[deccan]

Question: is there a cap on the number of gems you can have at any one time?

BTW, I just realized something. Because there is a hard limit to the size of your magic items inventory, and because in the end-game, your entire economy is gem-based, and expanding the size of your economy depends on making clams and fetishes, once you are capable of making like 50 clams per turn, the rate of expansion of your economy is effectively capped, so eventually if everyone survives long enough, then at the end, the rate of economy expansion by making hoard items will be the same for everyone.

This also imposes an upper limit to the usefulness of Forge of the Ancients. Once you can make enough items to completely fill your magic item inventory every turn, the usefulness of Forge of the Ancients is maxed out.

Just a thought.