Useful agents

[Megas Methuselah]

It means he's smarter than we are. Sorry friend, it ain't called the "sting of truth" for nothin'.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Meaning... A spy can kill a guy who has about the same or less ability to protect himself (personal security). So if a spy has 5 skill and a guy has 2 personal security, the spy will kill have a good chance of killing him. If I guy has 15 personal security, an assassin would need like 20 skill to be able to kill him easily. However, agents can only get a max of 10 'agent skill'. So, once a character gets a few points of personal security, he is basically invunerable because it is impossible for an agent to match him in skill.
(This is just an example - I don't know if these stats compare 1:1.)

[Megas Methuselah]

... You're deliberately trying to confuse us!!!

You're guilty of conspiracy!!!

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Ok, I'll put it this way. You know when you click on a spy or assassin, he has a row of icons showing how much skill he has? I forget what it looks like, but he can have 10 little icons, max. The skill/stat that family members have that makes them less likely to be assassinated can have more than ten.

[Megas Methuselah]

... Everyone gather together and form a lynch mod! We're gonna hang Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by the neck until his feet quit kicking!

Gaius Julius Caesar, give us a sign!

<--- that's his sign. Let's hang Marcus!!!!

[0101001]

Well is there a way to balance this? or is it that word that everybody fears, "hardcoded"?

[Moros]

Reducing the traits (or their chance of people getting them) that give personal security boni to other characters.

[Thaatu]

Thus assassins are best used against enemy diplomats, spies, assassins and sabotaging law buildings of unstable enemy settlements.


Edit: Actually not against spies. They're pretty hard to assassinate.