I'm going to list some suggestions I have for the game in this thread. At the moment, I really only have one major one:

Allow us to choose the special research field. As it stands, I always want to start out with the same special tech, which requires me to restart the game many, many times in order to get it. Some of the special techs are absolutely worthless in the beginning, while others are invaluable. Allowing people to choose which field they want to research allows for more customization of play and is, overall, a good idea.

I think BotE shouldn't be 100% predictable. It's a challenge for you to handle special researches as they pop up. On the other hand thereby the researches appear variantly you might be forced to select sometimes another of the three options in a different way you usually do. I know some options have more power than others....better suggestions are welcomed.

However....I posted it here too http://birth-of-the-empires.de/wiki/ind ... l_Research and here http://forum.birth-of-the-empires.de/vi ... 552#p28552 so German guys can also discuss about your suggestion ...and maybe a programmer guy will meet your suggestion