[ywl]

Originally posted by geo981010:

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Originally posted by ywl:
Assuming the chance for site is 50% and the number of nature or death gems for each site is 2. For a rough estimation:
30 * 0.5 * 1/8 * 2 ~= 4

1/8 because I assume that there are equal chance for each type of site (not true) and I haven't counted holy or unholy sites. But even if we increase the number to 1/4, it'd still only about 8.

Hmm, I thought a site frequency of 50% meant that
for each of the 4 site slots per province there would be a 50% chance it would be filled? So for 30 provinces you would have:
30 (#provinces) * 4 (slots per land) * .5 (50% sites) * 1/8 (# of paths) * 2 (gems/site) = 16

I am not sure how this is affected by swamp/mountain/etc terrain (they have a higher chance of sites - though how is another Illwinter mystery!).

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You're right. I stand corrected . It might not be that much theoretically after all.

But in my experience, 13 gems of a type is still an large income for non-national magic in the 50% site setting.

But I agree totally it's an exploit. It's only a matter of extent how much it is comparing to other tricks when you get to Conjuration 9.