[Shangrila00]

Originally Posted by Amhazair

With a nation with strong recruit-everywhere mages (And Mari certainly qualifies on that front) I'd take the gold any day of the week and thrice on fridays. The problem isn't that gems aren't nice, but that most of the gem events tend to give so damn few of them. Seems half the time I get 3 gems or so which, frankly, doesn't get me too hot in my pants. (I haven't done any testing on this mind you, just casual observation, does anyone actually have solid numbers?)

It's not as if every gold event gives you a thousand, plenty just give you a pitiful 100 or 150 gold, which isn't exactly exciting either. And the really huge gold event, the one that gives 3000 plus a magic item plus fire gems isn't order dependent, so you'll actually get fewer with order. Mari's mages are middle of the road in terms of power, their most notable feature is cost effectiveness. Mari simply doesn't need event gold to recruit all the mages it wants, especially once its armies start shifting to demons.

And for that matter, all this is assuming you are even able to get an empire large enough to max out events per turn with order 1. Most maps you won't get that big before winning.