[licker]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

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Originally posted by licker:
True, hense the 'usually'... still Ulm early on isn't as likely as someone else to go research crazy (at least from my experience), and their two themes don't seem research friendly at all.

Ulm gets a great deal of benefit from research in Conjuration (Earthpower, fall bears, trolls), Evocation (Magma bolts, blade wind, magma eruption), Construction (dwarven hammers, earth boots, lightless lanterns, clockwork horors, crushers, iron dragons, etc.), enchantment (forge of the ancients, etc.), and thaumaturgy (earth searching spells).

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To continue this tangent...

I'm not saying Ulm doesn't benefit from research, nor that Ulm (standard theme) can't research well without an early library. What I was saying was that Ulm (in particular from my experiences) doesn't research heavilly early, sure they may shoot for one of the above mentioned areas, but compared to Pythium (again in my experience) they lag in research.

Anyway, Machaka can research pretty quickly so maybe that's where you percieve the lag, though if the AIs are pulling off decently high level spells whats to complain about? There's also the difference in getting to lvls 4/5 in everything and getting to lvls2/3 in a few and lvl7+ in one area. Diffrent strokes for diffrnet folks