New year, New Master of Magic! v1.5 fan patch

[Akkalevil]

I'll probably remove it from the 1.51 version.

Great news !

And thanks for the incredible work you put into this. My main beef with MoM, that often made me give up starting a new game, was the utterly broken diplomatic system. After seeing the countless bugs in it in the Wiki, I understand why.
Fixing it is a boon to the entire gaming world !

I think it's probably the case that the diplomacy bias toward Life and against Death is a bit too strong, and that could be considered a bug worth fixing; I just think it warrants a tweak, and not a complete replacement. How about changing the diplomacy multiplier for Death books from -5/-3 to -4/-2 per book, and the extra multiplier for Life books from +2 to +1 per book? That keeps the basic design the same, but mitigates the problems.

The designers were certainly aware of this bias when making the game, and I suspect that they wouldn't have deliberately made some schools worse off than the others without compensating for it in some other way.

Maybe, maybe not.
But I think that in the spirit of just fixing bugs and not going into rebalancing what isn't very obviously broken or nonsensical, it's better to just fall back on original values.