Since caravans are gone, the specialty Legacy of Serrane seems mostly useless in 0.86.  The only benefit is the economic aura spell, which is hardly a reason to choose it.  Perhaps it should generate diplomatic capital based on the number of roads that connect cities, or diplomatic capital as a percentage of gross generated gildar (before maintenance costs)?

I'm surprised no one thought to change that specialty or remove the "caravan" section from the Hiergamenon.  After trying to figure out how to build them there, the tech tree, and a couple other places I searched the forum and found they'd been removed.

I understand why caravans were removed - I have no opinion on the matter.  It just threw me for a loop since I just started playing the beta with 0.86.  Was anyone else confused?