I am way overdue for this but...

[ioticus]

Naked Lunch, could you tell me if they left the search mechanic intact or did they change it to automatic searching? There was some debate on this before and I really hope they left the search command in the game.

[Arralen]

From the progress page:

30th sep
* Search spells defaults to a useful target province. Monthly casting possible.

But nothing about normal sitesearching. Guess they havn't put auto-movement into the game for player units, and without that automated sitesearching wouldn't work very well. Same is most likely true for waypoints ...

[Tortanick]

I have a question, each nation has a theme associated with it.

Golem cult, age of man, etc. Can you customise that, is it random, or dose each nation have its own theme.

[Nerfix]

Tortanick said:
I have a question, each nation has a theme associated with it.

Golem cult, age of man, etc. Can you customise that, is it random, or dose each nation have its own theme.

It's by era.

[Psitticine]

I think each theme *is* a nation now, with one incarnation per era. Does anybody know if any nation appears more than once in an era? I kinda doubt they do, although one could always mod in a new version/theme.

[NakedLunch]

It's one nation per era, though they change over eras in signifigant ways. For example, late-era Ulm bans all magic outright.

[Nerfix]

NakedLunch said:
It's one nation per era, though they change over eras in signifigant ways. For example, late-era Ulm bans all magic outright.

So they have no mages at all?