Very weird bug... but the Agents of Justice don't appear on the map until the instant replay when they kill your minions, then vanish again. Anybody heard of this happening???

Could this possibly be due to the timelapse of the event making it appear they have vanished, when really they left before you had even checked on your long dead minions?

No, even when viewing the world map screen just before it happens, the minions just die from seemingly nothing, because the Agent of Justice is invisible the whole time. the only time the Agent's marker appears is during the "instant replay" - then it's gone again, even though the Agent is still technically there (but invisible) as more minions die shortly after (again). this makes the game unplayable as I am losing way too many minions, I can never tell when to "hide" them!

Were you in the process of doing a mission? Your minions will die at regular intervals during most missions irrespective of whether any agents are in the region at the time.

However if there's an agent there then they'll die faster than the mission casualty rate.

If your agents are simply stealing gold, then they should only die when agents are in the area - but as goatman wrote agents can appear for a while and then leave again, so unless you pause the game immediately when you notice casualties before heading to the world map, you might miss them.

Build Six Control Panels in the Control Room.

And make sure you have enough people to man them. :P Sounds basic but I totally overlooked this.

I had this huge Control Room but knew NOTHING about what was going on in the world because I didn't have enough people to man the stations.

No one ever accused me of being the sharpest pencil in the box. :P

I was going to mention that but it's really hard to fill up a control room in the first 30 minutes or even in the first hour of the game seeing as you mainly only have workers and they are going to be busy all the time until you can train guards and valets.

I have figured out the problem. this only happens between certain missions early in the game. after which, the agents appear as normal on the map. it happens after you capture the maid, but before you complete the next part of that mission. must be something the developers overlooked