State of the Game

**Myth** · 07-23-2014, 08:53

Well there were no agent limitations in Rome 1 and Med 2 but they worked just fine.

**easytarget** · 07-23-2014, 13:17

MTW2 can get pretty spammy w/ inquisitors and merchants swarming all over the place. Thing is dealing with them in MTW2 doesn't cost you money, just the time to groom the agents to handle them, same in Shogun 2. I can handle that.

In Rome 2 I was spending my entire treasury on dealing with this issue sometimes (not all the time), again, I'm not making this out to be a black and white issue. What I'm suggesting is I should never have 3 or 4x my imperium level limit of agents because the AI is sending an endless stream of them at me I have to kill or convert.

Set a limit to each AI in the campaign, you should no more have an unlimited supply of agent talent than you do armies, everyone complained about single city 3-4 stack armies and that got addressed, but say anything about the same single city joke of a nation sending a dozen agents at you a year and that's just fine. Really? Well how about a small dose of reality is all I'm suggesting. There should be a limit to this resource, make it two dozen. Make it the max you should get when you've maxed imperium times 2. The point is, make it something.

**Hooahguy** · 07-23-2014, 14:10

Originally Posted by Myth

Well there were no agent limitations in Rome 1 and Med 2 but they worked just fine.

The difference as I recall is that they couldnt do as much. They could assassinate but as I recall they couldnt stop armies in their tracks like they can in R2.

**Slaists** · 07-23-2014, 15:48

CA must have done something to tune down the agent spam with the latest patches. I remember having 2-3 times my limit around patch 7 or so, but not with patch 13 (14 still needs to be played). I completed a whole Barcid (they tend to have many enemies due to a global diplo-malus so theoretically should be more subject to agent spam) legendary campaign within patch 13 span and very rarely I had more than 1-2 agents above my limit. Never during this campaign I really encountered the agent spam that I witnessed in the earlier versions.

Originally Posted by Sp4

I can't really play the game anymore. The improved stuttering the patch notes mention really is an improvement for me.. as in there is more of it now, to the point where it happens in every battle that involves more than 10 units lol.

This must be system related. you should report your issue and specs to the CA. I played numerous large battles last night: no stuttering. I have to test it on a major siege battle though. A friend of mine tested on a gaming laptop: no issues there. Another friend is having issues though.

**Sp4** · 07-25-2014, 01:02

Originally Posted by Slaists

This must be system related. you should report your issue and specs to the CA. I played numerous large battles last night: no stuttering. I have to test it on a major siege battle though. A friend of mine tested on a gaming laptop: no issues there. Another friend is having issues though.

It's the same thing as before, just worse.

**Myth** · 07-31-2014, 19:33

I'm playing a Legendary game as Macedon. I gotta say it has me hooked so far. I have to camp for several turns to bide my time, gather enough troops and conquer a 1 province faction which spams troops. The MCD start with a unit of Companion Cav so that coupled with the general makes them awesome versus skirmisher heavy factions.

I also have to make two 4 settlement reqcruitment provinces, one for infantry and one for cav. So I plan to get the one with Pulpudeva (which encompasses modern day Bulgaria, where I live, so I'll just call it Bulgaria

) and Brundisium for cav and infantry and then Hellas for archers.