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View Poll Results: How do you use gems in general ?
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Only for globals or other endgame things, if my mages are not yet able to cast them I tend to have big stocks of all gems types
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4.29% |
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I usually make stocks for some gem types as my strategies often use endgame globals (or wishes)
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2.86% |
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I mostly use gems for forge and summons, but use them a lot since midgame
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50.00% |
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I mostly use gems to have an advantage in big battles, having well provisioned mages on the battlefield is my first priority
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4.29% |
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Gems I've not used for forge or summons this turn are given to boost my battlefield mages, I rarely have stocks
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8.57% |
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My priority is to build a magical economy (clams, fetishes, hammers, low level gem producing globals) I use gems for other matters only once my production is huge
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12.86% |
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I alchemize or trade most of the gems my national mages can't use, so in 2 or 3 colors I can have stocks and use a lot of gems at the same time
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2.86% |
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I don't really have a tendancy like all things it's nation dependent
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14.29% |
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March 7th, 2008, 02:01 PM
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The big gems poll
The way I use gems has changed a lot in my dominion carreer.
In the beginning I was very gem retentive and often stockpilled them to cast undispellable globals in a far future, the only items I forged were boosters, clams (a need in dom2) or SC pretender gear -except if I could have artefacts-, my mages had just the minimum number of gems to follow their script, and I summoned only endgame creatures (the problem was I wasn't very dangerous before).
Now it tends to be the exact contrary, I forge a lot more, summon in midgame, and often give gems to my battlemages even if they are not scripted to cast gem spells, and even with high gem income I rarely have stocks of more than 20 or 30 at the end of a turn (except when I plan to cast a global, and it's very rare if I don't have a natural very high level caster to protect it).
And you what are your tendencies ?
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March 8th, 2008, 09:07 AM
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Re: The big gems poll
Interesting results I wasn't thinking early forging so popular, and forge in general more than troops summoning.
One third of the players not using rituals out of summmons and site searching seems rather huge also.
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March 8th, 2008, 09:58 AM
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Re: The big gems poll
Hmm... what is considered a minimum amount and what protective amount for globals?
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March 8th, 2008, 10:21 AM
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Re: The big gems poll
Minimum amount = the base cost or anything a level 9 caster can dispell or overwrite for base cost
Protective = far more
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March 8th, 2008, 10:31 AM
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Re: The big gems poll
What do you mean by the level of dispeller? There is nothing like that in manual or description of Dispel. It just says that if someone spends like 50 additional gems for a global you need to put also 50 over base cost for Dispel.
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March 8th, 2008, 10:36 AM
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Re: The big gems poll
Each level over the base required for casting counts as 5 additional gems, for both the globals and Dispel.
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March 8th, 2008, 10:36 AM
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Re: The big gems poll
Manual p.88
One level above the required = 5 gems for dispell/overwrite mechanics.
So a level 9 astral caster dispells for base cost like if he added 30 gems.
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March 8th, 2008, 11:19 AM
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Re: The big gems poll
Quote:
Twan said:
Interesting results I wasn't thinking early forging so popular, and forge in general more than troops summoning.
One third of the players not using rituals out of summmons and site searching seems rather huge also.
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Rituals are for the most part unnecessary in single player, so that might skew the results. |
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