Scout dedicated, waste of time?

[Darien]

Hi, I have a question: Is it a waste of time and human resources to have a scout dedicated exclusively to scouting players I want, without having an active assignment, or does it have advantages (like going faster).

I'm in a save where I want to scout players from a region that I have in a preselection, and not have them go around bringing me anyone. In the priority list I see that they are scouting the players I want, but in assignments it says that there is no active assignment.

Edited November 6, 2021 by Darien

[Ivalice]

They are currently scouting in the area to generate the list of players for your next scout meeting, by the criteria you set in general scouting rule, so you can order them to fully scout each player specifically.

[Darien]

But there is no "general scouting rule" because I am the one responsible for the scouting. That box where we indicate the general rule changes to "assignments" if we are responsible. If I go to assignments, they are unassigned.  It is also true that I keep getting players that I don't ask for, even without assignment. 

[marioNOW]

From my testing in FM21 it had no effect if the scount had a general assignment (e.g. Scouting a country or competition):

Since then a few fellow managers highlighted that higher JPA/JPP/Determination attributes results in probably more players being scouted simultaneously. I wrote "maximum 3"  but I guess above 16 or 18 they might be able to do 4-5 at a time. Obviously nobody from SI going to confirm this (and even after I posted this I saw content creators recommending leaving a "dedicated" scout empty without general assingment to watch transfer targets in their scouting guides). I might do the test again when FM22 fully functions upon the release.