New patch??

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Chris_Byler said:
Or better yet, all drain dominions should do so, like coldbloods in cold - maybe even like fire elementals in cold. That would give some real teeth to the magic/drain scale, which right now seems to just be "pay as much as you want for the amount of research you want".

This has been suggested before and didn't get much traction, but it's one of my favorite ideas for the drain scale.