[Sir_Dr_D]

Tromper, I think that you had an extrememly rare case of bad luck. I have played with luck 3 before, and I haven't had anything close to that bad of luck.

Generally I find that the amount of gold you get with high luck, low order, doesn't equal what you would you get from a high order scale, but it comes reasonbly close. But money isn't the only benefit of luck. You get gems too. If I pick a pretender that uses magic that the rest of my mages don't, which makes it much harder to find those gems, it will sway me towards having a luck scale.

In a recent multiplayer game as pythium I was experementing with order 3 and luck 3. I am not sure if it is worth it to go with both order and luck, but it was fun to try it. I was able to get 5 fire gems from a lucky event. Those gems were enough to enable me to cast flaming arrows, which made a huge difference in the nation I was fighting. In that game the luck scale was worth it, for those 5 gems alone.The rest of the events weren't spectacular but did allow me to build extra castle's and labs,and maybe increased my overall gem supply by a quarter.