Originally Posted by Narcisista:
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.
In RotS, Junatsuchi do earn passive experience for conversion which has also received the bump to 3 points per turn. I don't know whether they're OP though as their influence peddling is pretty important and that keeps them busy outside towns for significant stretches where they're not boosting tax. The max overseer bonus from skills alone is +4 (vs +5 for metsuke) and it runs down the same side of the tree as spreading influence, so you're steered towards using the same agents for both jobs. There's also (theoretically) higher risk for them than metsuke as there are more counter agents running around that can remove them in RotS. (less of them being shinobi types) Seems somewhat balanced and all agents get the same passive skills increase.
Question about metsuke traits: I'm getting a lot of 'self interested' metsuke since the March patch. That trait says "-1 to farming wealth wherever he's present". Does that actually work? And -1 what? One farming wealth level? That would be significant and an irritatingly nice counterweight to the ease with which you can generate metstuke uber governers, presuming it functions as intended. I see no UI indication that it's working though.
Single Sign On provided by
vBSSO