Re: On gems
Taking gem-cost out of the equation would make pretenders and communion-users much cheaper than other nations. This would give few nations and strategies much more powerful magically, and because powerful spells control the late game, it would remove variability.
Just as shovah said, there are balance problems with that.
It has been suggested that items and gems could be moved to/from the laboratory even without a laboratory being present in the province. I'm not sure if that would be any better, balance-wise...
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