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Cainehill said:
It also has (presumably) unforeseen consequences such as making EA Arco's philosophers a very dubious choice now. Yes, their research rate is high, _but_ they start old. Priestess's start with a good 30 years to go before hitting old age.
So, let's see - why would I want to recruit philosophers who die of old age, instead of priestesses? And yes, I noticed this in my very first game : philosophers were dropping like flies from age.
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Did you perchance take Death scale? I usualy take 1 Growth or neutral growth with early Arco and I have yet to see significant amounts of Philosophers to die. I recruit them early on because they can give a significant research edge.
They become less attractive to me when you hit the point where your Mystics can do something else than shoot Fire Flies and forge Enchanted Pikes anyway, but that might just be me.
The only one with whom I had serious old age problems was Abysia. Now, those fellas could use some extra five years before they hit old age. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img]