Quote Originally Posted by Jarmam View Post
Not to derail the thread, though, I'd like to also mention the greatness of the latest patch's increase in town-stationed agent's xp/turn from 1 to 3. This is actually pretty significant in the early stages of the game as a Metsuke hired in turns 5 or so now hit rank 2 after just 7 turns as opposed to 20. As rank 2 can give them 2 additional town management skill on top of their innate extra from ranking and since administration cost is very low when you're low in provinces, this makes early Metsuke significantly more efficient to get and that in itself makes r4+ Metsuke easier to get in the later stages of the game. Still not a Silk node - but I'll take it.

It's big.

In Vanilla I still haven't managed to get a rank 6 metsuke, but rank 5 are now easily reachable. It is also more atractive to use ninja to establish spy networks or parking a monk in the namban trade province.

In ROTS I also noticed a marked difference in shirabyoshi leveling.

Since Junsatsuchi are the Metsuke equivalent in ROTS it is also worth noticing this change makes them arguably overpowered, because in my experience they seem to keep levelling everytime they are spreading influence. I still need to confirm this.