Re: Sloth - LA game with KO and JK - recruiting
 

I agree about handdrawn maps.

I don't think we should do slow research - it leaves research-dependent nations too vulnerable.

Re: Sloth - LA game with KO and JK - recruiting
 

I'll take any LA nation still left (preference towards Atlantis if it's still open).

Re: Sloth - LA game with KO and JK - recruiting
 

What would be the benefit of slow research?

Re: Sloth - LA game with KO and JK - recruiting
 

Slow research would make endgame more interesting, but would make magic boring in the early game.

Re: Sloth - LA game with KO and JK - recruiting
 

... I'm thinking about Then Chi or Caelum.

Re: Sloth - LA game with KO and JK - recruiting
 

Folket - shard is already T'ien Ch'i.

I'll pencil you in as Caelum, though of course you are free to change.

SqueekyDragon, I'll put you down as Atlantis.

Remaining nations: Agartha, Pangaea

Re: Sloth - LA game with KO and JK - recruiting
 

More opinions welcome on difficult/normal research.

Re: Sloth - LA game with KO and JK - recruiting
 

If Pangea is still free, i'll take it.

Re: Sloth - LA game with KO and JK - recruiting
 

Cool, just Agartha to go then.

Re: Sloth - LA game with KO and JK - recruiting
 

Since research output grows steadily as the game goes on, hard research doesn't do much to constrain the wildness of the late game. It just delays it a bit.

In the early game, though, slow research is a major drawback, especially for a nation with strong mages fighting a bless rusher like I'm doing in Evermore http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.