Re: Standards - MA Game (running)
People will glean information wherever they can. Though graphs are the easiest to read they are also at times the most misleading pieces of information.
The research graph won't tell you what a person has researched and there is a big difference between a nation with level 4 spells in most paths and a player with level 8 or 9 spells in just one path. The army graph is extremely misleading as some increases are free militia from random events. Little would you know that the player lost all their good units to a Bogus attack. I personally think that the hall of fame and pretender descriptions are more useful indicators at this stage of the game.
In the end, nothing is more informative then a scout. A scout that witnesses a battle can tell you the exact makeup of an enemies army, what paths they've researched, what their exact bless is along with the rough magic levels of their god, and it also allows you to witness the effectiveness of their expansion armies and what they might be weak to. Outside of battle they tell you where the enemy is and where their infrastructure lies. If you want to know your enemy, use your eyes. (Or in this case the eyes of a devoted minion.)
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