I like have to come up with a different strategy every time.
I dont mind that, but I would still like to keep that to the faction creation, then for players like you they could design a random race generator so you can have your randomness and having to come up with your strategies...
I like to come up with an empire idea when creation my empire (Or kingdom), and then play it out on the map, and it annoys me that If I go for fire mage sovereign idea, in my kingdom of the sun, I have to restart maps to get "Book of Fire", just because thats the random tech that fits my current idea...
The problem is, when things are random, I feel my choices are less important, and the game is choosing half my game for me. I do not like when my game is choosing how I should play, (Don't take that too literally, cause that sentence doesnt make entirely sense if you go through a dictionary
).
I would much rather I could get my idea as I do, and then play it out, not wait till I randomly spawned with the techs I like.
my biggest problem with techs and random techs is, either random techs are useless (Book of fire) or they are rather powerfull (Book of air), the old random techs for masterwork weapons, armor or archery was even a bigger pain... "oh im tarth I got archers... but those guys over there build way better bows than us"... We have that now but with spells...
Sincerely
~ Kongdej