Gorstagg, yes I meant that Mana can stay as Mana but Spell Points should change.

For some reason my list of suggestions didn't go through, here's another try:

• Magical Knowledge
• Arcane Knowledge
• Spell Knowledge
• Arcane Points
• Arcane Lore
• Spell Research Points

I found this confusing at first. Spell points sounded like mana and I eventually realized it was referring to research points. I would just call it "research". "Points" is reduntant.

Arcane lore gets my vote, it's got the right flavour and easy to distinguish from mana and research.

Tomas

Does anyone read the manual?

It's called Arcane Knowledge, not Spell Points.

Mana is the energy used to cast spells. 

Bump for arcane lore

Yes it may be called Arcane Knowledge, but throughout the game itself it refers to "Spell Points". That's where people are going off of this. Cause I do see on page 14 of the manual it calls it says Lore Points per Turn, and Research per turn.

But in the game play through the beta, we learn techs, and build buildings that enhance our... (Wait for it.. drum roll) Spell Points and the number of them we have to use, to learn new spells. Just cause it's in the manual doesn't help us if the beta has it functionally being different, hence our confusion and wanting the general solution.