Diplomacy, for recruiting creatures of levels 1 and 2.

What else could be suggested...?

Ah, here's an idea - if someone joins the game for free, the player transfers half of the creature cost to their opponent during that turn (the amount can be discussed separately via a poll).

The argument is that we need to share, and it will also increase the starting resources!

I suggest a poll to allow upgrading vampires in Necropolis, but with a limit of 5 upgraded vampires in the army.

I was testing this in Arcanum, and you always need 1 un-upgraded vampire for every 5 upgraded ones. Ask me why...