Hey everyone,
I think something needs to be put in place to offer an advantage to those who only pick one class of magic. For example, if someone where to only pick the Fire Elemental book. Well perhaps get a research bonus? Or rather, if you pick all the elemental books, you get a spell research penalty?
For example:
4 Books // No Bonus to Arcane Production // AND/OR // +15% Spell Research Cost
3 Books // +5% Arcane Production // AND/OR // +10% Spell Research Cost
2 Books // +10% Arcane Production // AND/OR // +5% Spell Research Cost
1 Book // 15% Arcane Production // AND/OR // No Penalty to Spell Research Cost
This would semi emulate the advantage of specializing in schools of magic in MOM. If you would put X amount of books in Nature Magic (for example) you could get research point cost reductions on all your spells, and if you put even more books, you could also select starting spells. If you picked all your character points in XYZ School of Magic, you could start with a medium-high powered spell on the go.
Just a little idea.
Cheers,
V