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It seems like there are enough points out there so that you can have an awake combat pretender or a lvl-9 bless while still pulling good scales.

Sure you might have to take sloth or misfortune or something, but doesn't everyone do that?

Order + magic + one of either production or luck (while selling off the other), you can normally afford an awake pretender with at least a little magic and not a horrible dominion.

Or do you mean like... -good- scales. Like -really good- scales?

If you're talking about positive scales across the board, then yeah, I agree with you. But, I'm not sure if you'd get any arguement about positive scales across the board being a bad idea like 99% of the time. I mean, I don't think Baalz is arguing for that kind of scale setup. Are you Baalz?

To me, good scales means like: Order-3, Sloth-2, Misfortune-1, Magic-3. That is not that hard to afford.

Do people actually try to pull off scales like: Order-3, Production-1, Growth-2, Magic-3? Does it ever work for anyone?