[Mardagg]

Playing MP with score graphs disabled,scouts are even more,much more, important.
Its after all the only cheap possibility to gain the much needed imformations,like for example:
-which nations is about to win=near the victory condition
-how many provinces/castles/temples/... do your neigbours have
-...

Other than that ,I tend to use scouts also a lot to move items/gems to commanders,to transfer blood slaves or blood hunt,to watch enemy tactics during battles(you also gain knowledge of the spells the enemy already has researched) AND especially in the beginning of games to attack nearby provinces(order:retreat) to gain accurate information of the defense at once.