Soul Gate Ermor tips?

[Sheap]

Maybe Ermor gets the same bonus to gem sites that other nations do to income. After all, Ermor's economy is all gems, so giving them some bonus to gem income in rich world is only fair.

[Norfleet]

If you were playing a rich world, you may have received a random gold mine as a lucky random event: Ermor tends to have luck, and you probably did also. That would explain the province income, as Ermor's home province does not naturally receive income.

You also should never bother searching your home province in a standard game: You will never find anything. Additional sites gained in your home province are created by random events, and do not previously exist to be searched for.

[LintMan]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
If you were playing a rich world, you may have received a random gold mine as a lucky random event: Ermor tends to have luck, and you probably did also. That would explain the province income, as Ermor's home province does not naturally receive income.

Actually, in that test game, the scales were +3 order, -3 luck, with the game set to rare events. For sure there was no gold/silver mine in the province.

I created another new game to test things further, and there was no bonus income this time, until some lucky event "permanently increased gold revenue by 50". It wasn't a gold mine though - maybe a "trade guild" or something, and no site icon or any other indicator appeared. (When you get a gold mine event, a gold mine site icon shows up). Perhaps something like this even had happened in my original game and I just missed the message. (Given the misfortune-3 scale and rare events setting this seems unlikely, but is still the best explanation).

[LintMan]

Originally posted by Sheap:
Maybe Ermor gets the same bonus to gem sites that other nations do to income. After all, Ermor's economy is all gems, so giving them some bonus to gem income in rich world is only fair.

I was thinking the same thing, but only the home province gets the bonus gems. Probably it would be way too powerful if Ermor got bonus gems everywhere.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by LintMan:
It wasn't a gold mine though - maybe a "trade guild" or something, and no site icon or any other indicator appeared. (When you get a gold mine event, a gold mine site icon shows up). Perhaps something like this even had happened in my original game and I just missed the message.

That could be the cause of the income increase also. I've never really noticed the effect of this event, though, as I've basically never had it happen with my Ermor, perhaps because the typical Ermorian scales prevent such a thing from occurring even in luck 2 or 3, but I suppose this effect could still work even after the province is depopulated.