[MaxWilson]

So your incentive is to capture as many enemy capitals as possible, because research comes only from the UberSages? (You'd need to give all existing units something like a -30 RP penalty to prevent anyone from boosting back to positive RP w/ items.)

Another possibility would be to start a game where everyone begins with all spells researched. This would be radically different from a typical Dom3 game, but perhaps fun--and even if you get knocked out early at least you got to play with your toys. Obviously everybody would take Drain-3, and the nations with good national research mages lose part of their competitive advantage, but national power rankings shuffle around anyway depending upon what mods you're using.

-Max