arcane nexus

[alexti]

The_Tauren13 said:
Yeah, I expected to start geting gems of all kinds other than astral and blood, as the description leads you to believe.

You must have forgotten to wish for gems

[archaeolept]

heh.

as i recall, all non astral gems used in the previous turn are summed up, then converted to astral (at a two to one ratio), then you get half of them. I think that's it.

if you are unhappy w/ the huge astral income boost this gives, please just don't cast it

[The_Tauren13]

archaeolept said:
if you are unhappy w/ the huge astral income boost this gives, please just don't cast it

Heh, I'm about to die to dominion anyway. Too bad you can't alchemize astral pearls into... er... dominon

[Sindai]

Sure you can. Wish: "dominion."

[The_Tauren13]

Yeah, maybe in another 20 turns ill have it researched...
When income = upkeep, life sucks.

[Cohen]

Go for Gift of Nature Bounty to double your income ^^

[Cainehill]

Or alchemize fire / earth gems into gold. I have many games I do this in, especially when I'm running CW Pan, but also others - start creating enough Fever Fetishes and income starts to become irrelevent as long as you can recruit 1/10th as many scouts as you have fetishes each turn, modified by the HPs of your scouts, among other things.

Blood nations might find it easier to live off of blood stones, even with the lesser gem -> gold ratio.