WTF? Gold?!

[KissBlade]

Well, I'll just go with the flow that time will tell. Personally I play all the gold intensive nations most of the time anyway, so it doens't effect me negatively in the first place.

[Folket]

I think the resource gold ratio is better now then earlier since there is now a reason to build light infantery. Slingers have become useful.

The reason not to buil;d your best mages is that you will have gold over to build more castles and labs. Building two cheap mages at two diffrent labs is probably more research efficient and cheaper then recruiting your best mage.

If you are recruiting tons of your best mages to stand and research I doubt that is optimal in the long run.