New and improved poll about Clam hoarding.

[Yossar]

Originally posted by rabelais:
Did this breakage occur before or after someone got to casting Wish? (Which is by definition, long tradition, and intuitively blatantly *intended* to break the game.

I'm curious about this as well. If Wish were taken out would clam hoarding still be overpowered? Most of the really useful things to do with astral gems (teleport, astral window, gateway, dome of arcane warding, vengeance of the dead, battle spells, forging, etc) are cheap and as Norfleet mentions, the high end spells are generally overpriced. So most of the time you should be able to get by on normal astral income. You can, of course convert pearls to other gems, but that's a bit inefficient. So once again, my question:

Do the people who think that clams are overpowered think they still would be if Wish weren't available?

[ May 06, 2004, 06:33: Message edited by: Yossar ]

[BugRoger]

Well, yes. Isn't the purpose of clam hording to be able to cast Wish(s) each turn? In long games it seems it only comes down to wishing the **** out of each other. I wouldn't spend a single thought about clam hording in a "no wish" game.

Calmon recently showed me a game in which he faces a VQ that was buffed with 8 wishes for magic power. Let that sink in...

Also I think the high end astral spells are only overpriced if you don't have clams at all.