MP Game - Zap's New game with House Rules

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Yvelina:
I have a question. Why is it that most games started on this server seem to have difficult, or very difficult research? This seems to affect the balance in favor of races with good troops, and to make things rather hard for races which rely primarily on their mages.

I think this is something that Cohen started, with his grumping about summonables and SCs, and has started to infect the general populace.

Of course, I don't feel this so much helps the problem as it does to exacerbate it, as it will be that much more difficult to research a countermeasure, and gives that much more of an advantage to the early leader of the arms race, something which I have demonstrated in Cohen's other retarded research games.

Not that I am complaining, having chosen Marignon. :-)

Marignon does have a small edge under these conditions: They start with Holy Pyre, an L4 evocation. It's fairly powerful against light to medium troops, and under retarded research conditions, it'll be awhile before other nations match it.