Quote Originally Posted by econ21
But generally, it seems we do use spies for spying, but not for guarding. We also seem to have assassins who knock-off the odd diplomat. Bear in mind though that each agent costs 100 gold per turn (IIRC) and we are very short of money.
Never knew that, am I correct in assuming RTRPE changed this ?

Because I seem to remember agents (every one of them) not costing anything other than their recruitment cost.