Does espionage EVER work?

[golakers]

I actually spent 4000 on espionage and it NEVER worked, always got caught, always have war declared on me. Is this a bug?

[TheDarkside]

Are you reloading a saved game and retrying? If so, that's the problem. Civ3 saves a table of random numbers or keeps track of seeds so that when you save games and reload, the results will be the same for combat/espionage/whatever requires a random number.

Yes espionage is expensive though, and use communism if you want to do any espionage