Mages at home vs in the field?

[BigJMoney]

Hey, I am getting back in to Dom again after a while and I have a question about one strategic problem I was never very good at solving.

We'll use Pythium as my example. Namely, I am hiring Theurgs for research. Since research only gets harder, I have to keep hiring more and more Theurgs to be able to get high levels in reasonable time. However, I also want Theurgs in the field to actually use the magic I'm researching. But if I move them to the field, my research will go down.

How do you guys deal with this? I never figured it out.

Thanks for opinions.