Thoughts on Scouts and Scouting Reports
The function of scouts should be the gathering of information, not mass combat. If scouts were only allowed to engage other scouts and were necessary to get decent scouting reports under any circumstances, then they would be performing in their intended role.
Such a fix would introduce another element to the game, scouting wars, which would be necessary to shed light on the strenghts and accomplishments of another character. While I do not pretend to know enough about programming to understand how much work this would be, this would make the game more realistic and add another element of player involvement.
Darlor