The Abysyan problems ...

[Cohen]

Time ago it happened to talk in the mIRC channel about Abysya.

Me, and someone else pointed some Abysyan problems ...

First the National Spell ... that is pretty useless to Abysya. An F3 Flare are avaiable to be cast only by Ant Dragons, very expensive in gold terms, and with poor precision. Even because probably you'll play without any of them in early game, and you probably reach the Flare research even before using it.

Meanwhile other Nations have National spell affordable by his common mages, Abysya hasn't.
The idea that exited (not from me, but from Sheap) was to give to Abysya some demon summoning as National Spells.
There was the idea of a sort of Astral demon since Abysya has low access to other elemental demons except devils.

The other problem that sorted out is the Abysyan problem of research. The Blood research slow a lot the Abysyan battle magic, site search and such, considering Abysya needs to find sages to have a good research and try to blood hunt effectively (BoH can't take magic scale, default abysya has only researchers and blood hunter in capitol).

I posted this because someone agreed to those problems ...
IMO (and this is personal think) Abysyan mages are too costy for their effectiveness.