No spies spawning

[Arcatus]

I am playing legends, 1.7.0.6 & lately 1.7.1.10 (and soon 1.7.0.12 )

My problem is that new spies does not spawn (even if I mod the spawnrate to the maximum)

I do mostly maps and tech stealing and eventually a mission fails and the spy is lost. New spies are spawned very, very rarely, so after I loose the few I start with spying is no longer possible...

Is anyone else having this issue? Could there be a bug?

[Shadow Tiger]

Playing 1.7.0.12 as Slukens. Had a horrendous agent (-25% espionage, -other stuff via trait, no other skills) whom I finally dismissed. Took a bit but I did have another spawn. I don't recall ever seeing an agent spawn in .10 though.