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Emperor's Tied Fingers

This is a mod that intends to improve the funness of fighting multiple Emperor AI's, with regards to their spell usage. Their attitude towards spells doesn't always make sense - dispelling a small ability buff instead of using powerful combat spells - or is very fun to play against - get bombarded by strategic spells with no chance of dispelling them yourself.

This is what the mod does:

- Removed the dispel spell from AI research list as well as reward list to encourage AI usage of more interesting spells
- Stopped AI from casting the following strategic city spells:
Dread Siege (-500 Unit Happiness)
Dread Omen (-500 Unit Happiness)
Incite Revolt (-600 City Happiness)
Rally of the Populace (-500 City Happiness)
- Stopped AI from casting Stone Skin, as it usually just allows for kiting

If I've missed a spell, let me know. The way I play the game is hotseat with a friend against 6 Emperors AI's. We win 80% of the time but the battles are often tough. One boring part of play is always having these Strategic Spell debuffs that are impossible to disjunct as the Emperor AI's always have more casting points. Another thing we considedered were to make them slightly weaker, easier to dispel, or give some sort of Dome of Protection to all classes. But I'm not sure it would be more fun to play than to just get rid of them from the start, so this is our first try. Feedback is welcome.