Heh. This has come up
so much this turn that rather than putting it into individual replies, I'm going to spam the whole thread with it:
- The times for Tien Chi are too desperate to make change.
Yes, we can make the Arc (barely), or the Boots of Anteus, or The Black Mirror, or The Aegis - but we
can't use gems from one category to pay for construction in another. While we are perfectly happy to build someone the Scepter of Dark Regency, we
can't make it with Nature Gems. While we are ready and able to make the Aegis and send it on its way, we cannot do that with Water Gems.
We are Tien Chi. We can use any kind of gem we have. We
are using every gem we have to maintain our borders and crush our enemies in the field. When we get Earth Gems, we make more Mechanical Men and put more Earth Boots on Masters of the Five Elements so that more of our heroes can spam Blade Winds and Magma Erruptions. When we get Water Gems they go into armies of Naiads and Bottles of Living Water. Our engine of war grinds against the slick oil of magical power and we
don't have any reserves.
What few gems we have left over are being turned into magical artifacts for our own use (such as Winterbringer: have fun with that Sauromatia :kiss: ). While it is very true that in a very real sense it is a net profit to get 20 Fire Gems for the Twin Spear, in a much more important way it's not. We don't have spare gems to make items from one category to get ahead in the big picture.
What we
can do is to take payment in another type of gem. We can make the Arc with 40 Astral and 40 Fire, and then take payment as 80 gems of any other type (even mixed types). But we actually do need those 40 Fire and 40 Astral in order to make the Arc in the first place.
The Great Catsby has Spoken.
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