[calmon]

Dominions is known for a big amount of details which makes this game so exciting.

One of this details is the ability of every mage to make some money out of earth and fire gems (10/15 gold).

While somehow useful in dominions 2 the ability isn't really useable in dominions 3.
Mostly because of the fact that there is more gold in dom3 and you still get the same (dom2) amount for your gems.

Using a master alchemist pretender early in the game would be a nice strategy for the useable nations like ulm. But its not because of this rate!

Alchemist stone give you another bonus but again because of the low base rate you don't trade valuable gems for money at this point of the game (its mid/late game when reaching contruction 8).

So i pled for more money for your converted gems. I think it should be doubled or trippled to make it useable. In case of nations with master alchemist (primary ulm) it should be a possible strategy by making more early gold instead of using the gems for items.