[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by LintMan:
As a follow-up question to this:
Do you (and/or anyone else that cares to reply) dedicate those research mages to just research, and have dedicated others for site search, spells/summoning, and item production? Or do you shift divert some of your researchers to those other tasks on occasion?

I tend dedicated a few mages to site searching, and a few to other spells. It's often most cost effective to use your cheapest mages as researchers, as they are often not capable of casting very many rituals and mage time is expensive. If I need a few mages for some other reason for a turn or two though I will take them off of research duty. Taking a magic scale of +1 or +2 also helps a great deal with the default theme of Jotunheim, as the Vaetti hags are the cheapest mages in the game and with magic +2 they have 5 research points per turn.