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Saber Cherry said:
6) Never build high-research national mages to do research. That's what low-research national mages are for! Do a cost/benefit analysis: A 1-magic mage that costs 60g (+4g/turn) and puts out 3 research will go to 7 research at level 1 with an owl quill. A 5-magic mage that costs 250 gold (+17/turn) will do 7 research, or 11 with an experience level and an owl quill. Researching with expensive mages will drive you bankrupt.
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Actually, it is quite common to build expensive mages for research for a variety of reasons. Most commonly for reserve battle mages (for instance base Marignon might want witch hunters rather than initiates, do to their vastly superior battlefield utility). You might also want to build lots of expensive mages to get the random paths to come out in different ways (for instance TC or Atlantis). Pan might build lots of pan researchers for maenads. Then there is often the factor of the cost to set up a new mage recruitment base.
That said, it is still of course a good idea to keep in mind the gold/research ratio when selecting mages. Particularly when you find sages...
