[licker]

Originally posted by PDF:

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Originally posted by Kristoffer O:

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Originally posted by licker:
Just a lock to freeze the research points going into a school. For example if you want 20 points in alteration you set that bar to 20, and lock it, now whatever other bars you play with alteration will not change from 20.

Aha. That sounds useful.

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Hum, the bars represent a PROPORTION of total research, the RP depends on the number of mage studying.. So a bar locked halfway with 40RPs total shows 20 RPs, but would mean you will lock 50% of RPs into that school, not the 20 RPs, so if you remove some mages and are down to 16 RPs only 8 will go there !

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Not necessarily, it would depend on how they implement it, as a lock on Raw RP or a lock on the %. In either case having a lock is better than not having one. Though locks are still only really useful for when you have lots of RP and the ability to finish research in more than one area in a turn... that probably won't happen all that often really.

The SEIV method is fine, but seems a bit of overkill for only having 7 (or is it 8) research areas. A simple lock seemingly is easy to do, and would make life easier, mostly becasue you could lock certain schools at zero...