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[WilliamLP]

I can't find how cost of passive spy missions is determined, can someone explain please?

Passive Espionage

We'll tackle this first. Espionage points grant passive benefits against enemy teams as they accumulate over time as follows:

Passive Missions
Base Factor * (100+How much they have against you)

Demographics=0.3
City Visibility=1.2
Investigate=2
See Research=0.75

Note that this is where the famous "43/43" espionage point spending agreements come from; your 43 EP divided by their (43 + 100) EP becomes 43 / 143 = 0.301 and enough for both teams to see one another's Demographics.

Also note that City Visibility is not constant though: it depends on a bunch of mysterious multipliers on a per-city basis. E.g. whether it has your religion, how far it is. If the exact formula to determine if you have vision on a specific city is out there, I've never seen it.