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1. The chests in the research tree are indeed locks: if you don't meet the requirements, you will not be able to start researching the technology they're on. If you have already passed this point in the research tree, you will be able to continue. This has been stated this way in the release notes for update 1.0 as well. If that wasn't clear (enough) then we apologize and we'll try to be more clear next time.
2. No, we cannot refund the Relics spent on the Magic Academy. We will add more ways to receive Relics in the future, though. While Relics are fairly scarce now, they won't remain that way forever.
Thank you for clarifying this and i hope that you didn't take my post personally even if it sounded quite harsh as I know you just forward the news.
I'm still shocked however, with more and more limits and restrictions that are added to the game. I'm here in the middle of IV chapter with only 40 provinces conquered. For some it might sound only 40, but I don't need and want more. How am I supposed to conquer almost twice of that to get 70 in total and unlock the further progress? Maybe i dont have time for that? Maybe i enjoy slow pace and small size of my city? Why do i have to conquer them? At the moment it looks like either i bow to you restrictions or i have to quite the game, which is quite unfair. Oh, i can stay and donate all my KP to others as i will unlock the wonders by the end of this chapter, but come on... Where is the "be merchant or fighter" or whatever the saying was? Where is that choice for us now? Can't we just trade with others, keep the size of our cities as we want them and play the game as we want?
This one was very well said:
unless of course develolpers insist on having us play the game their way .... in which case I can provide them with my account details and let them manage this city of mine as they please ...
And this one below would be very, very welcome, as not everyone conquers everything that is on his sight. Some of us just plan what and when we conquer, especially with regards to getting runes for the wonders. Now, it looks like you know that many players do not consider Elven/Human wonders good enough to build, so you want us to conquer as much provinces as we can and waste them on those runes, to have bigger problems with getting dwarven runes later. It's sad
We will however monitor this feature to see if the balance is correct, as we have done before with other features.