Wishlist: Does a mod like this exist?

[Squirrelloid]

Ond:
Would you play Chess against the computer (ie, SP) where you removed the computer's Queen? Sure, the game is easier if you do so, but you're missing an important part of gameplay.

Regardless, the unmodded SP game already has this feature. Its called 'don't use combat spells that require gems' - because against the AI you will never need them. Unlike chess, there is no good AI for Dom3.

Foodstamp:
I'm not being a douche. What he wants is actively not good for gameplay. And considering his major objection to gem management was *other players gaining advantage by spending more time*, it clearly wasn't a SP-focused complaint.

Of course, if he wanted to complain about the things where time really can be used to gain advantage, he should be complaining about the debugging tools dom3 has, like ctrl-U (iirc) to add units to combat, which aids immensely in testing scenarios, and -ddd so you can see what happens in a combat. And a player who really wants a time advantage can have fought the expected combat several hundred times while tweaking his spell and army scripting between each one to see what the optimal scripting was. Easy access to gems for spells (or to the spells which require gems themselves - by removing that requirement) expands the possibilities immensely, and thus increases the advantage of having time to test-run an expected combat repeatedly.