I came across this post a couple of minutes ago:
So… an agent gets kidnapped if not in use and you haven’t seen him/her in quite some time. And they don’t acknowledge being “kidnapped” otherwise, I quote His Majesty Ron Gilbert, “the meaning would be lost”.
So, I have a new theory now. It’s basically “resource saving”. The simulation is running low on memory and some resources have to be deactivated, some processes put on hold. Since you didn’t see one of the agents in quite some time, the simulation deactivates them in a Least Recently Used fashion, making them available later as if nothing happened, except for a log entry that says “it seems like I blacked out”.
Why only the agents? No idea.