How do you use your spies at the beginning of the game?
At the beginning of the game, in the finance management screen under espionage, I have none of my agents placed and there are zero active foreign agents therefore what I do is place one agent in the race-wide agents to gather info on the Drendin, Korath, and Korx races. This leaves me two available agents to protect my planets. Sometimes I rotate out a spy to gather data on other major & minor races.
When your spies are available does that mean they are on the lookout for foreign agents on each of my planets or just on standby waiting for something to screw-up or blowup?
It would be nice to assign the agent with a primary task and secondary task, if the first is unavailable or completed.