Re: Clams overpowered?
I thought it was 2 water...
I'm not voting because I haven't been playing with Clams in Dom1, and as I don't have full 2 yet going with Clam-strategy would give out almost nothing.
I think it should be possible to use clams to reduce micromanagement by giving them to mages who can use the pearls (in battle) without need of ferriers. I also think it shouldn't be possible to make endless amounts of clams to gather the 'free-flowing magic power' all around the world... atleast not without any consequences!
The good solutions I have seen are Horror Marking the Clammer, having maximum clams any nation can have (what about Charmed commanders with clams?) and a maximum pearls clams can produce on one turn(if there are more than 30 clams anywhere in the world only 30 or so of them will produce pearls).
Maybe clams should only produce pearls on watert and/or astral mages. The problem with that is that it limits the usefulness of Clams to very few nations.
An idea that just wouldn't work out would be making clams underwater-only: that would not remove the problem but limit the choice to two races, or races with cheap sacred commanders if Atlantis/R'lyeh are not in game.
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