Immediate Construction?

[Endoperez]

Scouts would attack research provinces, e.g. sages. Then the scouts would die, and the Slave Collars would be found, and several sages would now be feebleminded.

[Folket]

I always ferry my sages to my castles so that they are not sitting ducks.

[Balakirev]

Evilhomer said:
I would say that level 0 has no items worth forging once you reach the endgame. Level 2 construction however has several items worth forging even in the late game (pendant of luck, forge hammer, clam of pearls to mention a few).

I've forged the clam of pearls. But if I give it to a caster in my first province, does that caster acquire the extra astral gem/month, or does it go into a sort of province gem bank? And if I don't give it to anybody to wear, but put it in my forged item reserves, do I still get the astral gem/month?

[Endoperez]

Balakirev said:

I've forged the clam of pearls. But if I give it to a caster in my first province, does that caster acquire the extra astral gem/month, or does it go into a sort of province gem bank? And if I don't give it to anybody to wear, but put it in my forged item reserves, do I still get the astral gem/month?

Someone has to have the item, and the wearer will get the pearl to his personal gem box. This can be used to supply Astral mages with neverending supply of gems for spells such as Antimagic or Light of the Northern Star; some players also try to forge the clams as cheaply as possible (with at least Dwarven Hammers for 25% reduction in cost), hoping to stay in game for long enough for the clams to pay off eventually.