[DonCorazon]

Squirrelloid- the only major gift I gave Archae came after Wraith essentially declared himself the winner here, after he misinterpreted one of Archae's posts. I don't feel like looking through the threads, but a few pages back Wraith, in my mind, essentially put his cards on the table.

As I said, my gift was to create balance. I like both Wraith and Archae and didn't care who won. I thought Wraith had more resources and wanted to create an even fight. And in general gifting gems can be strategic. And I have RL reasons as to why I had to limit my push for victory in this game but gifting gems to help ensure a prolonged painful mutually destructive war is a good use of them. If the #2 player can put them to work and damage the #1 player better than I can, and it frees up my own mages to do research and forge, why is that not strategically superior to hording my gems, while the #1 player cleans up the game?