Guide to MA Agartha (In prog) - Pretenders

[Alneyan]

Lazy_Perfectionist said:
Unfortunately, you don't have great researchers, so drain will cost you. You'll have to plan around that somehow.

What about a few Stone Idols? Idols should bring down the Dominion to O in one particular province, thereby cancelling the Drain effects. Astral + Earth may be tricky to get, though it's a very nice combination that you probably want anyway.

You might even want to use the enemy Dominion to override your own Drain in research provinces (you don't get the research bonus of their Magic scale, though). That requires putting the research base on your borders, though, but hey, it's cheap and it works with all negative scales.