Synergies twixt Nation and Magic Path

[licker]

I'm curious...

How many people actually play a low research strategy, that is one where they really only get to levels 4+ in two schools?

It just seems too easy to me to get to level 4 in 4+ schools by turn 25 (or sooner if I really want to) and even go to level 5 or 6 in one of them for a specific spell...

This idea of nation/research synergy just seems strange to me, sure you have early spell targets, and then you have later game spell targets, but those often seem to change based on who and what you are up against. I guess its just that as soon as I find a library I crank out sages one a turn for 10 turns+ and since its not unlikely to get a library before turn 10 (depending on how fast you expand) by turn 20 its not uncommon for me to have ~80 (depending on scales) research points from sages, that'll get you to level 3 in everything really fast...