I'm still not sure how the unit creation screen works, if I give a guy a sword, is it always made of iron? Or do I actually choose what to make it out of? I'm hoping its the latter, and not the first, since that would mean we'd have to research swords IV to get mithril swords or something. hehe
Focused research could be interesting. It'd be great if it could be done in such a way that the game did so based on your needs, since that is how most techs are discovered through necessity and happenstance. Say you're focused on military tech and have been for awhile. So the game sets out to research your next tech, and it looks at you're empire. Because of your focus on military power, you've surpassed everyone else in the game, you have no match for your knowledg