FORO THE LORD ARCHMAGE

well to DnD is the easist spell to dispell.  40k is even too much to dispell.  If you are unsure howmuch mana needed just go ahead and use 40k mana.  Of course if you have confuse on yourself as well, then its different.  I don't know how to dispell DnD with confuse on without getting rid of confuse first.

what you can do to research fast is explore, get towns and farms.  Then geld for one day.  Then destoy all but 10 towns and about 50 farms.  destrpy all but about 200 or so Workshops.  Then destroiy all barrs and and everything else.  Keep about 10 forts and about 50 nodes.  Then everything else be guilds.  You should be able to get about 1400+ guilds pending on your lland size.  Then research.  The more land you have the more guilds you can have for faster research.  But make sure you have over 100 million geld otherwise you'll be hurting.  As you researxch you'll gain items.  Sage stones are your friends.  Use them when you start getting real low on cash.  Do not use them right away because peopel will pillage you.  So you will want to use them as your survival tool.  ALso, as you start getting real low on cash, go ahead and sell some items that you wont need.  If you find your self in a ral bind and unable to keep up, go ahead and destroy your guilds, and rebuild towns and farms and geld.  Or you can easily pillave and save alot of time there.  Depending on your playing style.  Personally I will pillage, saves time, saves effort and saves turns.

Sorry I haven't replied but I left a while ago again.  What I meant when I said fixed cos and inferno was that if the countering system for these spells have been fixed?  Surely Frank you noticed that after a mage casts either one of these spells they die within 24 hours.  Or at least they did when I was around.  Cast CoS or and inferno and this is what happened.

Cast CoS/Inferno
Counter 2-3 mages
Guild of the other mage BBq the caster after 12 hours.
The mage that got hit with CoS then Counters and stack wipes the CoS mage. 
The CoS mage gets sweeped with no protection from the mage countering.

If you are unable to change the system for that specific spell, then why not have devils last 24 hours after cast.  This way it will remove the possiblity of the counterin the CoS mage to death.  Sure, the other mage loses the rebound counter but then again there really shouldn't be a rebound counter (in normal regular randoms).  Becuase if it is still the same way as it was when I left, then there still isn't a point in wanting to return.  Becuase that leaves only green/white and blue left to enjoy.  Can't use the best spells in the game really hurts.

Peopel wondering why english speakers left?  There are alot, and trust me there is alot of reasons why we decided to leave.  But what finally finished me off was the battle system set up.  Cast CoS for offense and you die..Use Inferno for offense and you die.  Then the politics in the server sucked as well.  Counter me with cos or inferno and you die.  So there was no point to even play those colors.  Then there were other issues that brought up.  Guilds wiping out everyone during arma leaving no room for either competition or enjoyment of other players.  There was no true balance.  Mages with 1k land 2 million power earning the top 100 is not the way any server should be ran.  No balance.  FOr 2 sets I was banged to near death by top 20 mages.  I was in no war mode with either guild to be hit in such BBQ fashion.  The fun in the server ran low.  That is why i left.  Well, i'm out for now..laterz allz.