Regarding the difficulty of magic research:
This mainly boosts the abilities of non-magical nations, and the more magic-affiliated races take a while to get to the point where they start being quite real threat to others, like Bogarus. It takes time to get evocation to 8-9, where their mages start to own

... Not that they'd be useless anyway. But it is a boost to some of the blessrush-nations such as Mictlan (And I think Pythium had some nasty sacreds too?). Oh and T'ien Ch'i had these fun cavalry too.
I'd like a vote on if research should be normal/difficult. If you do not voice your opinion I'll count you as indifferent. Mainly what I've heard from you so far, most would want it at normal - PREFERABLY PM ME, so we won't clutter up this thread with those posts.
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Edit: Seems like we have mictlan, pythium and t'ien ch'i in, Meaning that I'm preferring normal research more and more. Bogarus is going to have a fun time
