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Thank you for this very nice mod! I am sure that is a lot of work. Worth it!

(I have read through about 60% of the comments on this exceptionally long thread, but my connection crashed at one point and I had to restart and I came back after 2 days and forgot where I left off, I think I missed a bit.)

Would you mind a tiny bit of feedback/questions?

- I am unsure if I have the most up-to-date material, despite just having re-DLed from your site; in the .zips I have, there are now no readmes, and we are explicitly asked to check those for info.

- I love about 85% of your changes to the pretenders. There are great niches opening up there. (Maybe there could be a new pretender, related to the lich: the Niche?) The niches I failed to see (or the balance-related issues therein) which have not already been beaten to a dead horse state on this thread were:
- The D.Glyph. What are you envisioning? I had always liked him as an evil lurker, and now he is... what? Combat hungry?
- What was wrong with the Octopus in the heating vent?
- Did I miss the discussion on the Phoenix? I played him with his new strength, and it seemed just too easy for Marignon to get a F9 A4 now. I had often chosen the P. before, and although your mod opens up so many new flavors, it seems that if I am wanting Fire and Air (or Fire and Air and more) and immortality, I dont see too many other options. Why the f2? Have you considered raising his new magic path learning cost to 100 then?

With the new scales, the general twist of which I really like, I am not finished, but I when monkeying around, I found in general that I no longer find Order appealing to races which do even a tiny bit of patrolling or have any troops with armor or which may be interested in luck. Actually, I found with Machaka, Ryleh, Abysia default, Mari default, and Man LoT that Production helped me much more than Order, and since Growth synergizes now so well (if you are thinking about taking any luck -- and now there is even more reason to actually want to do so: Synergy #3) with Prod for income, that I found Order to be unappealing. I am not saying this is "bad", but since I am not done with testing yet, I dont want to put this in too rigid a normative framework. I just wanted to know what you and the others think: If it turns out that Order is actually unappealing, then it could be a no-brainer. I am not saying it is so now. I will have to see by tweaking your mod myself maybe back to Order 7 and giving it another run-through or 17.

Anyhow, thanks for your effort and also your time in reading and replying here.