # 2 completed research and activated an SS, and
then scouted
The troops faced by each city and the negotiating costs were the same.
Feel free to test it yourself, or send a ticket to support asking.
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