Trained creatures need an overhaul to be sure. Giving them more hp to start and some bonuses to attributes per level would be appropriate. There also needs to be many more creature types for us to train. It should really be it's own offshoot of the diplomacy section. It needs to start at tier two research. There also needs to be more resources lairs spawned. I don't research a tech that only gives me 10 unique units when I control the whole map. You could also just increase the number of creatures I can train to around 20. It should be something balanced against what I could be training if I were focusing on warfare instead. 

@ Garisi: Cause it was included in the magic tree (a good idea imo) and implemented in the game way better than it ever was in Wom. Cutting needless complexity while at the same time making more ineresting features is a good thing not a bad one...

Also not much in favor of spawning new lairs / quest locations by tech. Then I'd rather be in favor of events. To much world-stuff determined by the players action is not something I would look forward to.

Actually quite on the contrary the "Kirk Way" of playing the game seems the most powerful right now and is imo the most engaging currently. So heads above WoM already in that respect...

There is no reason I can spot why this issue couldn't be fixed in the frame of the existing beta in much more simpler and fun ways...



Just have experience about the issue in this thread with summons from items but can agree with the criticism. Lairs are rather hard to get. Maybe just axe the tech requirement completely but up the cost for the hirings? No reaon why monsters shouldn't be hireable from the start... (that might also easy the necessity to buff them much and make them a worthy prize right from the start with diminishing value as the game progresses. Which seems more fun and reasonable than the current state )

The hp thing has to be a bug... It is too consistant to be otherwise. A love the idea of monsters evolving. Would really encourage people to treat monsters gained from quests as pets instead of cannon fodder. I would love for the dog you can get to actually grow tougher and remain useful the entire game, instead of being absolutly useless.

Research is something that should find a new name. Mastery or Focus would be better. The contemporary meaning for research makes most people think of labs and scientists, not conducive to what is happening in this game. Here we are moreso shaping how our people focus their efforts. Some of this is done by pages in libraries, searching for clues to how the world was before the Cataclysm. Some of it is the Sov decreeing that more people work towards learning a skill. The end result, in a few years, is a trade called blacksmithing and an opportunity for the Sov to fund such a trade in cities that have enough people to allow it. 

So learning to train wild beasts would stem from a focus in domestication. This is how we "research" animal husbandry or horse training. Also, learning how to interact with a new culture requires effort in learning their customs and how to persuade them to trade to you warriors. It makes sense in this light, but the word research doesn't fit it. 

Research should be the name of a tech IMHO. Knowledge-->Education-->University-->Research. That is pretty much how it happened in our history.