Tip: Template for reducing late game MM hell

[Squirrelloid]

Originally Posted by DonCorazon

Seriously, Zeldor's suggestion to get rid of hammers would save a ton of MM. In games with diplomacy/trading, everyone ends up with hammers anyway so the relative advantage is limited but the pain of having to swap hammers is limitless.

I'll reiterate - hammers allow for much more varied strategies because its not just cost savings - its cost savings in particular gems. Say for gems that you don't have many of because you have few mages (pretender, non-nationals) with those paths and no native gem generation at your capitol in that type.

Basically, lack of hammers limits nations to their national magic types far more than at present, at which point certain nations get better relative to other nations because they have better inherent magic paths/gem generation.