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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9093705" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Does that really reflect being a researcher, though? Real research is almost never the result of utterly random, blink-and-you-miss-it stuff. Even true absolute genius requires a lot of dedication to take those offbeat ideas and turn them into something practical.I'd much rather we instead actually make Wizards have real mechanics for researching things. Including the possibility of developing a brand-new spell! Because that would actually be much more like real, isolated researchers. Consider Ramanujan.I have no idea why anyone wouldn't do this. Coordinating with ally Wizards is one of the best possible plans a budding Wizard can have. It's a simple application of the iterated trust game: even if you're on the losing end of a deal now, trust in the long term is actually quite an effective strategy, so long as you apply a moderate amount of reason to it (e.g. tit-for-tat). Sounds to me like if people aren't doing this, it's because they're too short-sighted to see the benefits of cooperation.As said above: sounds like you have been playing with folks who have rather un-enlightened self-interest. Cutting off your nose to spite your face. Randomized spell research isn't going to do crap about someone who isn't willing to consider the benefits of cooperation.</blockquote>