[Valerius]

Hi, llama. First off, thanks very much for this mod.

As far as the cyclops goes, what about a 50% chance of an additional E, 25% chance of A, and 25-50% chance of F? This reduces their abilities in E magic, but even more importantly reduces the chance of the powerful AE combo. The only tart guaranteed that combination is one of the two cyclops - but you've only got a 1 in 7 chance of getting him. You could get that path combo on another chassis but it might not have full slots.

You could do something similar with the Asynja. Maybe a 50% chance of an additional A, 25% chance of E, and another 10% chance of AEB? I'd be hesitant to give her glamour, though. I think that stealth is a powerful ability on an SC, glamour even more so. It would probably be better to get more reports from games using the diversity mod before doing this.

As far as pricing goes, I can see it going a little higher on the price of both of the units in question but since the goal of the mod is to have viable alternatives to tarts I think they have to be cost effective. If the prices on the diversity mod summons get too high, I think people will still feel the Chalice/GoH and tart combo are too good to consider other options (I think it's ok if tarts are still the most cost effective option - as long as the alternatives are close enough to be worth considering).

As regards elemental royalty, you could add to their magic paths (I think a random would be better than another point in the path they already have) but it might also be worth considering giving them better summon ally abilities or something along those lines. Or maybe a useful onebattlespell that might even be outside their magic paths. I think something like that would make them still worth summoning even with comparable SC/spellcasting chassis available. And I don't think it's outside the scope of the mod at all - heck, you could also make treelord's worthwhile at the same time.

On another note, I'll be very interested to see what people have to say about the Grendelkin. My first impression was the same as rdonj's from earlier in the thread. No magic, but incredible stats...