Quote Originally Posted by easytarget View Post
Works very well in what sense? In turning the game into spy vs spy? There is no point where I should have more than 50 agents mid-game just because I wasted the money flipping the endless spam sent my way by the AI.

I'm not saying stop agents, I'm saying make the number more rational as it was in Shogun 2, where they made a difference but didn't get ridiculous, this is Total War, spies are supposed to be an aspect of the game, not hijack it.
It works very well as in you cant simply ignore that aspect of the game. Now, if you manage your spies well you can easily hold off the agent spam from doing too much damage. In my Suebi campaign against Rome they had a lot of spies and I managed to keep them off my back.

And shame about M2TW, which mods are you running?